Daniele Trippanera et al. publish a paper in Frontiers in Earth Science

Rémi Matrau and Sigurjón Jónsson installed a new GPS station in north Iceland in collaboration with the Icelandic Met Office.​

A research cruise with RV Thuwal to Gulf of Aqaba is successfully completed

Yuan-Kai Liu has successfully defended and completed his MS thesis at KAUST.

Rishabh Dutta has a paper on the 2005 Fukuoka earthquake, Japan, published in Geophysical Journal International

Yuan-Kai Liu wins the Outstanding Student Poster award for his presentation at the EGU conference in April 2017.

The CDI group had several presentations at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) conference in Vienna 24-28 April.​

Ulas Avsar receives the Golden Hammer award in Turkey for his Köyceğiz paper

A new paper is out in BSSA on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China by Guangcai Feng, Sigurjón Jónsson and Yann Klinger

The GAST project kick-off meeting was held at KAUST on 8 March. The title of this new project is "Interdisciplinary earthquake hazard research in Gulf of Aqaba and Strait of Tiran (GAST)​

​We have several PhD and Postdoc openings in the CDI group in 2017​

The Nature Communications paper on the recent Bárðarbunga rifting event is highlighted by KAUST Discovery​

Wenbin's Harrat Lunayyir paper in JGR has been highlighted by KAUST discovery

The​ CDI group successfully completed their 2016 GPS campaign in North Iceland from 31 July to 18 August.

Joel Ruch has a new paper out in Nature Communications entitled "Oblique rift opening revealed by reoccurring magma injection in central Iceland". His co-authors are Teng Wang, Wenbin Xu, Martin Hensch and Sigurjón Jónsson

Ulas Avsar publishes a paper in Journal of Geophysical Research on earthquake-induced sediment deformation in a varved sedimentary sequence from a lake in southwestern Turkey​​​

The PI of the CDI group was promoted to Professor at KAUST faculty recognition dinner​

J. Scott Berdahl defended his MS thesis at KAUST on 3 May 2016

Rishabh Dutta and Hannes Vasyura-Bathke presented their research at the EGU meeting in Vienna

A new collaborative CRG4 project has started focusing on rifting activity in the southern Red Sea

Wenbin Xu has a paper in JGR on Harrat Lunayyir with Sigurjón Jónsson, Fabio Corbi, and Eleonora Rivalta