Geodynamics

Making the most of the EGU General Assembly 2018 as a Geodynamicist and Early Career Scientist

Editorial Team 2 April 4, 2018

Are you still deciding on how to best fill your EGU General Assembly program next week in Vienna? Wondering what is on offer specifically for the Geodynamics (GD) early career community? Our EGU GD Early Career Scientist representative, Adina Pusok (Scripps, UC San Diego), shares some planning tips and event highlights for the big week ahead. We are looking forward to seeing you there! The EGU Gen ...[Read More]

Convection in eggs

Iris van Zelst March 28, 2018

I cannot guarantee that you will get an nice, chocolate Easter egg for Easter from the Easter bunny, but I can guarantee that you will get a nice, Easter-themed geodynamics blog post from me. That's something, isn't it?
Credit: Public domain pictures.

Happy Easter everybody! It is that time of year again when you wake up excitedly on Easter Sunday and run into the garden to find the chocolate eggs the Easter Bunny hid for you! What? That’s just me? Hm. Well, in any case, you will probably have a couple of extra days off from work and this should be celebrated with a themed blog post! As you know, geodynamics is about the large scale dynam ...[Read More]

Help us fight patriarchy, one comic strip at a time!

Iris van Zelst March 21, 2018

We can do it!
Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Women in science/geodynamics: a topic we have discussed before and should continue to discuss, because we’re not there yet. In this new Wit & Wisdom post, Marie Bocher, postdoc at the Seismology and Wave Physics group of ETH Zürich, discusses a range of all-too-common encounters women face and a possible solution to awareness: comics (drawn by Alice Adenis, PhD student at ENS Lyon). You ...[Read More]

Subduction through the mantle transition zone: sink or stall?

Iris van Zelst March 14, 2018

And we thought that subducting slabs couldn't sink any lower.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons, xkcd

The Geodynamics 101 series serves to showcase the diversity of research topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner. We welcome all researchers – PhD students to professors – to introduce their area of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch upon some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their fields. For our latest ‘Geodynamics 10 ...[Read More]