Agenda
May 28, 2021
PhD defense of Tim Davis
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New paper in Tectonophysics is online
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Team meeting.
Read moreThe MagmaPropagator project
The MagmaPropagator project is funded by ANR (the French funding agency for research) and DFG (German Research Foundation). It aims at developing a physics-based tool to forecast scenarios for the location and time of a fissure eruption following magma propagation below the surface. We take advantage of the knowledge accumulated in decades of magma propagation research, that is now mature enough for the creation of a forecasting tool based on mechanical principles. We taylor our approach on three well-monitored cases: Campi Flegrei (Italy) is extremely high-risk and motivates development of near-real time forecasting methods; Etna, Italy, and Piton de la Fournaise, La Reunion have had frequent fissure eruptions and offer data-rich environment to test our models. The outcomes of this project will be: 1) A better understanding of how the state of stress of volcanoes of different shapes evolve with time and how the edifice history controls the migration of surface volcanism, 2) A long-term forecasting tool for the future distribution of eruptive vents, useful for land planning, 3) A short-term tool to update the forecast scenarios according to intrusion parameters progressively determined by assimilating monitoring data.
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Eleonora’s guest talk for the VIPS
Eleonora gave a seminar for the VIPS (Volcanic and Igneous Plumbing Systems) commission of (...)
