User Group Information

Please find below a list of user(s) (groups) that have visited one of the five research facilities in the first two years of the project (June 2006 and May 2008).

ETHZ (SDSN)

TA1-001:  Laura Gulia (PhD student from Bologna) to study b-value analysis for seismic hazard assessment.
TA1-002: Mine Demircioglu (PhD student, KOERI) - objectives: to set up a realtime forecasting tool for post earthquake hazard in Istanbul.
TA1-003: Gaia Soldati (INGV, Rome) - 'Inference of mantle viscosity based upon joint inversions of seismic and geodynamic data: a generic algorith inversion'.
TA1-004: Laurent Stehly (Phd student, LGIT, Grenoble) - 'Improving the surface wave tomography of the Alps based on noise correlation'
TA1-005: Vladimir Pinsky (Geophysical Institute of Israel) - 'A comparative study of the robust networking beamforming locator'
TA1-006: Nina Köhler (PhD student, Karlsruhe University) - 'Real-time estimation of earthquake source parameters from seismic networks'
TA1-007: Gunnar Geir Pétursson (Icelandic Meteorological Office) - 'Implementation of aftershock hazard forecasting for SW Iceland at the Iceland national seismic network'
TA1-008: Dr. Andrea Antonioli (University of Ulster) -'An evaluation of seismic resolution for the European upper mantle'
TA1-010: Steinnun Jakobsdottir (Icelandic Meteorological Office) - 'Modern approaches to monitoring micro-seismicity'

CEA/DASE

TA2-001: Christoph Sens-Schoenfelder (PhD student, Leipzig University) - 'Seismic Scattering in Central Europe'.
TA2-003: Andreea Tugui (PhD student, NIEP, Romania) - 'Kinematic source inversion and Shake-maps scenarios based on Vrancea seismic source modelling'.
TA2-003: David Green (AWE-Blacknest, UK) - study on the ground coupling earth and atmosphere occurring during a Mw=4.7 in the UK in 2007.
TA2-004: Alexandra Moschou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) - goal of this visit was training in the methodology of inversion algorith (optimization process) for the seismic source estimation.
TA2-005: Apostolos Agalos (University Athens, Greece) - visit focussed on cinematic source estimation for couple of earthquakes in Greece.

INGV (SISMOS)

TA3-001:  Daniel Amorèse (University of Caen, France) - main motif of the visit was to study the New Yersey island earthquakes that occurred in 1926 and 1927.
TA2-002: Rami Hoffstetter (Geophysical Institute of Israel) - has focussed its time at INGV on learning how to vectorize historical seismograms that have occured in Isreal.
TA3-003:  Thomas Meier (University Bochum, Germany) - goal of the visit was to digitize the analogue recordings of the magnitude 7.5 Amorgos event that occured in the cetral Aegean in 1956.
TA3-004: Josep Batllo (IGC, Spain) - research 'Digitization, processing and analysis of the 10 July 1923 Pyrenean earthquake'

NORSAR

TA4-001:  Ebru Harmandar (post-graduate, KOERI) - user project: 'Spatial variation of peak ground acceleration over short distances on data from NORSAR'.
TA4-002: Benedikt Halldorsson (Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, University of Iceland) - user project: 'ICEARRAY: design and data processing of a new small-aperture acceleromter array in South Iceland'.
TA4-003: Roberto Carniel (Universita di Udine, Italy) - user project: 'Applying seismic array processing to two problems: tremor location and volcanoes and site effect estimation'.
TA4-004: Juliette Chabassier (CEA-DASE/LDG-DSO) - user project: 'Single small array regional localization using PMCC (ELOSV2)'.
TA4-005: Ugur Mustafa Teoman and Korhonen Semin (KOERI, Turkey) - user project: 'Array processing training and study of 3D effect of the propagation model'.
TA4-006: Felix Borleany (PhD studen, NIEP, Romania) - user project: 'Training for array data processing'.

 ZAMG (Conrad Observatory)

TA5-001:  2 visiting groups from AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany. First group:  (Dr. Mechita Schmidt-Aursch, Wolfram Geissler) deployed two Guralp ocean bottom seismometers, the second group (Daniela Berger, Claudia Hagen) collected them. The next two groups are expected to continue their experiments until the end of the year. Until then, the calibration facility at the Conrad Observatory should be operative. Meanwhile, comparisions between the Guralp instruments and the STS-2 seismometers of the Observatory were carried out.
TA5-002: Izidor Tasic and Marko Mali (Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia) - goal of the visit was to conduct tests of their CMG ESPC seismometers. To increase the quality of seismic stations, there is a plan to upgrade Guralp CMG-40T seismometers with better ones in Slovenia.
TA5-003: Reinoud Sleeman (KNMI, The Netherlands) - visited the facility to study the self-noise of the STS-2 seismometers.