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In Lehmann’s Terms – the Story of the Singular Seismic-Wave Spotter

March 8, 2023
In Lehmann’s Terms – the Story of the Singular Seismic-Wave Spotter
Inge Lehmann in 1932 (National Library of Denmark) and her seismological discovery of the earth's inner core, from P' (Lehmann, 1936)

It’s International Women’s Day 2023, so the EGU Seismology Division would like to celebrate the life and work of singular seismic-wave spotter – Inge Lehmann (1888-1993), a Danish seismologist who discovered that the inner core was solid! Inge Lehmann grew up in a family of high aspirations, with several family members being politicians, scientists, and engineers. Educated in a p ...[Read More]

Dungeons and Dragons (and Dinosaurs and Displacements…!)

July 8, 2022
Dungeons and Dragons (and Dinosaurs and Displacements…!)

This week we’re looking back to a highlight of the Seismology team’s EGU21 output – Dinosaurs & Displacements! So if you’re watching the Dungeons & Dragons sessions in the new season of Stranger Things on Netflix, and think it could do with a big more geoscience, look no further than this blog by the Dungeon Masters Lars Gebraad and Maria Tsekhmistrenko… It’s ...[Read More]

Narcissistic abuse in academia

June 1, 2021
Narcissistic abuse in academia
Echo remained unheard. This doesn't have to be your story. Echo and Narcissus (1903), a Pre-Raphaelite interpretation by John William Waterhouse (Source: wikipedia.org)

Let’s talk about narcissistic abuse in academia. Many of us have become scientists out of passion and curiosity. Such mental resources are crucial in research, where working hours can get long, experiments can fail, career prospects and funding are scarce. However, even the most passionate may not withstand all of the possible difficulties thrown their way — especially workplace abuse, which may t ...[Read More]

Geology Bites: Special Issue on Seismology

April 14, 2021
Geology Bites: Special Issue on Seismology

Geology Bites: Podcast conversations about geology with researchers making key contributions to our understanding of the Earth and the Solar System Since you are reading an EGU Blog, you must already know how remarkable the field of geology is. The subject matter stretches the imagination – with its almost cosmological timescales, processes operating on scales from the atomic to the continental, a ...[Read More]