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On Friday 29 November 2024, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences celebrated this year's Master's degree graduation ceremony. Congratulations to our successful graduates!

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has nominated the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Susan Trumbore, for an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich. She received the award on the occasion of this year's ETH Day on 16 November 2024.

Valentina Espitia Mendoza – Master's student in the Structural Geology and Tectonics group – received an ESOP scholarship.

"Super-wet" magmas play a critical role in forming large deposits of copper, a metal vital for modern technologies and society's shift to green energy.

We are excited to introduce four exceptional early-career researchers, each awarded with the Judith McKenzie Visiting Early Career Researcher Fellowship following the 2024 call of proposals. These scholars are working on diverse projects in geoscience, further enriching our research environment.

While earthquakes cannot be deterministically predicted, operational earthquake forecasting systems can provide valuable insights into the likelihood of future quakes.

The Tibetan Plateau, known as the "Roof of the World", spans 2.5 million square kilometers with an average elevation over 4000 meters. A new study in Nature Geoscience suggests that mantle delamination of the overriding plate may explain the mysterious formation of this vast region.

Researchers have precisely dated zircon crystals from the Moon and found that most of the analysed crystals are around 4.338 billion years old. They bear witness to a huge impact at the South Pole of the Moon and shed new light on the early phase of our solar system.

René Hantke, Adjunct professors in Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich from 1966 to 1992, died on 18 June 2024 at the age of 100.