Seismology

Harsher than reviewer 2?

Laura Ermert November 18, 2016

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]

MOVEMBER! Cancer awareness and seismology.

Laura Parisi November 11, 2016

Two years ago Matthew Agius, the previous ECS-rep of the Seismology Division, wrote a post in this blog about Movember. Movember is a month-long event (in November) during which men grow their moustaches to rise awareness of cancer, especially the ones affecting men. When at the end of the month Matthew was finally getting rid of his moustaches, he wondered which seismologists had nice fluffy mous ...[Read More]

Paper of the month — Signal apparition for wavefield separation

Laura Ermert November 4, 2016

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]

EGU Abstract Submission Season

Matthew Agius October 30, 2016

A new season just started – EGU 2017 abstract submission season! (http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/sessionprogramme). Since the 20th of October you can submit your abstracts to one or more of the many seismology sessions. Believe it or not but we counted 75 sessions that are related to seismology. Wow! We are all very excited to scroll through the programme and daydream about t ...[Read More]