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Home / Education / Planet Press / Articles / Water, key to survival of Roman Empire
For example, Romans built bridges for water, called aqueducts, to bring water into cities. They were also experts in trading grain, the most important food crop in Roman times. Water is crucial to grow grain as you need between 1000 and 2000 litres of water to grow just one kilogramme of grain! The Romans were clever enough to cultivate this crop in larger quantities in places where there was a lot of water available, such as in the basin of the river Nile in Egypt (where water from the river could be used for agriculture).
Home / Awards & medals / Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal / 2008 / Edward F. DeLong
Ed DeLong published many landmark papers in highly visible journals (see below and in the attached list of publications). It would be timely that the Biogeosciences division of EGU attracts the attention of the community on such a brilliant researcher and on a discipline which has enormous applications in many fields of Biogeosciences.
Home / Policy / Science-policy publications / Polar research
It is therefore necessary to research into these effects and increase our understanding that this will have on society. In a wider context, water effects in the form of natural hazards are extremely damaging to society. In Europe, extreme precipitation events trigger most of the economic losses related to natural hazards [3]. For example, in 2013 losses caused by severe floods were €11.7 billion.
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Awards / 2013 / Hyeyum Hailey Shin
Her poster for the 2013 EGU General Assembly describes grid-size dependency of the SGS vertical transport in convective boundary layers, which differs in relative contribution of shear and buoyancy forces.
Home / News / EGU news / IMPORTANT UPDATE: EGU22 change of date and format
We hope that this new date of the General Assembly will help relieve some of the stress that many of our members are experiencing. However, if this change means you can no longer participate in EGU22 either in-person or online, you can withdraw your abstract and get a full refund of your Abstract Processing Charge.
Home / Media Library / Location of the five tallest peaks in the US Arctic
The five tallest peaks in the US Arctic are located within about 40 km of each other in north-eastern Alaska, within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Licence: This image, published in a The Cryosphere paper, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence.
Home / News / EGU news / Job alert! Executive Assistant
We are particularly interested in applications from people who are from under-represented communities in the sciences; please get in touch with us if anything can be done to support such an application. Salary, work package and starting date: This position, to start in spring 2026, will be subject to a 6-month probation period before confirmation as a permanent member of staff.
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Young Scientist Awards / 2009 / Johan Weijers
Using this observation he was able to make a reconstruction of the past continental climate of tropical Africa (in terms of air temperature and rainfall) for the last 25 kyr. This work was published in Science last year and was followed by an application of this new method to reconstruct the temperature change during the Palaeocene Eocene thermal maximum in the Arctic region published in EPSL.
Home / Awards & medals / Vening Meinesz Medal / 2018 / Markus Rothacher
Rothacher’s comprehensive approach can also be tracked during his work on space geodetic techniques and to Earth sciences in general at the Technical University of Munich, GFZ Potsdam and ETH Zurich. In the context of gravity field modelling, Rothacher developed the technique of GPS-based kinematic orbit determination of low-Earth orbiters (LEO), the purely geometric estimation of high precision orbit ephemerides.
Home / News / Press releases / Glacial engineering could limit sea-level rise, if we get our emissions under control
Moore was supported by Chinese MOST grant 2015CB953602. The European Geosciences Union ( EGU ) is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide. It is a non-profit interdisciplinary learned association of scientists founded in 2002 with headquarters in Munich, Germany.
