Michael Pons
@michapons.bsky.social
Geodynamics 🌎 | Global scale & subduction modeling 💻 | GFZ_Potsdam | co-editor of EGU GD blog
Reposted by Michael Pons
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...
Enjoy reading! :)
eos.org/research-spo...
Seismic Anisotropy Reveals Deep-Mantle Dynamics - Eos
A new study offers insight into the viscous BLOBs at the base of Earth’s mantle.
eos.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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...
Enjoy reading! :)
eos.org/research-spo...
Reposted by Michael Pons
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
#DUresearch #Modeling #GFZ
October 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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
#DUresearch #Modeling #GFZ
Reposted by Michael Pons
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.
October 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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.
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...
🏅 The Augustus Love Medal
🌟 The Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
www.egu.eu/awards-medal...
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.
www.egu.eu
June 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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...
🏅 The Augustus Love Medal
🌟 The Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
www.egu.eu/awards-medal...
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...
De-coding plate tectonics through Andean geodynamics
YouTube video by Comisión de Tectónica
www.youtube.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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...
Reposted by Michael Pons
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
May 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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
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
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
May 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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
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
Reposted by Michael Pons
🌍 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
🔗 Reserve your spot (limited seats!): forms.gle/KiM8wK3WGGN9...
#egugeodynamics
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...
forms.gle
April 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🌍 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
🔗 Reserve your spot (limited seats!): forms.gle/KiM8wK3WGGN9...
#egugeodynamics
Reposted by Michael Pons
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/...
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/...
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...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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/...
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/...
Reposted by Michael Pons
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)
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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)
Reposted by Michael Pons
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...
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...
March 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Michael Pons
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
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
@eurogeosciences.bsky.social @egubg.bsky.social
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 ...
blogs.egu.eu
January 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
@eurogeosciences.bsky.social @egubg.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael Pons
⚒️ 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...
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...
December 31, 2024 at 10:01 AM
⚒️ 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...
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...
Reposted by Michael Pons
UMA PERSPECTIVA DA TERRA 17 - CICLO DE SUPERCONTINENTES E CICLOS DE WILSON II
joaocduarte.weebly.com/blog/uma-per...
#geologia #geology #tectónica #tectonics #tectonicadeplacas
joaocduarte.weebly.com/blog/uma-per...
#geologia #geology #tectónica #tectonics #tectonicadeplacas
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...
joaocduarte.weebly.com
December 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM
UMA PERSPECTIVA DA TERRA 17 - CICLO DE SUPERCONTINENTES E CICLOS DE WILSON II
joaocduarte.weebly.com/blog/uma-per...
#geologia #geology #tectónica #tectonics #tectonicadeplacas
joaocduarte.weebly.com/blog/uma-per...
#geologia #geology #tectónica #tectonics #tectonicadeplacas
Reposted by Michael Pons
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
Pre-order links are in my bio. In stores in March 2025 (UK and US) and September 2025 (Spain) 💛
#SciArt
December 19, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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
Pre-order links are in my bio. In stores in March 2025 (UK and US) and September 2025 (Spain) 💛
#SciArt
Reposted by Michael Pons
🚨 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
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
December 19, 2024 at 11:02 AM
🚨 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
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
Reposted by Michael Pons
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
\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
Geoid 2013
YouTube video by Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum
youtu.be
September 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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
\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
Reposted by Michael Pons
📢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
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
December 10, 2024 at 11:22 AM
📢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
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
Reposted by Michael Pons
🚨 #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/
⏰ Deadline: Jan 3, 2025
📖 Details: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
✍️ Apply now: iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
December 10, 2024 at 12:19 PM
🚨 #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/
⏰ Deadline: Jan 3, 2025
📖 Details: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
✍️ Apply now: iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
Reposted by Michael Pons
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
I co-organize and post about the monthly online #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar. More infos here: tinyurl.com/RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
November 20, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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
I co-organize and post about the monthly online #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar. More infos here: tinyurl.com/RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
Reposted by Michael Pons
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
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
December 1, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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
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
Reposted by Michael Pons
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!
Now I made my first contribution. 😎
Thanks, @fabiocrameri.ch and friends for pushing open science forward!
A scientific-art graphics collection
Making science-proof, eye-catching graphics readily available for free. Created by scientists and artists together.
s-ink.org
June 1, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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!
Now I made my first contribution. 😎
Thanks, @fabiocrameri.ch and friends for pushing open science forward!
Reposted by Michael Pons
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!
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!
May 14, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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!
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!
Reposted by Michael Pons
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
#EGU24
April 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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
#EGU24
Reposted by Michael Pons
See below for our brief portraits of three GFZ scientists awarded medals and prizes at #EGU24 -- Congrats! 🎉
www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/press/new...
www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/press/new...
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.
www.gfz-potsdam.de
April 17, 2024 at 12:42 PM
See below for our brief portraits of three GFZ scientists awarded medals and prizes at #EGU24 -- Congrats! 🎉
www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/press/new...
www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/press/new...