As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians…
Hi! The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is offering two post-doc positions with a reasonably good entry salary (£32,548) plus £13,000 funding for research expenses. Interested? Do not hesitate to send me an email to explore possibilities (more info):
Hi, just a gently reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the 3rd Virtual Geoscience Conference is approaching very fast… have you submitted your abstract yet? The 3rd Virtual Geoscience Conference (VGC) provides a meeting place for researchers and industry members at the forefront of technological developments and latest applications of geomatics and visualization tools in the geosciences. This year,…
Hi to everyone, I have some more good news to share with you, there is a new lecturer in Engineering Geology at the Institute of Applied Geosciences at the University of Leeds that you might know… Please, have a look at my new position on this institutional website. I acquired a series of academic responsibilities in our master degree in…
I would like to share with you the new website of the RESPONDER project, a five years ERC grant (2017-2021) leaded by Dr. Poul Christoffersen and prof. Bryn Hubbard. The project is aiming to resolve subglacial properties, hydrological networks and dynamic evolution of ice flow on the Greenland Ice Sheet and I am contributing on tasks related with the acquisition…
As a recently appointed member of the editorial board of Computers and Geosciences journal, I would like to share with you the new open-source policy that I totally support: Computer code availability: For each software-accompanied submission, a compulsory software availability section is requested. Open-source code is both a way of ensuring reproducibility and an incentive for the distribution and re-use…
I would like to share with you the new website of the RockModels project, a three years project (2017-2019) lead by profs. Jordi Corominas and Nieves Lantada from the Technical school of Catalonia (UPC). This new scientific journey, as the logical continuation of the RockRisk project (2014-2016), will provide more effective tools and algorithms for predict and prevent rockfalls. Interestingly,…
Dear colleagues, More and more journals are now inviting authors to deposit their data to data repositories as part of the manuscript submission process (see for instance the editorial and policy of Nature on this respect and the interesting story of the editor in chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research). In this line, Mendeley has recently launched Mendeley Data,…
Are you a PhD student / Early Stage Researcher looking into 3D? Then, don’t miss out this opportunity to attend to the following short courses during the Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, Oct.2017 🙂 . 502. High Resolution Topography & 3D Imaging 1: Introduction to Terrestrial Lidar Scanning Fri. 20 Oct., 8am – 5pm Co-Sponsor: UNAVCO Abstract: This…
I will be participating as a member of the scientific committee on the forthcoming annual conference of the UK Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society, to be held in London from 5th to 8th September this year in the Department of Earth Science & Engineering, at the Imperial College London. After working in the UK for almost a year now, I…