The GeoMaX group went for a canoe trip on the „Wiesent“. It was quite rainy, but most of the water actually came from below..

PhD student Kirsten was awarded a travel grant from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to attend the society’s Fall Meeting that will take place in New Orleans at the end of 2017. She receives the grant to present her work on comparative elasticity measurements of ringwoodite and the seismic signature of a hydrated transition zone in Earth’s mantle.Congratulations!

Johannes accepted paper on „the equation of state of wadsleyite solid solutions: Constraining the effects of anisotropy and crystal chemistry“ is now available as pre-print from American Mineralogist (Link).

Hauke was invited to present work of the GeoMaX group on the seismic visibility of water in Earth’s transition zone at the Goldschmidt conference that took place this week in Paris.

We welcome Niccolò Satta as new PhD student. Niccolò will be working on the high-pressure/high-temperature single-crystal elastic properties of hydrous minerals. His PhD work is supported by the International Research Training Group „Deep Earth Volatile Cycles“ funded by the German Science Foundation.

We are glad to welcome our new PhD student Alba San José Méndez. Alba received her Master from the Complutense University in Madrid. During her PhD thesis work at BGI Bayreuth and DESY Hamburg, she will work on the „dynamic compression of planetary ices„.

GeoMaX group members presented the activities of BGI Bayreuth at the „Tag der offenen Tür“ of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. The presentations included „volcono building“ for kids. Some impressions are summarized below.

Johannes talks about high-pressure/high-temperature research at BGI Bayreuth.

Alexander explains the principles of a diamond-anvil cell

Fabian sets up the indoor volcano after the kids build their little own.

The three images above five some impression of the „candy-volcano“ presentation.

The GeoMaX group was invited to give two talks at the EGU meeting in Vienna.

Alex talked about his elasticity data on bridgmanite in the session „Dynamics of the mantle and core in the Earth and planetary bodies: from magma oceans to the present day“ (GD3.1/EMRP4.41/GMPV6.6/PS9.3/SM10.12).

Hauke presented recent results of the group’s work in the session „Understanding Earth’s mantle with links to geological cycles“ (GD3.2/EMRP4.24/SM10.1).

Kirsten’s work on the possibilities to use tailored single-crystal samples in the pressure chamber of a diamond-anvil cell has been published online. The paper entitled „Multi-sample loading technique for comparative physical property measurements in the diamond-anvil cell“ can be found here.

GeoMaX group members co-author a recently published paper on the synthesis and properties of „transparent polycrystalline cubic silicon nitride“. The article is published online in Nature Scientific Reports and can be found here.