Happy new year ! After all the extra food and booze the holidays bring along, many by now would have returned back to their desks planing the new year targets and deadlines. First on the list is probably the EGU abstract submission deadline on the Thursday 16 January, 13:00 CET. A session you might find of interest is SM1.7/EOS17: Seismological and Geophysical Apps. This session focuses on the use ...[Read More]
Old and new composite pictures of San Francisco highlighting the impact of the 1906 earthquake
Old and new composite pictures of San Francisco highlighting the impact of the 1906 earthquake How would San Francisco look like if a similar 1906 earthquake had to strike again? Despite the many predictions and models, this is a good hint to help our imagination. Check the photos here: http://pixtale.net/2012/09/composite-then-and-now-photos-of-the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake/
AGU … are your presentations ready?
Many European Earth and space scientists who attend the annual American Geophysical Union Fall meeting are probably glued to their computers right now finishing off their oral or poster presentations. It amazes me how – from personal experience – it is always at the very last week (or day) that some scientific breakthrough is made. But that is just the beginning. For Europeans attendin ...[Read More]
Movember seismologists
Movember is the new November when men grow and proudly show their defining moustaches. Have you grown your moustache? I have done so for the last month as evident in the introductory vid. Now, that I am close to return to my smooth-shaven chin and upper lips, I was wondering which famous seismologists had nice fluffy moustaches. I headed on to Googling some portraits. Here is what I came across: R ...[Read More]