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The Rainbow Colour Map (repeatedly) considered harmful

August 23, 2017
The Rainbow Colour Map (repeatedly) considered harmful
A rough guide to the use of colours - rainbows best left to unicorns with their sparkly data. By Matthew Partridge of ErrantScience.com

This week’s “Wit and Wisdom” post is a guest entry by researcher Fabio Crameri from the Centre for Earth Evolution of Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo. Many of us are guilty of creating figures using the colours of the rainbow in their full glory – it’s bold, exciting, and justifies the golden data contained within, right? Wrong! As Fabio explains, the rainbow scheme is misleading and should be ...[Read More]

The eastern Mediterranean: What’s in a name?

August 16, 2017
The eastern Mediterranean: What’s in a name?
Image Credit: modified by Anne Glerum after NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens.

Every 8 weeks we turn our attention to a Remarkable Region that deserves a spot in the scientific limelight. To kick off this series, Anne Glerum introduces us to the eastern Mediterranean, which has been a natural laboratory for generations of scientists. The name of our Remarkable Region is quite descriptive: it designates the region around and including the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea ...[Read More]

The world’s largest magnet

August 10, 2017
The world’s largest magnet
Please do not feed the magnets.
Credit: Modified by Iris van Zelst from OhmArt, Pixabay, and Max Pixel

The Geodynamics 101 series serves to show the diversity of topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner for every geodynamicist. PhD’s, postdocs, full professors, and everyone in between can introduce their field of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch on some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their method of choice. Thi ...[Read More]

A Geodynamicist and an Early Career Scientist

August 2, 2017
A Geodynamicist and an Early Career Scientist
"Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com

This week Adina Pusok, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA, discusses what it is like to be an Early Career Scientist within the EGU Geodynamics division. The terms “Early Career Scientist” (ECS) or “Young Scientist” (YS) are now so widely used in the scientific community, th ...[Read More]