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Diana FRANCIS

PhD. Atmospheric Sciences, Sorbonne Universités Paris VI

Videos and documentaries

Transformers Documentary on CNN about dust storms : 

https://www.drdianafrancis.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TransformersDianaDust-1.mp4

My interview on Dubai Eye about atmospheric rivers:

https://www.drdianafrancis.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/dianaInterview.mp4

 

Geoscience News

  • Congratulations to the winners of the EGU25 Photo Competition!
    by Hazel Gibson on May 2, 2025 at 6:00 am

    For this year’s Photo Contest, EGU received a number of amazing images capturing a broad spectrum of the geosciences. Since the selection committee whittled the field down to 10 finalists, you have been voting for your favourites throughout EGU25’s week-long conference, both on-site in Vienna at the EGU booth, and online. After an enthusiastic […]

  • A Geoscientist’s Colorful Journey from Research to Children’s Books
    by Anna Katsigera on May 1, 2025 at 3:59 pm

    In today’s blog we’re having a chat with our very own Dr Lucia Perez-Diaz. As Lucia put it at the start of this year’s General Assembly, us scientists get to wear many “hats”, and she lives up to that statement. Besides a brilliant geoscientist, she is an incredible artist – also featured as last year’s artist in residence – and a […]

  • AI: the good, the bad, and the forgotten
    by Lucia Perez-Diaz on May 1, 2025 at 9:36 am

    AI is here, and when I say here, I mean e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. For all you know, this blog may have been written by an algorithm (it wasn’t — I’m not a robot, promise. Or am I?). In what feels like the blink of an eye, AI has gone from a curiosity to a fully-fledged co-pilot in science (and out of science). It’s generating satellite imagery, […]

  • Outside the Conference: Vienna and Beyond
    by Jakub Stepanovic on May 1, 2025 at 7:00 am

    EGU’s General Assembly (GA) has been in Vienna for over 15 years now. There are practicalities that make it a suitable choice, such as Vienna being able to accommodate 15-20 thousand on-site participants and its location allowing many EGU members to travel there by ground-based transportation. Still, the GA’s experience also encompasses what […]

  • Fieldwork maze: where are we and where are we going?
    by Jakub Stepanovic on April 30, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    Bracing the elements to be rewarded with new data — and spectacular views in the process — can be an experience of a lifetime. Yet, zooming out of the easily romanticized image can quickly paint a different scene, where negative experiences from fieldwork drive people away from the research. Moreover, some fieldwork practices prevent people […]

  • Io: a spongy world consumed by molten rock
    by Anna Katsigera on April 30, 2025 at 11:55 am

    Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system, with hundreds of volcanoes that constantly erupt on its ever renewing surface. Although Io always points the same side toward Jupiter in its orbit around the gas giant, two other Galilean moons, Europa and Ganymede, pull Io’s orbit into an irregularly elliptical one. […]

  • The transformative worlds of EGU
    by Jakub Stepanovic on April 29, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    About the unique trans-disciplinary exchanges EGU’s General Assemblies (GA) offer, and the far-reaching impact they can have. Stepping outside one’s bubble can vastly expand our horizons and open unimagined paths. The EGU’s GA offers ample space for participants to do so. One way is to get a glimpse of different scientific groups: by having […]

  • Advancing diversity and inclusion at EGU: EDI Networking event recap
    by Lucia Perez-Diaz on April 29, 2025 at 1:58 pm

    Yesterday, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) hosted a vibrant and impactful event focused on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) within the geosciences community. This networking session provided an open and welcoming space for participants to meet the dedicated volunteer members of the EGU EDI Committee and learn more about the […]

  • Poster safaris, wildcard talks, and other EGU25 adventures
    by Lucia Perez-Diaz on April 29, 2025 at 8:34 am

    If you’ve ever been to the EGU General Assembly, you know the feeling: everything, everywhere, all at once. Thousands of posters, hundreds of sessions, and approximately a million things competing for your attention (including the lure of the sunshine outside, if only for five minutes). Until someone invents a way to be in more than one place at […]

  • Raising the (melt)stakes! How robotic innovation reveals new findings on melting glaciers
    by Anna Katsigera on April 28, 2025 at 3:30 pm

    In the age of climate change, glaciers across the Arctic are melting, consequently reducing regional freshwater supplies and contributing to the ongoing rise in global sea levels. But how fast do they melt? And is it possible to predict that? A new study on the Xeitl Sit’ (LeConte) glacier in Alaska aims to answer these questions. The research […]

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