Hiring a new professor in my department who specializes in Earth surface topics (e.g. climate, sediments, soils, oceans, etc). Non-germans welcome to apply-- the postdoctoral qualifications (e.g. habilitation) are just for German applicants.

Come and measure your samples with our LA triple quadrupole ICP-MS! Our analyses: -trace elements in a wide range of geomaterials -S isotopes in sulfides -element mapping -U/Pb geochronology (coming soon!) -and more... www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/geochemistry-and-ore-deposits-2/la-icp-ms-laboratory/

Job alert: #postdoc in experimental Petrology/ Geochemistry, University of Innsbruck (AT). Apply by 11 January 2026 or position open until filled. More info: buff.ly/2A7JsJN

New article just published 🤗 Find out why the Iceland rift may provide such a significant source for mantle-derived CO2! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #geochemistry

New publication out on the interaction of seawater with oceanic crust! 🌊 🪨 We show how temperature, reaction progress, time and crystallinity of the crust affect elemental fluxes! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share the long-awaited results of our community experiment comparing high-precision ID-TIMS U-Pb lab performance🧪⚒️ We do pretty well but as ever there is room for improvement 🤓 Stay tuned! doi.org/10.5194/gchr...

The typeset version of the 2022-2023 Fagradalsfjall paper is out, so let’s go over the main points of the paper 🌋

Interested in crystal mushes? New review paper just out: rdcu.be/eo9pC Great to be part of the team!

Amazing work by @albertocaracciolo.bsky.social . It's the coolest diffusion timescale work I've ever seen. You can see each eruption priming and how they are related to one another. Just super cool science.

🚨🌋New paper on the geochemistry and petrology of the 2022–23 Fagradalsfjall eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. We study temporal variations in the magmatic plumbing system and link diffusion timescales to monitoring signals, tracing the timing of mush disaggregation and dike propagation

This proposed budget is a policy statement, not an appropriation. There are still a lot of steps and potential changes ahead before it becomes one. This is not a time to sit quietly, team. Let's go.

This was written about media content, but the same can be said for scientific content. When the incentive structure is based around numbers of papers and numbers of citations, it's a system that assumes quantity means quality. It's ripe for abuse by AI, which can do quantity really well...

New paper out by my team, led originally by the late Jasper Konter, an amazing human being and scientist, and with important contributions from the late Paul Wessel, both of whom we lost during review. The whole team stepped up to get this paper to the finish line. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Former Columbia provost Jonathan Cole-"Columbia’s leaders have weakened...our leadership among the greatest educational institutions in the world...If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means...we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

Phew--- looks like the earthquake swarm at the tip of the Reykjanes sputtered out. An eruption there would come straight through the geothermal field and power plant there, so it would be devastating! Although magma injection is probably good for the longevity of the geothermal reservoir!

Paper out! This is one of the main and last outcomes of the IS-TREMOR project supported by the Iceland Research Fund. Shoutout to Jean for leading this work! @seismotom.bsky.social @cocaudron.bsky.social

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⚒️🧪 Today's Icelandic Met Office update says that the likelihood of another eruption increases as more time passes, since magma is still accumulating below. There's also a neat detailed map of the eruption start points and fissures from all 7 Sundhnúksgígar eruptions so far. vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...

Woohoo! The website is up! I had good fun coming up with the lab motto- "mente et ardore". It's a take on the classic geology motto "mente et malleo" which means "by reason and hammer", but since it's a laser lab...

GNS Science is hiring! We are looking for someone to join our team as an InSAR Scientist (17 Feb. deadline): nzcris.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nzcris... Or as a Senior Environmental Geochemist (24 Feb. deadline): nzcris.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nzcris...

SARUMAN: Lands a tenured position while still finishing his PhD GANDALF: Trail of post-docs and teaching posts. People never sure what his institutional affiliation is. Drops in 'yeah that was when I was in Rhûn for 90 years' RADAGAST: Lives by proofreading and eating the dandelions in his garden

A very interesting paper by Keeley in 2021 Science Advances. They analyzed all Santa Ana Wind (SAW) events and associated fires in Southern California between 1950s and 2020. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My recent article on the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption got a highlight in Eos! Cool! eos.org/editor-highl...

Axial seamount, off the Oregon coast, is getting ready to erupt (again) in 2025. The most well instrumented under sea volcano has reached similar inflation as when it erupted (as predicted at that time) in 2015. Real time data is online for anyone to see! ⚒️🧪🌋 www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...

So how small are the zircons that we date in the lab? Here's a Fish Canyon Tuff zircon on a $5 bill for comparison!

Preliminary geochemical report on the November 2024 eruption at Sundhnúksgígar. Similar magma composition to the two previous eruptions 🌋

My big paper on the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption is finally out! If you want to understand the recent eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula better, look no further: doi.org/10.1029/2024... Let’s dive in to what we found: 🧵 1/8

Time to gradually transition to Bluesky. Excited to share footage from the latest eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula for my first post 🌋

Interested in where the #Grindavik eruptions are coming from? Check out our group's paper on the magmatic system supplying the eruptions! They are sourced from a complex of shallow magma bodies that mix their melts together during eruptions! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

Fantastic news!! After years of hard work, my modeling manuscript with @sarahlambart.bsky.social has been officially published at Volcanica! www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

🌋Check out our new Science paper on the recent eruptions in Grindavik! By comprehensive sampling of each lava field we show that the eruptions are supplied by a complex of compositionally variable sills. A fantastic paper led by Simon Matthews 🌋 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An eruption might be brewing on the Reykjanes. There's been a sill inflating for the past weeks, and it may have finally reached a tipping point and made a dike. Well see if the dike makes it to the surface, but hopefully not!