August 2017

NetherMod Day 5 – Putten an end to Nethermod: interviews with attendees

Editorial Team 2 August 31, 2017

Sunset descends over a great week of Nethermod held in Putten (Photo: G. Shephard)

Today is the fifth and final day of the XVth International Workshop on Modelling of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics, or “Nethermod”, here in Putten, The Netherlands. Despite the overcast conditions outside, the lively scientific program included keynotes by Paul Tackley and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni in the morning and Clint Conrad and Louise Kellogg in the afternoon. With over 120 at ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 4 – A typical day

Iris van Zelst August 30, 2017

Students interrogate keynote speakers, i.e. senior scientists

Today, Ági Király, postdoc at CEED (Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics) at the University of Oslo, Norway, is sharing her experience of NetherMod. After the wine tasting and karaoke party of yesterday evening, this morning’s keynote speakers had quite a difficult job to shake up the sleepy audience. Dave Stegman even dropped in a promise of a free beer for the most awake student (won by René ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 3 – Secret Summary

Iris van Zelst August 30, 2017

~10,000 km bridgmanite sausages. Obviously.
Credit: Pixabay

The third day of NetherMod promised to be a great day full of science, until it turned into a great day full of fun activities, such as windsurfing, wine tasting, and karaoke, thanks to the Dutch weather. This meant that only the morning was filled with science, which has already been summarised expertly in our previous post. What then, can this post add, I hear you thinking..? Well, let’s s ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 3 – Karaoke fun!

Iris van Zelst August 30, 2017

TRAIN TRAIN!
Credit: Pixabay

Reporting live from the NetherMod karaoke bar,we summarise our experience with geodynamical karaoke (also see this post on the relationship between the two). Day 3 of NetherMod sizzled in a high of 29 °C, which meant the free afternoon just had to be that day. Of course, the day of the free afternoon had to round up with wine tasting and karaoke after dinner. How convenient that the wine tasting p ...[Read More]