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A tale about MERMAIDs

Once upon a time there was a little mermaid, with the upper body of a human and a tail of a fish, happily diving within the seven seas. Wait … I’m sorry, that is the wrong story. I will tell you today something about a different generation of MERMAIDs, that are pretty useful for seismologists. It is a very exciting story indeed.   Over the last decades seismic station coverage dra ...[Read More]

Paper of the Month — the first of a (hopefully) long series!

“TRIANGULAR DISLOCATION: AN ANALYTICAL, ARTIFACT-FREE SOLUTION” (by Mehdi Nikkhoo and Thomas R. Walter) COMMENTED BY OLAF ZIELKE “Paper of the Month” is a new blog series launched by the ECS-reps team. The aim is to absorb and share the reading experience of mature seismologists with regards to peer-review articles either recently published (less than 12 months) or older, if of particular no ...[Read More]

Boost the PICO sessions @ EGU GA

EGU’s Pico’s (Presenting Interactive COntent®) are awesome and a lot of fun!! But at this year’s EGU General Assembly there was no Seismology PICO lead session. How sad was this? Why would this be? Can we do anything to change this? But wait, how much do you actually know on presenting or preparing a PICO…? Right, just what we thought… Perhaps not that much. There are many benefi ...[Read More]

Meet the new ECS Reps!

At the last EGU general assembly, Matthew Agius has stepped down as main early career scientist (ECS) representative and a new team assembled around Laura Parisi has taken over! Gender equality is not maintained, instead we are very proud to announce a 4/2 women/men distribution. Let us take the opportunity to briefly introduce ourselves. We would also like this opportunity to again acknowledge th ...[Read More]