05 September, 2019
A paper by Yuan-Kai Liu et al. is published in EPSL
13 August, 2019
The CDI group returns after over two weeks of GPS fieldwork in northern Iceland
09 July, 2019
Daniele Trippanera et al. publish a paper in Frontiers in Earth Science
31 August, 2018
Rémi Matrau and Sigurjón Jónsson installed a new GPS station in north Iceland in collaboration with the Icelandic Met Office.
15 June, 2018
A research cruise with RV Thuwal to Gulf of Aqaba is successfully completed
15 May, 2018
Yuan-Kai Liu has successfully defended and completed his MS thesis at KAUST.
15 January, 2018
Rishabh Dutta has a paper on the 2005 Fukuoka earthquake, Japan, published in Geophysical Journal International
10 November, 2017
Yuan-Kai Liu wins the Outstanding Student Poster award for his presentation at the EGU conference in April 2017.
28 April, 2017
The CDI group had several presentations at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) conference in Vienna 24-28 April.
10 April, 2017
Ulas Avsar receives the Golden Hammer award in Turkey for his Köyceğiz paper
17 March, 2017
A new paper is out in BSSA on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China by Guangcai Feng, Sigurjón Jónsson and Yann Klinger
15 March, 2017
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)
24 November, 2016
We have several PhD and Postdoc openings in the CDI group in 2017
13 September, 2016
The Nature Communications paper on the recent Bárðarbunga rifting event is highlighted by KAUST Discovery
23 August, 2016
Wenbin's Harrat Lunayyir paper in JGR has been highlighted by KAUST discovery
20 August, 2016
The CDI group successfully completed their 2016 GPS campaign in North Iceland from 31 July to 18 August.
05 August, 2016
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
04 July, 2016
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
04 May, 2016
The PI of the CDI group was promoted to Professor at KAUST faculty recognition dinner
03 May, 2016
J. Scott Berdahl defended his MS thesis at KAUST on 3 May 2016
19 April, 2016
Rishabh Dutta and Hannes Vasyura-Bathke presented their research at the EGU meeting in Vienna