Travel log

Postcard from Tokyo: JpGU2018 conference

Editorial Team 2 May 23, 2018

Famous Shibuya pedestrian crossing in Tokyo

Konichiwa from Tokyo and JpGU2018! This week, 20-24 May, the Japanese Geoscience Union (JpGU) is holding its annual union meeting just outside of Tokyo, in Chiba (about 40 minutes by metro). I am fortunate enough to be on a research visit to the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Tech over on the other side of the city and so attending JpGU was a bonus. It is my first time in attendance ...[Read More]

Postcard from Singapore: Global Young Scientists Summit 2018

Anna Gülcher / Lucía Pérez Díaz March 7, 2018

View of Singapore from 1-Altitude skyscraper.

Excite, engage, enable. These three words were the driving mission behind the gathering of over 250 PhD and postdoctoral fellows at the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) in Singapore. In January 2018, Thomas Schutzius, Michael Zumstein, Daniel Sutter, and I had the distinct pleasure of representing the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) at this year’s summit. The GYSS is a mult ...[Read More]

2017 AGU Fall Meeting

Anna Gülcher / Lucía Pérez Díaz December 13, 2017

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

The largest Earth and Space science meeting in the world is taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana. As usual, once a year AGU gathers the best and brightest minds from around the globe in the pursuit of high quality science, knowledge, and a more sustainable future. In particular, AGU allows to share your science, advance your career, and gain visibility and recognition for your own scienti ...[Read More]

The EUGEN e.V. meeting – a unique (geological) experience

Editorial team 1 September 27, 2017

The karst-river Mrežnica viewed from the EUGEN camp ground. Credit: Sophie Hollinetz, Vienna University.

Extracurricular activities for current and former geosciences students provide great value to early career scientists in terms of networking and broadening their scientific horizon. PhD student Maximilian Döhmann, who studies rock deformation with numerical models based on high temperature and pressure torsion experiments in the Geodynamic Modelling group of GFZ Potsdam, shares his experiences wit ...[Read More]