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A message from the Earth’s subcontinental lithospheric mantle to delegates at the AGU Fall Meeting

EAG Ambassador Abimbola Chris Ogunyele reports back from the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, one of the largest geoscience meetings in the world, where over 25000 delegates from more than 100 countries gather every year...

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EAG Sponsored Student Dominic Hildebrandt reports back from the Sedimentary Provenance Analysis Short Course

The international short course on Sediment Provenance analysis: how to unpack geological history from a grain of sand...

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Reviewing with benefits

Guest contributor Sonja Aulbach explores the process of reviewing a scientific paper. She discusses what constitutes a good review, and gives some advice on how to approach reviewing.

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EAG Sponsored student Fernanda Torres García reports back from the 6th EGU Summer School

The 6th EGU Summer School was held in the Nevessee area of South Tyrol (NE Italy) and focused on the structural analysis of deformation structures within the Tauern meta-granitoids. EAG sponsored student Fernanda Torres Garcia shares her experiences.

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EAG ambassador Ke Zhu attends The Meteoritical Society 86th annual meeting

EAG ambassador Ke Zhu reports back from the 86th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society at UCLA.

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Activities of the 6th European Conference on Permafrost
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EAG sponsored student Maëlle Villani breaks the ice at the 6th European Conference on Permafrost.

My participation at the 6th European Conference on Permafrost in Puigcerdà, Spain was an enriching experience...

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Francisco Hevia-Cruz presenting part of his doctoral research at the EGU General Assembly 2023 in Vienna.
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EAG Sponsored Student Francisco Hevia-Cruz reports back from the EGU General Assembly 2023

I was very surprised, mind-blown, by the scale of the 2023 EGU General Assembly, there were so many researchers, posters, and presentations, that it was very hard to decide ......

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IODP core repository - Katrin Wagner - radiolaria sample
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Shipboard Science but with less shaky legs – The ECORD Training Course 2023

EAG sponsored student Katrin Wagner reports back on her experience of the 2023 ECORD training course in preparation for shipboard science.

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The Potsdam Cameca 1280-HR SIMS facility
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A scientific party of SIMS experts and enthusiasts at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam

As a young analytical geochemist, I am always fascinated and interested in learning the basics, applications and technical know-how of different instruments and method. Here I describe my experiences as an EAG sponsored student on a SIMS short course

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Participants of the recently concluded IAL- IPA conference during a group photo with a breathtaking view of the Andes and Nahuel Huapi Lake in the background. Photo credit: ILA-IPA local organizing committee.
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Lakes as Memories of the Landscape: EAG Early Career Ambassadors report back

EAG Early Career Ambassadors Allix Baxter (Utrecht University) and Ronald Lloren (ETH Zürich - EAWAG) report back from the joint IAL-IPA Limnology meeting held in Bariloche, Argentina, in November 2022...

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EAG Sponsored Student Rosie Lewis presents her Volcanological Research with a bang!

With the generous support of the EAG I was able to attend the annual meeting of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG). Following the conference, I led an outreach exhibition at the NHM...

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Discovering the world one molecule at a time: 42 scientists on a metabolomics adventure

Ok, so if you have never dealt with metabolomics before, a Metabolomics Bioinformatics Course may sound very dry and kind of cryptic. Let me tell you why it was one of the most exciting weeks...

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