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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

County Clare, Ireland: A World-Class Geological Locality

January 31, 2020
County Clare, Ireland: A World-Class Geological Locality

By John Counts and Emma Morris. Europe has a wide variety of interesting sites for geologists, including areas with scientifically interesting formations, amazing scenery, and classic outcrops, many of which are recognized for their international geological significance and are designated as UNESCO Global Geoparks. Rarely, however, do all of these factors come together in such a spectacular way as ...[Read More]

TS
Tectonics and Structural Geology

Beyond Tectonics: How mountain building shaped biodiversity

January 31, 2020
Beyond Tectonics: How mountain building shaped biodiversity

This edition of “Beyond Tectonics” is brought to you by Lydian Boschman. Lydian is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich. She has a background in geology and plate tectonic reconstructions, but now works with a group of biodiversity modelers of the Landscape Ecology group at ETH, bridging the gap between geology and biology. In her research, she focuses on the uplift history of the Andes, and ho ...[Read More]

SM
Seismology

Hackathon: when ideas happen

January 28, 2020
Hackathon: when ideas happen

You live in a developing country and wish for access to safe drinking water [1]. Or, you are at the supermarket and want to jump the endless line at the checkout [2]. Maybe you are a business woman and want to confidently represent yourself as the professional you are [3].   Whether it be inspired by the best of intentions or simply the laziness of a shopper, an idea worth developing always h ...[Read More]

SM
Seismology

Hackathon in Zurich – ETH Team

January 28, 2020
Hackathon in Zurich – ETH Team

A colleague, external partners and I organized a hackathon on permafrost which took place from 28/11/2019 to 01/12/2019.   We tried not to follow the traditional competition-like hackathon approach, but wanted to foster interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and collaboration through working jointly on a predefined dataset.   We targeted to bring together computer and environmental scienti ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Hackathon in Vienna – IMGW Team

January 28, 2020
Hackathon in Vienna – IMGW Team

The whole idea of a Hackathon in Science came to me a couple of years ago, when I first read the AgileScientific blog written by Matt Hall.   I figured that such an event is perhaps the most optimal way to generate and develop ideas in rapid time. Then, after I participated in the Ready2Order Hackathon in Vienna, my colleagues and I decided that the time has come and we need to make it happen ...[Read More]

SM
Seismology

Hackathon in Paris – IPGP Team

January 28, 2020
Hackathon in Paris – IPGP Team

A few weeks ago, we organized and hosted a hackathon at IPGP and it turned out to be a very successful event.   We are a group of five organizers who are: finishing their PhD in Machine Learning, no longer working as research scientists (currently involved in data science and data engineering), and still living the dream.   We wanted to create an event that would help bring data scientis ...[Read More]

NH
Natural Hazards

The multitasking skillbox of researchers, direct experiences from Early Career Scientists.

January 27, 2020
The multitasking skillbox of researchers, direct experiences from Early Career Scientists.

Science is “the study of the nature and behaviour of natural things and the knowledge that we obtain about them” (Collins online dictionary). In other words, science is tightly linked to gaining knowledge. However, this definition and many others never mention that to gain knowledge through science, a vast amount of experience must be acquired beforehand and put into practice every day ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Climate Change & Cryosphere – The fate of Georgian Glaciers

January 24, 2020

Display "The fate of Georgian Glaciers" from YouTube Click here to display content from YouTube. Always display content from YouTube Open "The fate of Georgian Glaciers" directly Last week, we learned about the dramatic fate of the Hochjochferner, which has strongly retreated in the past years due to climate change. It represented just one example amongst many alpine glaciers, ...[Read More]

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Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

Why Bushfires raged out of control across Australia?

January 22, 2020
Why Bushfires raged out of control across Australia?

Australian wildfires have burned an impressively large surface and caused the death of at least 24 citizens as well as of numerous animals. This immense disaster raises questions about its linkage with climate change, the possibility of controlling these events and the future of Australian wildlife ecosystems. While the first question will be addressed by soon to come attribution studies, and the ...[Read More]