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href="/divisions/">Divisions</a> » <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd">Geodynamics</a> » Archive for October, 2018</div></nav> <header class="entry-header page-header" style=""> <div class="container"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="">Archives / 2018 / October</h1> </div> </header> <div id="content-wrapper" class="container"> <div id="content"> <div class="post-wrapper blog-masonry"> <article class="post-loop post-2742 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-geodynamics-101 tag-geodynamics tag-inverse-theory tag-seismology"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/31/inversion-101-through-201-part-2-the-inverse-problem-and-deterministic-inversion/" title="Inversion 101 to 201 – Part 2: The inverse problem and deterministic inversion" target="">Inversion 101 to 201 – Part 2: The inverse problem and deterministic inversion</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/author/vanzelst/" title="Posts by Iris van Zelst" rel="author">Iris van Zelst</a></span> <span class="meta-date">October 31, 2018</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/31/inversion-101-through-201-part-2-the-inverse-problem-and-deterministic-inversion/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/files/2018/10/geodynamics101_inversion-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/files/2018/10/geodynamics101_inversion-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Inversion 101 to 201 – Part 2: The inverse problem and deterministic inversion" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">You know you've commissioned a blog post about a good topic when there is an abundance of <a target="_blank" href="https://xkcd.com/2059/">xkcd</a> comics related to it.<br>Inverse theory exists to make the life of the mantle geodynamicist easier. </div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Geodynamics 101 series serves to showcase the diversity of research topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner. We welcome all researchers – PhD students to professors – to introduce their area of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch upon some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their fields. This time, Lars Gebraad, PhD s ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/31/inversion-101-through-201-part-2-the-inverse-problem-and-deterministic-inversion/" class="read-more more-link" title="Inversion 101 to 201 – Part 2: The inverse problem and deterministic inversion">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-2704 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-geodynamics-101 tag-geodynamics tag-inverse-theory tag-seismology"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/24/inversion-101-to-201-part-1-the-forward-problem/" title="Inversion 101 to 201 – Part 1: The forward problem" target="">Inversion 101 to 201 – Part 1: The forward problem</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/author/vanzelst/" title="Posts by Iris van Zelst" rel="author">Iris van Zelst</a></span> <span class="meta-date">October 24, 2018</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/24/inversion-101-to-201-part-1-the-forward-problem/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/files/2018/10/geodynamics101_inversion-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/files/2018/10/geodynamics101_inversion-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Inversion 101 to 201 – Part 1: The forward problem" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">You know you've commissioned a blog post about a good topic when there is an abundance of <a target="_blank" href="https://xkcd.com/2059/">xkcd</a> comics related to it.<br>Inverse theory exists to make the life of the mantle geodynamicist easier. </div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Geodynamics 101 series serves to showcase the diversity of research topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner. We welcome all researchers – PhD students to professors – to introduce their area of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch upon some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their fields. This time, Lars Gebraad, PhD s ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/24/inversion-101-to-201-part-1-the-forward-problem/" class="read-more more-link" title="Inversion 101 to 201 – Part 1: The forward problem">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-2681 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-peculiar-planets tag-mars tag-planets tag-solar-system"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/12/oceans-on-mars-the-geodynamic-record/" title="Oceans on Mars: the geodynamic record" target="">Oceans on Mars: the geodynamic record</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/author/lourenco/" title="Posts by Editorial Team 3" rel="author">Editorial Team 3</a></span> <span class="meta-date">October 12, 2018</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/12/oceans-on-mars-the-geodynamic-record/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/files/2017/10/peculiar_planets1-01.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/files/2017/10/peculiar_planets1-01-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Oceans on Mars: the geodynamic record" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Credit: Modified by Iris van Zelst from <a target="_blank" href="https://pixabay.com/p-1351056/?no_redirect">Pixabay</a></div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Apart from our own planet Earth, there are a lot of Peculiar Planets out there! In this series we take a look at a planetary body or system worthy of our geodynamic attention, and this week we are back to our own solar system, more precisely to our neighbour Mars. In this post, Robert Citron, PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, writes about the links between oceans, shorelines, ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/12/oceans-on-mars-the-geodynamic-record/" class="read-more more-link" title="Oceans on Mars: the geodynamic record">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-2593 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-wit-wisdom tag-code tag-coding"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/09/its-just-coding-scientific-software-development-in-geodynamics/" title="It’s just coding … – Scientific software development in geodynamics" target="">It’s just coding … – Scientific software development in geodynamics</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/author/lourenco/" title="Posts by Editorial Team 3" rel="author">Editorial Team 3</a></span> <span class="meta-date">October 9, 2018</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>As big software packages become a commonplace in geodynamics, which skills should a geodynamicist aim at having in software development? Which techniques should be considered a minimum standard for our software? This week Rene Gassmöller, project scientist at UC Davis, Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, shares his insights on the best practices to make scientific software better, and ho ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2018/10/09/its-just-coding-scientific-software-development-in-geodynamics/" class="read-more more-link" title="It’s just coding … – Scientific software development in geodynamics">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> </div> </div> <aside id="sidebar"> <div id="text-2" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widgettitle">About</h3> <div class="textwidget"><p>Welcome to the <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/about/">blog</a> of the<a href="https://www.egu.eu/gd/home"> Geodynamics (GD) Division </a>of the <a href="https://www.egu.eu/">European Geosciences Union</a> (EGU). Here you can find your weekly dose of geodynamic research, news, and fun! 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