Mastodawn

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 https://lnkd.in/eyPAdx2X actually grew out of a high school student internship. I can only recommend to offer such internship, because in an effort to give the intern an impression of what a scientist ideally does in his working time ...

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Bernhard Steinberger

... I managed to set some time aside to actually pursue, together with him, an independent own little research project which I thought of, instead of writing reviews or proposals, answering e-mails, contribute to to other researcher's work, filling out forms etc. I think we actually got some nice results addressing continental lithosphere density and buoyancy - essentially what makes continents stick out to their elevation above sea level.