Re-thinking Fieldwork: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

Join us for our 2nd EGU EMRP Campfire event—Re-thinking Fieldwork: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives—designed to foster interactive discussions and networking among early career researchers.

This session will focus on re-evaluating fieldwork practices in light of current challenges and future perspectives. Two invited speakers will share their experiences, and participants will have the opportunity to engage directly through a moderated Q&A session.

Format: Interactive Q&A session via Zoom
Duration: 1.5 hours

Speakers:

Dr. Natalie Farrell (@The University of Manchester, UK)​ — Dr. Nathalie Farrell is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Rock Deformation Laboratory. She measures and models the effects of faulting on the physical and microstructural properties of rocks to address both fundamental and applied geoscience problems. This has included integrating data collected from experimental, geochemical and microscopic analysis into physical models to predict how fluids move around faults zones and how human-induced changes in pore pressure from fluid injection activities could trigger earthquakes. She has worked with many different rock types from nearly every continent from Australian and Tanzanian sandstones and Canadian carbonates to Icelandic lavas and Scottish mylonites. She completed her PhD in rock mechanics at the University of Aberdeen in 2016, and she worked as a geological consultant and as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Aberdeen. She has taken multiple career breaks while raising three children and worked to promote ways that scientific institutions/communities can better support the co-existence of academic and family-life.

Dr. Dan Palcu (@Utrecht University, Netherlands)​ — Dr. Dan Palcu is a geoscientist specializing in geology, paleomagnetism, paleoceanography. His expertise spans geochronology, paleogeography, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, with research contributions across Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. His work has advanced our understanding of marine and ocean connectivity, paleo-lake systems, and their impact on biodiversity and global climate systems. He has developed innovative methodologies, including the integration of paleomagnetic proxies with geochemical analyses. His research has yielded significant breakthroughs, including resolving key challenges like the Neogene chronology of the Paratethys megalake—the largest lake in Earth’s history—and providing crucial insights into ancient aquatic environments through the development of innovative multiproxy methodologies. His contributions extend beyond academia, impacting societal understanding and informing strategies for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. He actively bridges the gap between research and application, contributing to the development of UNESCO geoparks and disseminating his findings to both academic and general audiences.

Registration:
Please register for the campfire using the link at the bottom of this webpage.

The registration link will also be circulated on our mailing list (emrp-ecs@lists.egu.eu) or will be available by contacting ecs-emrp@egu.eu.

Call for Future Speakers:
We are looking for speakers for the next EMRP EGU Campfire Events. Are you interested in giving a talk, then please express your interest by filling out the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScl_mcGQWoTyqfDvuQRrZORD0gmgGFa_oLNwCLkBUVyOdtUtA/viewform.

Register for this online event here.

If you have any questions about ‘Re-thinking Fieldwork: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives’, please contact us via webinars@egu.eu.