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Laura Ermert

Laura is a PhD student at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. She is working on ambient noise source inversion with cross-correlation techniques. Her goal on the blog is to showcase PhD students' and young researchers' results, as well as recent seismological highlights. You can reach Laura at lermert att student.ethz.ch.

SeismoChat: How to disarm earthquakes

January 19, 2018
SeismoChat: How to disarm earthquakes
Together with Jessica Starke (left), Solmaz demonstrates how a slinky can be used to model the behavior of compressional and shearing waves.

Solmaz Mohajder is a researcher at the Earth System Dynamics Research group of University of Tübingen in Germany. She has published an online database and an interactive map for active faults in Central Asia (Mohajder et al., 2016).  More recently, Solmaz and her colleagues have compiled fault slip rates to investigate whether deformation rates from GPS and from geologic observations provide consi ...[Read More]

New Early Career Scientist representatives wanted

January 8, 2018
Young scientists meeting corner at EGU General Assembly
Speak for your peers as an Early Career Scientist representative

The EGU seismology division is looking to elect a new enthusiastic team of early career scientist (ECS) representatives from the beginning of May. If you are a PhD or Postdoc, why not consider taking up this role? Why should you consider becoming an ECS representative? Producing innovative science is the first and foremost task of any early career scientist. However, this work is embedded in the s ...[Read More]

Harsher than reviewer 2?

November 18, 2016
Harsher than reviewer 2?
You've met reviewer 3 yet? From http://jasonya.com/wp/tag/red-pen-black-pen/ with friendly permission from the artist.

Have you ever wanted a reviewer who really tells it how it is? You should consider submitting a paper to the truly special publication ‘Frontiers for young minds’. Frontiers for young minds  is a journal for students between ages 8 and 15 that are curious and passionate about science. However, what’s truly special about this journal is that it is also reviewed by students of the same age, assisted ...[Read More]

Paper of the month — Signal apparition for wavefield separation

November 4, 2016
Paper of the month — Signal apparition for wavefield separation
Gotta know your sources. Drawing by Joseph J. Gerencher, Jr. (http://home.moravian.edu/users/phys/mejjg01/interests/Seismo_pages/example_seismograms.htm)

Our paper of the month is  “Signal apparition for simultaneous source wavefield separation” (J. Robertsson et al., 2016) commented by Andreas Fichtner. Andreas Fichtner is Assistant Professor for Computational Seismology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He received his PhD from the University of Munich for his work on Full Seismic Waveform Inversion for Str ...[Read More]