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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 – Secret Summary

August 30, 2017
NetherMod Day 3 – Secret Summary
~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!

August 30, 2017
NetherMod Day 3 – Karaoke fun!
TRAIN TRAIN!
Credit: Pixabay

Reporting live from the NetherMod karaoke bar,we summarise our 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 wine tasting and karaoke after dinner. How convenient that the wine tasting p ...[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]