Geodynamics

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]

The Sassy Scientist – Impatient Or Too Late?

The Sassy Scientist November 5, 2021

Hilde has been ever so occupied with her research, especially finishing a manuscript for the first time. Submitting that paper was supposed to be some sort of closure, and mental solace, yet somehow there seems to be a predilection for progressive diffidence: When has enough time passed to send a reminder/enquiry to an editor if the paper is in the ‘decision with editor’-stage? Dear Hilde, DonR ...[Read More]

Sliding across the Solar System – The missing origins of gigantic landslides

Giulia Magnarini and edited by Antoniette G. Grima November 3, 2021

Landslides can be impressively huge and fast and can occur on all sorts of places including asteroids, rocky moons and Mars! Giulia Magnarini Post Doctoral Researcher at the Natural History Museum in London writes all about these gigantic landslides and the clues they could hold into the martian past! Gigantic landslides are ubiquitous in our solar system. Indeed, Earth, Mars, Mercury, Venus, aste ...[Read More]

The Sassy Scientist – Need For Compliments

The Sassy Scientist October 29, 2021

Scientists are starved for recognition. When that little compliment we have been fishing for does not arrive from our supervisor, but from an unkown benefactor, we tend to open our hearts to them. But we should be careful about our new email besties. Delfina asks: Publishers have approached me for a book deal. How do I proceed? Dear Delfina, For the vast majority of the times, ignore them. Chances ...[Read More]