News & Views

Conferencing during a pandemic: lessons learned

Kiran Chotalia and edited by Antoniette G. Grima June 16, 2021

Virtual conferencing this way! Credit: https://pixabay.com/

Conferences are a vital part of academic life but with many conferences moving online due to the pandemic, the virtual conference hall can be a minefield! After a year of conferencing from afar, Kiran Chotalia shares the tips and tricks to make the conference experience live from your living room a breeze! It would be an understatement to say it has been quite the year. Travel restrictions put a f ...[Read More]

EGU medals and awards

Jeroen van Hunen and edited by Menno Fraters May 26, 2021

The deadline for submitting nominations is arriving soon. So it is the perfect time for EGU Geodynamics President Jeroen van Hunen to explain what awards there are and how easy it is to nominate you colleague for it! This is my first-ever EGU GD blog (in fact, this is the first time I am writing a blog at all). I feel like stepping into a new world. The topic of this blog is EGU medals and awards. ...[Read More]

Whole solid-Earth numerical simulation: Towards an understanding of mantle-core interactive dynamics

Masaki Yoshida and edited by Jyotirmoy Paul May 5, 2021

Due to huge difference between the time scale of the mantle convection and the outer core convection, they are modelled separately. In this week’s News and Views, Masaki Yoshida from the Volcanoes and Earth’s Interior Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan, put forward the recent development on the modeling of the whole solid-Earth. The E ...[Read More]

Expand your toolbox: Three new programming languages to try out

Menno Fraters April 21, 2021

Will you add a new programming lanuage to your toolbox?

Geodynamists usually do at least a bit of programming, but in many cases a lot of programming, although that might just be my academic bubble. Most of that programming is done in programming languages that have been around at least since the 80’s (Fortran, C and C++) or early 90’s (Python). These programming languages have of course evolved considerably over time, but new languages keep popping up ...[Read More]