Topical Advisory Panel

Members

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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Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Interests: elastic full-waveform inversion; near surface; seismic anisotropy; machine learning
Department of Biological and Geographical Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
Interests: aeolian geomorphology; coastal geomorphology; computational fluid dynamics (cfd)

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Geodynamics Research Centre – Branch of JSC "Hydroproject Institute", 125993, 2, Volokolamsk Highway, Moscow, Russia
Interests: seismic hazard assessment; paleoseismology; active faults; rockslides and rock avalanches
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Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Interests: paleomagnetism; rock magnetism; environmental magnetism
Departement Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Basel, Bernoullistrasse 32, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
Interests: tsunami; storm; sedimentology
Laboratory of Reclamation Works and Water Resources Management, National Technical University of Athens, Iroon Polytechniou 9, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: water resources management; hydrological modelling; drought analysis and impacts; hydroinformatics; hydrological extremes and climate change
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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
Interests: tectonics and geodynamics; climate change and paleoclimate; surface-deep earth interactions; geodynamic numerical modeling; landscape evolution numerical modeling; mountain building; surface processes; magmatism; basin evolution; geological carbon cycle
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Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Material Engineering (DICEAM), Mediterranea University, Via Zehender (Feo Vito), 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: geotechnical engineering; characterisation of soils by dynamic and cyclic tests; liquefaction assessment risk of soils under level and sloping ground;earthquake-induced large deformations and failure of non-plastic silty sands and crushable sands; modelling of earthquake-induced excess pore water pressures; numerical modelling of seismic site response; theoretical approach to predict undrained cyclic and monotonic behaviour of non-plastic silty sands; sustainable ground improvement techniques
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Department of Geography, Center for Karst and Coastal Research, University of Zadar, 23000 Zadar, Croatia
Interests: Quaternary environment; paleoclimate; karst; speleothem-based paleoenvironmental reconstruction; cave monitoring; sea-level changes; coastal and submerged karst
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Department of Engineering and Geology (InGeo), Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio Chieti e Pescara, Pescara, Italy
Interests: seismic microzonation; empirical rainfall threshold applied to shallow landslides; geostatistical methods applied to hazard mapping and geotechnical subsoil characterization; stability numerical analyses of rock cavities
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Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School, Democritus University of Thrace, 67100 Xanthi, Greece
Interests: evaluation of liquefaction potential; geohazards; engineering geology; landslide susceptibility and hazard; rock fall hazard; UAV-based survey of geohazards
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1. Civil Engineering Department (DINCi), University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
2. Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Planetology, University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Interests: sedimentary geology; provenance; sedimentary petrography heavy minerals; mineralogy and geochemistry of soils and sediments; weathering; planetary sciences
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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Interests: origin and evolution of fluids in geothermal areas; water geochemistry; isotopic geochemistry; environmental geochemistry; geothermobarometry; water-rock interaction; coastal management
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Institut Català de Paleontologia, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction; paleobiology; vertebrates; evolution; paleoecology; paleobiogeography
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Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences (CODES), University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Interests: ore deposits; mineral chemistry; lithocap; porphyry Cu
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