NOT ONLY FOR STUDENTS
– Meet us:
the staff,
PhD and younger students,
former staff and
alumni.
– Follow the Department into the
past and
present.
– Judge the
research overviews and
publication lists.
– Glance at the pages of
Consortium SW3D and of our
seismic stations in Greece.
– Evaluate international collaborations of the Department, e.g., in EU projects
MAGMA,
SPICE
and c2c.
– Enjoy our efforts to
popularize geophysics, watch the TV & radio interviews.
– Study the study programme of geophysics,
overviews of courses
and lists of seminars on seismology and geodynamics.
– Download the
lecture notes, both recent (Brokešová, Martinec, Matyska, Novotný, Zahradník) and age-old (Láska, Zátopek).
– Click the link to the catalogue of Geophysical Library.
– Ex-post review the defended theses, or choose a new topic of your future
bachelor thesis.
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SEISMOLOGY
Corinth Gulf separates the continental Greece from Peloponnese peninsula. It is believed
to represent extensional tectonics (rift structure) characterized by recent horizontal motions
as fast as a few millimeters per year. As such, it belongs to seismically most active regions
of the Mediterranean. Last destructive event of M=6.2 occurred in the Gulf close to the city
of Egio in June 1995. The city of Patras, hub of the western Peloponnese, was damaged by the
1993 earthquake. The key role in understanding those earthquakes, and predicting ground motions
during similar future events, is played by detailed seismic observations.
Western part of the Corinth Gulf has been monitored since 80's by PATNET, the short-period
telemetered seismological network of the Patras University, covering the whole western Greece.
Since November 1997, our broadband stations have been operating in the Gulf as a long-term
temporary network, jointly managed by the Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) and
Patras University.
For more information, visit this page.
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GEODYNAMICS
The research of the geodynamic group covers a broad range of problems, such as:
- computer simulations of mantle convection;
- viscoelastic relaxation, with particular applications in postglacial rebound;
- boundary-value problems of physical geodesy;
- geoid inversion;
- electromagnetic induction in the mantle.
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Animation of temperature changes
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CONSORTIUM SW3D
The consortium research project Seismic waves in complex 3-D structures (SW3D), started October 1, 1993. It focuses primarily on the fundamental issues of high-frequency seismic wave propagation in complex 3-D isotropic and anisotropic structures, which go beyond the traditional approaches. The ray method and its recent extensions as well as its combination with other methods are mainly applied and investigated. The emphasis is put on new, stable, more efficient and flexible algorithms for the forward numerical modelling of seismic wave fields in 3-D inhomogeneous, isotropic and anisotropic structures. Considerable attention is also devoted to applications involving shear waves, converted waves, shear wave splitting in anisotropic media, particle ground motions, etc.
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EU PROJECTS
Since 2003, Department of Geophysics participates vigorously in projects funded by EU.
Project MAGMA – Prague Centre of Mathematical Geophysics, Meteorology, and Their Applications (2003−2005) provided support for 200 foreign scientists to come to Czech Republic to cooperate with us – more than 7 person-years altogether!
Project SPICE − Seismic Wave Propagation and Imaging in Complex Media: a European Network (2004−2007) was the first our involvement in Marie Curie Research Training Network, and project c2c − Crust to Core: the Fate of Subducted Material, since 2007, another one.
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