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LACATALASEnvironmental characterization of Miocene lacustrine systems with marine-like faunas from the Duero and Ebro basins: geochemistry of biogenic carbonates and palynologyThe biogenic carbonates, particularly the ostracod and mollusk shells, reflect the isotopic features and temperature of the water where they form. Moreover, the trace element uptake in the shells is a function of the environmental features and biological processes. |
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TOPOMODSculpting the Earth’s topography: insights from modelling deep-surface processesTOPOMOD is a training project designed for a team of early-stage and experienced researchers to investigate and model the origin and evolution of topography of the continents over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. TOPOMOD will carry out 15 cross-disciplinary research projects in well-chosen key areas from the Mediterranean, the Middle and Far East, west Africa, and South America, with new developments in structural geology, geomorphology, seismology, geochemistry, InSAR, laboratory and numerical modelling of deep mantle to surface process. |
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TRAGUATratamiento y reutilización de aguas residualesEl proyecto CONSOLIDER “Tratamiento y Reutilización de Aguas Residuales para una Gestión Sostenible (TRAGUA)” fue seleccionado por el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia en la convocatoria 2006 de programas CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010. |
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NERANetwork of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and MitigationNERA (2010-2014) is an EC infrastructure project that integrates key research infrastructures in Europe for monitoring earthquakes and assessing their hazard and risk. |
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VPARK1stInternational Congress on Management and awareness in protected volcanic landscapes (VOLCANDPARK)This Action is addressed to contribute organizing and hosting the first international meeting on protected volcanic landscapes, which aims to organize a discussion forum on the management, dissemination and tourism in protected volcanic areas, in order to share experiences of agencies and people who manage and work in protected volcanic areas, identify how scientists and extension workers communicate and interpret the knowledge derived from protected volcanic areas, and to collect and disseminate experiences on management , education and geo-tourism in protected volcanic area. |
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ALCUDIA WAPropiedades físicas de la litosfera en la Zona Centro Ibérica (Península Ibérica)The lithosphere beneath the Central Iberian Zone (CIZ) features different character and nature than the lithosphere beneath the southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula (Ossa Morena and South-Portuguese Zones, OMZ and SPZ). |
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OPTOFOTPropiedades ópticas de materiales optoelectrónicos y fotovoltaicosThe advances in solid state lighting and laser technologies have brought about a tremendous expansion of the optoelectronic marke. The blue and near ultraviolet range of the spectrum is well covered by GaN, Ga-rich InGaN and AlGaN alloys. In the blue to green range InxGa1-xN alloys with x< 0.3 play a dominant role. The revision of the band-gap value of InN (0.64 eV) triggered a worldwide research thrust into narrow-band-gap III-nitride alloy systems which cover the spectral region from 1.9 μm (InN) up to 0.36 μm (GaN) and 0.2 μm (AlN). These materials are attracting much interest for their applications in optical communications and photovoltaics. The performance enhancement expected in nanostructures has also driven a surge in research on group-III nanocolumns (NC) and quantum well (QW) structures. Despite the success in achieving device operation, many fundamental properties of these systems are still poorly known. |
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VUELCOVolcanic Unrest in Europe and Latin America: Phenomenology, eruption precursors, hazard foreCast, and risk mitigatiOnOur 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. |
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ARCOStructural evolution in oblique convergent margins: from the Intra-oceanic subduction to the arc-continent collision and subsequent Intraplate transpressionMain aim of the project deals with the structural evolution that takes place at oblique convergent margins from the reconstruction of the intra-oceanic subduction zone, the study of the processes that form the arc-continent accretionary-collisional complex, and the understanding of the subsequent transpressive intraplate tectonics. The northern part of the Caribbean Plate is an extraordinary laboratory for this kind of studies. |
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PALEONAOEvolución de la NAO durante los últimos 15000 años en la Península Ibérica y en Azores, a partir del estudio de registros lacustres y datos climáticos instrumentalesThe North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are two of the main climate modes that rule the globe natural climate variability on interannual and longer time scales. At multiannual scale, NAO oscillations accounts for more of the 50 % of the winter rainfall variance in northwestern Iberian meteorological stations. This climate mode also rules other climatic and environmental variables that have a direct impact on the terrestrial ecosystems like the plant growing season, the plant flowering period length, the tree ring growth and the location and development of many invertebrate, amphibian and bird species. NAO also has a strong and direct influence on lacustrine ecosystems through many ways, such as on lake water temperature, hydrological balance, and nutrient input and hence over the phytoplankton and zooplankton and therefore the whole food web. Despite the importance of this climate phenomenon for Europe, only some historical reconstructions based on documentary evidences and tree rings covering the last 1,500 years and few long-term (millennial scale) reconstructions using terrestrial sedimentary records of the NAO fluctuations have been carried out. Surprisingly, few multiproxy reconstructions of the NAO evolution have been conducted in the Azores islands, albeit being located in one end of the dipole. These NAO millennial-scale studies using terrestrial sedimentary archives are almost absent for the Iberian Peninsula though first attempts are currently in progress. |
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ATIZAThe nature of lithospheric-mantle beneath Alpine orogenic belts – A comparison between Atlas, Zagros and Tibet from numerical approachesThe aim of this project is to study the present lithospheric structure of three anomalous regions along the Alpine-Himalayan belt: The Atlas, Tibet and the Zagros mountains. |
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PEVOLDECVolcanic hazard assessment at Deception IslandDeception Island is the most active volcano of the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica) with more than twenty eruptions recognised over the past two centuries. This recent volcanic activity is characterised by monogenetic eruptions of low volume and short duration. The eruptions show a variable degree of explosivity, strombolian or phreatomagmatic, with a VEI 2 to 4, which have generated a wide variety of pyroclastic deposits and lava flows. Tephra record preserved in the surrounding glaciers or in marine sediments show the explosive power of the phreatomagmatic phases and the wide dispersal of its finest products in a great variety of directions of the prevailing winds. Despite the clear indications of its high volcanic activity and eruptive recurrence, no accurate volcanic hazard assessment has been carried out in the island, yet. |
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