Both entities, under the Tenerife Island Council, 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 Environmental Area of ITER, Nemesio M. Pérez, will receive the Christiaan Huygens Medal from the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in its 2024 edition..
Researchers from the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) and from the Environmental Area of the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), under the Tenerife Island Council, are in Vienna, Austria, to participate in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), the largest international Earth Sciences conference in Europe, which started yesterday, Sunday, April 14th.
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 (United Kingdom), 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 Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology, IPNA-CSIC (Spain).
In addition to these 28 scientific communications, the Scientific Coordinator of INVOLCAN and Director of the Environmental Area of ITER, Dr. Nemesio Pérez, will deliver the invited lecture titled “The silent degassing of volcanoes: a useful tool for volcanic surveillance and a significant contributor to the global CO2 emission from subaerial volcanism”. This conference will take place on Tuesday, April 16th at 7:00 PM, after the presentation of the Christiaan Huygens Medal, which in this 2024 edition will be awarded to Dr. Pérez by the European Geosciences Society, making him the only Spaniard to date to receive this international recognition.
Of the 28 scientific communications presented, 15 are related to the geophysical and geodetic monitoring of active volcanic systems in the islands of El Hierro, La Palma, Lanzarote, and Tenerife; 6 are linked to surface geothermal exploration in the islands of La Palma and Tenerife using geophysical and geochemical methods; 3 focus on volcanic research on La Palma, Campi Flegrei (Italy), and Kilauea (USA), and the remaining 4 address topics such as volcanic hazards, social sciences in the field of volcanology, hydrology in volcanic terrains, and instrumental development.