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Hydrological Sciences

Scientific disobedience: where are our catchment boundaries?

Scientific disobedience: where are our catchment boundaries?

On the night preceding Halloween, somewhere in the main police station of Munich, 15 people appeared one by one before a judge of the local court who notified them their deprivation of liberty, deemed as “indispensable in order to prevent the imminent commission/continuation of a criminal/orderly offence of considerable importance for the general public”. For …[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

#EGU23 session in the spotlight: Seismic sources, signals and imaging on volcanoes: observations, laboratory experiments and modelling

#EGU23 session in the spotlight:  Seismic sources, signals and imaging on volcanoes: observations, laboratory experiments and modelling

The abstract submission deadline for the EGU GA 23 is approaching fast – 10th January, 2023!!! Before wrapping up 2022, please consider submitting your work to this exciting session that is being co-organised by SM and GMPV divisions. Check out below what the conveners had to say about their session: SM6.2 Seismic sources, signals and …[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

#EGU23 session in the spotlight: Advances in monitoring and studying the presence and migration of fluids within the crust using multi-disciplinary approaches

#EGU23 session in the spotlight: Advances in monitoring and studying the presence and migration of fluids within the crust using multi-disciplinary approaches

The deadline for the abstract submission in #EGU 23 is knocking at the door (last date- 10th January, 2023). Still, Confused to choose the session most appropriate to your work?? Well, we are here to help you. Scientific Community all over the world working on different geoscientific aspects of fluid migration within the crust can …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Biogeodynamics

Biogeodynamics

Would you like to participate in the development of a completely new research field? Here is the opportunity – Biogeodynamics! Biogeodynamics is an emerging field with exciting research opportunities. In this blog post professors Taras Gerya, Loïc Pellissier, and Robert Stern talk about what is Bio-Geo-Dynamics, how this field is developing, and what are the challenges …[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

#EGU23 session in the spotlight: Magmatic, tectonic and hydrothermal processes at Mid-oceanic ridges and transform faults: new insights from observations and models of the oceanic lithosphere

#EGU23 session in the spotlight: Magmatic, tectonic and hydrothermal processes at Mid-oceanic ridges and transform faults: new insights from observations and models of the oceanic lithosphere

The abstract submission deadline for #EGU23 is in less than a month (10 January 2023)! It can be difficult to decide which session is the best to present your research…As in the past years, we are here to help you find the right session for you! Today we highlight the session GD5.2 “Magmatic, tectonic and …[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Tambora 1815: From eruptive dynamics to the global impact of the eruption – with Jessica Kandlbauer

Panorama Mount Tambora caldera

reading time: 10 minutes The Tambora 1815 eruption: a brief introduction On April 10th, 1815, the Tambora volcano, located on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia, was responsible for one of the largest eruptions in the last millennium (Stothers, 1984; Sigurdsson and Carey, 1989; Oppenheimer, 2003; Self et al., 2004; Kandlbauer et al., 2013a; Kandlbauer …[Read More]