The INGV Etna Observatory will organize the second annual meeting of EUROVOLC, the European project aimed at promoting collaboration between the scientific realities involved in volcanology to build an integrated volcanological community on the continent
The second annual meeting of the European project EUROVOLC (European Network of Observatories and Research Infrastructures for Volcanology) organized by the Etna Observatory of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (OE-INGV) will take place in Catania from 27 to 31 January of the Naples, Palermo, Pisa, Bologna and Rome Sections of the Institute.
The project, coordinated by the IMO (Islandic Meteorological Office) began in February 2018 and will last three years. In addition to INGV, sixteen other partners are part of the consortium including research institutions, universities, civil protection agencies and small-medium enterprises, belonging to nine European countries (France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain and Switzerland).
The goal of EUROVOLC is to build a European volcanological community through the integration, harmonization and collaboration of all the scientific entities involved in volcanology on the continent. The operational tool is the use of national and pan-European research infrastructures and associated infrastructures survive European volcanoes (Etna, Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Icelandic volcanoes) in the three core activities of the project: Networking, Joint Research and Physical and Virtual Access to various infrastructures and databases.
Over the five-day meeting, the EUROVOLC community will discuss the work carried out in 2019, detail the activities to be carried out in the last year of the project and conclude the work with an excursion on the eastern flank of Etna to visit the main structures volcanic and tectonic factors, including the fault that generated the Mw 26 earthquake of December 2018, 4.9.
During 2019, in particular, EUROVOLC carried out numerous activities in the Etna area and in Sicily: among these, visits to the geochemical laboratories of the Palermo Section of INGV and the Summer School organized by the Institute from 2 to 6 September in Linguaglossa, on the north-eastern flank of Etna, which was attended by 30 students and young researchers from all over the world.
Particularly awaited by the partners who will participate in the meeting will be the results relating to the physical accesses carried out in the European infrastructures over the last year, including the experiments carried out on Etna, at the INGV Volcanological Observatory of Pizzi Deneri, with a innovative technique based on the use of optical fibers for the detection of seismic signals.
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EUROVOLC, INGV organizes the 2nd annual meeting of the EU project
Between 27 and 31 January 2020, INGV – Osservatorio Etneo organizes the 2nd Annual Meeting of the EUROVOLC (European Network of Observatories and Research Infrastructures for Volcanology; ) EU project. The project is coordinated by IMO (Islandic Meteorological Office), lasts three years and has started in February 2018. The Consortium includes 17 partners among which Research Institutions, Universities, Civil Protection Agencies, and SMEs, belonging to 9 European countries (Island, Italy , France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Switzerland). The project objective is the building up of a European volcano community through the integration, harmonization and collaboration of all the European scientific realities dealing with volcanology. The effective mean is the use of the national and pan-European research infrastructures and the infrastructures related to the European volcano 'Supersites' (Mt. Etna, Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei, and the Islandic Volcanoes) in the three activity pillars of the project ie Networking, Joint Research, and Physical and Virtual Access to different infrastructures and data banks.
Throughout the five days of meeting, the EUROVOLC community will discuss what done in 2019, detail the activities to be carried out in the last year of the project, and will conclude with a fieldtrip on the eastern flank of Mt. Etna. The fieldtrip aims at visiting the main volcanic and tectonic structures, among which the fault that generated the 26 December 2018 earthquake. Amongst the project results achieved in 2019, those related to the physical access to the European infrastructures, in particular the experiments carried out at Mt. Etna (INGV Pizzi Deneri Observatory) with the novel technique based on the optical fibers for the detection of seismic signals , are chiefly expected.
Overall in 2019, the project has carried out other activities in the Etnean territory and in Sicily, such as the physical access to the INGV - Palermo geochemical laboratories and the Summer School organized by INGV from 2 to 6 September 2019 in Linguaglossa (the North- East flank of Mt. Etna), to which 30 people among students and young researchers worldwide participated.
Rome, January 23, 2020
Photo – Summit area of Etna. Degassing activity at the North East Crater resumed during the monitoring activities of the OE-INGV (21 August 2019) © Giuseppe Puglisi
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