Volcanic Unrest in Europe and Latin America: Phenomenology, eruption precursors, hazard foreCast, and risk mitigatiOn
Our knowledge of the causative links between subsurface processes, resulting unrest signals and imminent eruption, today, is inadequate to deal effectively with crises of volcanic unrest.The VUELCO project consortium has come together for a multi-disciplinary attack on the origin, nature and significance of volcanic unrest from the scientific contributions generated by collaboration of ten partners in Europe and Latin America. Dissecting the science of monitoring data from unrest periods at six type volcanoes in Italy, Spain, the West Indies, Mexico and Ecuador the consortium will create global strategies for 1) enhanced monitoring capacity and value, 2) mechanistic data interpretation and 3) identification of reliable eruption precursors; all from the geophysical, geochemical and geodetic fingerprints of unrest episodes.
Extended information can be found in the VUELCO website.
Researchers
Team Leaders
Joachim Gottsmann (University of Bristol, UK, Coordinator
Donald Dingwell, University of Munich, Germany
Servando De La Cruz, UNAM, México
Joan Martí Molist, ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Warner Marzocchi, IGNV, Italy
Jurgen Neuberg, University of Leeds, UK
Paolo Papale, INGV, Italy
Michel Pichavant, CNRS-Orleans, France
Mario Ruiz, Instituto Geofísico de Ecuador
ICTJA-CSIC Researchers
Ignasi Queralt Mitjans
Rosa Mª Sobradelo Pérez
Silvia Aragó Andrade
Xavier de Bolos Granados
Stefania Bartolini
PROJECT INFO
- Project Leader: Joan Martí Molist
- Years: 2011-2015
- Funding
Project Financed by European Union: Project # 282759