The European Plate Observing System, EPOS, is mid-way in its implementation phase and one of the two key objectives of this phase, namely the legal establishment of the EPOS-ERIC, has been achieved.
Aude Chambodut | EOST Strasbourg, France, Simon Flower | BGS Edinburgh, UK, Pavel Hejda | IG ASCR Prague, Czech Republic, Maxim Smirnov | LTU Lulea, Sweden, Alan Thomson | BGS Edinburgh, UK, Ari Viljanen| FMI Helsinki, Finland
Geomagnetic fields are generated in the Earth’s core by physical processes that give a typical yearly change of several tens of nano-Tesla (nT) in the strength of the magnetic field at the Earth’s surface.
EPOS as a pan-European project may be a source of inspiration and motivation for the complex and ambitious efforts of building national research infrastructures (RI).
EPOS Info-Day | Ljublyana, Slovenia, 29 - 30 May, 2018
Stanka Šebela, ZRC SAZU, Karst Research Institute, Postojna, Slovenia Giovanna Maracchia, Lilli Freda, Massimo Cocco, INGV, Rome, Italy Grzegorz Lizurek, Institute of Geophysics PAS, Poland
The EPOS IP project, in the framework of its Communication and Dissemination activities, is organizing the "EPOS Info-Day" in Ljubljana, Slovenia on the 29 - 30 May, 2018.
This initiative, scheduled in the EPOS Communication Plan, is dedicated to disseminate, inform, engage and eventually involve potential users and stakeholders of the EPOS infrastructure and its integration plan.
The EPOS Info-Day will be an opportunity to present the global perspectives of the EPOS pan-European infrastructure and to highlight its impact for solid Earth science.
Sunny days and blue sky in Vienna welcomed over 15 thousand people at the European Geoscience Union General Assembly this April.
We, as EPOS researchers, scientists and developers, participated with presentations, demos, posters and a session dedicated to “Integrating data and services in solid Earth sciences”.
The EPOS booth has been very busy during the whole week, hosting a series of presentations where the functionalities of the EPOS framework were showcased, fuelling lively discussions about future development and opportunities for further integration.
Representatives from all of the ten Thematic Core Services (TCS) that collaborate in EPOS were present, including Volcano Observations, Seismology, Geological Information and Modelling, GNSS Data and Products, Geomagnetic Observations, Anthropogenic Hazards, Satellite Data, Geo-Energy Test Beds for Low Carbon Energy, Near Fault Observatories and Multi-scale Laboratories.
11th EPOS BGR meeting in Bratislava (Slovak Republic), 21 - 22 May 2018 The next BGR meeting will take place in Bratislava (Slovak Republic) the 21st and 22nd May 2018.
During this meeting the BGR members will tackle key issues deemed essential to proceed with the STEP 2 Submission. The Italian Ministry is finalysing the procedure for the Step 2 submission of the EPOS-ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) establishment to the European Commission and become a ERIC
10th edition of Cities on Volcanoes (CoV10) IAVCEI conference, in Naples (Italy), 2 - 7 September 2018 The conference Cities on Volcanoes 10 (COV 10) will take place in Naples between 2 and 7 September 2018; actually twenty years after the first COV held in 1998 in Naples too.
In the frame of the event, the EPOS volcanology community (EPOS TCS Volcano Observations) will contribute by sponsoring/co-sponsoring three sessions:
S1.19 | Integrated research infrastructures and services in volcanology
S1.37 | The role of the GEO-GSNL initiative in improving the knowledge of volcano dynamics and hazard. (sponsored by EPOS and GEO-GSNL)
S2.8 | Coordination of Civil Protection and Scientific community: best practices to support the management of volcanic crises and the long-term risk mitigation plans.
In addition, in order to discuss one of the EPOS proper themes, EPOS will organise a workshop on September the 2nd 2018:
W.4 | The EPOS long-term plan for the integration of the European research infrastructures: a new horizon for open science in volcanology, (CONVENERS: G. Puglisi, L. Spampinato, M. Cocco, C. Freda, R. Nave - INGV Italy)
The 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission (ESC) will take place in Valletta, Malta, from the 2nd to the 7th September, 2018. The EPOS seismology is organising the session: Seismological e-Infrastructures and their data and products services. During the ESC week the EPOS seismology will organize a booth and side events: such as a round of hands-on experiences on the fringes of the scientific programme that will provide attendees with opportunities to directly try out the various data and products discovery and access methods that are offered by EPOS Seismology. More information will be circulated as it becomes available.
EPOS TCS-ICS INTERACTION meeting at INGV in Rome (Italy), 4 - 6 June 2018 The EPOS TCS-ICS interactionmeeting will be organized by the IT experts and the ICS developers at the INGV headquarters in Rome the 4 - 6 June 2018 and it will involve the EPOS TCS communities: the TCS Near Fault Observatories (WP9), the TCS Volcano observations (WP11).
The purpose of this technical meeting is to enhance TCS data and metadata integration for ICS interoperability.
More information will be circulated soon.
Next EPOS ICS hackathon is scheduled the 19 - 21 June 2018! The next EPOS ICS hackathon is going to take place from the 19th to 21st of June 2018.
The goal of this meeting is carry on the work on ICS main activities (GUI, metadata, AAAI, Workflows, Use case etc) and facilitate Knowledge transfer to hosting countries.
Stay tuned!
More information about the location will be circulated soon.
EPOS @ 6th ENVRI week in Zandvoort, Netherlands, May 14 - 18, 2018 The EPOS coordinator and some EPOS delegates will attend the ENVRI week dedicated to Environmental Research Infrastructures on May, 14 - 18, 2018 in hotel NH Zandvoort, Netherlands.
This event will host ENVRIplus project related sessions such as three Hands-on Workshops and Training events which are tailored to different staff working in the Research Infrastructures.
EPOS is actively participating to ENVRIplus also contributing to the relevant discussions during ENVRI weeks.
For more information visit the ENVRIplus website page or download this brochure.
EPOS GNSS Data and Products' team gets its first signed data supplier letter There is no doubt that Greece is an interesting area for the Solid Earth Science community because it is tectonically active. From this historical place, the birthplace of philosophy, democracy, literature and major cultural and art manifestation, scientific and mathematical principles, this cradle of Western civilization came the first signed GNSS data supplier letter, on January 25, 2018.
According to Dr Athanassios Ganas, from National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and a member of the EPOS GNSS Data and Products Working Group, as the one who mediated the local negotiations states that “the NOA´s signed letter contains 27 GNSS stations (all located in Greece), that are continuously operating stations equipped with geodetic equipment and delivering GNSS data on a daily basis”.
For Carine Bruyninx, from Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) and EPOS GNSS, this signed data supplier letter has a relevant meaning for the EPOS GNSS Group as it is the first step towards the EPOS´s project accomplishment. As she explains: “This signed letter is a protocol and means that the agency, NOA, agrees to make available to EPOS the data from the GNSS stations that this observatory is operating”. Read more at the TCS GNSS web pages.
EPOS @ IWSG 2018 - International Workshop on Science Gateways in Edinburgh, Scotland, 13 - 15 June 2018 The 10th International Workshop on Science Gateways will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, fro the 13th to the 15th of June 2018.
EPOS and DARE project have submitted a joint abstract; key members will attend the workshop presenting their work.
The workshop will bring together researchers and scientists from different research domains, along with developers, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, to shape future directions for research, foster the exchange of ideas, standards and common requirements and push towards the wider adoption of science gateways.
Early-Bird registration deadline 15 May 2018.
More information in the IWSG website.
EPOS pilot at "AARC plugfest 2018" The aim of the AARC pilot is to vastly extend this prototype to meet the full EPOS requirements concerning AAI and get a more mature production setup.
IRIS Workshop 2018: Foundations, Frontiers, and Future Facilities for Seismology in Albuquerque, NM, USA, 12 - 14 June 2018 This IRIS workshop that will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA) from the 12 to the 14 June 2018 will highlight exciting scientific advances using current facilities, and explore future frontier facilities, activities and techniques to support interdisciplinary research activities among the solid Earth, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere and other surface processes, and to create a more diverse geoscience community.
What about a scientific getaway in New Mexico? The registration is still open for the IRIS workshop 2018.
In the Thessaloniki conference, earthquake and geotechnical engineers, geologists and seismologists will meet to exchange ideas, share knowledge and discuss the most recent advances in soil dynamics, structural earthquake and geotechnical engineering, up to the boundaries of geology and engineering seismology.
If you are traveling to Thessaloniki, please don’t miss the EPOS TCS seismology related talks on the European GMPE Database and Strong-Motion Data and Products Services.
EPOS TCS GNSS Data and Products presented current status of service and product implementation at EGU 2018 The EPOS TCS GNSS Data and Products had presented, at EGU 2018, a poster about the current status of service and product implementation. The poster highlighted governance and future service providers, GLASS software package, GNSS station metadata portal, besides explaining data and product services.
"We had detailed here the efforts carried out by the members of the EPOS GNSS, one of the Thematic Core Services (TCS) of the EPOS-IP (European Plate Observing System – Implementation Phase) to design and establish dedicated products and services that benefit of the existence of national and pan-European infra-structures (in particular EUREF), optimized for Solid Earth applications", explains Rui Fernandes, coordinator for EPOS TCS GNSS Data and Products.
EPOS aims to provide interdisciplinary services to researchers interested in geoscience, including access to data, metadata, data products, software, IT tools, and also to computational resources for visualization and processing, as well as to research facilities (e.g. laboratories, observatories). Resources to which EPOS will provide fully open access are provided by many solid Earth science disciplines such as seismology, volcanology, geodesy and geology, to enable research and innovation all over Europe.
Graphics: Barbara Angioni (INGV, Italy), IT Support: Luca Postpischl (INGV, Italy) This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 676564
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