Bernhard Steinberger
@bstein.bsky.social
Working on solid Earth dynamics at GFZ Potsdam. Worried about too much CO2 in the atmosphere. Born at 316 ppm (seasonal minimum). Here private; opinions my own!
How can you use mantle plumes as a reference frame for plate motions, although they rise from a convecting lower mantle? This is a topic I studied during much of my scientific life and which I discuss with Oliver Strimpel @geologybites.bsky.social: www.geologybites.com/bernhard-ste...
Deep dive into hot spots deep down within the Earth that form impressive sea mountain chains & volcanic islands like Hawaii. Are the hot spots fixed? How can we measure whether they moved? Listen to our colleague @bstein.bsky.social in this podcast 👇🏻 www.geologybites.com/bernhard-ste...
Bernhard Steinberger — Geology Bites
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Hallo 👋 Kannst Du mir kurz helfen? Gegen die Hitzewelle braucht es konsequenten Klimaschutz. Deshalb fordert Fridays for Future: Lobbyministerin Reiche entlassen. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/hi...
Die Hitze hat Gründe.
Hallo 👋 Kannst Du mir kurz helfen? Gegen die Hitzewelle braucht es konsequenten Klimaschutz. Deshalb fordert Fridays for Future: Lobbyministerin Reiche entlassen. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️
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En route to the recovery cruise aiming at imaging materials that flowed northward from the Hawaii plume, passing the region with the highest mountains in Greenland. Here doi.org/10.1111/ter.... we proposed that these were uplifted due to materials flowing northward from the Iceland plume ...
Kolumne: Die Welt verändert sich in atemberaubendem Tempo. Sie wird heißer, schneller, fossile Geschäftsmodelle sterben zwangsläufig, neue entstehen. Die Bundesregierung setzt stattdessen auf Retro-Technik. Das ist schlecht für das Land - und schlecht für die Menschheit.
Here is my contribution blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts... following suggestions by Zoltan Erdös and Pauline Gayrin about our cruise in the Pacific last October. Besides the scientific motivation, it focusses on how we tried to make the most out of it given adverse weather conditions.
Our epic battle with ever-changing weather forecasts while deploying ocean bottom instruments
The question what drives tectonic plates has been around since plate tectonics was first developed. In principle, the fluid dynamics is well-known but what is not well known are the material propertie...
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Ronghua Cui's paper on modeling geoid and dynamic topography from tomography‐based thermo‐chemical mantle convection lnkd.in/dWZFtG3v has been published! Ronghua was here for a one-year visiting postdoc Nov 2023 - Nov 2024. Our main takeaways: (cont.)
I am very glad to share that I first-authored the very first paper published in the new diamond-open access (meaning it is free to publish AND free to read) journal Geodynamica. This paper lnkd.in/eyPAdx2X actually grew out of a high school student internship. (continued)
What happens if subducted slabs interact with hot material at the base of the upper mantle? In Yingying Li's first paper doi.org/10.1029/2025... we show how this can lead to (secondary) upper mantle plumes. With @sasbrune.bsky.social, Eline Le Breton, Anne Glerum and @michapons.bsky.social.
As the calendar year begins, a reminder of the rapid acceleration of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, driving increasingly severe #climate changes. Shown are the past 2000 years of CO2 concentrations. Stop burning fossil fuels.
Even after 10 years, it is still important (and necessary) to demonstrate for compliance with the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Scientists for Future Berlin-Brandenburg@s4f-bebb.bsky.social · 8mo ago#klimademo #berlin #parisagreement
Um das meiste aus dem CO2 footprint für die Forschungsfahrt im Pazifik zu machen, mache ich viele Zwischenhalte und vermeide Flüge wo möglich. climatewednesday.org/von-taipei-n... Sicher mehr Organisationsaufwand als fliegen, aber man sieht viel mehr und es ist ein großartiges Erlebnis.
Von Taipei nach Hanoi mit Schiff und Zug – climatewednesday
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Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/bu...
Bundeskanzler Merz: Taten statt Blockaden auf der Klimakonferenz!
Die Welt blickt auf die kommenden Klimaverhandlungen in Belém. Dieser Gipfel wird den Kurs für die globalen Klimamaßnahmender nächsten Jahre bestimmen – in einer Zeit, in der die Klimakrise längst Rea...
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An article by @christianstoecker.de about my biggest worry www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... - on this topic, see also the recent open letter, de.scientists4future.org/2178-scienti... initiated in part by @de.scientists4future.org which I also signed.
Meinung: Emissionshandel: Kippt die EU den Emissionshandel, gibt sie die Zukunft auf
In der EU wächst der Widerstand gegen die marktwirtschaftliche Bekämpfung der Klimakrise. Setzen sich die Fossil-Fans dabei durch, heißt das: Europa subventioniert die Katastrophe herbei.
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Koko Seamount (Emperor Chain) on 5-6 km deep ocean floor supposedly reaches up to -26 m! Last night Hakuhomaru passed there. In 2001 on Joides Resolution we drilled basalts to document Hawaii hotspot motion www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Amazing I would come to this remote place twice in my life!
How do BLOBs in Earth’s mantle affect seismic waves? Research by @poulamiroy.bsky.social & @bstein.bsky.social of @gfz.bsky.social and colleagues offers new insights. eos.org/research-spo...
Seismic Anisotropy Reveals Deep-Mantle Dynamics - Eos
A new study offers insight into the viscous BLOBs at the base of Earth’s mantle.
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Happy to share that our recent paper on global-scale geodynamic + seismic anisotropy simulation is on Eos spotlight. With @bstein.bsky.social , Manuele Faccenda , @michapons.bsky.social Enjoy reading! :) eos.org/research-spo...
Seismic Anisotropy Reveals Deep-Mantle Dynamics - Eos
A new study offers insight into the viscous BLOBs at the base of Earth’s mantle.
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A cloudy day on Hess Rise. In 2019 we wrote doi.org/10.1029/2019... on the origin of Hess Rise, I can't believe now I'm actually here, on board of Hakuhomaru. But we actually want to look in the mantle beneath, for vestiges of material emplaced by the Hawaiian Plume during Emperor Chain formation
3rd paper from @poulamiroy.bsky.social's Ph.D. just out at doi.org/10.1029/2025.... Combined global models of mantle flow and anisotropy constrain deformation mechanisms and viscosity, density and hence compositional structure of lowermost mantle. With Manuele Faccenda, @michapons.bsky.social & me.
The loading has begun. For some scientific background, see my presentation docs.google.com/presentation...
Im Susan hungern über 24 Mio. Menschen wegen Dürre und eines Bürgerkriegs seit 2023, der wenig wahrgenommen wird. Jedes dritte Kind ist akut unterernährt. Ich weiß, es gibt viele Krisen und Afrika ist weit weg. Aber gerade deswegen sind Spenden wichtig. www.welthungerhilfe.de/spenden-sudan
Mit Ihrer Spende für den Sudan leisten Sie Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe
15,8 Millionen Sudanesen sind auf humanitäre Hilfe angewiesen. Helfen Sie jetzt mit Ihrer Spende!
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Ein sehr gutes (wie ich meine) und detailliertes interview über einige meiner Forschungsarbeiten youtu.be/YP9ceVYoOTY
Was ist unter dem Yellowstone Supervulkan? Alles zum Mantel Plume! - Dr. Bernhard Steinberger
YouTube video by Astro-Tim
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My first boat trip this year - to Pfaueninsel. The next one will probably be slightly longer - a research cruise from Honolulu to Tokyo. Stay tuned for more details!
Mark the date: On July 15, it will be possible to submit articles to geodynamica.univ-lyon1.fr - it will be completely free for both authors and readers! I'm glad to be on the editorial team. Don't let some money-grubbing publishing company get between you and your research results; publish with us!
About Geodynamica - Geodynamica
Geodynamica is a Diamond Open Access Journal covering all aspects of Earth’s and (exo-)Planets internal structure, dynamics and evolution
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... and it even greeted us with a heart.
Charlie Austin@chuckles-s.bsky.social · last yr.Pluto never gave up:)
