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NetherMod Day 3 – Secret Summary

Iris van Zelst August 30, 2017

~10,000 km bridgmanite sausages. Obviously.
Credit: Pixabay

The third day of NetherMod promised to be a great day full of science, until it turned into a great day full of fun activities, such as windsurfing, wine tasting, and karaoke, thanks to the Dutch weather. This meant that only the morning was filled with science, which has already been summarised expertly in our previous post. What then, can this post add, I hear you thinking..? Well, let’s s ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 3 – Karaoke fun!

Iris van Zelst August 30, 2017

TRAIN TRAIN!
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Reporting live from the NetherMod karaoke bar, Manar Alsaif, PhD student at Université Montpellier, part of the Subitop ITN, summarises her experience with geodynamical karaoke (also see this post on the relationship between the two). Day 3 of NetherMod sizzled in a high of 29 °C, which meant the free afternoon just had to be that day. Of course, the day of the free afternoon had to round up with ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 3 – Science & Windsurfing

Anna Gülcher / Lucía Pérez Díaz August 30, 2017

Thorsten Becker presents his keynote lecture on subduction dynamics

Let’s keep going with the programme: today’s talks dealt with the following topics: (1) Lower mantle rheology–what do we really know? (2) Modelling plasticity and fractures in porous media: everything goes wrong! (3) Complexities of subduction dynamics. The first keynote talk was on the rheology of the lower mantle, an important part of the Earth. John Hernlund spent his 45 min describing wh ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 2 – Secret Summary

Iris van Zelst August 29, 2017

Potayto, potahto?
Credit: Agricultural Research Service

The first science day at Nethermod was kicked of by the crust & lithosphere modelling session, followed by the first talk in the methodological advances session. Thibault Duretz discussed how using lithospheric heterogeneities can help to form complex rifting styles without using an explicit strain weakening formulation. Switching to the subduction evolution of the Farallon plate, Claire Curri ...[Read More]