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

September 27, 2017
The EUGEN e.V. meeting – a unique (geological) experience
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

August 31, 2017
NetherMod Day 5 – Putten an end to Nethermod: interviews with attendees
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]

NetherMod Day 4 – A typical day

August 30, 2017
NetherMod Day 4 – A typical day
Students interrogate keynote speakers, i.e. senior scientists

Today, Ági Király, postdoc at CEED (Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics) at the University of Oslo, Norway, is sharing her experience of NetherMod. After the wine tasting and karaoke party of yesterday evening, this morning’s keynote speakers had quite a difficult job to shake up the sleepy audience. Dave Stegman even dropped in a promise of a free beer for the most awake student (won by  René ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 3 – Science & Windsurfing

August 30, 2017
NetherMod Day 3 – Science & Windsurfing
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]