Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich

Kommunikationsspezialist:in (m/w/d) Komplexe wissenschaftliche Inhalte so aufzubereiten, dass sie verständlich, attraktiv und zugänglich sind – das ist die Aufgabe des Kommunikationsteams des Schweizerischen Erdbebendienstes (SED) an…

Der Schweizerische Erdbebendienst der ETH Zürich sucht Unterstützung für die Medien- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit sowie für die interne und externe Kommunikation nationaler und internationaler Forschungsprojekte. Melde dich als Kommunikationsspezialist:in!

Funding opportunities The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich awards different fellowships for visiting post-tenure professors or research scientists, PhD students, and Postdocs.

We are empowering early career female researcher in Earth and Planetary Sciences: apply now for the ETH Zurich Judith McKenzie fellowships! Be part of a growing network of women shaping the future of science! Application deadline is 31 October 2025.

An upcoming SSA meeting in Colorado will be discussing the latest research into environmental processes and how seismology is used to provide new insights in this evolving field. If you’re attending, be sure to connect with your Seismica people! www.seismosoc.org/environmenta...

Always happy to take the @eth-eaps.bsky.social (and a few @usyseth.bsky.social ) MSc students to Valais for some soil descriptions, pebble counts, and lake coring! Weather was rough yesterday but much perfect today!

Very grateful to the @snf-fns.ch for funding our continued work in DR Congo on tropical peatland greenhouse gas emissions! With @johansix.bsky.social and @draketw.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

Minute witnesses from the primordial sea Researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to measure - for the first time - how the amount of dissolved organic carbon in the sea has changed over geological time. The results reveal that our explanati...

Very cool write-up by @ethz.ch on our recent paper in @nature.com on reconstructing dissolved organic carbon in the ocean through geologic time! Led by Nir Galili @eth-eaps.bsky.social

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Nicole Fernandez, @nicolefernandez.bsky.social, currently Assistant Professor at Cornell University, has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Geomitigation of Greenhouse Gases in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at @ethz.ch. Many congratulations and welcome to the department!

Network Seismologist at Bedretto Underground Laboratory The Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies (BedrettoLab) at ETH Zurich is at the forefront of experimental geosciences, conducting cutting-edge research in earthquake…

The Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies (BedrettoLab) at ETH Zurich is looking for a scientist with a strong interest in network seismology and software development to enhance the seismological data processing and earthquake catalogue. #jobalert

Bennu up close and mineralogical - Nature Geoscience The mineralogy of samples returned from asteroid Bennu yield valuable insights into the physical and chemical processes — on both small and large scales — that shape small bodies in the Solar System.

⚒️ September editorial: Bennu up close and mineralogical - on the samples returned from asteroid Bennu

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Many congratulations to geophysicist Thomas Hudson on being awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for his research project “Illuminating Ice Dynamics with Emerging Seismic Technology”, combining seismology and glaciology to better understand how quickly glaciers are melting.

Open Call for NOMIS–ETH Postdoctoral Fellowships The 2025 call for applications for the NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Programme within the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life is open. Researchers are invited to apply until 7 November 2025, at 17:00 Zuri...

📣 Open Call – Applications are now open for the 2025 NOMIS–ETH Postdoctoral Fellowships at the @copl-eth.bsky.social. @ethz.ch

A great opportunity for early-career researchers to lead interdisciplinary projects on the origin & prevalence of life.

Learn more and apply: shorturl.at/RfjJJ

Ausstellung Im extract gewähren wir Ihnen einen kuratierten Einblick in die umfassenden Sammlungs- und Archivbestände der ETH Zürich.

In einer eindrücklichen Zeitreise führen die ETH-Bibliothek und die Gletscherforscher:innen der ETH Zürich durch die 150-jährige Geschichte der Glaziologie.

Besuchen Sie jetzt die Ausstellung in Zürich!

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Geoscientist for developing and integrating large-scale 3D geological models of the Swiss Alps The Georesources Switzerland Group is part of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich and conducts applied research in collaboration with the Swiss Geological Survey (Federal…

The Georesources Switzerland Group at ETH Zurich is looking for a Geoscientist to develop and integrate large-scale 3D geological models of the Swiss Alps for the swisstopo SA3D project. #jobalert

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NASA's Bennu samples reveal complex origins, dramatic transformation Asteroid Bennu, sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx in 2020, holds solar system dust, interstellar organics, and pre-solar stardust—transformed over time by water and harsh space exposure.

NASA's Bennu samples reveal complex origins, dramatic transformation

A trio of papers published in Nature Astronomy and Nature Geoscience unfolds the long history enclosed in tiny Bennu samples, sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx in 2020.

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D-EAPS does the double at sga2025 At its 2025 meeting in Golden Colorado, the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) has awarded its two biennial scientific career prizes to ETH professors. Cyril Chelle-Michou received…

The Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) has awarded the 2025 Young Scientist Award to Cyril Chelle-Michou and Christoph A. Heinrich has received the 2025 Newmount Gold Medal in recognition of his career in economic geology. Congratulations to both!

Fibre optics detect the invisible waves that melt Greenland’s ice sheet The breaking off of large chunks of ice from glaciers accelerates the melting of the Arctic ice sheet in Greenland.

The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an increasing rate, a process accelerated by glacier calving. For the first time, this has been measured by an international research team using fibre-optic cables and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology.

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SNSF SPF 2024: 72 approved projects The SNSF is allocating a total of 17.8 million francs for the SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 transitional measure.

Many congratulations to Alessandro Ghirotto for receiving a @snsf.ch Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship for his Geophysics project "Uncovering Mars' and Moon's enigmatic interior using the PlanETHedral inversion method".

Mobility grants for 200 postdocs The SNSF is allocating a total of CHF 24.8 million to enable 200 researchers to carry out a stay abroad or to return to Switzerland.

Many congratulations to Sara Klaasen for receiving a @snsf.ch Postdoc.Mobility grant for her Geophysics project "Into the Deep with DAS".

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Mobility grants for 200 postdocs The SNSF is allocating a total of CHF 24.8 million to enable 200 researchers to carry out a stay abroad or to return to Switzerland.

Many congratulations to @julrogger.bsky.social for receiving a @snsf.ch Postdoc.Mobility grant for his Earth Sciences project "Hyperthermals in Earth’s past: drivers, consequences and implications for the future".

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New @nature.com paper out "The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides"

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Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2025 – 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2025, Bern The Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of Bern, the Platform Geosciences of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, SCNAT as well as the Swiss Association of Geologists, CHGEOL cordially…

The 23th Swiss Geoscience Meeting “Realigning within Planetary Boundaries” will be held on Friday, 5 and Saturday, 6 December 2025 in Bern.

Abstract submission is now open and closes on 29 August 2025. Get to it!

Oliver Strimpel (@geologybites.bsky.social) 🧪⚒️Just released Andreas Fichtner on the frontiers of seismic imaging. Our images are becoming much sharper— see the episode web page. Really novel is the use of fiber-optic cables to sense…

Listen to Andreas Fichtner talk about the the frontiers of seismic imaging. He explains how researchers, despite the many obstacles, are making steady improvements in creating images of the Earth's interior on both regional and global scale.

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Earth's magnetic field is older than previously thought: Swiss scientists Scientists at the Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich have shown that the protective magnetic field already existed more than a billion years ago.

Scientists at ETH Zurich have reconstructed the history of the Earth's magnetic field and found that it already existed more than a billion years ago, much earlier than previously thought.

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A fully liquid Earth’s core also generates a magnetic field For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated stably back in its early days when its inner core was fully liquid – unlike it is to...

Did Earth’s magnetic field exist when its core was still fully liquid? A new ETH Zurich study says yes — thanks to advanced simulations showing that even a liquid core could generate a stable magnetic field. A major step in understanding our planet’s early history.

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Managing Director ETH Swiss GeoLab

The newly founded ETH Swiss GeoLab is looking to fill the position of the "Managing Director ETH Swiss GeoLab" as the chief operating and administrative leader of this interdisciplinary competence centre for Earth observation. #management #jobalert

Apply now: www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/10604

Seulgi Moon, currently Associate Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, has been appointed as Associate Professor of Earth Surface Dynamics in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at @ethz.ch. Many congratulations and welcome to the department!

The Jörg G. Bucherer-Foundation donates 100 million Swiss francs to ETH Zurich for Earth observation centre ETH Zurich will receive 10 million Swiss francs a year from the Jörg G. Bucherer-Foundation for the next ten years. The university will use the funds to establish a competence centre for Earth observa...

ETH Zurich receives CHF 100M from the Jörg G. Bucherer-Foundation to launch ETH Swiss GeoLab – a global Earth observation centre based in Lucerne. Led by Thomas Zurbuchen & Verena Griess, it will use satellite & sensor data to address global & local challenges.

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Fibre optics on glaciers open new frontiers for natural disaster predictions The fibre-optic cables we use to surf the Internet and make phone calls could help predict a landslide or a glacier collapse.

In a real-world test case, fibre-optic cables, deployed on a Swiss glacier detected the seismic signals of crevasses opening in the ice. The study by @ethz.ch researchers confirms that fibre-optic detection technology could be useful in natural hazard monitoring.

Glacier melt increases seismic activity under the Mont Blanc Massif Home

A new study demonstrates for the first time a link between climate-driven changes in glaciated high mountain regions and increased local earthquake hazard. These findings are of importance for the prevention of natural hazards in high alpine and arctic regions around the world.

Substantial continental temperature rise over the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Pyrenees - Communications Earth & Environment Calcification temperatures in the Pyrenees were 5 °C higher during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum than in the Late Paleocene, and meridional temperature gradients were reduced to 0.7–0.4 °C/degr...

Substantial continental temperature rise over the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Pyrenees.
@natcomms.nature.com Communications Earth & Environment volume 6, 499 (2025) #publicationalert #paperalert

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