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]
This year, going to conferences looks really different. And so does preparing for conferences. Here at GMPV, we want to give you the best possible chance to get the most out of the conference. So, building on EGU’s top 10 tips, we bring you GMPV’s ultimate guide to #shareEGU20* *we reserve the right to forget …[Read More]
By Emma Liu – Lecturer in Earth Science, University College London. For more adventures, follow Emma on Twitter! It’s a strange feeling to realise that your closest human neighbours are on the international space station…! We were five hundred miles away from the nearest civilisation and all I could see in every direction was miles …[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]
Today in the #EGU2020 sessions in the spotlight series (our last one before the holidays!), it’s GMPV8.4’s turn: Magma differentiation: crystals, isotopes, and experiments, organised by Frances Deegan (Uppsala University), Ben Ellis (ETH Zurich), Carmela Freda (INGV Rome) and Valentin Troll (Uppsala University). Keynote speaker: Marian Holness (Cambridge University). Crystals that grow in magmatic rocks …[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]
