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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...
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...