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Claire J. Horwell

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This was recently recognised with the creation of the GeoHealth Section at the American Geophysical Union, of which she is the founding leader and president. Horwell has generated novel research pathways that answer questions about the toxicity of respirable volcanic ash and translate these into state-of-the art in exposure assessments.

Tsunamis in the Mediterranean

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27 August 2015 As tectonic plates slide under one another, they grind, stick, and finally slip, releasing built-up pressure in the form of earthquakes. Tremors happen in the Mediterranean as the African plate slides underneath the Eurasian plate. Some of these tremors can generate tsunamis – very large water waves (larger than usual ocean waves) containing huge amounts of energy.

Rob van der Voo

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A milestone in van der Voo’s career was the publication of his book Palaeomagnetism of the Atlantic, Tethys and Iapetus Oceans which remains one of the must-have books for any student of palaeomagnetism and geodynamics. Van der Voo has trained a large number of students, some of whom are now themselves renowned researchers and academics, and has accepted a large number of responsibilities.

Gina Pereira Correia

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She holds a Msc in Environmental Education (2006) and a PhD in Geology (specialization in History and Methodology of Geological Sciences) (2014), at the University of Coimbra.

Andrey Ganopolski

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He proposed the development of the CLIMBER model family (CLIMate-BiosphERe models) and was the principal designer of the model CLIMBER-2. The CLIMBER model is used in a number research groups in many countries worldwide.

EGU 2015 General Assembly: Media advisory 4 – Press conferences live stream, on-site registration

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Water has also left marks on Mars’ surface. A team in the US is looking for further evidence of an ancient ocean by searching for a set of bedforms, typically found in the deep-sea floor on Earth, on the Martian surface. Researchers in the Netherlands are looking for water signatures left on the surface much more recently, in the last few millions of years, during times when snow was widespread in the planet’s midlatitudes and was able to melt on some crater slopes.

EGU 2017 General Assembly media advisory 3 – Press conference schedule, online registration closing tomorrow

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All times are CEST (local time in Vienna). SCREAMING CLOUDS Monday, 24 April, 10:30–11:00 In this press conference we will learn how the spectacular colours of bright, mother-of-pearl clouds inspired a famous painting.

Convening a session in the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division

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Session programme (September/October) The PC builds the session programme out of the proposed sessions. In case of evident overlap, the TS PC will ask conveners to merge sessions or modify the focus. Please note that in the TS division, sessions and conveners are not continued automatically from one year to the next. Conveners will be notified of acceptance of their session for the TS programme.

Parts of ozone layer not recovering as expected

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One reason could be that climate change may be changing the way air moves in the atmosphere, slowing the recovery of the ozone layer. Another explanation is the increase in emissions of a few ozone-destroying chemicals that were not included in the Montreal Protocol (see the ‘New threat to the ozone layer’ Planet Press).

Asta Gregorič

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Janja Vaupotič at the Department of Environmental Sciences of Jožef Stefan Institute. Her work focuses on the research of radon in soil gas in connection with seismic activity, as well as radon as a tracer for air ventilation in karst caves. The poster presented during EGU 2011 showed the results of continuous radon measurements in Postojna Cave.

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