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It guides the migration of birds across continents, whispers secrets to ancient rocks, and shields us from cosmic storms. This force is as mysterious as it is essential, shaping our world in ways that most of us never think about. Imagine a sailor centuries ago, staring at a compass that always points north. 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By now it is clear that the c ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/27/geopolicy-science-diplomacy-in-a-new-geopolitical-order/" class="read-more more-link" title="GeoPolicy: Science Diplomacy in a new Geopolitical order">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-46222 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-education tag-arctic-frontiers tag-norway"> <div style="float: right;"> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" class="divisionabbr" style="background-color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h5> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" style="color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </h5> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/21/science-for-schools-is-good-for-everyone/" title="Sparking scientific curiosity in Arctic Students: How they’re tackling big questions" target="">Sparking scientific curiosity in Arctic Students: How they’re tackling big questions</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/author/jamie-hollander/" title="Posts by Jamie Hollander" class="author url fn" rel="author">Jamie Hollander</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/geolog/2025/02/21/science-for-schools-is-good-for-everyone/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/02/Alexandru-Mitu-@alexumitu-03574-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/02/Alexandru-Mitu-@alexumitu-03574-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Sparking scientific curiosity in Arctic Students: How they’re tackling big questions" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Growing up, I didn’t know what it meant to “do research”. I did some research projects in high school, but research as a field path was totally foreign to me until I started university. Unlike me, the young students who participated in this year’s Arctic Frontiers Science for Schools program were given a first-hand glimpse into what it means to conduct professional research. The Science for School ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/21/science-for-schools-is-good-for-everyone/" class="read-more more-link" title="Sparking scientific curiosity in Arctic Students: How they’re tackling big questions">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-46104 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cryospheric-sciences category-geoscientific-methods tag-freeze-thaw-processes tag-geophysics tag-ground-penetrating-radar tag-latent-heat-storage tag-subsurface-imaging"> <div style="float: right;"> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" class="divisionabbr" style="background-color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h5> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" style="color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </h5> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/14/how-can-scientists-see-ice-underground-recent-study-reveals-how/" title="How can scientists see ice underground? Recent study reveals how!" target="">How can scientists see ice underground? Recent study reveals how!</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/author/asmaeourkiya/" title="Posts by Asmae Ourkiya" class="author url fn" rel="author">Asmae Ourkiya</a></span> <span class="meta-date">February 14, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/14/how-can-scientists-see-ice-underground-recent-study-reveals-how/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/02/6b4eddf1e5ca33388f9dd7e06063d9dd-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/02/6b4eddf1e5ca33388f9dd7e06063d9dd-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="How can scientists see ice underground? Recent study reveals how!" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>When it comes to peering beneath the Earth’s surface, geophysicists have an arsenal of high-tech tools at their disposal. But what happens when you need to track something as elusive as underground ice forming and melting in real time? Enter borehole Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR), the underground detective that helped Peter Jung and his colleagues image frozen subsurface volumes in an experimenta ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/14/how-can-scientists-see-ice-underground-recent-study-reveals-how/" class="read-more more-link" title="How can scientists see ice underground? Recent study reveals how!">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-45924 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-accessibility-and-inclusivity-at-egu category-edi category-pride tag-discrimination tag-diversity tag-geosciences tag-inclusion tag-marginalized-groups tag-meritocracy tag-queer-scientists tag-sexual-harassment tag-stem tag-systemic-barriers tag-workplace-climate"> <div style="float: right;"> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" class="divisionabbr" style="background-color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h5> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" style="color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </h5> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/07/why-earth-and-space-sciences-need-to-dismantle-the-cis-het-white-boys-club/" title="Why Earth and Space Sciences need to dismantle the cis-het-white boys’ club" target="">Why Earth and Space Sciences need to dismantle the cis-het-white boys’ club</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/author/asmaeourkiya/" title="Posts by Asmae Ourkiya" class="author url fn" rel="author">Asmae Ourkiya</a></span> <span class="meta-date">February 7, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/07/why-earth-and-space-sciences-need-to-dismantle-the-cis-het-white-boys-club/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/01/jesse-orrico-rmWtVQN5RzU-unsplash-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/01/jesse-orrico-rmWtVQN5RzU-unsplash-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Why Earth and Space Sciences need to dismantle the cis-het-white boys’ club" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Earth and space sciences, like many STEM fields, have long been dominated by a narrow vision of who belongs. But the tide is turning. A 2023 workplace climate survey of Earth and space scientists highlights both the persistent barriers queer and other historically excluded scientists face and the urgent need for cultural shifts within the discipline. The data is clear: the geosciences must now ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/07/why-earth-and-space-sciences-need-to-dismantle-the-cis-het-white-boys-club/" class="read-more more-link" title="Why Earth and Space Sciences need to dismantle the cis-het-white boys’ club">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-45971 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-blog tag-change tag-growth tag-neurodivergent tag-personal-development tag-project-management tag-sustainable tag-work-life-balance"> <div style="float: right;"> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" class="divisionabbr" style="background-color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h5> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" style="color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </h5> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/05/how-to-make-a-personal-change-this-year-part-2-growth/" title="How to make a personal change this year: part 2 – growth" target="">How to make a personal change this year: part 2 – growth</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/author/simonclark/" title="Posts by Simon Clark" class="author url fn" rel="author">Simon Clark</a></span> <span class="meta-date">February 5, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/05/how-to-make-a-personal-change-this-year-part-2-growth/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/01/s-o-c-i-a-l-c-u-t-6iYb1BWWbV0-unsplash-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/01/s-o-c-i-a-l-c-u-t-6iYb1BWWbV0-unsplash-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="How to make a personal change this year: part 2 – growth" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>It is the new year and new resolutions draw you onward. Yet motivation is fickle, and too often good intentions wither before bearing fruit. You may have drawn a plan to keep you in check, but how do you build on this to achieve sustainable growth? Sustainable growth has been a crucial throughout my career: from projects management and scientific research to building a charity, all required the ab ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/05/how-to-make-a-personal-change-this-year-part-2-growth/" class="read-more more-link" title="How to make a personal change this year: part 2 – growth">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-45738 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-blog category-ecs category-geosciences-column category-outreach category-science-comm category-social-media tag-egublogs tag-blog-of-the-year tag-blogging tag-blogging-opportunity tag-egu-contest tag-egu-division-blogs tag-geoscience-communication tag-science-communication tag-vote"> <div style="float: right;"> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" class="divisionabbr" style="background-color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h5> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" style="color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </h5> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/04/are-you-ready-to-vote-for-your-favourite-division-blog-of-2024/" title="Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2024?" target="">Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2024?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/author/asmaeourkiya/" title="Posts by Asmae Ourkiya" class="author url fn" rel="author">Asmae Ourkiya</a></span> <span class="meta-date">February 4, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/04/are-you-ready-to-vote-for-your-favourite-division-blog-of-2024/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/02/manny-becerra-LA1VawaCjjI-unsplash-e1738750632609-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2025/02/manny-becerra-LA1VawaCjjI-unsplash-e1738750632609-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2024?" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Our EGU blogging team has had a fantastic 2024 posting across our official blog, GeoLog and the division blogs. Most of our readers appreciate EGU’s blogs for their informative yet accessible style, and for our bloggers ability to take complex geoscience content and make it fun and relevant to the reader. If this sounds like something you’d like to get involved in, we encourage you to get in touch ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/02/04/are-you-ready-to-vote-for-your-favourite-division-blog-of-2024/" class="read-more more-link" title="Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2024?">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-46004 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-georoundup category-news category-publications tag-egu-news tag-egu-publications tag-georoundup tag-media-2 tag-open-access-2 tag-publication-highlights"> <div style="float: right;"> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" class="divisionabbr" style="background-color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </div> <header class="entry-header"> <h5> <a href="/geolog/" title="GeoLog" style="color:rgb(100,100,100)">GeoLog</a> </h5> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/01/31/georoundup-the-highlights-of-egu-journals-published-during-january-2-2/" title="GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!" target="">GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/author/asmaeourkiya/" title="Posts by Asmae Ourkiya" class="author url fn" rel="author">Asmae Ourkiya</a></span> <span class="meta-date">January 31, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/01/31/georoundup-the-highlights-of-egu-journals-published-during-january-2-2/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2020/07/EGUjournals-2020-700x400-2-700x400.png" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/wp-content/blogs.dir/15/files/2020/07/EGUjournals-2020-700x400-2-1400x800.png" width="700" height="400" alt="GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. For January, the divisions we are featuring are Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS), Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV), and Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP). They are served by the ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/01/31/georoundup-the-highlights-of-egu-journals-published-during-january-2-2/" class="read-more more-link" title="GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!">[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="/?paged=2">2</a></li> <li><a class="page-numbers" href="/?paged=3">3</a></li> <li><span class="page-numbers dots">…</span></li> <li><a class="page-numbers" href="/?paged=300">300</a></li> <li><a class="next page-numbers" href="/?paged=2">»</a></li> </ul> </div> <aside id="sidebar"> <div id="text-2" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widgettitle">About</h3> <div class="textwidget">The <a href=" http://www.egu.eu/"> European Geosciences Union </a> (EGU) blogs host the official blog of the EGU, <a href="geolog/">GeoLog</a>, as well as a <a href="network/">network</a> of blogs in the Earth, planetary and space sciences aimed at fostering a diverse community of geoscientist bloggers. In this site you will also find a selection of blogs from the EGU scientific <a href="division/">divisions</a>, which share division-specific news, events, and activities, as well as updates on the latest research in their field. 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