International Geosciences Programme - IGCP
2020 Annual Report
IGCP 2020 UNESCO annual report
Table of Contents
1 Introduction...... 2
2 Definition of IGCP ...... 3
3 Summary of IGCP in 2020 ...... 4
4 UNESCO IGCP Secretariat 2020 activities ...... 5
4.1-International Geoscience Programme Council Session ...... 5 4.2-IGCP 2020 New Project Proposal Call and definition of IGCP themes……………...... 6 4.3-Appointment of new IGCP Council members and Scientific Board members………...... 10 4.4-Consultation with global Earth science expert community ...... 12 4.5-Partnership agreement with IFPEN ...... 13 4.6-Publications and lectures ...... 14
5 IGCP Projects 2020 Summary ...... 16
5.1-IGCP Project leaders in 2020 ...... 16 5.2-IGCP Project Activities in 2020 ...... 18
6 IGGP 2020 Financial Summary ...... 21
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1 Introduction
Developing an advanced understanding of the Earth’s fundamental processes and resources is essential to accomplish the United Nations sustainable development goals.
UNESCO is the only United Nations organization with a mandate to support research and capacity in Earth Sciences and the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme is our flagship.
The International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (IGGP) consists of two pillars:
1. International Geoscience Programme (IGCP), since 1972, has harnessed the intellectual capacity of a worldwide network of geoscientists to lay the foundation for our planet’s future, focusing on responsible and environmental resource extraction, natural hazard resiliency and preparedness, and adaptability in the era of a changing climate.
2. UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGGp) are laboratories for sustainable development, which promote the recognition and management of Earth heritage, and the sustainability of local communities. As of December 2020, there are 161UNESCO Global Geoparks within 44 Member States.
UNESCO’s International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (IGGP) is implemented through these two activities: The International Geoscience Programme, a co-operative venture with the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), and the UNESCO Global Geoparks. They coordinate their work through a shared UNESCO Secretariat and joint coordination meetings of their respective bureau, which convene as necessary. The chairpersons of the two respective Councils co-chair the IGGP.
In the framework of the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (IGGP), this report is drafted by UNESCO IGGP Secretariat.
This report summarizes:
• UNESCO IGCP Secretariat 2020 activities,
• The results, scientific achievements and the project activities of IGCP projects in 2020
• Details of 24 new IGCP project proposals received as of 15 October 2020 for the evaluation of the IGCP Scientific Board in March 2021.
UNESCO Global Geoparks 5th Council meeting report was published separately and is available at UNESCO’s website.
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2 Definition of IGCP
The International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) serves as a knowledge hub of UNESCO to facilitate international scientific cooperation in the geosciences. The IGCP mission includes promoting sustainable use of natural resources, advancing new initiatives related to geo- diversity and geo-heritage and geohazards risk mitigation.
Since 1972, the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) has partnered with the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) to bring together thousands of Earth scientists from around the world allowing them to benefit from the cooperative spirit generated under the umbrella of UNESCO.
The IGCP promotes collaborative projects with a special emphasis on the benefit to society, capacity-building, and the advancement and sharing of knowledge between scientists with an emphasis on North-South and South-South cooperation. IGCP operates by providing seed funding grants donated by UNESCO, IUGS and extra-budgetary sources such as Jeju Province development Corporation (JPDC) and Republic of China National Commission to UNESCO. IGCP projects primarily deal with geosciences on global issues within its five themes:
• Earth Resources, • Global Change, • Geohazards, • Hydrogeology and • Geodynamics.
New themes, in relevant topics in fundamental and applied geoscience, can be defined annually by the IGCP Council, UNESCO and IUGS.
Each project has an average lifespan of five years and its progress is assessed annually through a rigorous peer- review process conducted by the IGCP Council following the evaluation reports from members of the Scientific Board made during the first half of February.
The Scientific Board and IGCP Council are also responsible for evaluating new project proposals. The Scientific Board consists of about 60 specialists responsible for the technical reviews and it works electronically only. Board members are appointed as specialists in their given field for each of the five IGCP themes, with preferably an overlap in the Earth sciences fields, and reflects a worldwide geographic distribution.
The IGCP Council consists of six members, a chairperson and five experts, one for each IGCP theme and they meet annually at UNESCO Headquarters but in 2020 and 2021 these meetings had to be organized virtually.
As the IGCP has a limited budget, IGCP support is specially allocated to support scientists from developing countries.
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3 Summary of IGCP in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic, as a global public health crisis, strongly resonated with UNESCO's core missions in 2020. The Organization, through its projects, sites and through its partnerships and cooperation with scientific community throughout the world, is committed to support and enhance scientific and educational cooperation and promotes solidarity-initiatives that help society to face this unprecedented crisis.
IGCP statutory Meeting: In 2020, IGCP Council meeting was scheduled to physically meet on 13-17 March 2020, but due to COVID-19 precautions and safety measures, the evaluations were held online through videoconferencing between 12th and 16th of March 2020. In this meeting, the progress of the 31 ongoing projects was assessed and 26 new proposals - submitted as of October 2019 according to the guidelines of the Council – were reviewed. (Section 4.1). The 2020 IGCP Council also adopted a new vision on new special topics for prioritization in the IGCP 2020 call for project proposal. In 2020, the IGCP UNESCO secretariat received 24 new IGCP project proposals, which is aligned with the increase observed since 2017 (Table 1).
IGCP project activities in 2020: in 2020, the council approved 18 new projects. Overall, 43 projects were active; 36 projects were eligible to receive financial support from UNESCO, IUGS, the Jeju Province Development Corporation (JPDC) of the Republic of Korea and the UNESCO National Commission for the People’s Republic of China. However, five projects received full or partial funding and were able to deliver their activities. In 2020, 43 IGCP projects were able to reach thousands of people through their online activities. Early in the year, two IGCP leaders delivered in-person meetings in India and Myanmar. Throughout 2020, the IGCP leaders delivered an animated video, mini-courses, short webinars, and 35 seminar lectures. The digital material is available online on the IGCP website.
Consultation with experts: UNESCO IGGP secretariat launched a survey to consult experts from the international earth sciences community on their views regarding strategic directions for UNESCO's action in the field of Earth sciences, in line with the organization's mandate. Combining the results of this survey, along with the vision and goals from its councils and the Internal Oversight Services (IOS) evaluation report of the program generated early 2020, the secretariats drafted a report as requested by the Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP).
Agreement with IFPEN: IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) and UNESCO have signed a framework partnership agreement concerning research and training in the field of geoscience. This collaboration mobilizes IFPEN’s expertise to support the priorities of UNESCO’s International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (IGGP), such as the promotion and understanding of the “Earth Systems” and sustainable use of natural resources.
IGCP capacity building activities: In late 2020, UNESCO IGCP Secretariat, in collaboration with IUGS and iCRAG, launched a series of Earth sciences lectures designed for a global audience. These are providing diverse perspectives on Earth materials and their role in society and can be found here. More than 4,000 people from 145 countries had registered for the series. In 2020, UNESCO IGCP Secretariat designed and delivered educational videos and impact case studies explaining UNESCO’s contribution to the societies thanks to its unique remit on Earth Sciences.
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4 UNESCO IGCP Secretariat 2020 activities
In 2020, UNESCO IGCP Secretariat focused on below listed main activities:
1. Organization of the annual statutory meeting of the 5th IGCP Council from 12-16 March 2020, 2. Launch and management of IGCP 2020 New Project Proposal Call, IGCP vision and new special topics, 3. Appointment of new IGCP Council and Scientific board members, 4. Establishment of a new partnership with IFPEN, 5. Production of three videos explaining UNESCO’s contribution to Earth Sciences and UNESCO Global Geoparks concept and fundamentals, 6. Publication of a book demonstrating IGCP’s contribution to UN2030 agenda with case studies and development of three educational movies explaining UNESCO’s Contribution to Earth Sciences as well as delivery of six UNESCO Lecture Series: Earth Materials for a Sustainable and Thriving Society.
4.1 International Geoscience Programme Council Session
UNESCO IGCP secretariat is responsible for the organization and financial support of the annual statutory meeting of the IGCP Council, which assess new IGCP project proposals and annual reports of existing projects as well as to agree on yearly fund allocation to each project. In 2020, IGCP Council meeting was organized via videoconferencing facilities due to COVID19 pandemic.
During the 5th closed Council session (March 2020), the IGCP council members reviewed 26 new project proposals and assessed the progress of the 31 ongoing IGCP projects. The IGCP Council approved a list of 18 new projects for 2020 and agreed to continue funding 18 ongoing projects while extending three projects for their fifth year without funding and accepting four projects provisionally for one year without funding. This resulted in a total of 43 IGCP projects approved by the Council to be active in 2020 (Figure 1).
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Figure 1: Distribution of 43 active IGCP projects in 2020 Due to the COVID19 pandemic, IGCP Council open session which was planned to present the Council’s work to UNESCO National Commissions and Permanent delegations was cancelled with very short notice but the results of the Council session were shared at UNESCO website and by PAX with a letter to UNESCO Stakeholders.
The below table shows the number of new IGCP project proposals and annual reports evaluated between 2017 and 2020 by IGCP Council as well as active projects and projects which received funding from UNESCO.
2017 2018 2019 2020 February February February March 2020 Council meeting date 2017 2018 2019 (online) Number of IGCP annual reports 26 21 28 31 (of previous year) evaluated Number of new IGCP project proposals (submitted previous 9 13 21 26 year) evaluated New projects approved and 4 7 9 18 started Number of active IGCP projects 24 27 31 43 Number of IGCP projects approved to receive funding 21 22 26 36 from UNESCO and IUGS Table 1: Number of IGCP proposals and reports evaluated by the Council between 2017 and 2020
4.2 IGCP 2020 New Project Proposal Call, New IGCP vision and definition of IGCP themes
The Council of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) agreed, during the 5th Council session in March 2020, to launch a new call for project proposals to promote collaborative projects under UNESCO umbrella with a special emphasis on the benefit to society, capacity- building, and the advancement and sharing of knowledge between scientists.
The call emphasized and prioritized proposals addressing the Vision, Themes and annually defined topic of the IGCP detailed below. Proposals that include Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data and cloud computing methodologies for application in the Geosciences are also welcome in this call. Women, young and early career scientists from developing countries were especially encouraged to apply. Proposals were ranked taking into account gender equality, geographic distribution of the leaders, project beneficiaries. The top multidisciplinary project will receive a Council Award and special funding in 2021.
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Successful projects will be sponsored for up to five years jointly by UNESCO, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the Jeju Province Development Corporation (JPDC) of the Republic of Korea and the UNESCO National Commission for the People’s Republic of China.
IGCP 2020 Vision:
• Efficient, safe, sustainable and renewable natural resources exploration and extraction • Better understand, predict and mitigate climate change and geohazards.
Earth Resources: Sustaining our Society
The call for proposals under the Earth Resources Theme will support innovative research and capability building projects in the areas of mineral resources and Geoenergy. The call will provide seed funding to projects addressing: • environmentally responsible and innovative methods of exploration and exploitation of mineral resources and their recycling • sustainable approaches for the exploration and extraction of energy derived from the earth such as fossil fuels, coal, peat and geothermal energy • Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Geological Sequestration of CO2
Geohazards: Risk and Mitigation Assessment for Sustainable Development
The Geohazards Theme will support research projects focusing on measuring, analyzing, modeling, forecasting, prediction or mitigation of natural hazards (volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, landslides, hurricanes, meteoric impacts, etc.) and triggered by recent human interactions (e.g. earthquakes derived from O&G industry, mining-related landslides, dam- made floods.). In this call we welcome proposals with particular emphasis in: • Geohazards nearby metropolitan areas • Geohazards disaster risk reduction related to human activities
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Hydrogeology: Geoscience of the Water Cycle
The call for project proposals under the Hydrogeology Theme will support innovative research and capacity building projects in the areas of water resources and services that are essential to achieving global sustainability. The call will provide seed funding to projects addressing:
• Water provision issues associated with climate change: water availability, quality and health, which are emerging critical issues for the future sustainability of our society • Small islands developing states (SIDS) and Africa, being UNESCO priority regions, are especially vulnerable with respect to contamination and (sufficient) water supply, hence proposals addressing these regions will be given priority
Geodynamic: Control our Environment
The call for proposals under the Geodynamic Theme will prioritize projects using inter alia (geochemical, petrological, mathematical and geophysical) techniques to study deep Earth processes (ranging from changes in the Earth's magnetic field to plate tectonics) which are also relevant to natural resource exploration, distribution and management of groundwater resources and the study and mitigation of natural hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes. IGCP 2020 project proposal call will provide seed funding to project proposals that focus on the research and capacity building for the application of multidisciplinary geosciences techniques to study Earth processes with outcomes addressing global scientific, environmental, economic and societal challenges (such as responsible use of natural resources, geoheritage, geohazards and climate change mitigation) in developing countries.
Global Change: Evidence from the Geological Record
The call for projects under the Global Change Theme will support innovative research and capacity building projects in the areas of understanding earth’s past climate as well as environment and ecosystem changes to learn important lessons about present-day environmental challenges and ways to mitigate and manage future environmental damage. This call will also welcome proposals with a special emphasis on:
• Knowledge enhancement of the Earth’s paleoclimate, paleoenvironment and paleontology, improving our ability to predict future climate and environment changes, and to provide scientific data for sustainable development strategies • Gathering global scale geological evidence for the Anthropocene, such as geopolitical processes and human-driven species invasions on the Anthropocene environmental
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changes, and establishing a forum for academic exchanges of the Anthropocene Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) studies.
IGCP 2020 Annually Defined Topic: Geoheritage for Sustainable Development
UNESCO’s mandate acknowledges the research on geological heritage as an important instrument for the holistic approach to sustainable development of UNESCO Member States. The call for proposals under the Geoheritage for Sustainable Development Special Topic will support projects focusing on the protection of geological formations which are essential to:.1) keeping the memory of the evolution of the earth; (2) learning from evolving processes to solve emerging problems and (3) the success of a future sustainable development of local communities, in particular in terms of
resource management, renewable energies, energy efficiency, farming, land use and peatland management.
The call for Geoheritage for Sustainable Development will provide seed funding to projects applying best practices and to projects contributing to the strengthening and empowering of local communities to ensure that the geological importance of an area can be preserved and promoted for science, education and culture
The deadline for project proposals was the 15 October 2020 and the IGCP UNESCO secretariat received 24 new project proposals. (Figure 2 and Annex 4)
Figure 2: Distribution of 24 new IGCP project proposals submitted in 2020
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A total of 126 project leaders from 58 member states jointly submitted 24 new IGCP project proposals which are requesting funding from 2021 (Figure 3). These proposals will be evaluated during the 6th Session of the IGCP Council between 8-10th March 2021.
Figure 3: 2020 New IGCP Project Proposals distribution by Project Leader countries* *The boundaries and names shown and the designations used in this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations"
4.3 Appointment of new IGCP Council members and Scientific Board members
According to the Statutes of the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (38 C/14, Annex I) and Operational Guidelines for UNESCO Global Geoparks (38 C/14, Annex II) approved by the 38th General Conference half of the Council membership shall be renewed every two years. The IGCP Council shall be responsible for advising the Director-General of UNESCO and the President of IUGS on the strategy, planning and implementation of the IGCP (38 C/14, Annex I, Part A, art 2, points 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8). The members of the IGCP Council shall be high-level experts actively engaged in scientific research related to the objectives of the IGCP.
From 7 February 2020 to 15 April 2020, the Secretariat of the IGGP opened a call and informed UNESCO Member States through an information letter sent by PAX, providing also the terms of reference and application form. This call was also sent to the IGGP partners, IGCP National Committees, UNESCO Global Geopark Committees and National Commissions for UNESCO. All relevant documents were available on UNESCO’s website and on the website of UNESCO’s partner organizations Global Geoparks network (GGN) and International Union of
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geological sciences (IUGS). The call for members to the IGCP Council was extended until 15 May to increase the number of applications of eligible candidates.
65 eligible applications were received of which 18 were from women. Six applications were not valid as the applications were incomplete or the candidates did not meet the requirements stated in the Terms of Reference. Keeping in mind the priority gender in UNESCO and ensuring a good geographical distribution of the Council members, while making sure highly qualified members are still present in the Council, the below listed scientists were endorsed by IUGS President and nominated by UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay for the new IGCP Council having started their activities in November 2020. • Mr Jonathan Craig (United Kingdom and Northern Ireland): Earth resources • Ms Hassina Mouri (South Africa): Geodynamics • Mr Mohammed Jalludin (Djibouti): Hydrogeology
UNESCO and IUGS would like to thank Ms Brigitte Vlaswinkel (Netherlands), Ms Nellie Mutemeri (Zimbabwe) and Mr Yongje Kim (Republic of Korea) whose mandate ended in November 2020 for their efforts to promote and support as outgoing IGCP council members since their initial appointments in December 2016. For more information about the composition of the IGCP Council, the profile of the members and the Council member application procedure: click here. IGCP Council members who were jointly appointed by IUGS and UNESCO between 2016 and 2020 are listed below:
Name Country Years Themes
Prof Guy Narbonne Canada 2016-2018 Chair
Prof Maria-Julia Orgeira Argentina 2016-2018 Global change
Dr Alik Ismail-Zadeh Azerbaijan 2016-2018 Geohazards
Dr Yongje Kim Republic of Korea 2016-2020 Hydrogeology
Dr Nellie Mutemeri Zimbabwe 2016-2020 Geodynamics
Earth Resources (2016-2018) Dr Brigitte Vlaswinkel Netherlands 2016-2020 Chair (2019-2020)
Prof Weijian Zhou China 2018-2022 Global Change
Prof Carlos Vargas Jimenez Colombia 2018-2022 Geohazards
Earth resources (2018-2020 Prof Sobhi Nasir Oman 2018-2020 Chair in 2020
Prof Hassina Mouri South Africa 2020-2024 Geodynamics
Dr Mohamed Jalludin Djibouti 2020-2024 Hydrogeology
United Kingdom and Prof Jonathan Craig 2020-2024 Earth resources Northern Ireland
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The Scientific Board consists of about 50-60 specialists who are charged with the technical reviews. The selection of the Scientific Board Members is the responsibility of the IGCP Council. Council and Board members jointly reflect a worldwide geographic distribution and represent specific fields in the Earth sciences: the IGCP Secretariat at UNESCO, in collaboration with IGCP Council renewed 50 members of the scientific board in 2020 (Annex 5) and published their details at UNESCO website. • Earth Resources • Global Change • Geohazards • Hydrogeology • Geodynamic / Geoheritage for Sustainable development
4.4 Consultation with global Earth science expert community
In early 2020, the IGGP secretariat launched a survey to consult experts from the international earth sciences community on their views regarding strategic directions for UNESCO's action in the field of Earth sciences, in line with the organization's mandate. Combining the results of this survey, along with the vision and goals from its councils and the Internal Oversight Services (IOS) evaluation report of the program generated early 2020, the secretariat drafted a report as requested by the Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP).
The survey was sent to 892 contacts from IGCP and UGGp community, 132 responded from IGCP Community, 137 responded from the UGGP community, and 37 other stakeholders, making a total of 306 respondents. Given that the survey was held at the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic, we consider that this is an acceptable result and sufficient to draw relevant indicators about the IGGP community guidance for the future priorities of UNESCO's Earth sciences mandate.
The survey participants recognized the importance of the mandate of UNESCO in Earth Sciences and saw funding issues and international political conflicts as its biggest challenges. On a global scale, respondents are mainly concerned about global climate change, followed by capacity building on earth sciences, the involvement of local communities, shortly followed by a concern for sustainable earth resource exploration and extraction. Another challenge that comes in as important is the protection of biodiversity and geodiversity.
A majority of the experts confirmed that the IGGP mandate, as anchored in the current 40 C/5 (2020-2021) main line of action 2: "Advancing science for sustainable management of natural resources, disaster risk reduction and climate change action," and expected Results 4: "Member States have strengthened management of both geological resources and geohazards risk towards the achievement of related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets." is still relevant today, maybe more than ever. They believe it addresses to above listed global trends and challenges that our world is facing today and believe that international geoscientific collaboration for sustainable development, with the involvement of the local communities, is a key global opportunity for the impact of the IGGP. They strongly believe that there are opportunities in stronger cooperation and that global climate change and the importance of earth resources are opportunities for the program to build on. A majority of the respondents also mentioned capacity building and education on Earth Sciences as an opportunity and a necessity for the program to invest in.
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The experts highly ranked the importance of the communication and marketing activities shortly followed by collaboration. This indicates that they expect UNESCO to raise awareness for the importance of Earth Sciences, which helps them to promote the virtues of UNESCO Global Geoparks and that UNESCO plays an important role as convening power. They expressed the wish to see UNESCO offer a platform for collaboration for geosciences communities.
A large majority also mentioned policy support and leadership support as an important role of the IGGP for the future. They expect IGGP to continue collecting data and use this information to prepare policy advice, to continue to play its role as a laboratory of ideas and as a standard- setting body. The respondents also strongly supported the role of the IGGP in capacity building and earth science education, as well as in mobilizing funding for joint research projects. They recognized the importance of monitoring and proposed data to collect as well as to assess the practicality to measure others, such as likes in social media.
Other areas where the experts saw an important role for the IGGP in supporting the Member States in the future are climate change adaptation and mitigation, geohazard risk reduction, natural resources management, and promoting the involvement of local communities and women.
The overall feedback and evaluation that the program is delivering in its mandate well; yet, it would benefit from more staff and funding. Further, the results showed critical challenges, trends, and opportunities to be pursed, such as climate change adaption and mitigation from earth sciences perspective and geoscience education. The surveys emphasized the importance of visibility and partnerships at all different levels, with some suggested entities. The survey also stressed the importance of UNESCO's being a focal, leading point to help geoscience around the globe.
4.5 Partnership agreement with IFPEN
In 2020, IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) and UNESCO have signed a framework partnership agreement concerning research and training in the field of geoscience. This collaboration mobilizes IFPEN’s expertise to support the priorities of UNESCO’s International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (IGGP), such as the promotion and understanding of the “Earth Systems” and sustainable use of natural resources. Research and training in earth sciences, are a key priority for the future and Geosciences play a fundamental role in research activities tackling new energy transition themes, such as the geological storage of CO2 and hydrogen, geothermal energy, the use of underground resources and the understanding of the interactions between climate changes and ecosystems from the study of sedimentary systems.
Within the framework of this partnership signed in 2020, IFPEN and UNESCO will propose thesis topics in line with these new themes. The aim is to train future research engineers to enable them to overcome the scientific and technological challenges associated with the energy transition. The details of 2020 PhD research topics are listed in Annex 1.
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In this framework, UNESCO and IFPEN offer 5 Doctoral thesis grants on the following subjects:
• the impact of sulfur and carbon interactions in marine sediments on biogenic and geothermal methane emissions; • the influence of global warming on permafrost; • the impact of alteration on rock hydromechanical properties; • the groundwater and landscape erosion due to climate change; • the dynamic of organic and inorganic carbon in carbonated soils.
UNESCO Delegations and National Commissions are kindly invited to distribute this information amongst their relevant academic networks and research facilities and nominate motivated and talented students interested in earth sciences topics to UNESCO IGGP Secretariat (o.adiyaman@unesco.org) and IFPEN ([email protected]).
IFPEN has been developing cutting-edge digital tools to promote geosciences to the general public and contribute to knowledge dissemination in this field. IFPEN is developing a mobile app enabling users to identify the type of rock they are photographing. IFPEN is also working on an augmented reality tool to conduct a 3D tour of a geological outcrop. This technology will enable the public to visualize aspects such as the faults and sedimentary layers that have marked the formation of the geological environment. It will be possible to deploy these tools in UNESCO Global geoparks labeled by UNESCO, with two main objectives: to educate geoparks visitors in a fun and entertaining way, but also test and enrich these applications drawing on a participative science approach.
4.6 Publications and lectures
In 2020, UNESCO IGCP Secretariat designed and delivered educational videos, flyers and lectures explaining UNESCO’s contribution to the societies thanks to its unique remit on Earth Sciences.
Digital Flyers: The overall aim of the SDGs is to pave the way for a sustainable world and geoscience is at the core of this mission. Geoscience is directly or indirectly connected to most SDGs but its importance is particularly evident in SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) to evaluate soil characteristics and improve soil fertility using mineral elements; SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) to identify groundwater resources and prevent contamination; and SDG 7 (Affordable Clean Energy) and the related SDG 13 (Climate Action) to identify the geothermal potential of a region and allow the safe extraction of the mineral resources crucial for the development of a renewable energy infrastructure and the electrification of the economy.
Geoscience has the ability to grasp the complex interconnections between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere giving a unique whole-planet perspective of the Earth system. Its inherent limitations - incomplete data, lack of experimental control, or the inability to make direct measurements - related to the fact that it is a science that studies a 4.6 billion year old planet where most events occur at temporal scales much larger than the human lifetime, are also very similar to those faced by sustainability science.
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These characteristics make geoscience a unique discipline and paramount for the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In this series of digital flyers we have demonstrated this relevance by providing 17 UNESCO Earth sciences impact case studies directly addressing each SDG.
Whiteboard animations:
IGGP serves as a knowledge hub of UNESCO to facilitate international scientific cooperation in the geosciences and sustainable use of natural resources, in particular mineral resources, and to advance new initiatives related to geo-diversity and geo-heritage. In 2020, IGCP secretariat, in collaboration with Prof Iain Stewart, UNESCO Chair in Geoscience and Society Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability, produced 3 hand-drawn animations; painted with colour and sound of approximately 4 minutes long. Animation one showcases the work of UNESCO Earth Sciences and the other two have been created to showcase UNESCO Global Geoparks. The creative content produced by UNESCO Secretariat is easy to display and available from UNESCO website.
UNESCO Lecture Series: Earth Materials for a Sustainable and Thriving Society
In response to the major disruption in programme activities caused by Covid-19, the International Geosciences Programme (IGCP) developed an online Lecture Series designed to raise awareness about the role of Earth materials in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The highly successful Lecture Series opened new avenues of engagement between IGCP and the global geoscience community and it offers a model for reaching very dispersed audiences.
The Lecture Series provided geoscience and social science perspectives on Earth materials and their role in society and achieving the SDGs. The 11 speakers included six women and five men from nine countries and four continents. • Earth Materials: The Foundation for Development, by Dr. Larry Meinert (USA) and Dr. Nellie Mutemeri (South Africa) • Climate Neutrality, the Circular Economy, and Earth Materials, by Dr. John Thompson (Canada) and Prof. Frances Wall (U.K.) • The Neglected Minerals and Materials of Development, by Prof. Daniel Franks (Australia) • Mineral Extraction and Communities, by Dr. Rajiv Maher (Mexico) and Dr. Melba Kapesa Wasunna (Kenya) • Suppliers, Consumers, and the Global Minerals Supply Chain, by Dr. Kathryn Moore (U.K.) and Dr. Judy Muthuri (U.K. and Kenya) • Earth Materials and a Sustainable Future, by Prof. Murray Hitzman (Ireland) and Ms. Halleluya Naantu Ekandjo (Ireland and Namibia).
The lectures and the Q&A sessions were recorded and are available for free access on YouTube. Links to each video are provided at the Lecture Series website, https://bit.ly/UNESCOLectures
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The Lecture Series were developed in collaboration with the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and iCRAG, the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences. The lectures were produced and broadcast live between 26 January and 9 March 2021. We were very gratified to see that more than 4,300 people from 145 countries registered for the Series and that 1,696 Certificates of Attendance have been issued to participants from 89 different countries. The online videos have attracted an additional 5,500 views to March 2021.
Our next challenge is to see how best to incorporate online events such as this Lecture Series into the IGCP’s long-standing educational, capacity-building, and outreach activities which are mainly based on in-person meetings. The pandemic has been very difficult for all of us but we have learned that there are many exciting opportunities to expand our global connections. We look forward to developing new initiatives, both in person and online, to advance UNESCO’s mandate to support research and capacity in the geosciences.
5 IGCP Projects 2020 Summary
5.1 IGCP Project leaders
In 2020 a total number of 240 Project Leaders from 75 Project Leader countries (Figure 4) delivered the activities and objectives of 43 active IGCP projects (Figure 5).
Figure 4: Map showing the distribution of 240 IGCP Project Leaders from 75 countries*in 2020 *The boundaries and names shown and the designations used in this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations"
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Figure 5: Number of Project Leaders in each IGCP project
Additionally, the IGCP project details of 2020 show that 38% of the project leaders of the active projects are women (Figures 6 and 7).
FUNDING 152500 130000 128850 149827 180750 225864
NUMBER OF AFRICAN PROJECT LEADERS 15 11 15 15 28 45
NUMBER OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES WITH PROJECT LEADERS 8 13 12 11 17 22
NUMBER OF ACTIVE IGCP PROJECTS 25 26 21 27 31 43
PERCENTAGE FEMALE PROJECT LEADERS 19 34 26 27 31 38
NUMBER OF PROJECT LEADERS 140 155 133 160 172 240
NUMBER OF PROJECT LEADERS COUNTRIES 55 58 56 51 61 75
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Figure 6: IGCP projects details since 2015 to 2020
Project leaders 2020
Female 38%
Male 62%
Male Female
Figure 7: Gender project leaders IGCP projects 2020
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5.2 IGCP Project Activities in 2020
In 2020 due to the COVID19 pandemic and travel restrictions, IGCP field and other face-to- face activities have been cancelled and scientists organized high number of online events and produced movies, animations. Only two projects were able to organize their face-to face meetings in January 2020 in India (IGCP 685) and Myanmar (IGCP 668).
IGCP 668: “Equatorial Gondwanan history and Early Palaeozoic Evolutionary Dynamics” presented the long history of the Indian subcontinent in “The Ocean on the top of our Mountains” animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=221LFT4kYr4.
Additionally the project held its third meeting in collaboration with IGCP 679, “Cretaceous Earth Dynamics and Climate in Asia,” on 7 & 8 January 2020 in Yangon, Myanmar, in conjunction with “the Fourth International Congress on Geosciences of Myanmar and Surrounding Regions” conference. Achievements in 2020:
• 14 published or accepted for publication papers acknowledged IGCP668, • third meeting with IGCP 679, “Cretaceous Earth Dynamics and Climate in Asia,” on 7 & 8 January 2020 in Yangon, Myanmar, in conjunction with “the Fourth International Congress on Geosciences of Myanmar and Surrounding Regions” conference. https://mgsgeomyanmar.com/ . Its keynote speech had ~500 people in attendance from ~15 countries. • An article for Episode is being prepared • Created repository agreements with the Thai Department of Mineral Resources’ Geological Referenced Sample Collection (DGSC) and the Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC), as per written understanding with DMR and MGS. The CMC has extensive holdings of duplicate and topotype material from the late Cambrian of South and Southeast Asia.” • Helped support the launch to the Thai Department of Mineral Resources’ new journal, the Thai Geoscience Journal by contribution by the project leader becoming an associate editor.
IGCP 683: “Pre-Atlantic geological connections among northwest Africa, Iberia, and eastern North America: Implications for continental configurations and economic resources,” held three webinars in October 2020, September 2020, and January 2021, with hundreds of participants. Their webinars, “Geology of Morocco: an Overview” and “Crustal Blocks of the Appalachian orogen” webinars, along with information on their other webinars, are available online. https://igcp683.org/category/news/
IGCP 685: “Geology for Sustainable Development,” IGCP 685 had a meeting on 29 Feb 2020 in New Delhi, the Sustainable Geoscience Workshop. The workshop had 47 participants. 45 were from developing countries, 25 young scientists, and 20 were females. Main achievements:
• launched the Higher Education Learning Resources containing eight modules and available here: https://www.gfgd.org/education • contributed to a UNESCO short course during the 1st EAGE Geothermal Energy & Hydropower in Africa, held online on 9 December 2020: https://eage.eventsair.com/first- eage-workshop-on-geothermal-energy-and-hydro-power-in-africa/short-course
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• An episode publication under revision: Singh, V., Garud, S., Ramanathan, AL, Shekhar, S. Sinha, V., Pant, N.C., Stewart, I.S. in revision. Geology and Sustainable Development: an Indian Perspective. Episodes. • The National Earth Science Museum of the Geological Survey of Namibia (GSN), houses a large collection of rocks, minerals and fossils found in Namibia and the National Earth Science and Energy Information Centre has a vast collection of publications on earth sciences and mining. Despite this, few Namibians are aware of the relevance of geosciences in society and in Namibia education in STEM fields needs a boost. To remedy this situation GSN geoscientists regularly engage in science outreach activities such as the IGCP 685 project. The IGCP685 project working group 3 on Education and Communication developed a 3-minute, motion graphic outreach video on ‘Geology for Sustainable Development’ to raise awareness on geosciences among African audiences with focus in Namibia. The outreach video supports the government’s goals of increasing science literacy and involvement of girls in STEM. The video is a creative way to engage young people/students, educators and the community in geosciences. Inspiring in children interest in geosciences, and science in general and understanding of how geoscience is not just stones and diamonds, creating awareness of how geosciences affects their daily lives. The video is available from Ministry of Mines and Energy's website http://www.mme.gov.na/ and YouTube channel https://youtu.be/D-I7nnSiFIg • During early lockdown in April 2020, IGCP685 connected with senior geoscientists in BHP to initiate a top-level ‘scenarios planning’ research project to explore the future of geoscience. Video interviews (via Zoom or Webex) have been recorded with over 25 participants, constituting over 30 hours of digital recording. Transcripts from the recordings offer a rich real-world archive to key themes that are emerging around how geoscience and geoscientists are evolving to address societal issues, especially around sustainable development. https://vimeo.com/516618983.
IGCP 707: “Origin, Distribution, and Biogeochemistry of Arsenic in the Altiplano-Puna plateau of South America,” organized a series of 6 seminars from July to December 2020. They provide insights on topics related to the origin and geochemistry of arsenic as well as its effects on human health, remediation technologies, and study cases in the unique Altiplano-Puna of South America. All previous seminars are available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJTS_TO4gNNsUHWYxSHujA). Visit the webinar page for more info: https://ibigeo.conicet.gov.ar/news-igcp-707/
Achievements in 2020: • Held a virtual meeting on 16 April 2020 with IGCP-636, discussing water geothermal discharge guidelines, Latin America geothermal sites database, and file/data sharing between the two projects. • Six members from IGCP 707 participated in Goldschmidt conferences, during which they presented three abstracts. • On 11 November 2020, five IGCP 707 members joined seven members of governmental and research institutions from Bolivia and Argentina, to establish a new research line to study the relation between the geochemistry of water (the presence of arsenic among other elements) and the unique aquatic life in the lagoons of the Altiplano-Puna.
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IGCP 692: Geoheritage for Geohazard Resilience: Geoheritage for Resilience is a UNESCO Geosciences Programme (IGCP) project, that began in April 2019. The aim is to bring together geoheritage projects and dedicated geosites around the world that deal with Resilience to natural hazards. The project operates by on-line networking, videoconferences as well as dedicated workshops in geosite areas. Due to COVID19 pandemic, project leaders have been holding virtual meetings since December 2020, to watch previous seminars or register for the new ones, visit: http://www.geopoderes.com/webinar-series/
IGCP 669: “Identification of seismogenic faults in populated areas of Latin America and its incorporation into seismic hazard assessment,” held its Fault2SHA meeting remotely on 12 November 2020. http://fault2sha.net/event/5th-fault2sha-workshop/
IGCP 648: “Supercontinent Cycles and Global Geodynamics,” held 16 seminars in two lecture series, 16 and 9 seminars, respectively. They had more than 700 registered attendees. All seminars are available online
IGCP 667: “World Map of the Orogens,” launched a mini-course on YouTube, and shares their work and activities through their newsletter.
IGCP 661: Process, Cycle and Sustainability of the Critical Zone in Karst Systems 2020 newsletter is available at UNESCO website and summary of main activities are:
• In September 2020, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved the construction of China-Slovenia joint laboratory on karst geology, which is the first the Belt and Road joint laboratory in the field of geology, • International Symposium on Fragile Karst Resource Conservation sponsored by Western Kentucky University, USA organised Between August 18 to 20, 2020, • Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Research Center on Karst, UNESCO held the first online training course with the theme of Karst Resources, Environmental Effects and Ecological Industries from October to November 2020. A total of 36 foreign trainees from 18 countries had signed up for the course. Renowned karst scholars from the United States, Thailand, Serbia, the Philippines, Poland and China were invited to give lectures on ecological restoration of karst areas, cross-boundary aquifers, geomorphic landscape resources and other fields.
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6 IGGP 2020 Financial Summary
The below table shows IUGS and UNESCO’ financial contributions to the IGCP projects between 2017 and 2020 with considerable increase in 2018 thanks to new donations from the JPDC of Republic of Korea.
2017 2018 2019 2020
Number of IGCP projects approved to receive funding 21 22 26 36 from UNESCO and IUGS Total: $225,864
Budget allocated to eligible Contracted in 2020: $116,500 $140,000 $180,500 projects $121,864 Agreed to be contracted in 2021: $104,000 Budget spent in 2020: Budget spent $34,346 Or budget transferred to next $116,500 $140,000 $180,500 2020 Budget which will be year due to COVID19 transferred to 2021: pandemic $191,518 Table 2: IGCP projects budget between 2017 and 2020
2020 was a challenging year and all geosciences projects had considerable delays due to the travel restrictions related to the COVID19 pandemic.
In March 2020, UNESCO and IUGS asked IGCP project leaders if they would like to receive their full funding in 2020 or prefer to transfer their funds to 2021. Following the request of 20 IGCP project leaders UNESCO and IUGS contracted $121,864 to financially support 20 projects in 2020 (Annex 2), however due to the continuity of the COVID19 pandemic in March 2020, several project leaders asked to freeze their 2020 funds due to worldwide travel restrictions. IGCP Council and IUGS jointly agreed to transfer all unspent 2020 IGCP project funds to 2021. In 2020, although several IGCP projects had planned to use their 2020 funds, only 7 IGCP project leaders requested funding from UNESCO and IUGS in 2020. UNESCO Secretariat asked IUGS treasurer to make payments for below listed projects for the total amount of $34,555.
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IGCP projects which requested funding in 2020
Prof. Mustapha Meghraoui 659 Seismic Risk Assessment in Africa $6,000 (France)
661 The Critical Zone in Karst Systems $2,846 Jiang Zhongcheng (China)
Equatorial Gondwana History and Early 668 $6,000 Prof Nigel Egelhart (USA) Palaeozoic Evolutionary Dynamics
685 Geology for Sustainable Development $7,000 Prof Iain Stewart (UK)
A Better Management of the Ali-Sabieh 689 $4,500 Dr Osman Awaleh (Djibouti) Aquifer
Geoheritage for Geohazard Resilience- Dr Benjamin van Wyk de Vries 692 $7,000 geopark related project (France) Origin, Distribution, and $1,000 of 707- Biogeochemistry of Arsenic in the $9,000 Dr Murray Jesica (Argentina) new Altiplano-Puna plateau of South allocated in America 2020 Table 3: IGCP projects which received funding in 2020
As of January 2021, only IGCP 685,668 and 689 spent their full 2020 funding having submitted their annual reports. The IGCP Council will evaluate their work and allocate new funding to these three projects for 2021.
IGCP 661, 689, 692 and 659 received their funding in 2019 and 2020 but will spend their full funding for 2020 in 2021; IGCP 707 will request the remaining $8000 in 2021. These 4 projects will submit their report by December 2021 in order to request new funding for 2022 (Table 5).
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N° Projects First Project Theme Duration Leader Equatorial Gondwana history and Early Prof Nigel 668 Global Change 2018-2022 Paleozoic Evolutionary Hughes (USA) Dynamics Pre-Atlantic geological connections among northwest Africa, Iberia Dr. Faouzia and eastern North 683 Haissen Geodynamics 2020-2021 America: Implications for (Morocco) continental configurations and economic resources Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys – geodynamical, Dr. Michal 710 paleoceanographical Krobicki Geodynamics and (Poland) paleobiogeographical events High pressure-Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism Dr. Lifei Zhang 709 Geodynamics 2020-2021 and geochemical cycles (China) in subduction zones Geology for Sustainable Dr. Ian Stewart Earth 685 2019-2023 Development (UK) Resources Table 5: Active IGCP which are being evaluated by the Council for 2021 funding allocation
The current worldwide situation suggests that the COVID19 pandemic will end in 2022. If that is the case, UNESCO and IUGS will jointly support 36 active projects and new projects will be approved by the Council in March 2021. Estimated IGCP budget for 2021 will be around $300k but as of January 2021, it is difficult to estimate if IGCP project leaders will be able to organize capacity building events in 2021 and request funding, as the pandemic is still very dominant in most parts of the world.
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Annexes
Annex 1 Doctoral Thesis grants for earth sciences under the UNESCO - IFPEN partnership 23
Annex 2 Financial Table for active IGCP Projects in 2020 26
Annex 3 IGCP projects that requested to transfer their 2020 funds to 2021 31
Annex 4 New IGCP Project Proposals to be Evaluated for funding in March 2021 35
Annex 5 IGCP Council Members and Scientific Board Members 37
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ANNEX 1 List of Doctoral Thesis grants for earth sciences under the UNESCO - IFPEN partnership
Below are 5 Ph.D. projects for which IFPEN (Paris, France) is looking for motivated and talented students interested in geosciences. They cover topics such as: - the impact of sulfur and carbon interactions in marine sediments on biogenic and geothermal methane emissions; - the influence of global warming on permafrost; - the impact of alteration on rock hydromechanical properties; - the groundwater and landscape erosion due to climate change; - the dynamic of organic and inorganic carbon in carbonated soils.
Impact of sulfur and carbon interactions in marine sediments on biogenic and geothermal methane emissions: Application to the case of the Guayas Basin (Gulf of California) A better understanding of the processes resulting in geothermal and/or biogenic gas emissions at the seafloor is crucial in order to quantify gas evolution in the deep ocean and better assess its contribution to global warming. The Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California is delineated by a thick marine sediments layer rich in organic matter (OM) and sulfur. This basin is the site of active rifting, associated with the emission of magmatic intrusions and geothermal activity. This particular configuration, simultaneously presenting hydrothermal sites and cold fluid emission zones a few tens of kilometers away, makes this site favorable to study the redox mechanisms involved in the generation, transformation and coupling of natural gases: CH4, H2S and CO2. One of this couplings is OM natural sulfurization, a process known for the efficient preservation of large amounts of organic carbon over geological timescales, but not taken into account in carbon cycle modeling. The thesis will encompass 3 parts. The analytical item will characterize organic matter and sulfur in sediment cores collected in the Guaymas basin (IODP Expedition 385, 2019) using a geochemical approach. The conceptual item will describe the carbon / sulfur balance in the basin using redox stoichiometric reactions. The last item will apply the hypotheses at basin scale using TemisFlow®. Supervised by Dr. Armelle Riboulleau (UMR 8187 LOG, Lille), the thesis will benefit from the support of the teams involved and the technical platforms available at IFPEN (Rueil-Malmaison-France) and the Oceanology and Geosciences Laboratory at Lille University (France). Contacts: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Understanding and modelling of permafrost gases escape mechanisms from the ground to the atmosphere and their consequences during global warming Permafrost is defined as the thickness of the ground located in the high latitudes which remains permanently frozen throughout the year. Global warming is thawing these lands deeper and deeper into the ground. This thaw generates in a massive degassing of greenhouse gases, mainly methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. The main scientific objectives of this PhD project is to understand the following tasks: (1) What types of gases are produced by thawing permafrost? (kinetics, mechanisms); (2) What is the impact on the soil itself and on global warming?; (3) What are the descriptors for estimating the carbon stock in
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soils at the scale of a plot or a territory? and (4) How does the transport properties of the soil affect the structure of the organic matter (circulation of fluids, release of greenhouse gases, impact on soil formation / destruction, etc.)? The student will be trained to perform geochemical characterization of gas and organic-rich soil/sediment samples using analytical technologies such as thermal cracking (Rock-Eval®), kinetics, nanostructure, adsorption capacity, elemental analysis, isotopic signature, GC-FID-BID, GC-C-IRMS, NMR techniques, among others. The environmental gas monitoring package (Flair®) will be also applied in this project in order to develop predictive models of the soil respiration. Results from field monitoring and experimental measurements will be also compared with existing soil respiration models. Finally, the student will benefited from complimentary work environments in France and Canada. Contacts: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Integrated experimental study of the impact of alteration on rock hydromechanical properties Fluid-rock interactions play a key part in the evolution of our environment. They notably influence karst development, rock weathering and thus continental erosion, as well as coastal cliff retreat caused by water infiltration… These processes depend on climate conditions and the assessment of the impact of climate change on vulnerable areas will require considering the corresponding thermo-hydromechanical and chemical couplings. Reactive transport modeling has undergone significant developments in the last two decades. However, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of the coupling with the deformations of the porous medium and of the impact on its hydromechanical properties. Integrating fluid-rock interactions in predictive large-scale models hence requires a better knowledge of the impact of reactive transport at the microstructure scale where the various processes occur. Most experimental studies focus on the evolution of porosity and permeability and few of them address the impact of flow conditions on mechanical properties (elastic moduli, acoustic velocities, failure strength). The objective of this PhD is to develop an integrated experimental approach to study the impact of reactive transport on the porous structure and the hydromechanical properties of rocks. Various carbonate rocks (highly reactive by nature) showing different microstructures will be considered. Fractured samples will also be tested to address the key part of fractures- matrix interactions. Once validated the defined approach can be applied to any rock formation subjected to various reactive flow conditions and used to constrain chemo-hydro-mechanical models. Contacts: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Groundwater and landscape erosion due to climate change As our climate is changing the impact of water, or the lack of it, on how we develop and use the landscape is becoming increasingly uncertain. Mountain belts can be thought of as water towers, securing steady flow of irrigation, drinking and industrial water to adjacent population centres. There is therefore a need to understand the risks for future water security, as well as risks associated with flooding. One key problem, which this PhD will focus on, is the connectivity between surface water and groundwater. The latest observations would suggest as much as 40% of precipitation enters the rivers via the subsurface, however groundwater is routinely ignored within models of landscape change (landscape evolution models or LEMs). The aim of this PhD project is to develop the methods to model groundwater and integrate it
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within landscape evolution models. This project is a collaboration between IFP Energies Nouvelles and GFZ Potsdam, Germany. Building on observations from ambient seismic noise in the central Himalayas, Nepal, we will develop a reduced complexity model of groundwater flow. The successful student will spend a minimum of six months at GFZ to explore the seismic dataset. The subsequent focus will be on developing a novel model of groundwater flow, and this will be supported by two research teams in geoscience and in computational modelling at IFPEN. Contact: [email protected]
Dynamic of organic and inorganic carbon in carbonated soils The Rock-Eval® (RE) thermal analysis, developed at IFPEN in 1970’s, is a standard benchmark tool in oil exploration, and has been more and more frequently used during the last 20 years in soil science in order to characterize soil organic matter and its thermal stability. While soil organic carbon (C) is a well-established target for agriculture and climate issues, inorganic C remains disregarded. However, the precipitation of secondary carbonate contributes to increase C stocks by trapping organic C into inorganic forms, promoting its sequestration in soils. This is why we propose an integrated approach to characterize and quantify the organic and inorganic forms of C in different soil types using RE technology. This approach will consist in combining (1) the analysis of different RE signals, to characterize and quantify more precisely the organic C pools according to their cracking temperature, to (2) a complementary geochemical approach (petrographic and isotopic) aiming at characterizing and quantifying primary and secondary carbonates of carbonate soils. Co-advised by Dr. T. Chevalier (IRD) and Pr. Eric P. Verrecchia (UNIL), the PhD project will benefit from the support of teams and technical platforms available at IFPEN (Rueil-Malmaison-France), UMR Eco&Sols (Montpellier-France) and UNIL (Lausanne- Switzerland). Contacts: [email protected] ; [email protected]
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ANNEX 2 List of active IGCP Projects in 2020 List of 43 IGCP Projects active in 2020 IGCP Council decided that: 36 IGCP Projects are eligible for funding in 2020, 3 IGCP projects are accepted provisionally for 1 year without funding and 3 projects in OET, 1 project to spend their 2019 funding in 2020
IGCP Projects approved to receive funding in 2020 by UNESCO and IUGS
N° IGCP N° Projects 2020 budget First Project Leader Theme
636* Geothermal resources for energy transition: direct uses Daniela Blessent (Colombia) 1 $10.000 Earth Resources new and renewable base-load power around the globe [email protected] 637* Paola Marini (Italy) 2 Heritage Stones Recognition a Step Forward (HerSTONES ) $7.000 Earth Resources new [email protected] Prof. Daming WANG (China) 3 665 Sustainable use of black soil critical zone $4.500 Earth Resources [email protected] Manuel A. Caraballo Monge (Chile) 4 682 Mine tailing revalorization $2.833 Earth Resources [email protected] Prof Iain Stewart (UK) 5 685 Geology for Sustainable Development- $7.000 Earth Resources [email protected] 696 The Fate of Mercury Used in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Bridget A. Bergquist (Canada) 6 $9.000 Earth Resources new Mining (ASGM) in Amazonian Ecosystems [email protected] 698 Piloting a sustainability atlas for mining in southern Africa Wolfgang Maier (UK) 7 $5.000 Earth Resources new (NextMine) [email protected]
Paleoproterozoic Birimian geology for sustainable Moussa Dabo (Senegal) 8 638 $7.500 Earth Resources development [email protected]
674* Modeling human health impacts of mining activities in Simon Sovoe (Ghana) 9 $6.000 Earth Resources new Africa for sustainable earth resource extraction [email protected]
Ruoshi Jin (China) 10 675 Sandstone-Type Uranium Deposits $7.500 Earth Resources [email protected]
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Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a 697 Jamie Trammell (USA) 11 Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts $5.000 Earth Resources new [email protected] [email protected] of Protected Areas Orogenic architecture and crustal growth from accretion to Prof. Tao Wang (China) 12 662 $5.685 Geodynamics collision [email protected] Dr Manuel Pubellier (France) 13 667 World Map of the Orogens $7.000 Geodynamics [email protected] Dr Adina E. Racoviteanu (UK) 14 672 Himalayan glaciers and risks to local communities $9.000 Geohazards [email protected] Prof. Mustapha Meghraoui (France) 15 659 Seismic Risk Assessment in Africa $6.000 Geohazards [email protected] Dr Benjamin van Wyk de Vries Geoheritage for Geohazard Resilience-geopark related 16 692 $7.000 (France) Geohazards project [email protected]
705 Building Global Capacity for the Observation of Volcanic Santiago Arellano (Sweeden) 17 $5.000 Geohazards new and Atmospheric Change [email protected] Identification of seismogenic faults in populated areas of 669* María Ortuño (Spain) 18 Latin America and its incorporation into seismic hazard $10.000 Geohazards new [email protected] assessment 693 Seismic risk assessment in Haiti: insight from Newdeskarl Saint Fleur (Haiti) 19 $5.000 Geohazards new paleoseismology, site effects and societal exposure [email protected] 701 Seismic vulnerability of buildings located on hillsides. Case Edgar Giovanny Diaz Segura (Chile) 20 $4.000 Geohazards new study: Latin American Countries [email protected] Changing the paradigm in observational volcano science: 713 Diana C. Roman (USA) 21 Community plan for the Global Volcano Observatory $5.000 Geohazards new [email protected] (GloVO) Initiative 707 Origin, Distribution, and Biogeochemistry of Arsenic in the Murray Jesica (Argentina) 22 $9.000 Hydrogeology new Altiplano-Puna plateau of South America [email protected]
Dr Osman Awaleh (Djibouti) 23 689 A Better Management of the Ali-Sabieh Aquifer $4.500 Hydrogeology [email protected]
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Jiang Zhongcheng (China) 24 661 The Critical Zone in Karst Systems $2.846 Hydrogeology [email protected] 643- Bamory Kamagate (Côte d'Ivoire) 25 Water Resources in Wet Tropics of West-Central Africa $6.000 Hydrogeology OET [email protected] Prof. Xuexin Yan (China) 26 663 Land subsidence in coastal cities $7.500 Hydrogeology [email protected]
706 Examination of Recent Transformations of the Eastern Rift Geoffrey M. Wambugu (Kenya) 27 $6.000 Hydrogeology new Valley Lakes of Kenya and Tanzania [email protected]
The End of A Supereon – Winners and Losers at the Prof Patricia Vickers Rich (Australia) 28 673 $5.000 Global Change Precambrian-Phanerozoic Transition [email protected] Dr. Claudia Mineli Aracena Perez 29 681 History of Toxic Phytoplankton in Patagonia $4.500 (Chile) Global Change [email protected]
Equatorial Gondwana history and Early Palaeozoic Prof. Nigel Hughes (USA) 30 668 $6.000 Global Change Evolutionary Dynamics [email protected]
Simon Engelhart (USA) 31 639 Sea Level Changes from minutes to millenia $7.000 Global Change [email protected] A.C. Da Silva (Belgium) 32 652 Reading Geologic Time $7.500 Global Change [email protected] Thomas Servais (France) 33 653 The onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event $7.500 Global Change [email protected] Prof. Gang Li (China) 34 679 Cretaceous earth dynamics and climate in Asia $7.000 Global Change [email protected] Hathaithip Thassanapak Udchachon 700 35 Carbonate Build-ups in South East Asia $6.000 (Thailand) Global Change new [email protected]
704 Carbon in Peat on Earth through Time: Tropical peatland Sakonvan Chawchai (Thailand) 36 $4.500 Global Change new processes and ecosystem services [email protected]
Total funding allocated by IGCP Council in 2020 $225.864
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IGCP Projects approved by the Council without funding in 2020
1 648 Supercontinent Cycles an Global Geodynamics OET Zheng-Xiang Li (Australia) Geodynamics [email protected] 2 640 Significance of Modern and Ancient Submarine Slope and OET Dr. Lorena Moscardelli (USA) Geohazards Landslides [email protected]
3 655 Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event OET Matias Reolid (Spain) Global Change [email protected] 4 683* Pre-Atlantic geological connections among northwest Faouziya Haissen (Morocco) Geodynamics new Africa, Iberia and eastern North America: Implications for [email protected] continental configurations and economic resources
5 684 The Water-Energy-Food and Groundwater Sustainability Dr Joanna Doummar (Lebanon) Hydrogeology Nexus (WEF-GW Nexus) [email protected]
6 709 High pressure-Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism and Lifei Zhang (China) Geodynamics new geochemical cycles in subduction zones [email protected]
7 710 Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys – geodynamical, Michal Krobicki (Poland) Geodynamics new paleoceanographical and paleobiogeographical events [email protected]
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ANNEX 3
IGCP projects that requested to transfer their 2020 funds to 2021
32 IGCP projects approved by IGCP Council with funding requested to stop their 2020 activities and transfer their budgets to 2021 due to COVID-19. This request has been approved by IGCP Council and IUGS.
N° IGCP N° Projects 2020 budget First Project Leader Theme
Geothermal resources for energy 636* Daniela Blessent (Colombia) 1 transition: direct uses and renewable base- $10.000 Earth Resources new [email protected] load power around the globe 637* Heritage Stones Recognition a Step Paola Marini (Italy) 2 $7.000 Earth Resources new Forward (HerSTONES ) [email protected] Jiang Zhongcheng (China) 4 661 The Critical Zone in Karst Systems $2.846 Hydrogeology [email protected]
Orogenic architecture and crustal growth Prof. Tao Wang (China) 5 662 $5.685 Geodynamics from accretion to collision [email protected]
Prof. Daming WANG (China) 6 665 Sustainable use of black soil critical zone $4.500 Earth Resources [email protected]
Dr Manuel Pubellier (France) 7 667 World Map of the Orogens $7.000 Geodynamics [email protected]
Himalayan glaciers and risks to local Dr Adina E. Racoviteanu (UK) 8 672 $9.000 Geohazards communities [email protected]
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The End of A Supereon – Winners and Prof Patricia Vickers Rich (Australia) 9 673 Losers at the Precambrian-Phanerozoic $5.000 Global Change [email protected] Transition
History of Toxic Phytoplankton in Dr. Claudia Mineli Aracena Perez (Chile) 10 681 $4.500 Global Change Patagonia [email protected]
Manuel A. Caraballo Monge (Chile) 11 682 Mine tailing revalorization $2.833 Earth Resources [email protected] The Fate of Mercury Used in Artisanal and 696 Bridget A. Bergquist (Canada) 12 Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in $9.000 Earth Resources new [email protected] Amazonian Ecosystems
698 Piloting a sustainability atlas for mining in Wolfgang Maier (UK) 13 $5.000 Earth Resources new southern Africa (NextMine) [email protected]
Building Global Capacity for the 705 Santiago Arellano (Sweden) 14 Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric $5.000 Geohazards new [email protected] Change Origin, Distribution, and Biogeochemistry Murray Jesica (Argentina) 707 15 of Arsenic in the Altiplano-Puna plateau of $8.000 [email protected] Hydrogeology new South America [email protected] Changing the paradigm in observational 713 volcano science: Community plan for the Diana C. Roman (USA) 16 $5.000 Geohazards new Global Volcano Observatory (GloVO) [email protected] Initiative Paleoproterozoic Birimian geology for Moussa Dabo (Senegal) 17 638 $7.500 Earth Resources sustainable development [email protected]
Sea Level Changes from minutes to Simon Engelhart (USA) 18 639 $7.000 Global Change millennia [email protected]
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643- OET Water Resources in Wet Tropics of West- Bamory Kamagate (Côte d'Ivoire) 19 $6.000 Hydrogeology with Central Africa [email protected] funding A.C. Da Silva (Belgium) 20 652 Reading Geologic Time $7.500 Global Change [email protected]
The onset of the Great Ordovician Thomas Servais (France) 21 653 $7.500 Global Change Biodiversification Event [email protected] Prof. Xuexin Yan (China) 22 663 Land subsidence in coastal cities $7.500 Hydrogeology [email protected] Identification of seismogenic faults in 669* populated areas of Latin America and its María Ortuño (Spain) 23 $10.000 Geohazards new incorporation into seismic hazard [email protected] assessment Modeling human health impacts of mining 674* Simon Sovoe (Ghana) 24 activities in Africa for sustainable earth $6.000 Earth Resources new [email protected] resource extraction Ruoshi Jin (China) 25 675 Sandstone-Type Uranium Deposits $7.500 Earth Resources [email protected] Cretaceous earth dynamics and climate in Prof. Gang Li (China) 26 679 $7.000 Global Change Asia [email protected] Seismic risk assessment in Haiti: insight 693 Newdeskarl Saint Fleur (Haiti) 27 from paleoseismology, site effects and $5.000 Geohazards new [email protected] societal exposure Building New Tools for Data Sharing and 697 Re-use through a Transnational Jamie Trammell (USA) 28 $5.000 Earth Resources new Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts [email protected] & [email protected] of Protected Areas
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Hathaithip Thassanapak Udchachon 700 29 Carbonate Build-ups in South East Asia $6.000 (Thailand) Global Change new [email protected] Seismic vulnerability of buildings located 701 Edgar Giovanny Diaz Segura (Chile) 30 on hillsides. Case study: Latin American $4.000 Geohazards new [email protected] Countries Carbon in Peat on Earth through Time: 704 Sakonvan Chawchai (Thailand) 31 Tropical peatland processes and ecosystem $4.500 Global Change new [email protected] services Examination of Recent Transformations of 706 Geoffrey M. Wambugu (Kenya) 32 the Eastern Rift Valley Lakes of Kenya and $6.000 Hydrogeology new [email protected] Tanzania
Total funding agreed by IGCP Council to be transferred from $194.364 2020 to 2021
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ANNEX 4 New IGCP Project Proposals submitted in 2020 (Evaluated for funding in March 2021)
Project number Project Title Project Leader (country) Earth Resources
722 Development Minerals workshop in the Pacific Raijeli Taga (Fiji), Derya Gürer (Australia), Daniel Franks (Australia), Uphie Melo, Rector (Cameroon), Ishmael Quaicoe, Senior Lecturer (Ghana), Djoan Kate Tungpalan (Philippines), Antony Mamuse (Zimbabwe) Global Change 735 Rocks and the Rise of Ordovician Life (Rocks n' ROL) Bertrand Lefebvre (France), Beatriz Waisfeld (Argentina), Wenhui Wang (China), Oive Tinn (Estonia), Khadija El Hariri (Morocco), Elena Raevskaya (Russia), Yves Candela (UK), Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour (UK)
732 LANGUAGE of the Anthropocene Michael Wagreich (Austria), Luyuan Zhang (China), Juliana Ivar Do Sul (Acronym: LANGUAGE - Lessons in anthropogenic (Germany), Maria Luisa G. Tejada (Japan), Lydia Olaka (Kenya), impact: a knowledge network of geological signals to Mehwish Bibi (Pakistan), Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł (Poland), unite and assess global evidence of the Anthropocene) Catherine Russell (UK)
739 The Mesozoic-Palaeogene hypothermal events Xiumian Hu (China), David Kemp (China), Santanu Banerjee (India), Micha Ruhl (Ireland), Ismail Yilmaz (Turkey), Ying Cui (Usa) Hydrogeology 717 Assessment of toxic components in riverine ecosystem Md. Ahosan Habib (Bangladesh), Swapan Talukdar (India), Khamphe Phoungthong (Thailand), Thitipone Suwunwong (Thailand)
730 Hydrogeological Significance of Mediterianian Geoparks Marwan Ghanem (Palestine), Fagr K. Abdel-Gawad (Egypt), Alsharifa Hind Mohammad (Jordan), Laftouhi Nour-Eddine (Morocco), África De La Hera (Spain), Badiaa Chulli (Tunisia) 729 Georeferenced karst database of western peninsular Luluan Almanna Lubis (Malaysia), Jiang Zhongcheng (China), Martin Malaysia Knez (Slovenia) 715 A new karst modelling approach along different Daniel Moraetis (United Arab Emirates), Xuan Yu (China), Kostas tectonic contacts Adamopoulos, Speleologist (Greece), Nikolaos Nikolaids, Professor (Greece), Charalambos Fassoulas (Greece), Christos Pennos (Norway), Andreas Scharf (Oman), Kosmas Pavlopoulos (United Arab Emirates), Hamdan Hamdan (United Arab Emirates)
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Geohazards 718 Bringing geology and geoheritage to life Sherene James-Williamson (Jamaica), Catalina González Tejada (Colombia), Benjamin Van Wyk De Vries (France), Lesley-Gail Atkinson (Jamaica), Professor Simon Mitchell (Jamaica), Ashley Hamilton-Taylor (Jamaica), Earl Edwards (Trinidad And Tobago), Katherine Ellins (Usa), Kim Whitehall (USA) 721 Climate change vulnerability mapping for remediation Md. Bazlar Rashid (Bangladesh), Swapan Talukdar (India), Narissara in the Asian mangrove delta coast Nutumashote (Thailand) 740 West Makran Paleo-tsunami Investigation Mohammad Mokhtari (Iran), Siddharth Pravinbhai Prizomwala (India), Sobhi Jaber Yousif Nasir (Oman), Ameer Hyder (Pakistan) 719 Building Research Capacity for Coastal Resilience in Mallégueye (Senegal), Isaac Okyere (Ghana), Tunde Adebola (Usa) 716 Asian Coastal Resilience Network (ACoRN) Sonia Binte Murshed (Bangladesh), Subrata Sarker (Bangladesh), Alessandro Novellino (British Geological Survey - United Kingdom) (Uk), Nguyen Thanh Thao (Vietnam) 724 Fluids geochemistry and earthquake forecasting Ying Li (China), Xiao-Cheng Zhou (China), Zhi Chen (China), Giorgio Capasso (Italy), Lauro Chiaraluce (Italy), Antonio Caracausi (Italy) 725 Forecasting coastal change Jessica Pilarczyk (Canada), Annie Lau (Australia), Noelynna Ramos (Philippines), Andy Green (South Africa), Matt Brain (Uk), Christopher Hein (Usa) 720 Coastal Evolution and Adaption Niki Evelpidou (Greece), Anna Karkani (Greece), Anne Marie O’Hagan (acronym COAST-ENGAGE: COASTal Evolution and (Ireland), Mauro Soldati (Italy) adaptation: climate chaNGe And Geohazards 734 REFRA-SOS (Realtime Flood Risk Assessment in Muhire Desire (Morocco), Ndongo Barthélémy (Cameroon), developing countries using Social media, Optical and Alessandro Novellino (UK)
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Geoheritage for sustainable development 727 Geological heritage - sustainable management of Aleksei Dudashvili (Kyrgyzstan), Yunus Mamadjanov (Tajikistan), geological hazards and water resources in Ahmet Serdar Aytaç (Turkey) transboundary region of Kyrgyzstan 731 IUGS Geological Heritage sites Asier Hilario Orús (Spain), Joana Paula Sánchez (Brazil), Marcela Gómez Pérez (Colombia), Nickolas Zouros (Greece), Juana Vegas (Spain) 714 3GEO – Geoclimbing & Geotrekking in Geoparks Irene Maria Bollati (Italy), Fassoulas Charalampos (Greece), Cristina Viani (Italy), Eugenio Fazio (Italy), Mohammed Alkindi (Oman), Hugo 736 SEDSNet - Science and Education for Sustainable Hugo Filipe Teixeira Gomes (Portugal), Francisca Jeanne Sidrim De Development Networks in UGGp Figueiredo Mendonça (Brazil), Emmaline M. Rosado González 737 SMART Geology for better Community Lavdie Moisiu (Albania), Radoslav Nakov (Bulgaria), Ljerka Marjanac (Croatia), Aida Bode (Albania), Samila Hrvanović (Bosnia And Herzegovina), Houda El Kerni (Croatia), Georgia Fermeli (Greece), Aleksandra Maran Stevanović (Serbia), Nizamettin Kazanci (Turkey)
726 GEOfood for sustainable development in UNESCO Sara Gentilini (Norway), Daniela Rocha (Portugal), Cristian Ciobanu Global Geoparks (Romania), Leticia Chiglino (Uruguay)
738 Sustainable development through and understanding H. R. Beckedahl (Eswatini), M. Lindner (Germany), A. Bumby (South of local geoheritage Africa)
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ANNEX 5: IGCP Scientific Board Members and Council members
Theme Name Affiliation Nationality Term
Chairperson: Prof. Dr Sobhi Nasir Sultan Qaboos University Jordan/Canada 2019-2022 Prof. Dr Jonathan Craig UK and Northern Eni Natural Resources Theme 2020-2024 IGCP Council Member Ireland Mr. Canet, Carles National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico 2019-2022 Ms. Castro, Liliana Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina 2019-2022 Ms. Munkhtsengel, Baatar Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar Mongolia 2019-2022
Ms. Boland, Maeve University College Dublin, Ireland Ireland 2020-2024 Mr. Eilu, Pasi Geological Survey of Finland Finland 2020-2024 Ms. Errami, Ezzoura Faculté Polydisciplinaire de Safi, Université Cadi Ayyad Morocco 2020-2024 Mr. Franks , Daniel Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Australia 2020-2024 Ms. Le Ravalec, Mickaele IFPEN France 2020-2024 Mr. Mondlane Junior, Salvador Eduardo Mondlane University Mozambique 2020-2024 Earth Resources Ms. Mutemeri, Nellia School of Mining Engineering, University of Witwatersrand Zimbabwe 2020-2024 Ms. Schneider, Gabi Executive Director at Namibian Uranium Association (NUI) Namibia 2020-2024 Mr. Singh, Satish Institut Physique du Globe de Paris France/UK 2020-2024 Mr. Zhang, Cong Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences China 2020-2024
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Theme Name Affiliation Nationality Term
Prof. Dr Hassina Mouri University of Johannesburg (UJ) South Africa 2020-2024 IGCP Council Member Mr. Jin, Xiaochi Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences China 2016-2022 Ms. Halla, Jaana University of Helsinki Finland 2016-2022 Mr. Kenichiro, Hisada University of Tsukuba Japan 2016-2022 Mr. Aoudia, Abdelkrim International Centre for Theoretical Physics Algeria/Italy 2020-2024 Mr. Gbadebo , Michael Adewole Environmental Mgt & Toxicology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta Nigeria 2020-2024
Mr. Aleksandrowski, Pawel University of Wroclaw & Polish Geological Institute Poland 2020-2024 Mr. Banerjee, Dhiraj Indian National Science Academy/Department of Geology, University of Delhi India 2020-2024 Mr. Brilha, José University of Minho Portugal 2020-2024 Mr. Delvaux, Damien Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Belgium 2020-2024 Mr. Fassoulas, Charalampos Curator, PHD Greece 2020-2024 Geodynamics Ms. Garcia, Maria Da Gloria Institute of Geosciences, University of São Paulo Brasil 2020-2024 Mr. Giardino, Marco University of Torino, Italy Italy 2020-2024 Mr. Hilario, Asier Basque Coast UNESCO Global Geopark / Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa Spain 2020-2024 Mr. Mocanu, Victor University of Bucharest Romania 2020-2024 Mr. Toulkeridis, Theofilos Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE Ecuador 2020-2024 Mr. Youssef, Driouch Geology Department. FSDM-USMBA Morocco 2020-2024 Prof. Carlos Alberto Vargas J. Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Bogota Colombia 2018-2022 IGCP Council Member Ms. Batista, Maria João Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia Portugal 2018-2022 Mr. Cundy, Andy University of Southampton UK and NI 2018-2022 Mr. Singh, Vimal Department of Geology, University of Delhi India 2018-2022 Mr. Sintubin, Manuel KU Leuven, Belgium Belgium 2018-2022
Ms. Alcántara-Ayala, Irasema Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Mexico 2016-2022 International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES) and Mr. Ghafory-Ashtiany, Mohsen Iran 2016-2022 Iranian EQ Egr Association (IEEA)
Geohazards Mr. Yirgu, Gezahegn School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopia 2016-2022 Mr, Bhat, G. M. University of Jammu, Department of Geology teachingg and research India 2020-2024 Mr. Omosanya, Kamaldeen Oasisgeokonsult, Trondheim Nigeria 2020-2024 Mr. Van Wyk De Vries, Benjamin Université Clermont Auvergne France 2020-2024 Ms. Von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa NOAA Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program Puerto Rico, USA 2020-2024
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Theme Name Affiliation Nationality Term
Prof Dr. Weijian Zhou Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences China 2019-2022 IGCP Council Member Mr. Koenigshof, Peter Senckenberg - Research Institute and natural History Museum Frankfurt Germany 2012-2022 Ms. Leroy, Suzanne Aix-Marseille University, LAMPEA France 2012-2022 Mr. Servais, Thomas UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, CNRS - Univ Lille France 2012-2022
Ms. Vickers-Rich, Patricia Monash University Australia 2012-2022 Ms. Marsicano, Claudia Universidad de Buenos Aires -CONICET Argentina 2018-2022 Ms. Orgeira, Maria Julia Universidad de Buenos Aires -CONICET Argentina 2016-2022 Mr. Valenzuela-Ríos, José Ignacio University of Valencia, Spain Spain 2018-2022 Mr. Burr, George S. Geosciences Department, National Taiwan University USA 2020-2024 Global Change Global Mr. Zalasiewicz, Jan University of Leicester UK &NI 2020-2024 Ms. Burke, Cynthia University of Chester UK& NI 2020-2024 Mr. Dodson, John University of Wollongong, Australia, Institute of Earth Environment, China Australia 2020-2024 Ms. Pérez-Cruz, Ligia National University of Mexico/Institute of Geophysics Mexico 2020-2024 Dr Mohamed Jalludin Centre d'Etude et de Recherche de Djibouti Djibouti 2020-2024 IGCP Council Member Ms. Fidelibus, M. Dolores Politecnico di Bari Italy 2016-2022 Institute of Natural Product Chemistry, Vietnam Academy of Science and Ms. Le, Thi Phuong Quynh Vietnam 2016-2022 technology Ms. Vallejos-Izquierdo, Angela University of Almeria Spain 2016-2022
Mr. Schwartz, Frank School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University Columbus OH USA 2018-2022 Mr. Lachassage, Patrick HydroSciences Montpellier, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, France France 2020-2024 Ms. Arora, Tanvi CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad India 2020-2024 Mr. Cheng, Zhang Institute of Karst Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences China 2020-2024 Mr. Kim, Yongje Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) Korea 2020-2024 Hydrogeology Center for Environment and Water, King Fahd Petrol and Mineral University, Turkey/Saudi Mr. Kurtulus, Bedri Saudi Arabia; Department of Geological Engineering Mugla Sitki Kocaman 2020-2024 Arabia University, Turkey Ms. Liu, Fei School of Water Resources Environment, China University of China P.R.China 2020-2024 Mr. Martínez-Santos, Pedro Universidad Completeness de Madrid Spain 2020-2024
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