Merida 2016 GIFT Workshop

Please see the full brochure (PDF document, 14.0 MB) for more details.

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

• Welcome Address
  

  Víctor Caballero Durán, Minister of Education of Yucatán
• Welcome and practical instructions for the workshop
  

  Carlo Laj, Chair, Committee on Education, European Geosciences Union

  • Presentation (PDF document, 2.4 MB)
• Introduction to Natural Hazards
  

  Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Mexican Academy of Sciences & Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  • Presentation (PDF document, 3.2 MB)
• Origin of earthquakes in Latin America
  

  Raúl Madariaga, École Normale Supérieure, Paris France & Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  • Presentation (PDF document, 4.5 MB)
• Virtual Volcanoes: Computer Simulations of Volcanic Eruptions
  

  Paolo Papale, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

  • Presentation (PDF document, 8.9 MB)
• Earthquake studies in the Classroom: Presentation of «The Seismo box: do it yourself»
  

  François Tilquin, Lycée Marie Curie, Echirolles, France Francesca Cifelli, Università degli Studi Roma TRE

  • Presentation (PDF document, 26.8 MB)

Thursday, 6 October 2016

• Volcanic hazards, Eastern Mexican volcanic belt
  

  Gerardo Carrasco, Centro de Geociencias, Juriquilla, Querétaro

  • Presentation (PDF document, 9.3 MB)
• Seismic hazards in Mexico
  

  Xyoli Perez Campos, Unión Geofísica Mexicana

  • Presentation (PDF document, 7.5 MB)
• Geophysical studies and volcanic hazards
  

  Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Mexican Academy of Sciences

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.2 MB)
• Discover floods: Suggestion to educate kids and young to flood prevention
  

  Giorgio Boni, University of Genova, Italy & Natural Hazards Division EGU

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.9 MB)
• Tsunamis
  

  David Salas de León, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM

  • Presentation (PDF document, 3.3 MB)
• Instructions and materials for building the Seismobox
  

  François Tilquin, Lycée Marie Curie, Echirolles, France Francesca Cifelli, Università degli Studi Roma TRE

  • Presentation (PDF document, 26.8 MB)

Friday, 7 October 2016

• Eruptions from calderas: The most devastating the least understood
  

  Paolo Papale, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

  • Presentation (PDF document, 7.7 MB)
• Risk Analysis
  

  Zenón Medina Cetina, Texas A&M University, College Station
• Communicating science through humor, does it work?
  

  Susana Alaniz, Centro de Geociencias, National University of Mexico
• Vulnerability of karstic aquifers in Yucatan
  

  Mario Rebolledo Vieyra, CICY, Yucatán

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.2 MB)
• The Amatrice Earthquake, Italy:geophysical and social aspects
  

  Alessandro Amato, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

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