22 April 2013 – Seminar When: 4pm on Monday, 22 April 2013 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Prof. Ian Bastow (Imperial College London)Title: Precambrian plate tectonics: seismic evidence from northern Hudson Bay… Read More

22 April 2013 – Seminar When: 9:30am on Friday, 19 April 2013 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Juan Carlos Afonso (Macquarie University, Australia)Title: Multi-observable probabilistic inversion for the thermochemical structure of the… Read More

21 March 2013 – Seminar When: 4pm on Thursday, 21 March 2013 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Nikolai Bagdassarov (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)Title: Lithosphere heterogeneity from petrology and electrical conductivity of xenoliths… Read More

8 March 2013 – Seminar When: 4pm on Friday, 8 March 2013 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Prof. Kerry Gallagher (University of Rennes, France)Title: Transdimensional (Inverse) Modelling in Earth Sciences Abstract: In… Read More

Geophysics Vacancies under IRECCSEM project The Geophysics Section of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies invites applications for a 2-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a 4-year PhD studentship to undertake carbon sequestration research within an exciting, new research initiative… Read More

Irish Seismometers Record North Korea Nuclear Test In the early hours of the morning on the 12th February 2013, the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) recorded an unusual seismic event in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)…. Read More

Senior Professor Alan G Jones awarded SFI Investigator Project grant for 4 years Senior Professor Alan G Jones, Head of the Geophysics Section in the School of Cosmic Physics, has been awarded a Science Foundation Ireland Investigators Programme… Read More

DIAS Geophysics scholar wins Student Author Award Joanne Adam of the Geophysics Section (School of Cosmic Physics) has won the Student Author Award of the Geophysical Journal International. The award has been established to recognise and acknowledge the… Read More

Earthquake 190 Km off Donegal Coast – 21st November 2012 On November 21st, 2012, at 09:08:22 UTC a minor earthquake Mag ML2.7 occurred in the Atlantic Ocean at location 55.472N, 9.970W, about 190 km NW of Letterkenny Co…. Read More

06 November 2012 – Seminar When: 4pm on Tuesday, 06 November 2012 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Dr. Ondrej Soucek (Charles University in Prague, Mathematical Institute, Czech Republic)Title: Melting of ice and… Read More