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The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Field Schools for Teachers and Geoscience Education Events grants. These awards, aimed at advancing education in Earth, planetary, and space sciences, offer financial support to initiatives that foster geoscience learning across different educational levels.
Thanks to the enthusiastic efforts of our members and volunteers, EGU25 was another record breaking year with an incredible 20,984 people participating in the General Assembly, both in Vienna and online!
Giorgia Stasi will be the first ever EGU volunteer to serve as Early Career Scientist Representative and be elected to lead her division, Energy, Resources and Environment, as Division President, whilst still in the Early Career Scientist stage.
EGU stands behind our sibling American scientific societies, providing our support for them and all their members in the face of recent changes to US scientific policy.
Recently, we had a big name in fire ecology visiting our institute. He had come, among other things, to look for records of a certain fire-adapted shrub in my university’s herbarium. While myself and a colleague helped him go through the stacks of pressed and archived specimens, I asked him why there were so little contributions to the herbarium in recent years. His response was: “People stopped doing it.”, he replied. “They moved on to do silly things, such as …
Haakon Fossen and Geane Carolina G. Cavalcante published their seminal review on the topic of shear zones in 2017 in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. The work summarizes the scientific findings on the development and quantification of ductile shear zones sincefrom the the 1960s up to recently. It describes the fundamental aspects of the initiation and growth of shear zones across scales. First, Fossen and Cavalcante summarize the influence of simple shear and pure shear on shear zone development, including the …
The EGU preprint server on EGUsphere was launched in 2022. It constitutes the (to-date) last step in a fully transparent and interactive peer-review and publication process. In its early days, authors could actively choose to submit their preprints to the new server or to submit them as preprints directly to a selected EGU Journal (see our blog post from March 2023). This option is now passé: all journals were switched to 100% EGUsphere by the end of 2024. In other …
