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href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/lily-thompson/" title="Posts by Lily Thompson" class="author url fn" rel="author">Lily Thompson</a></span> <span class="meta-date">March 7, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2025/03/07/navigating-the-polar-frontier-effects-of-sea-ice-decline-on-shipping-and-sea-routes/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2025/03/Christopher-Michel-Flickr-CC-BY-2.0-700x395.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2025/03/Christopher-Michel-Flickr-CC-BY-2.0.jpg" width="700" height="395" alt="Navigating the polar frontier: exploring the effects of sea-ice decline on shipping and sea routes in the Arctic" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Figure 1: Icebreaker traversing the Arctic Ocean, navigating the thick blanket of sea ice which obstructs its path [Credit: Christopher Michel/Flickr, CC BY 2.0].</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Sea ice is a critical part of the unique Arctic ecosystem, but climate change is becoming a serious threat. Warming in the Arctic has already resulted in the loss of over 4 million km² of sea ice. But is it all bad? Retreat of Arctic sea ice is allowing more ships to navigate the Arctic Ocean, along shorter, faster and cheaper sea routes, providing emission reductions of 24%. But will the growth o ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2025/03/07/navigating-the-polar-frontier-effects-of-sea-ice-decline-on-shipping-and-sea-routes/" class="read-more more-link" title="Navigating the polar frontier: exploring the effects of sea-ice decline on shipping and sea routes in the Arctic">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-16467 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cryoscientist-life-stories category-interview tag-fieldwork tag-herbivore tag-mini-series tag-phd tag-reindeer tag-soil-carbon"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2025/02/21/cryosphere-caps-phd-hats-and-the-researchers-that-wear-them/" title="Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them" target="">Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/mack-baysinger/" title="Posts by Mack Baysinger" class="author url fn" rel="author">Mack Baysinger</a></span> <span class="meta-date">February 21, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2025/02/21/cryosphere-caps-phd-hats-and-the-researchers-that-wear-them/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2025/02/Torben_Figure1_EGUBlog-300x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2025/02/Torben_Figure1_EGUBlog-600x800.jpg" width="300" height="400" alt="Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Figure 1: Torben at the moment he received his PhD hat from his peers, at his defense in 2024 at the University of Potsdam. [Credit: Mack Baysinger] </div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the peers of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and memora ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2025/02/21/cryosphere-caps-phd-hats-and-the-researchers-that-wear-them/" class="read-more more-link" title="Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-16350 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cryo-adventures tag-crevasses tag-cryosphere tag-fieldwork tag-glacier-expedition tag-high-altitude tag-himalaya"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2025/01/10/field-notes-from-the-chhota-shigri-glacier-a-journey-of-science-and-survival-in-the-himalaya/" title="Field notes from the Chhota Shigri Glacier: A journey of science and survival in the Himalaya" target="">Field notes from the Chhota Shigri Glacier: A journey of science and survival in the Himalaya</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/himanshu-kaushik/" title="Posts by Himanshu Kaushik" class="author url fn" rel="author">Himanshu Kaushik</a></span> <span class="meta-date">January 10, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2025/01/10/field-notes-from-the-chhota-shigri-glacier-a-journey-of-science-and-survival-in-the-himalaya/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2025/01/Figure_1-700x395.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2025/01/Figure_1-1400x789.jpg" width="700" height="395" alt="Weather station on the snow" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Figure 1: First-ever automatic weather station installed in the accumulation zone at 5218 m a.s.l. on the Chhota Shigri Glacier (Credit: Himanshu Kaushik).</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>I’m Himanshu Kaushik, a PhD student working under the guidance of Dr. Mohd Farooq Azam at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (India). Seven years ago, I took my first steps onto the Chhota Shigri Glacier (CSG) in the Indian (Western) Himalaya, and it felt like stepping into another world. Surrounded by the towering peaks, it seemed otherworldly and humbling. After that first expeditio ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2025/01/10/field-notes-from-the-chhota-shigri-glacier-a-journey-of-science-and-survival-in-the-himalaya/" class="read-more more-link" title="Field notes from the Chhota Shigri Glacier: A journey of science and survival in the Himalaya">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-16321 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-highlighted-paper tag-altimetry tag-antarctica tag-earth-observations tag-ice-sheet tag-icesat-2 tag-satellite tag-subglacial-lake"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/12/16/uncovering-antarcticas-hidden-subglacial-lake-network-with-satellite-altimetry/" title="Uncovering Antarctica’s hidden subglacial lake network with satellite altimetry" target="">Uncovering Antarctica’s hidden subglacial lake network with satellite altimetry</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/jenny-arthur/" title="Posts by Jenny Arthur" class="author url fn" rel="author">Jenny Arthur</a></span> <span class="meta-date">December 16, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/12/16/uncovering-antarcticas-hidden-subglacial-lake-network-with-satellite-altimetry/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/12/Fig1-480x400.png" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/12/Fig1.png" width="480" height="400" alt="Uncovering Antarctica’s hidden subglacial lake network with satellite altimetry" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Figure 1: Current inventory of known subglacial lakes beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Each dot represents an individual lake. Active subglacial lakes from previous lake inventories are shown in orange (Livingstone et al., 2022; Neckel et al, 2021) and red (from our new study). Stable subglacial lakes are shown in purple (Livingstone et al., 2022). Ice flow speed in blue (from Gardner et al., 2018) highlights the fast-flowing ice streams. Figure credit: Jenny Arthur.</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>    Measuring ice surface elevation changes with satellite laser altimeters flying hundreds of kilometres above Earth tells us where the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are thinning or thickening and how much they contribute to sea level rise. Beyond that though, it can also reveal hidden activity of subglacial lakes filling and draining beneath the ice and meltwater rivers flowing ou ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/12/16/uncovering-antarcticas-hidden-subglacial-lake-network-with-satellite-altimetry/" class="read-more more-link" title="Uncovering Antarctica’s hidden subglacial lake network with satellite altimetry">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-16212 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-editor-post category-interview tag-anniversary tag-cryoblog tag-editors tag-interview tag-scicomm tag-scicomm-careers"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/12/06/happy-birthday-to-the-cryoblog/" title="Happy birthday to the Cryoblog!" target="">Happy birthday to the Cryoblog!</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/the-chief-editors/" title="Posts by The Chief Editors" class="author url fn" rel="author">The Chief Editors</a></span> <span class="meta-date">December 6, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/12/06/happy-birthday-to-the-cryoblog/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/12/cryobirthday-700x394.png" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/12/cryobirthday.png" width="700" height="394" alt="Collage of four people with the heading "10 years EGU CR blog" with balloons and a birthday cake." class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Here are the four interviewed former chief editors from left to right: Giovanni Baccolo, Sophie Berger, Clara Burgard and Nanna Karlsson (Credit: Maria Scheel).</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>  The EGU Cryosphere Blog is now 10 years old: Happy Birthday! It all started in December 2014 with this blog post from Nanna Karlsson, and now counts 452 blog posts across 25 blog categories, including winning three Best EGU blog posts (2016, 2019 and 2021). 881 different (hash)tags were used in our blog posts, with way more counts on Antarctica and climate than the Arctic. Since the start, ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/12/06/happy-birthday-to-the-cryoblog/" class="read-more more-link" title="Happy birthday to the Cryoblog!">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-16156 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cryo-adventures tag-fieldwork tag-glacier tag-norway tag-nutrients tag-phd tag-sweden tag-trace-metals"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/11/22/crossing-borders/" title="Crossing borders – Glacier fieldwork at Sulitjelma/Salajekna" target="">Crossing borders – Glacier fieldwork at Sulitjelma/Salajekna</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/silje-waaler/" title="Posts by Silje Waaler" class="author url fn" rel="author">Silje Waaler</a></span> <span class="meta-date">November 22, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/11/22/crossing-borders/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/11/Picture1-533x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/11/Picture1-1066x800.jpg" width="533" height="400" alt="Crossing borders – Glacier fieldwork at Sulitjelma/Salajekna" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Postdoc Sarah Tingey filtering samples from the portal of Sulitjelma all wrapped up to avoid the chilling katabatic winds from the glacier. [Credit: Silje Waaler]</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The time I first set foot at the university, I didn’t expect that two weeks later I would be looking at a backpack more than half my size, turning my back to the shelter of our rental car and walking almost 100 km in the Norwegian Arctic. Howling winds, heavy backpacks, daunting bridges, and endless beauty – that’s how I would describe my first experience with glacier fieldwork. I, Silje Waa ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/11/22/crossing-borders/" class="read-more more-link" title="Crossing borders – Glacier fieldwork at Sulitjelma/Salajekna">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-16099 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-did-you-know tag-antarctica tag-cryosphere tag-egu25 tag-machinelearning tag-seaice"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/11/08/did-you-know-machine-learning-can-help-us-understand-the-cryosphere/" title="Did you know? Machine learning can help us understand the cryosphere!" target="">Did you know? Machine learning can help us understand the cryosphere!</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/andrew-mcdonald/" title="Posts by Andrew McDonald" class="author url fn" rel="author">Andrew McDonald</a>, <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/julia-kaltenborn/" title="Posts by Julia Kaltenborn" class="author url fn" rel="author">Julia Kaltenborn</a> and <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/kim-bente/" title="Posts by Kim Bente" class="author url fn" rel="author">Kim Bente</a></span> <span class="meta-date">November 8, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/11/08/did-you-know-machine-learning-can-help-us-understand-the-cryosphere/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/11/1-Bar-chart-Google-Scholar-results-for-ML4Cryo-700x400.png" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/11/1-Bar-chart-Google-Scholar-results-for-ML4Cryo-1400x800.png" width="700" height="400" alt="A bar chart showing in which years how many publications included machine learning." class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Google Scholar search results show rapid growth of articles applying ML to the study of the cryosphere. Courtesy of Kim Bente and Julia Kaltenborn.</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>    Recently, Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool within cryospheric sciences, offering innovative and effective solutions for observing, modelling and understanding the frozen regions of the Earth. From learning snowfall patterns and predicting avalanche dynamics to speeding up the process of modelling ice sheets, ML has transformed cryospheric sciences and bears many o ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/11/08/did-you-know-machine-learning-can-help-us-understand-the-cryosphere/" class="read-more more-link" title="Did you know? Machine learning can help us understand the cryosphere!">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-16029 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cryo-adventures tag-fieldwork tag-glacial-lake tag-glaciology tag-himalaya tag-india tag-indian tag-melt"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/10/25/a-first-timers-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-himalayas/" title="A First-Timer’s Journey to the Heart of the Himalayas" target="">A First-Timer’s Journey to the Heart of the Himalayas</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/krishnanand-j/" title="Posts by Krishnanand J" class="author url fn" rel="author">Krishnanand J</a></span> <span class="meta-date">October 25, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/10/25/a-first-timers-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-himalayas/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/10/map_ultimate-700x400.png" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/10/map_ultimate-1400x800.png" width="700" height="400" alt="The route of our journey from Srinagar to Panikhar." class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">The route of our journey from Srinagar to Panikhar. The black line is the road we took for the car journey. The road is not to scale! (Credit: Krishnanand J)</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>I am Krishnanand J, a graduate student in glaciology from IISER Pune, India. This is a story about my very first field trip to the Himalaya. Coming from a small village in Kerala, which is the southernmost state of India, going to the Himalaya is considered a big thing. It is like a camel visiting Antarctica. So below, I will take you along on an immersive journey, as I tell you about my first fie ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/10/25/a-first-timers-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-himalayas/" class="read-more more-link" title="A First-Timer’s Journey to the Heart of the Himalayas">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-16010 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-editor-post category-ice-hot-news tag-academia tag-mental-health tag-mindfulness tag-phd tag-postdoc tag-work-life-balance"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/10/16/world-mental-health-day-2024-with-a-focus-on-workplace/" title="World Mental Health Day 2024 with a focus on workplace" target="">World Mental Health Day 2024 with a focus on workplace</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/linamadaj/" title="Posts by Lina Madaj" class="author url fn" rel="author">Lina Madaj</a></span> <span class="meta-date">October 16, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/10/16/world-mental-health-day-2024-with-a-focus-on-workplace/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/10/employee-6038877_1920-646x400.png" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/10/employee-6038877_1920-1293x800.png" width="646" height="400" alt="World Mental Health Day 2024 with a focus on workplace" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Maintaining mental wellness in academia is not always easy and steered by many external factors. Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay.</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Friday the 10 October, was World Mental Health Day, a day that was founded by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) in 1992. This year’s official theme focuses specifically on mental health in the work environment. So let’s take a look at what this means for the field of academia and the cryosphere specifically. With this post, we aim to not only raise awareness of the mental health crisis ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/10/16/world-mental-health-day-2024-with-a-focus-on-workplace/" class="read-more more-link" title="World Mental Health Day 2024 with a focus on workplace">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-15987 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-editor-post tag-arctic tag-climate-change tag-friday-13th tag-minimum tag-sea-ice"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/09/13/friday-the-13th-an-unlucky-day-for-sea-ice/" title="Friday the 13th – an unlucky day for sea ice?" target="">Friday the 13th – an unlucky day for sea ice?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/mariascheel/" title="Posts by Maria Scheel" class="author url fn" rel="author">Maria Scheel</a> and <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/author/loeka-jongejans/" title="Posts by Loeka Jongejans" class="author url fn" rel="author">Loeka Jongejans</a></span> <span class="meta-date">September 13, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/09/13/friday-the-13th-an-unlucky-day-for-sea-ice/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/09/seaice-600x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2024/09/seaice-1201x800.jpg" width="600" height="400" alt="Thin, small sea ice floats on the dark waters." class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Image credit Andrew Elvidge (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>On this September 13th, coinciding to be a “Friday 13th”, we wanted to scan the cryo-history for expeditions started, sunken ships that day, and mountain myths. And we did find that. But as autumn approaches in the Northern hemisphere, the spookiest story of all was this one: the unlucky timing of the Arctic sea ice in September. TGIF – but not for sea ice Although the median min ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2024/09/13/friday-the-13th-an-unlucky-day-for-sea-ice/" class="read-more more-link" title="Friday the 13th – an unlucky day for sea ice?">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> </div> <ul class='page-numbers'> <li><span aria-current="page" class="page-numbers current">1</span></li> <li><a class="page-numbers" href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/page/2/">2</a></li> <li><a class="page-numbers" href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/page/3/">3</a></li> <li><span class="page-numbers dots">…</span></li> <li><a class="page-numbers" href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/page/46/">46</a></li> <li><a class="next page-numbers" href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/page/2/">»</a></li> </ul> </div> <aside id="sidebar"> <div id="text-2" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widgettitle">About</h3> <div class="textwidget"><p>Welcome to the <a href="/divisions/cr/about/">blog</a> of the <a href="http://www.egu.eu/cr/">Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division</a> of the <a href="http://www.egu.eu">European Geosciences Union</a> (EGU). The aim of the blog is to get you, the reader, excited about all things related to ice, whether it be the tiniest ice crystals, snow drifts, beautiful mountain glaciers or the vast polar ice sheets. Here, the latest fieldwork programmes, research projects or scientific results will be showcased by bloggers from the cryospheric community. The blog is currently run by Loeka Jongejans, Lina Madaj and Maria Scheel. Would you like to write a blog entry about your research? Please get in touch with the editors, Loeka Jongejans (email: loeka.jongejans(at)live.nl), Lina Madaj (email: l.madaj(at)vu.nl) or Maria Scheel (email: maria.scheel(at)envs.au.dk).</p> </div> </div><div id="block-2" class="widget widget_block widget_media_image"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-medium is-resized"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2021/10/22/its-getting-hot-in-here-ancient-microbes-in-thawing-permafrost/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2022/02/Best-Blog-panel-2021-300x300.png" alt="Blue circle with yellow EGU logo and yellow text saying winner 2021, best blog post, panel vote." class="wp-image-11841" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2022/02/Best-Blog-panel-2021-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2022/02/Best-Blog-panel-2021-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/files/2022/02/Best-Blog-panel-2021-768x769.png 768w, 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