News and lab updates
News and updates celebrating achievements, announcing grants and papers, job postings, and more.
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XXVII Geophysics Summer School
2025/03/18. From February 17 to 21, 2025, the XXVII Geophysics Summer School at IAG - USP took place, offering an intense week of learning, knowledge exchange, and the development of essential skills for... -
Congratulations to BSc Ellen Fernandes Marcos đ„
2025/03/11. Last month, lab member Ellen graduated from her Bachelorâs degree in Geophysics at the Universidade de SĂŁo Paulo! It was long road with more setbacks than usual due to the COVID pandemic but Ellen... -
A better method for locating sources of gravity and magnetic anomalies
2024/12/20. We have a new preprint out on EarthArXiv which introduces Euler inversion, a new method for finding the location and approximate geometry of sources of gravity and magnetic anomalies. Weâre very... -
CompGeoLab oferecerĂĄ curso na Escola de VerĂŁo de GeofĂsica do IAG "Kit de sobrevivĂȘncia digital para cientistas"
2024/11/18. Em 2025, o CompGeoLab oferecerĂĄ um minicurso de 15h na XXVII Escola de VerĂŁo de GeofĂsica do IAG - USP. O curso âKit de sobrevivĂȘncia digital para cientistasâ tem como objetivo ensinar o uso de... -
The lab at the 2024 Symposium of Brazilian Geophysical Society
2024/10/17. Last week, me and lab member Ellen Fernandes Marcos attended the 10th Symposium of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, held at the beautiful Salvador in the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil.... -
IAG | Science Day 2024
2024/09/23. This month, Arthur Siqueira de MacĂȘdo and I had the opportunity to present our MSc projects at the IAG | Science Day. This event gathers members of the IAG for 5-minute presentations, where... -
Lab visitors and activities in July-August 2024
2024/09/12. July and August were busy months for the CompGeoLab! We had India Uppal visiting from the end of June until this week, Santiago Soler also came for a visit in August for a few days, and me, India,... -
New paper proposing a new cost-effective way to automatically analyze magnetic microscopy images
2024/08/07. After over 1 year in review (đźâđš), we have a new open-access paper by lab member Gelson F. Souza Junior, the first of his PhD đ : SouzaâJunior, G. F., Uieda, L., Trindade, R. I. F., Carmo, J., &... -
Talk on improved magnetic microscopy inversion at the 2024 Castle Meeting
2024/07/08. Last Thursday, lab member Gelson F. Souza Junior gave a talk at the 2024 Castle Meeting at Utrecht, The Netherlands. The talk showed the first results of a significant improvement that we made to... -
Welcoming the first batch of USP lab members đ
2024/02/24. Itâs my pleasure to welcome the newest members of our team who have joined us at USP this year: Yago Moreira Castro is starting his MSc to build Magali, our open-source software for magnetic... -
Moving back to Brazil
2023/07/31. Today is my last day working at the University of Liverpool and my last week living in the UK. Itâs been a busy, interesting, exciting, and life-changing experience. Iâll always be glad that I... -
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... -
Poster on processing magnetic anomaly data with equivalent sources
2023/05/15. Lab member India Uppal had her first poster presentation at this yearâs PGR Conference of the School of Environmental Science, University of Liverpool. India showed everyone the progress made on... -
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... -
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.... -
Phase 1 of our Royal Society magnetic microscopy grant
2022/11/09. This week weâre 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... -
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, Iâm teaching a workshop on mid-ocean ridges that makes use of several of the Fatiando a Terra packages... -
Royal Society grant to work on magnetic microscopy đ§ČđŹ
2022/03/31. The lab has just been awarded an International Exchange grant by the Royal Society! đ„ł The award titled âTowards individual-grain paleomagnetism: Translating regional-scale geophysics to the... -
Congratulations to Dr. Santiago Soler đ„
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!... -
Welcoming our newest lab members in 2021 đ
2021/11/01. Iâm 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... -
Farewell to Aidan, Ali, Daniel, Majed, and Mustafa
2021/10/01. Iâm 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... -
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... -
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... -
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! đ... -
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 âFrom scattered... -
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... -
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).... -
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... -
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, Iâve had to think about my research in a broader context and analyse...