The EGU’s GMPV Early Career Scientist committee is delighted to invite you to our first ever webinar, with contributions spanning the whole range of topics encompassed by the GMPV section. The webinar will be hosted on zoom (apologies if you already have zoom fatigue…) at 16:00 Central European Summer Time, on Monday 29th June. There …[Read More]
The EGU GMPV ECS** committee are pleased to invite you to contribute to a new series of webinars, highlighting new research by early career scientists. These webinars will be one hour long, made up of four talks (8-10 minutes each) from across the breadth of GMPV, with time for discussions. Whilst the exact timings are …[Read More]
For anyone tuning in from Australia, happy Saturday! How have you found the conference? Did it work? Was it a disaster? Is physical presence more important than saving on CO2? Did you manage to do any networking? Were you as engaged as you would normally be? Let us know in the comments, be brutally honest …[Read More]
It’s Thursday, hopefully your typing fingers and wifi connections are still holding up! Take a little time off and explore Vienna, I recommend visiting the cathedral here… The conference continues, here are some little highlights for your Thursday: The most important thing is the GMPV division meeting at 12:45. Lunch will be served* (*as long …[Read More]
Yesterday was cinco de mayo, today is…the 6th of May. It’s hump day, and what better way to get over the mid-week blues than these unmissable morsels of science. Today’s highlights: Do you want to see how far automated mineralogy of thin sections has come? The latest advances from Rich Taylor from Zeiss suggest we …[Read More]
Good morning, it’s tuesday, and I hope you have all enjoyed the delicios gelato that Vienna has to offer (i.e. whatever you can find in your freezer). Here is some not-to-be-missed science to fill your day… When volcanoes are covered by glaciers, does this prevent forecasting, or help it? Michael Martin says the latter, check …[Read More]
Hopefully you have all settled in to your hotels (i.e. your bedrooms) and enjoyed the icebreaker last night (i.e. sitting in your living room). Here are some highlights for today, tune in and ‘chat’! Were organic compounds on crystal surfaces involved in the emergence of life? If so, could these compounds withstand high temperatures? Check …[Read More]
We are now just two days from the EGU 2020 abstract deadline! If you are still searching for the ideal session – here’s one for you! GMPV 2.2 – Volcanic and Tectonic desgassing – aims to cover a wide range of topics relating to degassing from magmatic, tectonic and volcanic settings. If you haven’t started …[Read More]
Do you like thinking about fluids? Do you also like thinking about rocks? How about fluids and rocks together? If you answered yes to all three of these questions, then here are two suggestions. The first is to ask for a set of these whiskey stones for Christmas (or, even better, just find some talc-schist …[Read More]
The abstract submission deadline for EGU 2020 is now 1 month away – so the clock is ticking to pick a session and submit an abstract! If you still haven’t chosen which session to submit to, we are here for you! Every few days, on this blog, a different session in the general GMPV section …[Read More]
