Blog of the Early Stage Researchers
Author: Beatriz Martínez-Rius (Sorbonne Université, Paris) I bet that all of us have tried to imagine how the Mediterranean looked like 5 million years ago. We’ve tried to draw it, model it, animate it, and depict it through scientific representations of all sorts. When we talk about partial desiccation, reflooding, isolated basins… we are exercising... Continue Reading →
Author: Simon Rowendaal (Universitat Hamburg, Germany) A personal reason for me to go into geology was my dream to become an astronaut. I was therefore very excited when in May 2019 the U.S. announced its plan to return to the Moon by 2024. When man will set foot on the lunar surface again, among them... Continue Reading →
Author: Hanneke Heida (ICTJA - CSIC, Barcelona) One of the most challenging aspects of earth sciences is the linking of processes occurring on vastly different scales, from the local to the global, the microscopic to the solar system, the second to millions of years. Sometimes fascinating clues to a large and seemingly ungraspable phenomenon can... Continue Reading →
Author: Ronja Ebner (Utrecht University, Netherlands) This short course will give all ESRs an insight into the philosophy, methods, and applications of numerical and analogue modelling in the Earth Sciences. Two months after having spent 10 days in the sunny South at the Mediterranean Sea to learn about seismological signals, we meet again a colder... Continue Reading →
Author: Francesca Bulian (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) When mankind started populating Planet Earth, it was immediately encountered with extraordinary events that it could not fully explain or understand on its own such as great storms, lightning and thunder, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods…. However, like we continue doing today, it is in our nature to seek... Continue Reading →
Ronja Ebner (ESR 7)– Utrecht University (Netherlands). “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” [1] When one starts to... Continue Reading →
Author: Gaia Travan (CNRS Lille, France) Ilaria Capua, virologist This is the story of Ilaria Capua. However, is also the story of Giulio Selvaggi (1) and many other scientists that had to defend their actions in court and were exposed to the media pillory, in a reality increasingly inclined to judge the bona fide of... Continue Reading →
Author: Simon Blondel - OGS Trieste This June 2019, the SALTGIANT ETN met on its second workshop in Trieste, Italy. The meeting was co-organised by Angelo Camerlenghi from the Instituto Nazionale Di Oceanografia E Di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Simon Blondel the local SALTGIANT PhD student, and Anna Del Ben from the Department of Mathematics and... Continue Reading →
Author: Beatriz Martínez-Rius (Sorbonne Université, Paris) Source: http://www.jamstec.go.jp Imagine a hole where you can fit 25 Eiffel Towers, one above the other. And now, imagine this hole under 2.500 meters of seawater. This is the drilling capacity of the Chikyu, the most advanced drilling vessel in the world. By dropping a pipe up to 10... Continue Reading →
Authors: Athina Tzevahirtzian (University of Palermo) & Beatriz Martínez-Rius (Sorbonne Université) The Mediterranean seabed hides precious secrets that geologists are struggling to understand for years now. Their major obstacle? Technological and technical difficulties that convert the seafloor in an unreachable place… Unless you are in Sicily, where you can literally touch the rocks without getting... Continue Reading →
