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Michael Pons

@michapons.bsky.social
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Geodynamics 🌎 | Global scale & subduction modeling 💻 | GFZ_Potsdam | co-editor of EGU GD blog

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Poulami Roy @poulamiroy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Happy to share that our recent paper on global-scale geodynamic + seismic anisotropy simulation is on Eos spotlight. With @bstein.bsky.social , Manuele Faccenda , @michapons.bsky.social Enjoy reading! :) eos.org/research-spo...
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Seismic Anisotropy Reveals Deep-Mantle Dynamics - Eos
A new study offers insight into the viscous BLOBs at the base of Earth’s mantle.
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Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, UK @durhamearthsci.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Today, we kicked off this term's department seminar series with Dr. Michael Pons (@michapons.bsky.social) coming from @gfz.bsky.social. He presented his research on geodynamic modeling of tectonic activity on Earth and Venus 🌍🌌 #DUresearch #Modeling #GFZ
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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
3rd paper from @poulamiroy.bsky.social's Ph.D. just out at doi.org/10.1029/2025.... Combined global models of mantle flow and anisotropy constrain deformation mechanisms and viscosity, density and hence compositional structure of lowermost mantle. With Manuele Faccenda, @michapons.bsky.social & me.
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Michael Pons @michapons.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Deadline on June 15th ❗Take a moment to nominate a colleague or early career scientist for an EGU Geodynamics Division award. It’s quick to do and a great way to recognize their work! 🏅 The Augustus Love Medal 🌟 The Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award www.egu.eu/awards-medal...
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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.
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Michael Pons @michapons.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hey everyone, here’s a video of a talk I gave yesterday for the Geological Association of Argentina about the geodynamics of the Central Andes. Sorry for my French accent, which somehow gets even stronger in situations like this 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7U...
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De-coding plate tectonics through Andean geodynamics
YouTube video by Comisión de Tectónica
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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Wondering what is the anisotropic signature of slab-induced plumes from thermochemical piles in the lowermost mantle? Then find out from Poulami Roy's paper agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... co-authored by Manuele Faccenda, @michapons.bsky.social and myself
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Michael Pons @michapons.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hey everyone 😊 My global geodynamic numerical model of the Earth is part of the Helmholtz Imaging Best Scientific Image Contest 2025! I’d really appreciate your support 🤗, feel free to check it out and vote if you like it 🗳️ 😁 Link 🔗 : shorturl.at/TMgOH #HIBestImage25 #HIConference25
Six Hundred Leagues Under the Earth
This geodynamic model of the Earth at 850 Ma explores the expression and evolution of the Earth's surface as a result of the complex interaction between cold subduction and warm mantle plumes. Model developed using ASPECT geodynamics code and visualised using Paraview.
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EGU Geodynamics Division @egu-gd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🌍 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! 🔗 Reserve your spot (limited seats!): forms.gle/KiM8wK3WGGN9... #egugeodynamics
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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...
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Constanza Rodriguez Piceda @crpiceda.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate how the geometry of the fault network affects seismic sequences on normal faults, and how this might affect seismic hazard assessment using physics-based models of earthquakes. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Normal Fault Interactions in Seismic Cycles and the Impact of Fault Network Geometry
Seismic cycles of faults far apart and across-strike are periodic and become less periodic and out of phase when closer Seismic cycles of faults along-strike are periodic, and become more synchro...
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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Scientific recycling: In doi.org/10.1029/2024... I use results from Poulami Roy's Ph.D. thesis to address why plume excess temperatures are much less than temperature drop across the lowermost-mantle thermal boundary layer. Further co-authors @michapons.bsky.social and Matteo Jopke. (continued)
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Alistair Hamill @ahamill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Two days left to vote for @The_GA Journal Awards! I'm delighted that my tectonics article (using seismic tomography to take fieldtrips to the mantle) is in the final three. I would appreciate a vote from any GA member who found it helpful. Vote here: geography.org.uk/journals-res...
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
You’re working on your #EGU25 abstract and thinking about signing up for the OSPP award? 🏆 We talked to some people to help you understand how to participate and make the most of it 🌎🌍🌏 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg... @eurogeosciences.bsky.social @egubg.bsky.social
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Demystifying the EGU OSPP Poster Competition
Watch our for this logo to see who is participating in the OSPP competition The Abstract deadline for the 2025 General Assembly is approaching fast (January 15th!) and with it the deadline to sign up ...
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Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
⚒️ How to advance plate reconstructions of rifted margins? ⚒️ Find out in the first #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar of 2025 with Peter Haas, @gianlufrasca.bsky.social, Eivind Straume Monday Jan. 6th, 4 pm CET Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
Online Seminar on “Plate tectonic reconstructions of rifts and rifted margins”

16:00 Peter Haas (GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany) 
“Plate kinematics and reconstructions in the North East Atlantic”

16:20 Gianluca Frasca (Uni Turin, Italy)
“Kinematic reconstruction of the Alpine Tethys and surrounding Mesozoic rifted margins”

16:40 Eivind Straume (UT Austin, US & NORCE, Bergen, Norway)
“Impact of mantle convection and dynamic topography on the paleogeography of Arabia-Eurasia and closure of the Tethys Seaway”
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João C. Duarte @joaocduarte.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
UMA PERSPECTIVA DA TERRA 17 - CICLO DE SUPERCONTINENTES E CICLOS DE WILSON II joaocduarte.weebly.com/blog/uma-per... #geologia #geology #tectónica #tectonics #tectonicadeplacas
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UMA PERSPECTIVA DA TERRA 17 - CICLO DE SUPERCONTINENTES E CICLOS DE WILSON II
No início do século XX, Alfred Wegener demonstrou que os continentes tinham estado todos juntos num grande supercontinente (a Pangeia) e que o mundo que conhecemos tinha-se formado a partir da...
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Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Xmas came early this year - my advance copy of “How the Earth works” is here!!! Pre-order links are in my bio. In stores in March 2025 (UK and US) and September 2025 (Spain) 💛 #SciArt
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Frank Zwaan @geozwaan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🚨 Interested in Wilson Cycle processes? ⚒️ Submit an abstract to our #EGU25 dual session! Part I: from Continent to Ocean meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Part 2: from Ocean to Orogen meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... See you in Vienna!😃 @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Woohoo, 25 follows more \o/ Thus, 5 more facts (the challenge was 1 fact per 5 more follows). Let's stay with gravity & the "Potsdam Potato". For newbies & as a refreshment for our longstanding followers: The link shows the Potsdam Potato, a model of Earth's gravity: youtu.be/7vnJntX6YOs 1/n
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Geoid 2013
YouTube video by Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum
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Frank Zwaan @geozwaan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📢Are you working on rifting and will you attend #EGU25? ⚒️ We will do a cool session on rift (evolution) and would much welcome your abstract! Invited talks by: Eleonora Rivalta & @sasbrune.bsky.social Details: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
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Antoniette Greta Grima @geoniette.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🚨 #fullyfunded PhD Opportunity Alert! 🚨 Join us in modelling slab peeling, & slab-plume interactions in #Afar 🌋 with top-notch teams at the University of Glasgow, SUERC & Durham University! ⏰ Deadline: Jan 3, 2025 📖 Details: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships... ✍️ Apply now: iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
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How to peel a slab: Insights into slab weakening and slab-plume interactions in the Afar region
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Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
About me: I am interested in geodynamics, plate tectonics, natural hazards, georesources and the carbon cycle - using numerical models like the one below. 🧪⚒️ I co-organize and post about the monthly online #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar. More infos here: tinyurl.com/RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
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Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
How do deformation, erosion, and precipitation interact during orogenic growth? ⚒️ Find out in this new study led by Xiaoping Yuan where we used a 3-code coupling between #ASPECT, #FASTSCAPE, and #LFPM. Article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 @natureportfolio.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social
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Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
For a while, I had been using visuals from s-ink.org for teaching. ⚒️ Now I made my first contribution. 😎 Thanks, @fabiocrameri.ch and friends for pushing open science forward!
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A scientific-art graphics collection
Making science-proof, eye-catching graphics readily available for free. Created by scientists and artists together.
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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
TWO funded PhD projects starting this October. 1. Green Planet: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1972... 2. Alternative Earths: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1973... Part of a project to understand the evolution of Earth's surface environment, and planetary surface environments in general. Please apply!
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Susanne Buiter @susannebuiter.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
Congratulations Anne Glerum (@gfz.bsky.social) with the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the Geodynamics Division of @eurogeosciences.bsky.social! A wonderful lecture on georesource production in geidynamic experiments #EGU24
Three people standing, all three are smiling. To the left, Taras Gerya, awardee of the Augustus Love Medal. To the right, Anne Glerum, awardee of the GD Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award. In the middle, Jeroen van Hunen, president of the GD Division
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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
See below for our brief portraits of three GFZ scientists awarded medals and prizes at #EGU24 -- Congrats! 🎉 www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/press/new...
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EGU awards for GFZ scientists
The European Geoscience Union honours Claudio Faccenna, Anne Glerum and Sarah Incel for their GFZ projects and their achievements in the geosciences.
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Institute of Geosciences U Potsdam @geowpotsdam.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Prof. van der Beek becomes President of the European Geosciences Union. www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines... Photo: Kevin Ryl /mht
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Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Natural hydrogen - how much is generated in rifts and rifted margins? ⚒️ Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Marta Pérez-Gussinyé, Frank Zwaan, Gabriel Pasquet Monday, March 4th, 4pm CET Register: uni-potsdam.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Past talks: www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
16:00 Marta Perez-Gussinye (MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany) 
“Hydrogen fluxes associated to mantle exhumation and serpentinization 
at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins”
16:20 Frank Zwaan (GFZ Potsdam, Germany) 
“Natural H2 potential in (inverted) rift basins as shown by numerical models”
16:40 Gabriel Pasquet (University of Pau, France) 
“Basalt alteration and natural hydrogen-geothermal synergies in the Asal-Ghoubbet rift, Republic of Djibouti"
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TALENTS Doctoral Network @talents-dn.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
We are looking for 12 doctoral candidates in the MSCA Doctoral Network TALENTS. Positions cover all topics from tectonics to georesources ⚒️ with host institutes in Italy, Greece, Switzerland, France, UK, Netherlands, Norway and Germany. www.talents-dn.eu/projects Application deadline: March 15th
Sequence of images showing an evolving rift system where two tectonic plates break apart.

12 projects are group in 3 work packages related to Rift Initiation, Break-up, as well as Georesources and Geohazards.
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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
New paper by @khushgr.bsky.social couples vegetation, 3D climate and biogeochemistry continuously over 250 million years! We find that changing plant distribution was a major long-term carbon cycle feedback and may account for up to ~5 C of warming at some times nature.com/articles/s41...
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Frank Zwaan @geozwaan.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
There are open positions in Prague (project on salt tectonics in Morocco). See image for details 😃
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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
The results of our colleagues at NASA are indeed worrying. With our joint satellite missions GRACE (2002-2017) and GRACE-FO (since 2018) we are measuring the mass changes within Greenland's ice sheet. Now, NASA colleagues use different methods & satellites and the situation seems even worse.
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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
The M6.6 below Brazil yesterday was part of a line of really interesting ultra-deep earthquakes along the South American subduction zone. These kinds of earthquakes are a puzzle, because they occur in a part of the Earth that should be too hot for brittle faulting. 1/
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Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · 16/01/2024
It’s the 30th birthday of Citcom - the predecessor of @underworldcode.org Lots of fun news coming about our latest projects but some retrospectives first. Open source tectonic / geodynamics modeling software ⚒️🧪 - this really was not a thing until Citcom came along and helped build our community.
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30 Years of Citcom, Ellipsis and Underworld
CITCOM is a geodynamics modelling code based on the finite element method that is designed for planetary evolution modelling where large spatial variations and strong non-linearities occur in the mate...
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Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
What is the state-of-the-art in numerical modelling of rift dynamics? Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Ritske Huismans, Tiphaine Larvet, Derek Neuharth Monday, January 8th, 4pm CET Register: uni-potsdam.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Past talks: youtube.com/channel/UCES... ⚒️
January 8th: “Numerical modeling of extensional settings: latest developments”

16:00 Ritske Huismans (Bergen University, Norway) 
“Controls of tectonics and surface processes on rift architecture and fault linkage during continental rifting: insights from lithosphere-scale 3D coupled numerical models” 

16:20 Tiphaine Larvet (ISTeP, Sorbonne Université, France) 
“Slab pull and continental breakup: 
implications for the South China Sea and the Cimmerian blocks”

16:40 Derek Neuharth (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 
" Evolution of rift systems and their faults networks in response to surface processes "
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