The March issue of the quarterly newsletter of the European Geosciences Union, which marks the first anniversary of GeoQ, is now published online. Of highlight in this edition are the Articles section, featuring a piece on "Hunting monsters: The search for earthquake ruptures in the Himalayas" and an interview with soil-scientists Jorge Mataix-Solera, a letter from the EGU Awards Committee Chair Alberto Montanari in EGU Voice, and a very interesting Education article featuring micropalaeontology activities for the classroom. The two pieces in the External News section are also of mention: one introduces the Future Earth initiative and the other a science policy programme from the other side of the Atlantic.

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You can download the full newsletter as a single (interactive) PDF, or follow the Table of Contents links below for the PDFs of each individual section.

Table of Contents

• Editorial
• Articles
  • Hunting monsters – 5
  • Understanding the role of cyanobacteria in the Great Oxidation Event – 6
  • Piecing together the puzzle of past climates – 8
  • Interview with soil-scientist Jorge Mataix-Solera – 9
• EGU Voice
  • Awarding the best science – 11
  • Division reports – 12
• EGU News
  • New Science Communicator at the EGU Office – 14
  • The EGU is looking for an Educational Fellow – 14
  • Photo and moving image competitions at the EGU 2013 General Assembly – 15
  • Would you like to join the EGU Blog Network? – 15
• Press Releases
  • Unprecedented glacier melting in the Andes blamed on climate change – 16
  • Kate Ravilious and Liz Kalaugher awarded EGU Science Journalism Fellowship – 17
• Journal Watch
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics – 18
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques – 19
  • Biogeosciences – 19
  • Climate of the Past – 20
  • Earth System Dynamics – 20
  • Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems – 20
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences – 21
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences – 22
  • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics – 22
  • The Cryosphere – 22
• External News
  • A step change for Earth system research: Future Earth – research for global sustainability – 23
  • Helping scientists and policymakers work together – 26
• Education
  • Micropalaeontology: from the seafloor into your classroom – 28
• Books
  • Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia – 30
  • Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective – 30
  • Book review: Soils and Human Health – 31
• On the Web
  • Featured website – 32
  • Featured blogs – 32
• Events
  • Conferences, meetings and workshops – 34