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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]

Poster presentation tips

Iris van Zelst October 11, 2017

(Part of) Charitra Jain’s poster at NetherMod 2017 on the generation of primordial continental crust

Being a scientist is more than just doing research and science. You also need to be able to communicate your findings to your peers and/or the general public (outreach). At conferences, you usually have two options for presenting your work: a talk or a poster (although at EGU, you also have the PICO sessions). A poster is often preferred if you would like to start a discussion and get lots of feed ...[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]

NetherMod Day 5 – Putten an end to Nethermod: interviews with attendees

Editorial Team 2 August 31, 2017

Sunset descends over a great week of Nethermod held in Putten (Photo: G. Shephard)

Today is the fifth and final day of the XVth International Workshop on Modelling of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics, or “Nethermod”, here in Putten, The Netherlands. Despite the overcast conditions outside, the lively scientific program included keynotes by Paul Tackley and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni in the morning and Clint Conrad and Louise Kellogg in the afternoon. With over 120 at ...[Read More]