EGU to fund 17 training schools and conferences in 2020
- EGU news
- 3 February 2020
The EGU will contribute a total of EUR 105,000 towards the organisation of geoscience conferences and training schools by EGU members in 2020.
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EGU Outreach Committee seeking new members
- EGU news
- 30 January 2020
The EGU Outreach Committee promotes the Earth, planetary and space sciences and the activities of the EGU among scientists, the public, policymakers and all other interested individuals and organisations. The Committee seeks 3–4 new members to help further its programme.
Air pollution in New York City linked to wildfires hundreds of miles away
- Press release
- 21 January 2020
A new study published in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics shows that air pollutants from the smoke of fires from as far as Canada and the southeastern U.S. traveled hundreds of miles and several days to reach Connecticut and New York City, where it caused significant increases in pollution concentrations.
EGU’s first webinar: EGU journals—open access publishing, public peer review and the new EGUsphere
- EGU news
- 13 January 2020
At 12:30 pm on 21 January 2020, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will be hosting its first-ever webinar, which will focus on the union’s open access journals.
Monthly news from EGU: Results of EGU elections, press releases and mentoring at the General Assembly (December 2019)
- EGU news
- 18 December 2019
The December 2019 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available.
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Variations in soil chemical and physical properties explain basin-wideAmazon forest soil carbon concentrations
- SOIL
- DOI 10.5194/soil-6-53-2020
- 20 February 2020
Amazon soils hold as much carbon © as is contained in the vegetation. In this work we sampled soils across 8 different Amazonian countries to try to understand which soil properties control current Amazonian soil C concentrations. We confirm previous knowledge that highly developed soils hold C through clay content interactions but also show a previously unreported mechanism of soil C stabilization in the younger Amazonian soil types which hold C through aluminium organic matter interactions.
A multi-model analysis of teleconnected crop yield variability in a range of cropping systems
- Earth System Dynamics
- DOI 10.5194/esd-11-113-2020
- 20 February 2020
In this study, we analyse the impacts of three major climate oscillations on global crop production. Our results show that maize, rice, soybean, and wheat yields are influenced by climate oscillations to a wide extent and in several important crop-producing regions. We observe larger impacts if crops are rainfed or fully fertilized, while irrigation tends to mitigate the impacts. These results can potentially help to increase the resilience of the global food system to climate-related shocks.
Modal shift in North Atlantic seasonality during the last deglaciation
- Climate of the Past
- DOI 10.5194/cp-16-265-2020
- 18 February 2020
Here, mid-ocean seasonality is resolved through time, using differences in the oxygen isotope composition between individual shells of the commonly used (sub)polar planktonic foraminifera species in ocean-climate reconstruction, N. pachyderma and G. bulloides . Single-specimen isotope measurements during the deglacial period revealed a surprising bimodality, the cause of which was investigated.
Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity
- Biogeosciences
- DOI 10.5194/bg-17-609-2020
- 18 February 2020
Phytoplankton are an essential component of the marine food web and earth’s carbon cycle. We use observations, ecological theory and a unique trait-based ecosystem model to explain controls on patterns of marine phytoplankton biodiversity. We find that different dimensions of diversity (size classes, biogeochemical functional groups, thermal norms) are controlled by a disparate combination of mechanisms. This may explain why previous studies of phytoplankton diversity had conflicting results.
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- GeoLog – EGU official blog
- posted 1 day ago
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- Geodynamics
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