EGU Awards to Njord scientists

Two early-career researchers trained at the Njord Centre receive awards from the European Geosciences Union

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At the 2023 European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Austria, two researchers from the Njord Centre will receive awards. These successes reward the vitality and creativity of young researchers at the Njord Centre, who develop original research on timely topics and whose activities are recognized at the international level.
https://www.egu.eu/news/937/egu-announces-its-2023-awards-and-medals/

 

Dr. Jessica McBeck, researcher, will receive the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists, an EGU Union-wide award, for her contributions to the understanding of multi-scale fracture network development, coalescence, and localization in various crustal rocks and the application of this work to earthquake physics [1, 2]. Jessica is following the tracks of Olivier Galland, research professor in our group, who received the same award in 2011.
 

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Figure 1: Fracture network in crystalline rock imaged by synchrotron X-ray microtomography [1].

 

Dr. Xin Zhong, a former post-doctoral researcher in our group, now working at the Freie University in Berlin, will receive the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award from the Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology Division for his studies on metamorphic processes and residual strain measurements in lower crustal rocks. He published several important articles on these topics when he was in Oslo [3, 4].

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Figure 2: Modelling and sketch of earthquake formation in the lower crust [3].

 

 

[1] McBeck, J., Aiken, J. M., Ben-Zion, Y., & Renard, F. (2020). Predicting the proximity to macroscopic failure using local strain populations from dynamic in situ X-ray tomography triaxial compression experiments on rocks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 543, 116344.
[2] McBeck, J., Kandula, N., Aiken, J. M., Cordonnier, B., & Renard, F. (2019). Isolating the factors that govern fracture development in rocks throughout dynamic in situ X‐ray tomography experiments. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(20), 11127-11135.
[3] Zhong, X., Petley-Ragan, A., Incel, S., Dabrowski, M., Andersen, N., Jamtveit, B. Lower crustal earthquake associated with highly pressurized frictional melts. Nature Geoscience. 14:519-525.
[4] Zhong, X., Anderson, N., Dabrowski, M., Jamtveit, B. Zircon and quartz inclusions in garnet used for complimentary Raman-thermobarometry: application to Holsnøy eclogite, Bergen arc, Norway. Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology. 174:50
 

Published Dec. 1, 2022 11:39 AM - Last modified Jan. 17, 2023 12:19 PM