Scientific Programme
Note to all speakers: Check carefully your allocated time!
- 30 minute time slot will STRICTLY correspond to 25 mins + 5 mins discussion
Required equipment for field: backpack, water, some food, solid hiking boots (no tennis shoes), protection against sun/wind/cold/rain.
| Sunday, September 18th | |
|---|---|
| Arrival of participants, shuttle to hotel AIRONE in Zafferana Etnea | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Joan Uhlig: VERTIGO Registration |
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Welcome reception |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
| Monday, September 19th | |
| 08:00 | Bus transfer to INGV Catania |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Eugenio Privitera: Opening speach |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Stefano Branca: Mt. Etna volcano: a geological overview |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Rosa Anna Corsaro: Petrology of Mt. Etna magmas to investigate the roots of the volcano |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Alessandro Bonforte: Geophysical monitoring |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Giuseppe Salerno: Volcanic degassing and plume monitoring techniques |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Boris Behncke: Volcanological monitoring |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Maurizio Ripepe: Infrasound monitoring |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gianfranco Vulpiani: Polarimetric weather radar monitoring of volcanic ash plumes |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Daniele Andronico; Boris Behncke; Luciano Zuccarello: Visit of the Monitoring Room (Sala Operativa) of INGV Catania, with explanation of the alert system procedure and documents released in case of crisis |
| 16:30 - 19:00 | Daniele Andronico; Boris Behncke; Ulrich Kueppers: Etna’s oldest deposits (Pillow lavas, basaltic columns): Field trip to Aci Castello |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Bus transfer to Zafferana Etnea |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner |
| Tuesday, September 20th | |
| 08:00 - 19:00 | Daniele Andronico; Boris Behncke; Ulrich Kueppers; Maurizio Ripepe: Field day I: trip to the Etna’s summit central craters |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner |
| 21:30 - 22:30 | Ulrich Kueppers: Supervisory Board Meeting |
| Wednesday, September 21st | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Salvatore Russo: Welcome speech (on behalf of the mayor and the municipality of Zafferana Etnea |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Antonio Costa: Ash dispersal modelling |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Stefano Ciolli; Antonio Ricciardi: Risk management: scenarios and alert level systems |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Francesco Impellizzeri: Risk management: local operative response |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Susan Loughlin: Managing the Montserrat volcanic crisis |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Kirstin Krueger: Volcanic eruptions and climate effects |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Stefano Ciolli; Antonio Ricciardi: Introduction to eruption scenario role play |
| 14:30 - 18:30 | Stefano Ciolli; Silvia Parisi; Damiano Piselli; Antonio Ricciardi: Eruption scenario role play |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner |
| 21:30 - 22:30 | VERTIGO ESRs meet Greta and Ulli |
| Thursday, September 22nd | |
| 08:30 - 14:00 | Daniele Andronico; Boris Behncke; Richard Brown; Bruce Houghton; Ulrich Kueppers; Jacopo Taddeucci: Field day II: Outcrops of highly explosive eruptions: Stratigraphic logging |
| 15:00 - 18:00 | Mauro Coltelli: Field day II: Outcrops of highly explosive eruptions: The 122 BC eruption |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday, September 23rd | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Flavio Sgrò: Risk management: air traffic management |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Annalisa Cappello: Quantifying lava flow hazards in response to effusive eruption |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Boris Behncke; Stefano Ciolli: Lava flow risk mitigation I: Etna |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Sara Barsotti: Volcanic hazard assessment in Iceland: what we learned from Krafla, Hekla, Eyjafjallajökull and Bárðarbunga |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Bruce Houghton: Lava flow risk mitigation II: Kilauea 2014-2015 |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Silvia Parisi: Risk and emergency communication |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Silvia Mattoni; Boris Behncke: Science communication |
| 15:00 - 19:00 | Stefano Ciolli; Silvia Parisi; Damiano Piselli: Debriefing of role play |
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Dinner |
| Saturday, September 24th | |
| 09:00 | Bus transfer to Funivia of Mount Etna |
| 10:00 - 16:30 | VERTIGO ESRs and external students: Science divulgation and kitchen table experiments at the Funivia |
| 16:30 | Bus transfer to Zafferana Etnea |
| Sunday, September 25th | |
| 09:30 | Departure |