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Registration for the 6th international workshop on Seismic Anisotropy, Heterogeneity and Dynamics of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System – ADLAS 2026, May 25-29, is OPEN
The workshop FEE of 550 EUR per participant includes accommodation, all meals, conference materials, transportations between Prague and Liblice. For further info follow...
Rethinking cascading hazards in high mountain regions
A recent series of high-mountain disasters foretell a future in which Earth’s destabilized cryosphere will more frequently induce chains of multiple hazards whereby one process triggers the next. GFÚ researcher, John Jansen (Surface Processes & Palaeoclimate), is...
University classes led by our researchers and guests start again
In addition to conducting their own research and informing the public about its results, our staff have long been involved in training students and teaching regularly at universities. In the winter semester of the 2025/26 academic year, university-level classes led by...
Honorary Member of IAGA Eduard Petrovský
Our long-time employee Eduard Petrovský, an expert on the magnetic properties of rocks, has actively served, for his entire professional career, in the International Association for Geomagnetism (IAGA), a part of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics...