I am furiously writing my Ph.D thesis at the moment. I am close to submitting. I swear! Although, everyone I know says I sound like a broken record when I say this. Anyway, while I have been doing all this writing I haven’t had much time for blogging, for which I apologize. However, in the interest of breathing some life into this dusty old thing I have decided to re-introduce the photo of t ...[Read More]
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GeoLog
Imaggeo on Mondays: Sunset over the Labrador Sea
Ruby skies and calm waters are the backdrop for this week’s Imaggeo image – one of the ten finalist images in this year’s EGU Photo contest. “I took the picture while on a scientific cruise in West Greenland in 2013,” explains Christof Pearce, a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University. “We spent most of the time inside the fjord systems around the Greenland capital, Nuuk, but this specific ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Whodunit?: It was Mankind With the Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
Last week I came across this beautifully illustrated account of what is causing the planet’s rising temperature, based on findings obtained by NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. The graphic is designed by Erik Roston and Blacki Migliozzi, in collaboration with Kate Marvel and Gavin Schmidt of NASA-GISS. Check out the full article What’s really warming the world? on Bloomb ...[Read More]
Cryospheric Sciences
From the Poles to Paris — An interview with Erlend Moster Knudsen
What do polar bears and emperor penguins have to do with the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame? Pole to Paris has the answer. Erlend Moster Knudsen earned his PhD in climate dynamics after four years of research from the University of Bergen, Colorado State University and University of Alaska Fairbanks on Arctic sea ice and its interaction with atmospheric circulation. He took some time to answer ...[Read More]
GeoLog
GeoTalk: Meet Andi Rudersdorf, winner of I’m a Geoscientist 2015!
Earlier this year we ran the second I’m a Geoscientist event, an online chat-based game show in which school kids vote for their favourite geoscience communicators. In this week’s GeoTalk, Laura Roberts talks to Andi Rudersdorf, a neotectonics PhD student and winner of this year’s I’m a Geoscientist… First, for those who didn’t been following I’m a Geoscientist, can you tell us a little about you ...[Read More]
Seismology
1-PhD Scholarship in numerical modeling of the Iberian lithospheric structure and topographic evolution
Last-minute call among your students, since the deadline is June 29th at 15:00. The full information for this position is available from the http://www.ictja.csic.es/ website Department of Structure & Dynamics of the Earth CSIC-Institute for Earth Sciences Jaume Almera Within the Framework of the research project: Modeling the Topographic Evolution of Iberia A geoscience project has been fund ...[Read More]
GeoLog
Studying an active volcano – in pictures
Santiaguito volcano in Guatemala is one of the most active volcanoes in Central America: currently erupting every 45-90 mintues, from its active lava dome Caliente, while at the same time sending a lava flow down its flanks. This makes it an ideal study object for volcanology. A group of volcanologists from the University of Liverpool, in the UK, installed a network of geophysical stations around ...[Read More]
Atmospheric Sciences
What is the biggest air pollution event in the modern era?
It’s hard to think of the scale of the biggest air pollution event in the modern era. Immediately my mind conjures up memories of black and white photographs of the Great London Smog of 1952. Then I start thinking bigger, how about the 1.2 billion vehicles world-wide on the road churning out nitrogen dioxide every single day? Well these are a drop in the ocean compared with bigger industrial pollu ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Words on Wednesday: Effects of soil settlement and deformed geometry on a historical structure
Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Yardım, Y. and Mustafaraj, E., 2015. Effects of soil settlement and deformed geometry on a historical structure, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sc ...[Read More]
Seismology
IASPEI-IUGG Symposium on Nepal earthquake at IUGG2015
The 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) event will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July 2015. Amongst the several sessions taking place, there is one dedicated to the recent Nepal Earthquake The following notification is taken from http://www.iugg2015prague.com/iaspei-symposia.htm IASPEI-IUGG Symposium on Nepal ea ...[Read More]