Submarine Paleoseismology: The Offshore Search of Large Holocene Earthquakes
ESF-FWF Conference in Partnership with LFUI, Obergurgl, Austria, 11-16 September 2010
Chaired by:
- Dr. Daniela Pantosti - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Roma, IT
- Dr. Eulàlia Gràcia - Unidad de Tecnologia Marina (UTM)-CSIC, Barcelona, ES
The conference aims at creating a discussion platform and new synergic contacts among researchers that are already, or may become, involved in Submarine Paleoseismology. This new field of study merges and integrates two well-established disciplines: paleoseismology and marine geology. During the past years, scientists coming from both fields have underlined the need to broaden paleoseismology into the marine environment. Successful examples come from the Marmara Sea, Oregon Coast, New Zealand, Japan and South Iberian margins.
Submarine Paleoseismology represents a unique and powerful addition to the current knowledge on Holocene faulting and paleoseismicity obtained from research on land. Despite that traditional onland paleoseismological techniques are not feasible in sub-aqueous environments, Submarine Paleoseismology has several advantages: (i) marine sedimentation is generally continuous in time and space, (ii) marine geological and geophysical instrumentation allow to explore extensive areas in a relatively short time, (iii) offshore regions are essentially free of human disturbance.
We expect that this conference will be a remarkable event where integration of different disciplines and goals merge to increase our knowledge on the Earth system.
Conference format:
· lectures by invited high level speakers
· short talks by young & early stage researchers
· poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods
· forward look panel discussion about future developments
Invited speakers and talks will include:
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A certain number of grants will be available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the .
Full conference programme and application form accessible online from .
ESF contact for further information: Jean Kelly -
Closing date for applications: 20 June 2010
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (), in partnership with the and the .
- Dr. Daniela Pantosti - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Roma, IT
- Dr. Eulàlia Gràcia - Unidad de Tecnologia Marina (UTM)-CSIC, Barcelona, ES
The conference aims at creating a discussion platform and new synergic contacts among researchers that are already, or may become, involved in Submarine Paleoseismology. This new field of study merges and integrates two well-established disciplines: paleoseismology and marine geology. During the past years, scientists coming from both fields have underlined the need to broaden paleoseismology into the marine environment. Successful examples come from the Marmara Sea, Oregon Coast, New Zealand, Japan and South Iberian margins.
Submarine Paleoseismology represents a unique and powerful addition to the current knowledge on Holocene faulting and paleoseismicity obtained from research on land. Despite that traditional onland paleoseismological techniques are not feasible in sub-aqueous environments, Submarine Paleoseismology has several advantages: (i) marine sedimentation is generally continuous in time and space, (ii) marine geological and geophysical instrumentation allow to explore extensive areas in a relatively short time, (iii) offshore regions are essentially free of human disturbance.
We expect that this conference will be a remarkable event where integration of different disciplines and goals merge to increase our knowledge on the Earth system.
Conference format:
· lectures by invited high level speakers
· short talks by young & early stage researchers
· poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods
· forward look panel discussion about future developments
Invited speakers and talks will include:
·
- Cesar Andrade - Lisbon University, PT - Paleotsunami research in South Iberia
- Flavio Anselmetti - Eawag (Dübendorf), CH - Paleoseismology in Swiss Lakes
- Rolando Armijo - IPG- Paris, FR - In situ study of active faults at sea using ROVs (e.g. Marmara)
- Alessandra Asioli - Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse del C.N.R, Padova, IT - Biostratigraphy (planktic & benthic foraminifera assemblages) and Oxygen isotopes
- Namik Cagatay - Istanbul Technical University, TK - Paleoseismology and long-term monitoring (ESONET) in the Marmara Sea
- Miquel Canals - Universitat Barcelona, ES - Variability of submarine landslides with a glimpse into landslide-triggered tsunamis
- Paolo M. de Martini - INGV, IT - Paleoseismological trenching and near-fault investigations (I) Extensional and Compressional tectonic environments AND (II) Paleotsunami studies in Italy
- Jacques Déverchère - IUEM- Brest, FR - Paleoseismological and neotectonic investigations in the Algerian Margin
- Jordi Garcia Orellana - Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, ES - Use of radionuclides (210Pb, 137Cs, 14C) for dating marine sediments
- Eulàlia Gràcia - UTM-CSIC, Barcelona, ES - Marine paleoseismology: A review of near fault & off-fault investigations at sea
- Geoffroy Lamarche - NIWA, NZ - Characterization of earthquake sources and paleo-seismic records on theNew Zealand continental shelf using high resolution seismic stratigraphy and multibeam geomorphology
- Shmulik Marco - Tel Aviv University, IL - Off-fault paleoseismology
- Eulàlia Masana - Universitat Barcelona, ES - Paleoseismological trenching and near-fault investigations (I) Strike Slip tectonic environments AND (II) Onshore-Offshore paleoseismology of the Carboneras Fault (SE Iberian Margin)
- Neil Mitchell - Manchester University, UK - Seafloor mapping and imaging active faults based on high-resolution acoustic methods
- Cecilia McHugh - School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, US - REPONS (Rapid Enriquillo Plantain Offshore Neotectonic Study)
- Lisa McNeil - National Oceanography Center, UK - The IODP/ODP investigations of the Nankai (Japan) prism and plate boundary deformation: potential contribution for paleoseismology
- Takashi Nakata, Hiroshima University, JP
Mapping active faults along the Nankai trough - Hans Nelson - IACT-CSIC, ES & U.Texas, US - Turbidite Paleoseismology: concepts, examples and implications for hazards
- Daniela Pantosti - INGV Roma, IT - Earthquake Geology and Paleoseismology
- Laura Peruzza - OGS - Trieste, IT - Importance of marine paleoseismology on seismic hazard analysis
- Alina Polonia - ISMAR - The Calabrian Arc subduction complex: active deformation and earthquakes in the Ionian Sea
- Cesar R. Ranero - ICREA / ICM-CSIC, ES - Seismic imaging and potential fields applied to active fault exploration
- Dimitris Sakellariou - HCMR, GR - Submarine Paleoseismology in Gulf of Corinth
- Kerry Sieh - Nanyang Technological University, SG - Subduction zone paleoseismology: Sumatra
AND Potential of onland-offshore paleoseismology - Guillaume St-Onge - ISM, Quebec University, Rimouski, CA - Paleoseismology from the Saguenay Fjord
A certain number of grants will be available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the .
Full conference programme and application form accessible online from .
ESF contact for further information: Jean Kelly -
Closing date for applications: 20 June 2010
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (), in partnership with the and the .