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Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Università della Calabria, Ponte Bucci 15b, Rende, CS, Italy
Interests: geomicrobiology; carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis
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Department of Energy Resources, AGH University of Science and Technology, Mickiewicza 30 Av., 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Interests: surface geochemistry in petroleum exploration; geochemical monitoring of underground gas storages; methane and carbon dioxide emission to the atmosphere; tightness evaluation of oil and gas wells; evaluation of gas hazard in post-mining areas; environmental aspect of shale-gas exploration
Center for Geomechanics and Railway Engineering & ITTC-Rail, School of Civil, Mining & Environmental Engineering (CME), Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Interests: railway transport; numerical modelling; ballast; granular materials; soil mechanics; geogrid; geocell; ground improvement

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Environmental Geochemistry Department of Sciences - University of Basilicata. Campus Macchia Romana, Viale dell'Ateneo Lucano, 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: water-rock interaction processes; fluid geochemistry in volcanic and seismic areas; stable isotope geochemistry (O, H, C, N, B and S) in catchment hydrology; environmental geochemistry

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Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza - University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: geomorphology; geomorphometry; landslides; GIS; mapping
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Istituto Nazionale Di Geofisica E Vulcanologia, Milan, Italy
Interests: ground motion models; shaking scenarios; engineering intensity measures; spatial variability of ground motion
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Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Land Management and Landscape Architecture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Balicka 253c, 30-149 Kraków, Poland
Interests: land change science; land use/cover change; land use modelling; statistical approaches; cadastre; environmental analysis; urban analysis
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Department of Physics And Geology, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, PG, Italy
Interests: geothermics; gravimetric; magnetic and thermal modeling; finite element modeling; seismic interpretation; remote sensing

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Institute of Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University, B.Krygowskiego 12; 61-680 Poznan, Poland
Interests: clastic sedimentology; quaternary geology; mechanisms of deposition in ice-marginal valleys; ice-marginal sedimentary environments; subaerial and subaqueous gravity flows processes and deposits; periglacial processes; soft-sediment deformation structures; Neotectonics; palaeoseismology; glacial geology

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School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Interests: isotope cosmo- and geo-chemistry; noble gas isotopes; meteorites; planetary sciences; stable isotope cosmochemistry; early solar system chronology

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Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-004 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: geosimulation; geocomputation; artificial neural networks; graphs theory; cellular automata; multi-agent systems; urban morphology; remote sensing; epidemiology; health geography; geomarketing; tourism; smart cities; big data
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Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany
Interests: EM/DC/IP methods of applied geophysics
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Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Sognsvn. 72, 0855 Oslo, Norway
Interests: early warning systems; slope stability and monitoring; landslide modeling and correlations; machine learning applied in natural hazard risk assessment; rainfall thresholds; risk management of dam tailings
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Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Interests: invertebrate paleontology; ammonoids; mesozoic; stratigraphy; paleobiogeography; history of geology
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701, USA
Interests: geological engineering; erosion processes and mechanics; weathering and sedimentology; landform evolution; surface and ground water
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School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Interests: near-surface geophysics (especially at archeological geophysics and polar geophysics as well as environmental & engineering geophysics); exploration geophysics (especially at seismic data acquisition and high resolution seismic data processing)

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Italian National Research Council, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geo-Engineering (CNR-IGAG), Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: seismic stratigraphy and geomorphology; quaternary tectonics and marine paleoseismology; marine geohazards; history of geology; evolution and biostratigraphy of jurassic ammonites; geohazards
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Chrono-Environnement, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Interests: tectonics; seismotectonics; orogen's dynamics

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Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Interests: landscape archaeology; geoarchaeology; remote sensing; geophysics; paleo-ecology
Regional Models and Geo-Hydrological Impacts (REMHI) Division, CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: weather-induced landslides; climate change adaptation; nature based solutions; physically-based approaches
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Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: paleoenvironmental reconstruction; stratigraphic paleobiology; taphonomy; paleoecology; Pliocene; sequence stratigraphy

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Department of Engineering Sciences and Architecture, Politecnico di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: micromechanics of granular materials; random vibrations; structural and general optimization; energy harvesting
School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Interests: inverse problems; scientific machine learning; Bayesian inference; uncertainty quantification; numerical modeling and simulation; geophysical imaging, inversion, and monitoring
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Independent Consultant, Rome, Italy
Interests: seismic hazard and risk; paleoseismology; seismic landscape; macroseismology; ESI scale
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Social Science Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Interests: location-based social media big data analytics; (geo) visual-analytics; urban complexity and human mobilities; geo-computing and spatial interaction (high performance, Web, and mobile GIS)
1. School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
2. School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia
Interests: geodynamics; planetary sciences; porous flow of melt in solid rocks

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Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
Interests: invertebrate paleontology; fossil algae and cyanobacteria; precambrian microfossils
1. Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
2. Physics Department, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emidio Navarro,1, 1959-007 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: seismic noise; surface waves tomography; ocean bottom seismology; mantle geodynamics; hotspots and volcanic islands - origin at depth and plume-mantle interaction
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