For security,
use Firefox:
|
RETREAT MEETING
Seismology Workshop, Rome, Italy
19-21 September 2005
The seismological group of the RETREAT project,
together with a few friends,
gathered for 2.5 days in the main office of INGV in Rome. Workshop
was supported by the NSF RETREAT funds and by INGV.
The workshop pursued these objectives:
1) a re-assessment of the goals of the seismological studies within
RETREAT;
2) an update on the state of knowledge about the area and the
processes that affect it;
3) an inventory of seismological techniques that may be used to
address the goals;
4) a work plan for the next 2-3 years
The workshop consisted of a full day of presentations and discussions
on Monday, September 19th. Presentations covered
the range of topics from the overall concept for the RETREAT project
to the specific tools of seismological analysis and the state
of the data collection effort. A list of "goals and targets"
was formulated. One of the primary goals identified was to establish
the extent of the area where the North Apennines Orogen can be
considered 2-dimensional.
Tuesday, September 20th, was devoted to the
work of breakout groups that translated the list of goals and
targets into specific plans of work, including timelines and people
involved. We partitioned the goals of seismology into two broad
groupings: studies of shapes, and studies of deformation indicators.
In addition to selecting seismic techniques to use, and identifying
specific people who will carry out specific studies, both breakouts
considered possible alterations to the
seismic array. At the end of the day the entire group gathered
together and finalized plans for array re-configuration. A total
of 5 or 6 sites, mainly from the dense transsect across the Apennines,
will be moved to form a sparse line along the southern edge of
the region.
On Wednesday, September 21st results of breakout
groups deliberations were presented to the broader audience of
INGV personnel and researchers involved in another seismic study
of Italian peninsula - the CAT/SCAN project focused on Calabria
(http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/catscan/). Goals and initial
results of the CAT/SCAN project were presented in the same session.
A general discussion of possible links between work on RETREAT
and CAT/SCAN took place at the end of the session, and a policy
of open data exchange between tow projects was re-affirmed.
A detailed agenda with links to presentations is at this LINK
(for those with access rights)
|
