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Guest Lecture: Adam Schultz – 7 March / 15:00
On Thursday, March 7, there will be a lecture on geophysical research on the Newberry volcano: Uncovering a blind geothermal system and reassessing magma sources at Newberry Volcano (Oregon, USA), through joint MT and gravity inversion coupled with rhyolite-MELTS...
Geophysics helped to target archaeological research at the Vinoř hillfort
The Environmental and applied geophysics team deals with a number of interdisciplinary topics, and one of them is the application of non-destructive geophysical methods for archaeological prospection. In a new study, GFÚ researchers Radek Klanica and Roman Beránek...
Tomáš Uxa is part of the Masaryk University expedition to Antarctica
GFÚ researcher Tomáš Uxa is part of the 20th expedition of Masaryk University (MUNI) to the J.G. Mendel Czech Antarctic Station on James Ross Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. The primary scientific goals are long-term climate monitoring and comprehensive monitoring...
Can precession produce a magnetic field?
J. Šimkanin from our Institute was invited to participate in a unique project DRESDYN, coordinated by F. Stefani and A. Giesecke from the German Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. The project deals with a precession-driven (geo)dynamo experiment. J. Šimkanin has...