Seismology

The contribution from Sergio León-Ríos, Associate Researcher at the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC) at the University of Chile, where he does seismology research. Introduction Earthquakes and tsunamis are not only purely scientific geophysical phenomena. They are also deeply embedded in social memory, cultural narratives, and everyday life – especially in countries like Chile, wher…

The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. Welcome to the slightly neurotic world of academic evaluation—where current incentives often pull us away from the values we hold as scientists: curiosity, creativity, responsibility, and even actual s…

On this page, we regularly update open positions, workshops, schools or internships in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Would you like to advertise your workshop? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. We invite you to explore previous job posts, since some offers listed there may be…

The contribution from David Schlaphorst, the member of ECS SM division team. David is a PostDoc in Dom Luiz Institute (IDL), University of Lisbon, where he does seismology research. Introduction Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has been used exponentially over the last decade.If you are eager to learn the basics but in song form try this link. In this blog post, we want to dive into one example…

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Since now, we also occasionally share information about schools and workshops. Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. We invite you to explore previous job posts, since some offers listed there may b…

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal.   Latest open positions:   PhD positions   1. PhD Monitoring water related mass-balance changes in the Swiss Alps with passive seismic interferometry Institute:…

Hello fellow Seismologists! The exciting time of the EGU General Assembly is upon us, and we are looking forward to reconnecting with all of you at EGU25. Through this blog, we would like to bring your attention to the events that are organised by the Seismology Division and ECS Representatives of the Seismology Division during EGU25. Grab your calendar, and make sure to come and meet us on many …

For this Earthquake Watch we are very pleased to have a contribution about the 2025 Santorini – Amorgos seismic sequence, by Dr. Andreas Karakonstantis, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Patras and National and the Kapodistrian University of Athens. He obtained his Ph.D. in seismology in 2017. Does life move in circles? That is an excellent question to ask, especially in our case reg…

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal.   Latest open positions:   PhD positions 1. 3 PhD Positions in Earthquake Seismology and Hydromechanics Institute: ETH Zurich, Switzerland Application…

For this “State of the ECS”, our Seismo-team will introduce themselves and tell about their ECS experience. Happy reading! Greetings! I’m Adam and by a twist in the timestream in Vienna I ended up as an editor of blog of the Seismology ECS division. If your (or your colleague’s) research touches on any aspect of Seismology or related fields, please reach out! My background is diverse,…

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. Latest open positions: 1. Machine Learning Seismology Postdoc Institute: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA Salary: $113,760 annually Starting: …

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. Latest open positions: Post-doctoral Fellowship in Fault Mechanics and Earthquake Triggering Institute: Florida International University, Miami, Florida Startin…

Hello fellow Seismologists! The exciting time of the EGU General Assembly is upon us, and we are looking forward to reconnecting with all of you at EGU24. Through this blog, we would like to bring your attention to the events that are organised by the Seismology Division and ECS Representatives of the Seismology Division during EGU24. Grab your calendar, and make sure to come and meet us on many …

For this Earthquake Watch we are very happy to have Yesim Cubuk-Sabuncu write about the seismicity around the recent eruptions in the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland! Yesim is a postdoctoral researcher in seismology at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Service and Research Division since 2019. She obtained her Ph.D. in Geophysical Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey in 2016. …

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal.   Latest open positions: Postdoctoral Fellow (Earthquake Hazards) Institute: The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) Starting: January 2024…

With this article, authors Richard Kramer, Charlotte Bruland, Laura Ermert, Yang Lu and Steffen Birk would like to draw your attention to an exciting topic and their EGU 24 session Hydro-Seismology: seismic insights into Water Resources in the context of climate change!   Critical Resource – The water cycle under the influence of the climate change  The balance of our planet’s ecosystems is tied …

Always wanted to know the basics of rotational seismology? Follow us into this short blogpost written by our ECS team member Andreas Brotzer. Let’s spin it … or rather rotate it. Most of us enjoy a good spin on a carousel or rollercoaster. Well, we are actually doing this permanently since we live on a rotating planet! Lucky enough, we don’t feel it very much because the rate of rotation is rathe…

What’s the connection between novel generative image models and seismic denoising? Daniele Trappolini from Sapienza Università di Roma has led an effort to utilise these exciting techniques for seismological applications. This blog post will give a beginner-friendly introduction to generative modelling and ‘diffusion’ models, before explaining how Daniele and his group have been using them to pus…

In this blog we give a succinct introduction to Distributed Acoustic Sensing for the starting seismologist, or the interested reader. The blog is by no means a complete overview and serves as a starting point for you to understand DAS and get started with the data. It was written by SM ECS members Ana Nap and Katinka Tuinstra.   By now, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a pretty widely known …

We are glad to open our seismology advent calendar with this blog! Welcome to the State of the ECS, where our ECS members reflect on the year.   Hello! Katinka here, writing from a snowy Zürich. Days are shorter, many layers of clothes are needed, and the last scientific effort before Christmas is being pushed for, because 2023 is ending! We as ECS have had a wonderful year, and I’m so…