The Institute of Geophysics is a public research institution whose mission is to conduct fundamental and applied research in the Earth sciences, to maintain a network of Earth observation facilities, and to engage in education and informing the public on scientific issues of high societal importance.
News
MOBNET stations in the international project AdriaArray
At the moment, experts Hana Kampfová-Exnerová and Petr Jedlička from GFÚ (Structure of the Continental Lithosphere) are in Bulgaria and Romania checking the Czech seismic stations which are a part of the bigger international AdriaArray project. The AdriaArray project...
Workshop on magma mush is coming at the end of May at GFÚ
GFÚ researcher Catherine Annen (Volcanic and Magmatic Processes) is organizing a workshop on the Extent and Longevity of Magma Mush. The workshop will take place on 30-31 May 2024 in the seminar room at GFÚ. A magma mush is a magma that contains a high proportion of...
Siberian human dispersal findings presented to EGU press conference
The European Geoscience Union General Assembly in Vienna last week featured a new discovery of the earliest human presence in Arctic Siberia around 400,000 year ago — more than 100,000 years older than previously thought. The work (not yet peer-reviewed) is led by...
Axel Plešingr, founder of broadband seismometry in Europe and worldwide, dies at the age of 90
Axel Plešingr (14. 7. 1933 - 1. 4. 2024) On Easter Monday, April 1, 2024, after a short illness, Prof. Axel Plešingr has passed at the age of ninety. He was our colleague from the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a father of European...