Both entities, dependent on the Cabildo de Tenerife, are represented at this international conference with a total of 28 scientific communications.
During this meeting, the Scientific Coordinator of INVOLCAN and Director of the Environment Area of ITER, Nemesio M. Pérez, will receive the Christiaan Huygens Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in its 2024 edition.
Research personnel from the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) and from the Environment Area of the Technological and Renewable Energies Institute (ITER), dependent on the Cabildo of Tenerife, are in Vienna (Austria) to participate in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), the largest international conference on Earth Sciences in Europe, which began yesterday, Sunday, April 14.
EGU is an annual event that attracts geoscientists from around the world and covers a wide range of disciplines in earth, planetary and space sciences. In its previous edition, EGU 2023, more than 19,000 people from 121 countries participated.
INVOLCAN and ITER are represented at EGU 2024 with a total of 28 scientific communications, 22 of which are led by scientists from the institutes themselves and 6 by scientists linked to other scientific and academic institutions, such as the University of Manchester (UK), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope” (Italy), Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente, IREA-CNR (Italy), Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) and the Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, IPNA-CSIC (Spain).
In addition to these 28 scientific communications, the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN and director of the Environment area of ITER, Dr. Nemesio Pérez, will give the invited lecture entitled “The silent degassing of volcanoes: useful tool for volcanic surveillance and significant contributor to the global CO2 emission from subaerial volcanism.The silent degassing of volcanoes: a useful tool for volcanic surveillance and a significant contributor to the global CO2 emission from subaerial volcanism.”. This lecture will be held on Tuesday, April 16 at 19:00, after the award ceremony of the Christiaan Huygens Medal, which in this 2024 edition will be awarded by the European Geosciences Society will be awarded by the European Geoscientific Society to Dr. Perez, being the only Spaniard to date to receive this international recognition.
Of the 28 scientific papers presented, 15 are related to geophysical and geodetic monitoring of active volcanic systems on the islands of El Hierro, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife; 6 are linked to surface geothermal exploration on the islands of La Palma and Tenerife using geophysical and geochemical methods; 3 focus on volcanological research on La Palma, Campi Flegrei (Italy) and Kilauea (USA), and the remaining 4 address topics such as volcanic hazards, social sciences in volcanology, hydrology in volcanic terrains and instrumental development.
