Travel log

To boldly go… deep sea exploring to study Earth’s interior

Molly Anderson, edited by Arushi Saxena and edited by Michael Perfit November 10, 2021

Shrimp competes with HOV Alvin’s hydraulic arm for seafloor pillow basalt near the East Pacific Rise . © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with thanks to Daniel Fornari (WHOI-MISO Facility)

As geodynamicists, we are sometimes oblivious on how we get the geophysical constraints in our numerical models. This week Molly Anderson, a PhD student at the University of Florida, takes us on a exciting dive to study the geochemical signatures of the East Pacific Ocean seafloor! People are often surprised to hear that the seafloor is covered with volcanoes, let alone that the most extensive cha ...[Read More]

AGU19 – we’ll be back, soon!

Editorial Team 2 December 11, 2019

This week (9-13th December), the AGU19 Fall Meeting is back in the newly renovated Moscone Centre in central San Francisco. For the previous 2 years whilst the facelift has been happening, the Fall Meeting has been carted around to New Orleans and Washington, D.C. You can find more details of the week’s proceedings at the AGU website. It is a special year for the AGU as they celebrate their ...[Read More]

Travel log – The Kenya rift

Editorial team 1 May 1, 2019

View from Subukia viewpoint into the rift valley with the opposite rift shoulders in the background. Pencil for scale. Courtesy of Corinna Kallich, Potsdam University.

A little over a year ago, I was lucky enough to join a field trip to the Kenya rift organized by Potsdam University and Roma III. This rift is part of the active East African Rift System, which I introduced in a previous blog post. With a group of 25 enthusiastic participants from Roma Tre, Potsdam University, Nairobi University and GFZ Potsdam (we somehow always managed to make the 20-person bus ...[Read More]

A belated happy new year!

Iris van Zelst January 18, 2019

Are you going to the snow or to the sun for a winter break?
Credit: Pexels

It was that time of the year again: holidays! Time to take a break from work, relax, and see all your friends and family again. The blog team is no different: we took a break from blogging for a little while as well, so you had to survive the holidays without us! Did you survive Christmas day without one of our blogposts? It must’ve been dreadful, I know, but that’s life! Luckily, we h ...[Read More]