Under pressure: measuring stress within the crust At the geodynamic scale, tectonic forces guide the distribution of stress. Stress in the Earth is not constant, but varies through space. Variations in gravitational energy caused by changes in mass d...

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If you ever wondered how stress is measured in the crust, this Geodynamics 101 blog is for you, where @crpiceda.bsky.social explains the methods used to study crustal stress.

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Great news! 🎉
The Geodynamics Division blog of the EGU has won the public vote in the EGU Blogs Competition 2025 for:
“One Ring to Rule Them All: The Geology of Middle-earth” by Manel Ramos.
Thanks to everyone who voted and supports science communication in EGU blogging community! 🌍

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FrenSZ workshop: a French interdisciplinary initiative around subduction zones. Since 2022, the annual FrenSZ workshop has been bringing together a vibrant and interdisciplinary community around subduction zones in France. In this week’s blog post, we dive into how FrenSZ is orga...

This week, we will present the FrenSZ initiative that aims to foster collaboration between fieldwork, experiments, seismology, and numerical modelling to better understand subduction zones!

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Running Models, Chasing Bugs – from Crashes to Convection Mantle convection may unfold the hidden stories of planetary interiors over billions of years, but geodynamic models can crash in milliseconds. While figures in papers often show smooth convective flo...

In this week’s blog, Prachi Kar shares the unfiltered reality of geodynamic modelling; crashes, segmentation faults and the emotional labor of debugging.

“Running a model makes you a user. Debugging makes you a geodynamicist.”

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GeoMOD 2025 – Lisbon edition The GeoMOD meeting is a bi-annual conference that gathers Earth Science researchers from all over the world working on analogue and numerical modelling in Geosciences. Showcasing the most recent advan...

This week’s blog: GeoMOD 2025 – Lisbon edition!
A glimpse into the science, stories & surprises behind this year’s global geo-modelling meeting.

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Dislocation Creep and the Development of Deformation Fabrics Assume you are under stress. What do you do? Take a walk in the park, order your favorite takeout, have a breakdown, or internally slip along preferred slip systems and develop a fabric? The response ...

In this week's blog Rajani Shrestha discusses about dislocation creep, and how crystal defects move around to accommodate stress and develop lattice-preferred orientation.

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Bored by the Lower Mantle? Think Again! Is the lower mantle boring? For a long time, the lower mantle was thought to be relatively featureless and uniform compared to the more dynamic upper mantle. But recent seismic observations are challe...

New blog alert! This week Poulami Roy attempts to change our minds about the lower mantle - what if it is not *that* boring after all?

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How do rocks fail and flow: A beginners guide to rock rheology The field of rock rheology may seem a bit ‘odd’ at first glance to those geoscientists who are vaguely familiarized with the topic of geodynamics. Often, rocks are considered massive and competent geo...

Rock rheology is key for modern geodynamicists. In this week's Geodynamics 101 blog post, Dimitrios Papadomarkakis breaks down the basics of this interdisciplinary field.

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Applying for a PhD in Geoscience: To do or not to do Fresh out of your bachelor’s degree, or more commonly these days, your master’s degree, it can be tempting to pursue your PhD as quickly as possible. While there are compelling reasons to dive straigh...

Thinking about applying for a PhD? In this week’s post, Conor Farrell shares practical tips to help you make informed decisions about going for a PhD and strengthen your application.

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Phase transitions control plume layering during Earth’s secular cooling Earth’s structure and dynamics have evolved quite a lot since its formation, and so has mantle dynamics and convection patterns changed along with it. It turns out that phase transition in certain man...

🌍 Earth’s mantle flow has changed over time.
Mineral phase shifts can stall plumes and reshape convection.

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Resisting self-guilt as a PhD student Self-guilt is a common feeling among PhD students. It often leads us to devalue ourselves more harshly than is fair and to form unrealistic expectations. It is important to understand how it shows up ...

Self-guilt is a common feeling among PhD students. It is important to understand how it shows up in our daily work, what fuels it, and how we can resist it — because over time, it can quietly undermine both our well-being and our work.

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Reflecting on the 2025 Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) – Interior of the Earth Heidi Krauss from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Michigan State University. This week in News & Views, Heidi Krauss, a PhD student at Michigan State University, shares her exper...

This week Heidi Krauss shares her experience co-chairing the 2025 Interior of the Earth Conference with the theme "Volatiles, Melt and Viscosity: Consequences for Mantle Evolution and Climate System Interactions". 🌋

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Unraveling volcanic patterns between adjacent rift zones Continental rifts are a prime example of how the forces at work beneath our feet are constantly shaping our world, and often host volcanic activity. The patterns and distribution of volcanism in rift ...

Understanding why volcanoes end up where they do in continental rifts is more challenging than you might think! This week Valentina Armeni combines analysis of rift morphology with analogue models to make sense of inter-rift volcanism.

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Awards & medals nomination EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide.

With just 8 days remaining, we encourage you to nominate a colleague or early career researcher for an EGU Geodynamics Division award. Opportunity to acknowledge outstanding contributions to our field.

Nomination Deadline: 15th June, 2025
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Notice! – Your public data has been collected to study the diversity of the geodynamics community over time Dear Geodynamics community, This is your trusted former Editor-in-Chief speaking. I have an important announcement! In very exciting news, the team behind the 101 Geodynamic modelling paper (which I a...

📣 The 101 Geodynamic Modelling team is back—this time diving into EDI in the geodynamics community!

They’ve tracked how diversity has evolved at Ada Lovelace Workshops (1987–2024) across gender, career stage, contribution type & affiliation.

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Geodynamics ECS Dinner: Event registration Join us for the EGU 2025 Early Career Scientist (ECS) social dinner in Vienna! This is a perfect opportunity to catch up with old friends and make new ones. You'll also get to know the Geodynamics ECS...

🌍 One event you won’t want to miss at #EGU25 is the Geodynamics ECS Dinner—a fantastic chance to meet and connect with fellow early career scientists from around the world!

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A whole mantle dynamical framework for Venus Madeleine Kerr from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Geodynamicists have long grappled with the complexities of Earth’s mantle dynamics—modeling Venus’ interio...

This week’s blog post delves into the challenges of modelling Venus' interior to understand its whole mantle dynamics. As Earth’s twin planet, Venus presents a unique puzzle—its lack of plate tectonics adds an extra layer of complexity!

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