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Science meets art

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A picture is worth a thousand words. I've always enjoyed good science illustrations that engagingly explain complex concepts. Illustrations below feature some of our research and were created in cooperaton with artists.


The tidal flows of Earth’s salty seawater across Earth’s magnetic field lines generate electric currents within the ocean. These in turn induce secondary magnetic fields that form part of the planet’s complex magnetic field signal that can be detected from space. Read paper

Credit Lina Jakaite
Credit Lina Jakaite

Transcrustal magmatic and geothermal systems under the Aluto-Langano volcano in Ethiopia as imaged by the magnetotelluric method. Read paper

Credit Lina Jakaite
Credit Lina Jakaite

Science comic about discovery of oceanic magnetic signals by the ESA Swarm satellites. Created as a part of the exhibition for the focusTerra museum.

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Inverse problem in geophysics, illustrating the controlled-source electromagnetic method. Read paper

Credit Ulrike Keil
Credit Ulrike Keil

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