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Optimising landscape evolution models with Be – new paper out
Landscape evolution models (LEMs) are widely used to calculate changes in Earth’s topography due to erosion, but the model parameters are notoriously difficult to constrain. In order to gain a better understanding and find the best-fit parameters, Gregory Ruetenik and...
Homo sapiens accessed Eurasia via the Levant corridor
A new paper out in Science Advances refines the picture of how and when humans (Homo sapiens) migrated out of Africa into Eurasia during the last hundred thousand years. GFÚ researcher, Dr John Jansen, is one of the international team led by his former PhD student, Dr...
The next big earthquake in Northern Chile will likely be smaller
Large earthquakes (M >8.5) in North-Central Chile are believed to occur in a regular cycle about every 100 years. An international team including a scientist from the Institute of Geophysics of the CAS has obtained evidence that the next large earthquake in this...
Geophysical Run 2023
On Wednesday 13 September, the 39th edition of Geophysical Run will take place! The event takes place each year in September in the nearby Kunratice forest (Kunratický les). Since the beginning it has been organized by Aleš Špičák, seismologist and director of the...