News and lab updates
News and updates celebrating achievements, announcing grants and papers, job postings, and more.
Moving back to Brazil
2023/07/31
This article was first published on my personal website under a CC-BY license. It’s reproduced here under the same license. Today is my last day working at the University of Liverpool and my last week living in the UK. It’s been a busy, interesting, exciting, and life-changing experience.…
Preprint: Automatic dipole moment inversion of magnetic microscopy images
2023/06/14
We have a new preprint out on EarthArXiv: Souza Junior, G.F., Uieda, L., Trindade, R.I.F., Carmo, J., and Fu, R. (2023). Full vector inversion of magnetic microscopy images using Euler deconvolution as a priori information. EarthArXiv. doi:10.31223/x5qd5z This is the first publication…
Poster on processing magnetic anomaly data with equivalent sources
2023/05/15
Lab member India Uppal had her first poster presentation at this year’s PGR Conference of the School of Environmental Science, University of Liverpool. India showed everyone the progress made on her PhD thesis so far, in which we are investigating the use of the equivalent sources method to…
Preliminary results of our magnetic microscopy work at #EGU23
2023/04/26
Today, lab member Gelson F. Souza Junior will give a presentation at the EGU 2023 General Assembly about our initial results adapting applied geophysics methods to magnetic microscopy data developed under our Royal Society grant and Gelson’s PhD, which is funded by FAPESP. Here’s a sneak…
Fatiando a Terra talk at the KEGS 2023 Symposium
2023/03/31
A few weeks ago, Santiago gave a talk at the KEGS 2023 Symposium that introduced to the Canadian geophysical community some of the latest developments in the Fatiando a Terra open-source project. Title slide for the talk. You can enjoy a live recording of the talk in Fatiando’s YouTube…
Phase 1 of our Royal Society magnetic microscopy grant
2022/11/09
This week we’re getting started with phase 1 of our Royal Society grant to develop magnetic microscopy with the arrival of PhD student Gelson Ferreira de Souza Junior at Liverpool! Group photo with a golden sunset on the Mersey river as a background. Left to right: Leo, Gelson, India. We’ll…
Free online workshop "A geophysical tour of mid-ocean ridges" at Transform 2022
2022/04/27
The 2022 edition of the Transform virtual conference is happening in this week! This year, I’m teaching a workshop on mid-ocean ridges that makes use of several of the Fatiando a Terra packages and PyGMT. There is no registration and the workshop is freely available on YouTube: The Jupyter…
Royal Society grant to work on magnetic microscopy 🧲🔬
2022/03/31
The lab has just been awarded an International Exchange grant by the Royal Society! 🥳 The award titled “Towards individual-grain paleomagnetism: Translating regional-scale geophysics to the nascent field of magnetic microscopy” intends to establish a new partnership between the CompGeoLab…
Congratulations to Dr. Santiago Soler 🥂
2022/02/14
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Santiago Soler for successfully defending his thesis today and being awarded the title of PhD in Geophysics by the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina! 🎉 🍾 Santiago was the first PhD student I had the chance to work with and I can safely say that…
Welcoming our newest lab members in 2021 🎉
2021/11/01
I’m very happy to welcome the newest members of our team who have joined us these past few months: India Uppal is starting a PhD at the University of Liverpool with myself, Vanderlei C. Oliveira Jr, and Richard Holme. India will be working on Antarctic geothermal heat flow estimates from…
Farewell to Aidan, Ali, Daniel, Majed, and Mustafa
2021/10/01
I’m a bit late with this post but I would like to congratulate lab members Aidan Hernaman, Ali Alhazmi, Daniel Gilbert, Majed Abura, and Mustafa Alordowny for successfully completing their dissertations! It was not an easy year but they all stepped up and delivered excellent work. Aidan…
PhD studentship at the University of Liverpool
2021/03/24
Update (2021/05/20): This position is now closed. Update (2021/11/01): India Uppal has joined the group under this project! We have one open position for a fully funded 5-year PhD and graduate student assistant position at the University of Liverpool. Applications are open until 21 April…
Free online workshop on gravity data processing at Transform 2021
2021/03/23
The 2021 edition of the Transform virtual conference is happening in 16-23 April 2021! This year, Santiago, Agustina Pesce, and Andrea Balza Morales are teaching workshop on gravity data processing in Python with our open-source libraries Harmonica and Boule. Register for free (though…
Farewell to Steven, Charlie, Lottie, and Alex
2020/07/23
This month, lab members Lottie Cooper, Steven Heer, Alexander Borges, and Charles Thomson have successfully finished their dissertations and have all graduated from the University of Liverpool! 🎉 🎊 All four have received high marks for their work and Steven received an award for his…
Free online workshops at Transform 2020
2020/06/05
The Software Underground is organizing a massive free online event next week: Transform2020 Virtual Conference on digital subsurface. Leo and Santiago will be teaching the tutorial “From scattered data to gridded products using Verde”. The session will be live-streamed to YouTube and will…
Lab presentations at EGU 2020
2020/05/06
This week, the EGU 2020 General Assembly has been happening online for the first time. Instead of the traditional presentations, authors were asked to submit slides/videos/posters and then participated on a live chat room to pitch their projects and answer questions from the audience. Both…
Leo has been awarded a Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship
2020/01/23
The Software Sustainability Institute offers yearly fellowships to fund the organization of communities around scientific software (creating of local user groups, workshops, hackathons, etc). Earlier this month, Leo was selected to be part of the 2020 cohort of SSI Fellows. Read more about…
Two PhD studentships at the University of Liverpool
2019/12/08
Update (2020/01/10): This position is now closed. I have two open positions for funded studentships at the University of Liverpool. Applications are open until 10 January 2020. Project descriptions Follow the links for more detailed versions. Bringing machine learning techniques to…
Introducing the Computer-Oriented Geoscience Lab
2019/08/19
In August 2019, I started a new position as Lecturer in Geophysics at the University of Liverpool. As part of this transition, I’ve had to think about my research in a broader context and analyse what sets it apart. Since the lab’s research will mainly focus on method development, the range…