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Invited lecture: Sven Schippkus – 14. September / 15:00
Lecture by Sven Schippkus (University of Hamburg, Germany) Topic: Challenging assumptions: how isolated noise sources affect cross correlations of ambient seismic noise Place: GFÚ Lecture Hall / 3:00 pm Abstract: Seismology originated as the study of earthquakes,...
Invited lecture: Hrvoje Tkalčić – July 12 / 15:30
Lecture by Hrvoje Tkalčić (Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University) Topic: Looking Inside the Earth and Planets With Coda-Correlation Place: GFÚ lecture hall / 3:30 pm For more on Hrvoje's work, see: http://rses.anu.edu.au/~hrvoje/. Abstract...
No big ice sheets in NE Siberia during Late Pleistocene
A new paper out now in Geophysical Research Letters refutes the long-held idea that large-scale ice sheets developed in northeast Siberia during the past 130,000 years. GFÚ researcher, John Jansen, is one of the international team who applied cosmogenic nuclide...
Invited lecture: Boris Gurevich – June 21 / 10:00
Lecture by Boris Gurevich (Curtin University and CSIRO, Perth, Australia) Topic: Seismic attenuation, dispersion and anisotropy in porous rocks: mechanisms and models Place: GFÚ lecture hall / 10 am Boris Gurevich is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin...