Dear colleagues, As we announced to you three weeks ago, we are now pleased to launch the MTNet series webinars on EM, or "EMinars" (pronounced "M-inars").
We had a great response to our request for offers of presentations of research webinars, and are going through them and lining them up. In addition, we are soliciting educational webinars as a number of people have told us that broad-based education by experts in EM generally and MT in particular would be very well received. We are also planning for webinars by people in other fields that impact on our own, such as other geophysics or geochemistry or tectonics or petrology, etc. We have the first two EMinars scheduled, and you can view the tentative dates for subsequent EMinars and proposed titles for the Educational ones at: http://www.mtnet.info/webinars/webinars.html Our first presenter will be *Martyn Unsworth*, on "*Magnetotelluric studies of Andean magmatism*". The EMinar will be in one week on *Wednesday, 21st October, 2020, at 15:00 UT*. To register for this presentation, please go to this link and fill in the form: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CxTuT0CuTgO1-gGWC9XRxw We are using Zoom as the presentation platform, and currently have a plan that allows for up to 100 attendees. So please register early to be assured a place. *Please do NOT register for an EMinar unless you are certain you will attend it! * If the numbers of registrations is well over 100, then we will discuss with the sponsor of these webinars to purchase the next Zoom level, which is 500 attendees. We are planning for an EMinar biweekly, with a Research (R) and an Educational (E) webinar interleaved. If the interest within the community is high, we may increase that to 3 per month, 2Rs + 1E, and even weekly, with 2R+2E or 3R+1E. We have a lot of topics and offers that will keep these going for two years already! We can compress than into one year if demand is high. As with many other webinar series that are currently being presented, we see this as a long-term activity, not one that will end when the Covid pandemic ends. There is a need for continued education and also for better ways of disseminating our hot up-to-the-moment research than physically meeting. Please keep looking for updates on the MTNet EMinar page at: http://www.mtnet.info/webinars/webinars.html We welcome more offers of presentations, and suggestions for other topics. We particularly seek offers from industry. With very best regards! Alan Jones <[email protected]> Max Moorkamp <[email protected]> Stephan Thiel <[email protected]> > On 9/21/20 12:04 PM, Alan G Jones (Geophysics) wrote: > > > Dear colleagues, > > The end certainly isn't in sight for the Covid-19 pandemic. > > Quite a number of science disciplines, and many geoscience > sub-disciplines, have initiated webinar series to inform each other of > the latest results and advances. Some bi-weekly, some almost daily. > I'm viewing 2-3 webinars each week from a number of groups and > societies (GSSA, KEGS, SAGA, Ore Deposits Hub, Toronto Geological > Discussion Group). Ironically, I'm being better informed now than ever > before. > > So I thought we should initiate a wbinars series in our EM community. > > I have discussed this with Max Moorkamp (Munich) and Stephan Thiel > (Adelaide), and we would like to gauge opinion if there is enthusiasm > for having such a series within our EM community, not only for > research presentations but also for EM educational presentations to > newcomers to the field. > > We're sure a lot of you would be willing to listen to webinars, but > how many are willing to give one? > > As with our EM workshops, the research webinars can cover everything > from theory to instrumentation to processing and analysis to modelling > and inversion to interpretation and lab studies. Anyone who wants to > talk about historical issues is welcome. Also industry perspectives > are very welcome. > > In addition, we would like to have educational webinars for new > students to EM, and perhaps to re-inform some of us who think we know > everything already... :-) > > If you are interested to give a webinar, please send a title to me at > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>, and Max, Stephan and I will > try to organise a loose schedule over the next year. We envision 2 per > month - a research one and an educational one. If there is > overwhelming interest, we could go to one per week, but that might be > too often. For the length, certainly not more than say 45 mins., and > shorter ones of 25 mins. are also good - we could have two short ones > in one time slot. > > Timing may be an issue - if I am hosting the webinar then it should > occur between say 12pm UT to 11pm UT (7am to 6pm my time EST). Once we > get the series established then Max and Stephan can host the webinars > so the timing inconvenience is shared. > > If the presenter permits it, we could record the webinar and make it > available for later viewing. > > We are thinking to use Zoom as the webinar platform - none of us have > done this before so it will be a bit of a learning experience. The > Zoom package I am looking at allows max 100 participants, but that > should be sufficient. > > Please let us know if you want to give a webinar, the times you could > give it (UT please), and the dates. Picking a day of the week at > random, we might go for Wednesdays for these webinars. > > Best wishes all, and Stay Safe! > > Alan > > P.S. Please don't Reply to the MTNet email list, as your reply will be > queued to be sent around all of MTNet (and I will delete it). Send > your response directly to me at [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > -- Alan G. Jones, P.Geo., MRIA, Fellow AGU Senior Professor Emeritus Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Adjunct Professor Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Google scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=fbT-K4MAAAAJ ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3482-2518 SCOPUS ID: 7407105442
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