GMPV
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
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PIYAL HALDER

Piyal Halder (ECS member, Blog Editor and LinkedIn Manager, GMPV division, EGU, 2022 onwards) is a PhD student on Tectonics and Geochemistry in Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (An autonomous Research Institute under Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India) and registered at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR- An Institute of National Importance, Govt, of India).

EGU25: A step towards Engagement, Gathering and Unity

EGU25: A step towards Engagement, Gathering and Unity

Are you a PhD aspirant looking for a potential supervisor? Are you searching for research collaboration?  Your PhD is at the final stage, but you haven’t found a post-doctoral mentor yet. Are you an introvert and can’t understand how to reach people at the conference? Don’t worry!! The ECS team of the GMPV division is here to assist you in shaping your future goals. The last GMPV ...[Read More]

EGU24 Friday Highlights

EGU24 Friday Highlights

Tired after the week-long conference?   The GMPV division is ready with a number of interesting sessions to refresh your moods. Let’s enjoy the last moment of the EGU General Assembly 2024.   Let’s start the day with a cup of tea and join the conference with the energy of a volcano because a session is waiting for all of you on hydrothermal alteration in volcanic settings (GMPV8.2).  The sess ...[Read More]

Revisiting the roots of minerals’ names: A journey to mineral etymology

Revisiting the roots of minerals’ names: A journey to mineral etymology

Hello everyone!! In an earlier blog, my colleague Eliot Carter discussed the etymology of elements.  As a PhD student in geochemistry, mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, we all regularly deal with a large number of minerals. Among them, some are very common and a few are hardly known. However, sometimes we forget the basics to deal with the complicated things. In fact, PhD students mostly face ...[Read More]

EGU23 Wednesday Highlights

EGU23 Wednesday Highlights

Welcome to the third day of the EGU General Assembly, 2023. Hope that the participants and attendees are enjoying. Let’s start the day with a cup of tea and then enter the Hall. For virtual attendees, we have Gather.town. So don’t miss a single session wherever you are! Anyways, lets have a look on today’s sessions- The first session on “Magmatic, tectonic and hydrothermal ...[Read More]