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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...
Guest lecture: Robert Moucha – 9 April / 15:30
On Tuesday, April 9, there will be a lecture: Investigating the role of inherited structures in continental rifting using coupled geodynamic and landscape evolution models. Lecturer: Robert Moucha (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University)...
The first humans came to Europe 1.4 million years ago
The oldest currently known human occupation of Europe lies near the town of Korolevo in western Ukraine. New findings by an international team led by Roman Garba from the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Institute of Archaeology of...
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...