MED-SUV 1th YEAR MEETING - NICOLOSI (CATANIA) 7 | 9 JULY 2014

Abstract

The MED-SUV project is a response to the European Community call “ENV.2012.6.4-2 - Long-term monitoring experiments in geologically active regions of Europe prone to natural hazards: the Supersite concept - FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage – of 20 July 2011.
Among the requests, the call stated that the accepted projects had to contribute to the Geohazards Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL) initiative. The GSNL is an ambitious initiative, which is based on the “Frascati declaration” stated at the conclusion of the “3rd International Geohazards Workshop” of GEO held in ESA-ESRIN in November 2007. The declaration recommended “…to stimulate an international and intergovernmental effort to monitor and study selected reference sites by establishing open access to relevant datasets according to GEO principles to foster the collaboration between all various partners and endusers…”.
After a first period based on a volunteer approach, during which seven initial Supersites were identified, including Mt. Etna and Campi Flegrei/Vesuvius, the Supersites initiative was developed in the framework of the GEO-GEOSS Work Plan.
The MED-SUV project aims to apply the Supersite concept to Mt. Etna and Campi Flegreii/Vesuvius, recently recognized as Permanent Supersites by the Scientific Advisory Committee of GSNL and the Supersites Coordination Team of the...