Thomas’ secondment at ICM – CSIC in Barcelona
ESR 13, News, Secondments

Read the blog post from Thomas about his secondment in Barcelona, Cataluña. Working abroad, building a network, and enjoying the culture.

Recap of 2019
ESR 9, General, Miscellaneous, News, Secondments

A year full of setbacks and progress, re-adjustments and developments, learning and new discoveries, but most importantly exciting science: Ricarda recalls her experiences of 2019.

Ting-Wei’s secondments
@ NGI and IFREMER (second term)
ESR 7, News, Secondments

Ting-Wei went back to NGI (1 month) and IFREMER (2 months) to complete her demanding series of cyclic and monotonic triaxial tests, and to work on a manuscript.

Maarten’s secondment at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
ESR 10, General, News, Secondments

Maarten went on secondment at the University of Innsbruck during the summer of 2019. Read about his experience here!

Maddalena´s 3-month secondment at MARUM, Bremen
ESR 15, News, Secondments

Maddalena´s blog on her 3-month secondment at MARUM, Bremen. During her stay she worked on advanced geotechnical analysis of Lake Lucerne cores.

Thomas’ secondment at Durham University
ESR 13, News, Secondments

Read the blog post from Thomas about his secondment in Durham, UK. Working abroad, building a network, and socialising.

Kate’s 4-month secondment at NGI, Oslo
ESR 5, News, Secondments

Kate’s blog on her 4-month secondment in Oslo. Learn more about numerical modelling of turbidity currents; work at NGI and life in Norway!

Report of Ting-Wei’s 2nd secondment
@ NGI, Oslo, Norway
ESR 7, News, Secondments

Read about Ting-Wei’s experience of conducting cyclic triaxial tests in the world-famous geotechnical lab of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) during her secondment in May and June, 2019.

Rachel’s secondments to
Durham, Southampton and Oslo
ESR 1, News, Secondments

Between September 2018 and January 2019, Rachel went on secondments to Durham, Southampton and Oslo (twice) to work with seismic data and cores, and to continue her work on the Tampen Slide, offshore Norway.

Ifremer 2nd part
ESR 3, News, Secondments

Ifemer 2nd part-Tugdual Gauchery         My second stay at Ifremer (Best, France), with my co-supervisor Antonio Cattaneo, lasted one month from 15/04 to the 15/05/2019 and aimed to work on the first manuscript. This tight collaboration with Antonio and other experts from Ifremer helped in the writing process. The manuscript deals with […]

Monika’s secondment
@CAU Kiel
ESR 11, News, Secondments

In February, Monika went on secondment to Kiel to do seismics and discuss science. This was her 4th stay at the CAU, so it almost felt like home – read here about her experiences!

Monika’s report on the Tuaheni landslide workshop
ESR 11, News, Secondments

Communication and networking is important to advance scientific results. On this account, researchers have gathered in Kiel to discuss newest developments concernig the Tuaheni landslide complex. Here, Monika reports on her participation in this workshop.

Tugdual’s 1st secondment
@ IFREMER, Brest, France
ESR 3, News, Secondments

In early October, Tugdual (ESR 3) went on a secondment to IFREMER in Brest, France, in order to perform grain size analysis of the sortable silt fraction (10-63 µm) on two 9 and 11 m long piston cores. The analyses should help to shed light on present and past bottom-currents at the Gela Basin offshore Sicily.

Rachel’s research stay
@ VBPR, Oslo
ESR 1, News, Secondments

Rachel (SLATE ESR 1) visited VBPR in Oslo from 27-31 August 2018 to begin working on a high-resolution 3D seismic data from the headwall region of the Tampen Slide, offshore of Norway, which was recently collected by TGS.

Monika’s short research stay in Kiel
@ Christian-Albrechts-Universität (CAU)
ESR 11, News, Secondments

In order to discuss the modelling results of gas flow in a porous medium acquired during her recent stay at Migris AS in Trondheim, Monika conducted a short research stay at the CAU in Kiel – helping her to improve previous interpretations and to adequately represent gas flow in her landslide model.

Monika reports on her research stay
@ Migris AS, Trondheim, Norway
ESR 11, News, Secondments

With the aim of simulating migration of free gas within the Tuaheni Landslide Complex offshore New Zealand, Monika recently conducted a research stay at Migris AS in Trondheim, Norway. The results serve as input data for a geomechanical model investigating slope stability for different scenarios.

Maddalena’s report on her 1st secondment
@ MARUM / University of Bremen
ESR 15, News, Secondments

Maddalena just returned from the first part of her secondment at MARUM, Bremen. During her week-long stay under the supervision of Dr. Sylvia Stegmann, she processed and interpreted CPT data from the recent SNF Sinergia Project campaign at Lake Lucerne. Read more about it in tihis report!

Ricarda’s report on her 2nd secondment
@ NOCS / University of Southampton
ESR 9, News, Secondments

After a first, shorter secondment at NOCS and the University of Southampton in February, Ricarda returned to Southampton in May to continue her work on µCT (micro-Computed Tomography) data, focussing in particular on data from the AFEN Slide (UK) and the FInneidfjord Slide (Norway).

Tugdual’s research stay with ENI
@ ENI, Milan, Italy
ESR 3, News, Secondments

After my participation to the conference in Victoria (British Columbia), I had the chance to accompany my supervisor (Marzia Rovere) and 3 people from ISMAR to the Eni laboratories in Milan. As they are involved in the SPOT Project (Potentially Triggerable Offshore Seismicity and Tsunamis, ABSTRACT), they had a special authorization to access the data room for a limited time (2 weeks). My supervisor made the demand if I also could have the access to some of the data for my PhD.

Ricarda’s report on her 1st secondment
@ NOCS / University of Southampton
ESR 9, News, Secondments

In my PhD project, I investigate factors that pre-condition submarine slopes to fail. I focus on the characterisation of the material near the basal failure planes of different slides and the material’s behaviour prior and during the initial stages of slope failure. The processes occurring prior and during failure are still poorly understood, as they cannot be directly observed or monitored, at least not on a grain-scaled level.

Rachel’s report on her 1st secondment
@ University of Malta (UM), Malta
ESR 1, News, Secondments

I am a doctoral student within the project SLATE and am based at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany. My research is primarily centred on the quantitative description and analysis of submarine landslides using geophysical and hydroacoustic data. Compared to their terrestrial counterparts, submarine landslides are poorly studied; this is a direct consequence of lower (and more variable) data resolution compared to terrestrial data, and artefacts related to the overlying water column. These factors make quantitative analysis of submarine landslides challenging, and so the majority of studies rely on a qualitative approach.

Monika’s report on her 1st secondment
@ Christian-Albrechts-Universität (CAU), Kiel, Germany
ESR 11, News, Secondments

The European training network SLATE brings together young scientists that are focused on studying submarine landslides, which are underwater mass movements. We use different methods to dig deeper into the questions of why, how and when landslides happen. My preferred method is numerical modelling in which I use computer programs to rebuild an underwater slope. Then I run a number of tests to figure out what makes this slope unstable and eventually break. The goal of this approach is to draw conclusions for landslides in general.