FluidsByDepth on international field trips this summer!

Part 1 - ICELAND

ECROFI, the most prestigious meeting for fluid inclusions, was held in a special location in Iceland (Reykjavík) this year (https://ecrofi2023.is/). 
In addition to the traditional scientific presentations/posters and consultations and collaborations were strengthened and continued, we had a unique experience:

1) we were able to visit the border between the Eurasian and American continental plate
2) live geyser eruptions - which are also "fluidsbydepth", i.e. the transport of deeper fluids to the surface - but from shallower depths
3) the earth was shaking beneath us: we felt several earthquakes a day in the days leading up to the Reykjanes Peninsula volcanic eruption (members of the research team were on the ground in the days before the eruption), which has since received understandably high media coverage
4) the conference gave us insights into socio-economic-scientific geological collaborations that concern all of us, but have already been implemented in Iceland, such as 
 - Carbfix (https://www.carbfix.com/) : atmospheric CO2 storage by mineral capture 
 - The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (https://nea.is/geothermal/the-iceland-deep-drilling-project/), which is investigating and applying the energy production economics of supercritical geothermal fluids from Iceland's geothermal fields 

In Iceland we also learned and re-experienced the general importance of fluids in earth processes, thanks to Enikő Bali for organizing the conference!