Iris van Zelst

Geodynamica: Earth & Planets – a new diamond open access journal!

Geodynamica Core Team December 1, 2023

Help us push the frontiers of open science by making Geodynamica: Earth & Planets a reality!
Join the conversation on Discord.

Do you want to publish and access papers for free? Do you want to improve the system by promoting equitable publishing alternatives? Then read on to learn about Geodynamica: Earth & Planets: a new community-powered Diamond Open Access Journal (DOAJ)! Join the conversation on discord by following this link. Diamond Open What? Diamond Open Access journals are peer-reviewed journals that are free ...[Read More]

Goodbye to 6 years of blogging

Iris van Zelst June 26, 2023

The blog turns 6 today!
Illustration by Soumyajit Basak

Dearest reader, on this day, six years ago, we published our very first blog post, stating our geodynamission: our plans for this new geodynamics division blog. From that day onwards, I have had the absolute privilege of being your Editor-in-Chief. But all good things must end and so does my term of being the Editor-in-Chief. Before I say my final goodbyes, let’s take a trip down memory lane ...[Read More]

The first observational evidence for a volcanically active Venus

Anna Gülcher and edited by Iris van Zelst March 22, 2023

An artist’s impression of active volcanoes on Venus, depicting a subduction zone and an active volcano.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin

Our neighbouring planet Venus is gaining popularity in the terrestrial planetary sciences, especially since the selection of three new Venus missions by NASA and ESA in 2021. Now, for the first time ever, scientists have directly observed surface changes that indicate active volcanism on Venus. This discovery was made with data from NASA’s 30-year-old Magellan mission and is only a small preview f ...[Read More]

Happy blog birthday!

Iris van Zelst June 29, 2022

Can you guess how old the blog turns today?
Hint: Look at the subduction 😍
Image by Prachi Kar

The EGU Geodynamics blog is 5 years old today! *throws confetti* Imagine being on the same contract in the same country for that long… Wow. Truly incredible. So let’s have a look at what we did over this past year of blogging. What did we do? Write and edit, mainly. I know – who’d’ve thought that is what editors do, right? But yes, writing and editing was done in abun ...[Read More]