ANNUAL REPORT ICTJA - CSIC 2017 INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA
2018 Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera, CSIC c/ Lluís Solé i Sabaris, s/n Barcelona [email protected] www.ictja.csic.es
Realization and coordination Jordi Cortés Picas
Supervision José-Luis Fernández-Turiel
Content ICTJA-CSIC staff
Graphic design and layout Marta Planas i Mia Masgrau MIA COMUNICACIÓ www.miacomunicacio.cat
Cover photography: Horse Shoe Bend (Arizona, USA). Author: Cristina Biete. This image is the winner of the ICTJA-CSIC Photo Contest 2017 José-Luis Fernández-Turiel FOREWORD Director
he Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera of the Spanish Scientific Research Council (ICTJA-CSIC) in Barcelona was established in the year 1965 focusing on Earth Sciences. Its name recalls the early days of research in Geology in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, paying tribute to Jaume Almera, an expert in the geology of Catalonia with international renown.
From its earliest days in 1965 as a new Geology institute in Barcelona, it has evolved to become an innovative and dynamic centre, Twith international relevance in the field of Earth Sciences. Our history is of all those who helped to establish the Institute with enthusiasm and perseverance, contributing to the research work of CSIC as a whole. The ICTJA’s mission and vision will continue to keep alive our passion for advancing knowledge of Earth Sciences with rigor and dedication.
The Institute belongs to the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC), a state agency dedicated to the promotion, coordination, development and dissemination of scientific and technological research, as well as staff training and advice to public and private entities.
Earth Sciences study the Earth’s system, but they are about much more than that. They engage intellectual inquiry through interrogating the world in which we live to contribute to a future in which we want to live. Earth Sciences are particularly relevant today in many aspects of our everyday life. From the Antarctica to the Caribe, from the Mediterranean to the dessert of Atacama and the Puna in the Andes, from the Pacific coast of Asia to central Asia, ICTJA-CSIC scientists work examining the Earth’s Systems through their particular specialties covering many time and space scales. Cutting across the traditional disciplinary boundaries of geology, physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, and using advanced instruments, ICTJA-CSIC seeks to advance the understanding the geologic processes and materials to meet industrial and social needs with knowledge transfer applied to geohazards and exploration and exploitation of geological resources.
We take great pride of the integration of graduate students and technicians in our research efforts. The aim is to promote the creative thinking and the ability to develop independent and original research. Our research activities are strongly supported by the specialized technical and administrative staff available in our scientific, technical and administrative services.
This Annual Report 2017 describes the scientific activity of the four research groups: Structure and dynamics of the Earth, Environmental changes in the geological record, Geophysical and geochemical modelling of geological hazards and resources, and Crystallography and optical properties. The service units and laboratories section outlines the major capacities of these infrastructures. The ICTJA 10 highlighted papers section allows obtaining a fast snapshot of our research. The following sections rounds off this Report with a look to training, outreach activities and media presence, international collaboration, editorial activities, and finally a summary of the ICTJA big numbers for 2017.
Annual report ICTJA 2015 1 2 Annual report ICTJA 2015 ICTJA at a glance ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Our Mission …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Our Aims ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Our Expertise ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5
Organization Chart …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6 Research Groups ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11 Structure and dynamics of the Earth ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12 Crystallography and optical properties ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 19 Environmental changes in the geological record …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 22 Geophysical and geochemical modelling ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 28 General Services ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 31 Scientific services and laboratories ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 35 Library …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 35 X-Ray Diffraction Service ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 37 Paleomagnetism Service (CSIC-CCiTUB) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 39 LabGEOTOP Service- Geochemistry Laboratory…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 41 Seismic Laboratory (LabSis)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 43 Raman Spectroscopy and Photoluminescence Laboratory……………………………………………………………………………………………… 44 Th-230/U-234 Geochronology Laboratory…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 45 SIMGEO (UB-CSIC)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...... ……… 46 Borehole Geophysical Logging Lab-Scientific Boreholes Almera 1-2 …………………………………………………………………………… 47 Laboratory of Palaeoecology (PALAB) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 48 Laboratory of Geodynamic Modelling ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 49
10 highlighted publications 2017 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 51 Other activities ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 63 PhD Theses …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 65 Master Theses ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 66 Organization of congresses …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 67 Editorial activities …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 68 International and national commitees …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 68 Invited scientists …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 69 Guest & Visiting scientist ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 69 Invited talks …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 70 Seminars ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 71 Courses ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 72 5th ICTJA PhD student presentation awards 2017 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 75 Outreach ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 79
ICTJA in numbers …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 87
Annual report ICTJA 2015 3 4 Annual report ICTJA 2015 ICTJA AT A GLANCE
Our Mission
ICTJA is an international geosciences research institute of excellence whose mission is to advance the understanding of Earth System Science. We will achieve this by applying advanced (forefront) experimental and analytical methodologies to well-defined, knowledge-driven research objectives. A key part of our mission is to meet industrial and societal needs through knowledge transfer applied to geohazards and exploration and exploitation of geological resources. Central to our mission is quality training of the next generation of Earth Science researchers and technicians.
Our Aims
@[\ek`]pe\nXe[\d\i^`e^#_`^_$gi`fi`kpi\j\XiZ_fggfikle`k`\j% Our Expertise >\fcf^`ZXcXe[^\fg_pj`ZXcjkl[`\jf]k_\c`k_fjg_\i\Xe[j_XccfnjlYjli]XZ\% :_XiXZk\i`qXk`fe#hlXek`ÔZXk`fe#dfe`kfi`e^#Xe[]fi\ZXjk`e^f]i\jfliZ\j% Annual reportICTJA ICTJAat a glance 2015 5 ORGANIZATION CHART Scienctific Board Institute Board Director General Manager Vicedirector Department of Structure Department of Environmental Scientific-technical Administration and and Dynamics of the Geology and Geohazards general technical Services Earth and Crystallography Services Structure and Dynamics Environmental Changes Communication and Administration of the Earth Group in the Geological Outreach Unit Record Group Computing and Communication Crystallography and Optical Laboratory of Properties Group Geophysical and Geochemical Geochemistry labGEOTOP Technologies Modelling Group Laboratory of Workshop and Maintenance Geodynamic Modelling Laboratory of Paleoecology Library Paleomagnetism Laboratory Raman and Photoluminiscence Laboratory Borehole Geophysical Logging Laboratory Seismic Laboratory Service of Vehicles for Fieldwork SIMGEO Laboratory U-Th Laboratory X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory 6 OrganizationAnnual report chart ICTJA 2015 Annual report ICTJA 2015 7 8 Annual report ICTJA 2015 Research Groups 10 Annual report ICTJA 2015 RESEARCH GROUPS The research groups of ICTJA-CSIC are organized in two departments: The Department of Structure and dynamics of the Earth and crystallography consists of two research groups: Antonio Villaseñor Department’s Head JkilZkli\Xe[[peXd`Zjf]k_\ The Department of Environmental geology and geohazards is composed of two research groups: María José Jurado Department’s Head Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 11 STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE EARTH Group members Josep Gallart Group Leader-Research Professor Ramon Carbonell, Research Professor Massimiliano Melchiorre, CSIC Contract Post-doc Manel Fernández, Research Professor Mar Moragas, CSIC contract Post-doc Joaquina Alvarez-Marrón, Senior Research Scientist Enric Pascual, CSIC contract Post-doc Dennis Brown, Senior Research Scientist Lavinia Tunini, CSIC Contract Post-doc Jordi Díaz, Senior Research Scientist Arantza Ugalde, CSIC Contract Post-doc Montserrat Torné, Senior Research Scientist Marc Viaplana, CSIC Contract Post-doc Jaume Vergés, Senior Research Scientist Ylenia Almar, CSIC Contract Daniel García-Castellanos, Research Scientist Jorge Balsa, CSIC contract Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Research Scientist Giulio Casini, CSIC contract Martin Schimmel, Research Scientist David Martí, CSIC contract Antonio Villaseñor, Research Scientist Mireia Peral, CSIC contract Concepción Ayala, IGME Visiting Research Scientist Eduard Saura, CSIC contract Jonas Ruh, SNSF, Switzerland, Visiting Research Scientist Lucia Struth, CSIC Contract Evelyn Núñez, Universidad Granada, Visiting Pre-doc Sergi Ventosa, CSC contract Jorge Belenguer, CSIC contract Post-doc Juvenal Andrés, FPI Pre-doc Emilio Casciello, CSIC Contract Post-doc Cristina Biete, FPI Pre-doc Elisenda Costa, CSIC Contract Post-doc María del Pilar Sánchez, FPI Pre-doc Arnaud Gallois, CSIC contract Post-doc Angel Valverde Pérez, FPI Pre-doc Edouard Le Garzic, CSIC Contract Post-doc Kittiphon Boonma, Marie Curie Pre-doc Chiara Macchiavelli, CSIC Contract Post-doc Ajay Kumar, Marie Curie Pre-doc Research outline The multidisciplinary research investigates the structure and dy- The acquisition of high-resolution seismic, potential field data and namic processes of the Earth’s interior. The main objective is to surface geology is combined with numerical models to achieve an understand how the Earth works at different scales through the integrate approach to basic and applied research in Earth Sciences. integration of a wide range of different datasets and methodolo- Related projects to industry include applications for hydrocarbon gies, including Geophysics and Geology, Numerical Modelling, exploration, waste disposal and geological storage of greenhouse Geodesy, and Geochemistry. gas emissions (CO2). 12 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 Publications 2017 W Ayala, C., J. L. García-Lobón, J. Escuder-Viruete, C. Rey-Moral, W de Queiroz, D. É., A. F. do Nascimento, and M. Schimmel (2017), A. Pérez-Estaún, and A. Padín-Debén (2017), High resolution Microseismic noise in the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, magnetic, regional gravity and petrophysical characterization of equatorial Atlantic, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 80, the Dominican Republic tectonic Domains with special focus on 304-315, doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2017.09.035. the central cordillera, Boletin Geologico y Minero, 128(3), 611-631, doi: 10.21701/bolgeomin.128.3.005. W Di Giuseppe, D., M. Melchiorre, G. Bianchini, A. Giurdanella, M. Coltorti, B. Faccini, and G. Ferretti (2017a), Assessment of heavy W Brown, D., J. Alvarez-Marron, C. Biete, H. Kuo-Chen, G. Camanni, metal bioaccumulation in sorghum from neutral saline soils in the and C. W. Ho (2017), How the structural architecture of the Eurasian Po River Delta Plain (Northern Italy), Environmental Earth Sciences, continental margin affects the structure, seismicity, and topography 76(15), doi: 10.1007/s12665-017-6856-6. of the south central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt, Tectonics, 36(7), 1275-1294, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004475. W Di Giuseppe, D., M. Melchiorre, B. Faccini, G. Ferretti, and M. Coltorti (2017b), Effects of middle-term land reclamation on nickel soil-water W Buffett, G. G., G. Krahmann, D. Klaeschen, K. Schroeder, V. Sallarès, interaction: a case study from reclaimed salt marshes of Po River C. Papenberg, C. R. Ranero, and N. Zitellini (2017a), Seismic Delta, Italy, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189(10), Oceanography in the Tyrrhenian Sea: Thermohaline Staircases, doi: 10.1007/s10661-017-6240-8. Eddies, and Internal Waves, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122(11), 8503-8523, doi: 10.1002/2017JC012726. W Díaz, J., M. Ruiz, P. S. Sánchez-Pastor, and P. Romero (2017), Urban Seismology: On the origin of earth vibrations within a city, Scientific WBuffett, G. G., M. Torne, R. Carbonell, M. Melchiorre, J. Vergés, Reports, 7(1), doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-15499-y. and M. Fernàndez (2017b), The nature of crustal reflectivity at the southwest Iberian margin, Tectonophysics, 721, 239-253, doi: W El Fellah, Y., A. E. A. K. A. El-Aal, M. Harnafi, and A. Villasenõr 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.006. (2017), New comprehensive standard seismic noise models and 3D seismic noise variation for Morocco territory, North Africa, obtained W Buffoni, C., M. Schimmel, N. C. Sabbione, M. L. Rosa, and G. using seismic broadband stations, Exploration Geophysics, 48(3), Connon (2017), Rayleigh waves from correlation of seismic noise 272-283, doi: 10.1071/EG15053. in Great Island of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina: Constraints on upper crustal structure, Geodesy and Geodynamics, doi: 10.1016/j. W Escuder-Viruete, J., M. Joubert, M. Abad, F. Pérez-Valera, J. Gabites, geog.2017.11.006. and A. Pérez-Estaún (2017), The basaltic volcanism of the dumisseau formation in the sierra de bahoruco, sw dominican republic: A record W Corela, C., G. Silveira, L. Matias, M. Schimmel, and W. H. Geissler of the mantle plume magmatism of the caribbean large igneous (2017), Ambient seismic noise tomography of SW Iberia integrating province, Boletin Geologico y Minero, 128(3), 541-568, doi: 10.21701/ seafloor- and land-based data, Tectonophysics, 700-701, 131-149, bolgeomin.128.3.002. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.012. W Fernández, F. J., I. Rodríguez, J. Escuder-Viruete, A. Pérez-Estaún, W Cruset, D., A. Travé, I. Cantarero, C. M. John, and J. Vergés (2017), E. Mariani, and D. Prior (2017), Paleostress evolution during Changes in fluid regime in syn-orogenic sediments during the growth the exhumation of high-P marbles, samaná complex, Northern of the South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt, Global and Planetary Hispaniola, Boletin Geologico y Minero, 128(3), 587-610, doi: Change, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.11.001. 10.21701/bolgeomin.128.3.004. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 13 W García-Senz, J., J. Escuder-Viruete, and A. Pérez-Estaún (2017), W Melchiorre, M., J. Vergés, M. Fernàndez, M. Coltorti, M. Torne, and Geometry, kinematics, paleostress analysis and tectonic model of E. Casciello (2017b), Evidence for mantle heterogeneities in the the extensional fault system deforming the plio-pleistocene reefal westernmost Mediterranean from a statistical approach to volcanic limestone in Southeastern Dominican Republic, Boletin Geologico petrology, Lithos, 276, 62-74, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.11.018. y Minero, 128(3), 695-714, doi: 10.21701/bolgeomin.128.3.009. W Moragas, M., J. Vergés, T. Nalpas, E. Saura, J. D. Martín-Martín, W Macchiavelli, C., J. Vergés, A. Schettino, M. Fernàndez, E. Turco, G. Messager, and D. W. Hunt (2017), The impact of syn- and E. Casciello, M. Torne, P. P. Pierantoni, and L. Tunini (2017), A post-extension prograding sedimentation on the development of New Southern North Atlantic Isochron Map: Insights Into the salt-related rift basins and their inversion: Clues from analogue Drift of the Iberian Plate Since the Late Cretaceous, Journal of modelling, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 88, 985-1003, doi: Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(12), 9603-9626, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.10.001. 10.1002/2017JB014769. W Palomeras, I., A. Villaseñor, S. Thurner, A. Levander, J. Gallart, and M. W Martí, J., A. Villaseñor, A. Geyer, C. López, and A. Tryggvason (2017), Harnafi (2017), Lithospheric structure of Iberia and Morocco using Stress barriers controlling lateral migration of magma revealed by finite-frequency Rayleigh wave tomography from earthquakes and seismic tomography, Scientific Reports, 7, 40757, doi: 10.1038/ seismic ambient noise, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, srep40757 18(5), 1824-1840, doi: 10.1002/2016GC006657. W Martín-Martín, J. D., et al. (2017), Diapiric growth within an Early W Pedrera, A., J. García-Senz, C. Ayala, A. Ruiz-Constán, L. R. Jurassic rift basin: The Tazoult salt wall (central High Atlas, Morocco), Rodríguez-Fernández, A. Robador, and L. González Menéndez (2017), Tectonics, 36(1), 2-32, doi: 10.1002/2016TC004300. Reconstruction of the Exhumed Mantle Across the North Iberian Margin by Crustal-Scale 3-D Gravity Inversion and Geological Cross W Meschede, M., É. Stutzmann, V. Farra, M. Schimmel, and F. Ardhuin Section, Tectonics, 36(12), 3155-3177, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004716. (2017), The Effect of Water Column Resonance on the Spectra of Secondary Microseism P Waves, Journal of Geophysical Research: W Pelorosso, B., C. Bonadiman, M. Coltorti, M. Melchiorre, P. P. Solid Earth, 122(10), 8121-8142, doi: 10.1002/2017JB014014. Giacomoni, T. Ntaflos, M. Gregoire, and M. Benoit (2017), Role of percolating melts in Antarctic subcontinental lithospheric mantle: W Mediato, J. F., J. García-Crespo, E. Izquierdo, J. L. García-Lobón, New insights from Handler Ridge mantle xenoliths (northern Victoria C. Ayala, E. L. Pueyo, and R. Molinero (2017), Three-dimensional Land, Antarctica), in Special Paper of the Geological Society of Reconstruction of the Caspe Geological Structure (Spain) for America, edited, pp. 133-150. Evaluation as a Potential CO 14 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 W Rawlinson, N., R. Stephenson, and R. Carbonell (2017), Seismic W Sembroni, A., A. Kiraly, C. Faccenna, F. Funiciello, T. W. Becker, imaging at the cross-roads: Active, passive, exploration and solid J. Globig, and M. Fernandez (2017), Impact of the lithosphere on Earth, Tectonophysics, 718, 1-8, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.07.022. dynamic topography: Insights from analogue modeling, Geophysical Research Letters, 44(6), 2693-2702, doi: 10.1002/2017GL072668. W Rodella, I., C. Vaccaro, M. Melchiorre, U. Simeoni, T. Campisi, and C. Corbau (2017), Textural changes and heavy metal distribution W Sippl, C., A. Kumar, and J. Dettmer (2017), A cross-correlation-based in sediments after decontamination treatment by soil washing and approach to direct seismogram stacking for receiver-side structural attrition scrubber, Journal of Soils and Sediments, 1-14, doi: 10.1007/ inversion, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(3), s11368-017-1896-9. 1545-1550, doi: 10.1785/0120160271. W Rodríguez, I., F. J. Fernández, J. Escuder-Viruete, and A. Pérez-Estaún W Soto, R., E. Beamud, E. Roca, E. Carola, and Y. Almar (2017), (2017), Relict cataclasis in the high-pressure marbles of the samaná Distinguishing the effect of diapir growth on magnetic fabrics of complex, northeast Dominican republic, Boletin Geologico y Minero, syn-diapiric overburden rocks: Basque–Cantabrian basin, Northern 128(3), 569-586, doi: 10.21701/bolgeomin.128.3.003. Spain, Terra Nova, 29(3), 191-201, doi: 10.1111/ter.12262. W Roigé, M., D. Gómez-Gras, E. Remacha, S. Boya, M. Viaplana-Muzas, W Sternai, P., L. Caricchi, D. Garcia-Castellanos, L. Jolivet, T. E. Sheldrake, and A. Teixell (2017), Recycling an uplifted early foreland basin and S. Castelltort (2017), Magmatic pulse driven by sea-level changes fill: An example from the Jaca basin (Southern Pyrenees, Spain), associated with the Messinian salinity crisis, Nature Geoscience, Sedimentary Geology, 360, 1-21, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.08.007. 10(10), 783-787, doi: 10.1038/ngeo3032. W Ruh, J. B. (2017), Effect of fluid pressure distribution on the structural W Tunini, L., I. Jiménez-Munt, M. Fernandez, J. Vergés, and P. Bird evolution of accretionary wedges, Terra Nova, 29(3), 202-210, doi: (2017), Neotectonic Deformation in Central Eurasia: A Geodynamic 10.1111/ter.12263. Model Approach, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(11), 9461-9484, doi: 10.1002/2017JB014487. W Ruh, J. B., and J. Vergés Effects of reactivated extensional basement faults on structural evolution of fold-and-thrust belts: Insights W Veludo, I., N. A. Dias, P. E. Fonseca, L. Matias, F. Carrilho, C. from numerical modelling applied to the Kopet Dagh Mountains, Haberland, and A. Villaseñor (2017), Crustal seismic structure Tectonophysics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.05.020. beneath Portugal and southern Galicia (Western Iberia) and the role of Variscan inheritance, Tectonophysics, 717, 645-664, doi: W Ruiz, M., J. Díaz, D. Pedreira, J. Gallart, and J. A. Pulgar (2017), 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.08.018. Crustal structure of the North Iberian continental margin from seismic refraction/wide-angle reflection profiles, Tectonophysics, W Ventosa, S., Schimmel, M., Stutzmann, E. (2017), Extracting surface 717, 65-82, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.07.008. waves, hum and normal modes: Time-scale phase-weighted stack and beyond, Geophysical Journal International, 211, pp. 30-44, doi: W Schimmel, M., E. Stutzmann, and S. Ventosa (2017), Measuring 10.1093/gji/ggx284 Group Velocity in Seismic Noise Correlation Studies Based on Phase Coherence and Resampling Strategies, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(4), 1928-1935, doi: 10.1109/ TGRS.2016.2631445. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 15 16 Annual report ICTJA 2015 Research projects 2017 National Funding Agencies W Project Title: CIMDEF-El Sistema Central y W Project Title: PROTAI/2 - Efectos de la arquitectura los mecanismos de deformación heredada del margen continental de la Península Ibérica. sobre la deformación y cinemática de Financed by: PNIDI-CGL2014-56548-P cuñas orogénicas de colisión.arcocontinente. Years: 2015-2018 Financed by: PNIDI-CGL - CGL2013-43877-P PI: Ramon Carbonell Years: 2014-2018 PI: Joaquina Álvarez-Marrón & Dennis Brown W Project Title: MISTERIOS - Monitorización integrada del sistema tierra en España: red de W Project Title: SN-SC4ME- Caracterización investigación y observación sísmica. del subsuelo para Financed by: PNIDI-CGL - CGL2013-48601-C2-1-R la exploración de minerales. Years: 2014-2018 Financed by: CGL-2016-81964-REDES PI: Josep Gallart Years: 2017-2019 PI: Ramon Carbonell W Project Title: MITE-Modelling the Iberian Topographic Evolution. Financed by: PNIDI-CGL2014-59516-P Years: 2015-2018 PI: Daniel García-Castellanos/Ivone Jiménez-Munt International Funding Agencies W Project Title: EPOS – European Plate Observing W Project Title: SUBITOP (ETN) –Understanding subduction System Implementation Phase. zone topography through modelling of Financed by: European Unión - 676564 coupled shallow and deep processes Years: 2015-2019 Financed by: European Unión - 674899 National Years: 2016-2020 coordinator: Josep Gallart & Ramon Carbonell National coordinator: Manel Fernández & Daniel García-Castellanos Industry collaboration W Project Title: ATLANTIC - Geodynamic evolution of rift W Project Title: OROGEN to drift, salt-involved and inverted Financed by: Orosac passive margins Years: 2017-2021 Financed by: STATOIL PI: Antonio Villaseñor Years: 2017-2019 PI: Jaume Vergés Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 17 18 Annual report ICTJA 2015 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES Group members Lluís Artús Group Leader-Senior Research Scientist Ramon Cuscó, Research Scientist Jordi Ibáñez, Research Scientist Martí Busquets Masó, CSIC-Contract Research outline This line of research is focused on the study of the optical pro- At present, an intensive research is being carried out by our group on perties of semiconductor materials. Over the past few years we the optical properties of the layered BN. Nowadays, the research on have carried out Raman scattering studies on a variety of III-V the physical properties of layered BN, with a honeycomb crystalline compound systems such as GaN, InN, InGaN, InAs/GaAs, InGaAs, structure very similar to graphite, has aroused an important interest InP, AlGaSb, InAsSb, GaSb, GaAsN, as well as on ZnO, a II-VI wide among the most relevant laboratories and leading research private band gap material which is intensively being investigated because companies because of their very interesting potential applications of its potential applications in transparent electronics and in blue and the extreme significance that the layered compounds have and UV light emitters. reached during the last few years. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 19 Publications 2017 W Cuscó, R., V. Consonni, E. Bellet-Amalric, R. André, and L. Artús Iberian Peninsula): A geologic reference record for equatorial (2017), Phase discrimination in CdSe structures by means of Raman Pangaea, Global and Planetary Change, 159, 46-60, doi: 10.1016/j. scattering, Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters, 11(5), doi: gloplacha.2017.10.004. 10.1002/pssr.201700006. W Ortega, D., C. Roqué, J. Ibáñez, E. Beamud, J. C. Larrasoaña, A. Sáez, WFrieiro, J. L., O. Blázquez, J. López-Vidrier, L. López-Conesa, S. and X. Terradas (2017), The chert from the Castelltallat Formation Estradé, F. Peiró, J. Ibáñez, S. Hernández, and B. Garrido Green (south-central Pyrenees): archaeometric characterisation and archaeological implications, Archaeological and Anthropological Electroluminescence of Al/Tb/Al/SiO2 Devices Fabricated by Electron Beam Evaporation, physica status solidi (a), 1700451-n/a, Sciences, 1-18, doi: 10.1007/s12520-016-0458-1. doi: 10.1002/pssa.201700451. W Prozheeva, V., I. Makkonen, R. Cuscó, L. Artús, A. Dadgar, F. Plazaola, W Ibáñez-Insa, J., J. J. Elvira, X. Llovet, J. Pérez-Cano, N. Oriols, M. and F. Tuomisto (2017), Radiation-induced alloy rearrangement in InxGa1 N, Applied Physics Letters, 110(13), doi: 10.1063/1.4979410. Busquets-Masó, and S. Hernández (2017a), Abellaite, NaPb2 (CO3) _X OH), a new supergene mineral from the Eureka mine, Lleida province, 2 W Radescu, S., A. Mujica, P. R. Hernández, A. Muñoz, J. Ibáñez, J. A. Sans, Catalonia, Spain, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29(5), 915-922, V. P. Cuenca-Gotor, and F. J. Manjón (2017), Study of the orpiment doi: 10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2630. and anorpiment phases of As2S3 under pressure, Journal of Physics: W Ibáñez-Insa, J., J. Pérez-Cano, V. Fondevilla, O. Oms, M. Rejas, J. L. Conference Series, 950(4), doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/950/4/042018. Fernández-Turiel, and P. Anadón (2017b), Portable X-ray fluorescence W Segura, A., L. Artús, R. Cuscó, R. Goldhahn, and M. Feneberg (2017), identification of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary: Application Band gap of corundumlike α-Ga2O3 determined by absorption and to the Agost and Caravaca sections, SE Spain, Cretaceous Research, ellipsometry, Physical Review Materials, 1(2), 024604, doi: 10.1103/ 78, 139-148, doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.06.004. PhysRevMaterials.1.024604. W Mujal, E., J. Fortuny, J. Pérez-Cano, J. Dinarès-Turell, J. Ibáñez- W Vuong, T. Q. P., G. Cassabois, P. Valvin, V. Jacques, R. Cuscó, L. Insa, O. Oms, I. Vila, A. Bolet, and P. Anadón (2017), Integrated Artús, and B. Gil (2017), Overtones of interlayer shear modes in multi-stratigraphic study of the Coll de Terrers late Permian–Early the phonon-assisted emission spectrum of hexagonal boron nitride, Triassic continental succession from the Catalan Pyrenees (NE Physical Review B, 95(4), doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.045207. Research projects 2017 National Funding Agencies W Project Title: MAPEE-Advanced materials for highly efficient energy processes: study of their optical properties Financed by: MINECO: MAT2015-71035-R Years: 2016-2018 PI: Lluís Artús / Ramon Cuscó 20 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 Annual report ICTJA 2015 21 ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD Group members José-Luis Fernández-Turiel Group Leader-Senior Research Scientist Santiago Giralt, Research Scientist Antonio Vázquez, Research Scientist Juan Cruz Larrasoaña, IGME Visiting Research Scientist Erik de Boer, Juan de la Cierva-F Post-doc Agustín Lobo, Contract Researcher Encarnación Montoya, Juan de la Cierva-I Post-doc Valentí Rull, Research Scientist Lluch Gual, Garantía Juvenil CSIC contrat Rosa Utrilla, Research Scientist Mari Carmen Trapote, Universidad Barcelona, Visiting Pre-doc Research outline Our multidisciplinary group promotes the reconstruction of environ- crofossils) preserved in the sediment as indicators of the ecological mental, climate and ecological changes, their causes, and dynamic dynamics through time. interactions through the multiproxy characterization of the geologic The objective of the research group is the robust and accurate recons- record. Throughout the history of our planet, the geological proces- truction of past climate oscillations, environmental fluctuations and ses in general and climate and ecological change in particular have ecological dynamics as well as identify short, medium and long term fingerprinted the sedimentary record. Furthermore, the increasing trends of these changes through the multiproxy characterization of the anthropogenic influence in the recent past is also readily identifiable geological sedimentary record. These reconstructions provide valuable in this geological record. data to put into a broad temporal perspective the current climate and This research is carried out using a multiproxy approach and focuses environmental trends, as well as they provide useful insights about on lake (and other sedimentary archives) sedimentology and global which has been the historical and current anthropogenic role in the change, impact of geological, climatic and anthropogenic processes recent evolution of the Earth and in shaping the current landscapes on the natural geochemical balances and biological responses, sedi- and ecosystems. These climatic, environmental and ecological recons- mentary processes and biomineralization, geochronological dating tructions also provide data that allows the establishment of possible and physical and magnetic properties of the sediments as indicators future climatic and environmental scenarios. of environmental and climatic processes, and biological remains (mi- 22 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 To achieve this goal the group is developing the following research lines: studying the long-term trends of terrestrial plant communities’ dynamics, the ecological and evolutionary origin and biogeography reconstruction of climatic, environmental and ecological changes of present species, biomes and communities; using a high temporal resolution multiproxy approach of lacustrine sedimentary records; assessment of relationships between processes and sedimentary environments and biomineralization, and-characterization of physical determining the geochemical impact of large-scale geological and magnetic properties of the sedimentary record as proxies of processes as explosive volcanic eruptions; climatic and environmental events. Publications 2017 W Báez W., Arnosio M., Chiodi A., Bustos E., Giordano G., Viramonte J.G., W Biagetti, S., S. Merlo, E. Adam, A. Lobo, F. C. Conesa, J. Knight, H. Fernández-Turiel J.L., Pérez-Torrado F.J. Estilo eruptivo y dinámica Bekrani, E. R. Crema, J. Alcaina-Mateos, and M. Madella (2017), High de flujo de las corrientes de densidad piroclásticas asociadas a la and medium resolution satellite imagery to evaluate late holocene gran erupción del Cerro Blanco (4200 AP), Puna Austral. Actas del human-environment interactions in arid lands: A case study from XX Congreso Geológico Argentino, Simposio 10 - III Simposio sobre the Central Sahara, Remote Sensing, 9(4), doi: 10.3390/rs9040351. Volcanes Activos (Coords. Caselli A., Sruoga P., Agusto M., Elissondo M., García S.), 2017, p. 8-13. San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. W Conesa, F. C., A. Lobo, J. Alcaina, A. Balbo, M. Madella, S. V. Rajesh, and P. Ajithprasad (2017), Multi-proxy survey of open-air surface scatters W Ballesteros, D., M. Jiménez-Sánchez, J. García-Sansegundo, S. in drylands: Archaeological and physico-chemical characterisation of Giralt, and M. Meléndez-Asensio (2017a), Proposal of a new fossilised dunes in North Gujarat (India), Quaternary International, speleogenetical model for Picos de Europa (Cantabrian Mountains, 436, 57-75, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.11.013. Spain), Geogaceta, 62, 55-58. W Daura, J., et al. (2017), Palaeoenvironments of the last Neanderthals W Ballesteros, D., M. Jiménez-Sánchez, S. Giralt, I. DeFelipe, and in SW Europe (MIS 3): Cova del Coll Verdaguer (Barcelona, NE of J. García-Sansegundo (2017b), Glacial origin for cave rhythmite Iberian Peninsula), Quaternary Science Reviews, 177, 34-56, doi: during MIS 5d-c in a glaciokarst landscape, Picos de Europa (Spain), 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.005. Geomorphology, 286, 68-77, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.03.014. W Fondevilla, V., et al. (2017), Geology and taphonomy of the L’Espinau W Ballesteros, D., L. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, S. González-Lemos, S. Giralt, dinosaur bonebed, a singular lagoonal site from the Maastrichtian D. J. Álvarez-Lao, L. Adrados, and M. Jiménez-Sánchez (2017c), New of South-Central Pyrenees, Sedimentary Geology, 355, 75-92, doi: evidence of sea-level lowstands and paleoenvironment during MIS 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.03.014. 6 and 4 in the Cantabrian coastal karst: the Cobiheru cave (North Iberia), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42(11), 1704-1716, W Frugone-Álvarez, M., et al. (2017), A 7000-year high-resolution lake doi: 10.1002/esp.4115. sediment record from coastal central Chile (Lago Vichuquén, 34°S): implications for past sea level and environmental variability, Journal of Quaternary Science, 32(6), 830-844, doi: 10.1002/jqs.2936. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 23 W Garcés-Pastor, S., N. Cañellas-Boltà, A. Pèlachs, J. M. Soriano, R. W Ortega, D., C. Roqué, J. Ibáñez, E. Beamud, J. C. Larrasoaña, A. Sáez, Pérez-Obiol, A. Pérez-Haase, Hernández, A., et al. (2017), The and X. Terradas (2017), The chert from the Castelltallat Formation influences of the AMO and NAO on the sedimentary infill in an (south-central Pyrenees): archaeometric characterisation and Azores Archipelago lake since ca. 1350 CE, Global and Planetary archaeological implications, Archaeological and Anthropological Change, 154, 61-74, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.05.007. Sciences, 1-18, doi: 10.1007/s12520-016-0458-1. W Geyer, A., A. Marti, S. Giralt, and A. Folch (2017), Potential ash W Ramón, M. J., E. L. Pueyo, B. Oliva-Urcia, and J. C. Larrasoaña (2017), impact from Antarctic volcanoes: Insights from Deception Island’s Virtual directions in paleomagnetism: A global and rapid approach most recent eruption, Scientific Reports, 7(1), 16534, doi: 10.1038/ to evaluate the NRM components, Frontiers in Earth Science, 5, doi: s41598-017-16630-9. 10.3389/feart.2017.00008. W Ibáñez-Insa, J., J. Pérez-Cano, V. Fondevilla, O. Oms, M. Rejas, J. W Raposeiro, P. M., et al. (2017), Impact of the historical introduction L. Fernández-Turiel, and P. Anadón Portable X-ray fluorescence of exotic fishes on the chironomid community of Lake Azul (Azores identification of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary: Application Islands), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466, to the Agost and Caravaca sections, SE Spain, Cretaceous Research, 77-88, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.015. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.06.004. W Rull, V. 2017. The “Anthropocene” uncovered. Collectanea Botanica, W Matthews-Bird, F., S. J. Brooks, W. D. Gosling, P. Gulliver, P. Mothes, 36: e008. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/collectbot.2017.v36.008 and E. Montoya (2017), Aquatic community response to volcanic eruptions on the Ecuadorian Andean flank: evidence from the W Rull, V. (2017), The “Anthropocene”: neglects, misconceptions, and palaeoecological record, Journal of Paleolimnology, doi: 10.1007/ possible futures: The term “Anthropocene” is often erroneously used, s10933-017-0001-0. as it is not formally defined yet, EMBO Reports, 18(7), 1056-1060, doi: 10.15252/embr.201744231. W Mujal, E., J. Fortuny, J. Pérez-Cano, J. Dinarès-Turell, J. Ibáñez- Insa, O. Oms, I. Vila, A. Bolet, and P. Anadón (2017), Integrated W Rull, V. (2017), Quaternary—A Multidisciplinary Integrative Journal multi-stratigraphic study of the Coll de Terrers late Permian–Early to Cope with a Complex World, Quaternary, 1(1), 1. Triassic continental succession from the Catalan Pyrenees (NE Iberian Peninsula): A geologic reference record for equatorial Pangaea, Global and Planetary Change, 159, 46-60, doi: 10.1016/j. W Rull, V., S. E. Connor, and R. B. Elias (2017a), Potential natural gloplacha.2017.10.004. vegetation and pre-anthropic pollen records on the Azores Islands in a Macaronesian context, Journal of Biogeography, 44(11), 2437- 2440, doi: 10.1111/jbi.13083. W Oliva-Urcia, B., E. Beamud, R. Soto, E. L. Pueyo, M. Garcés, and L. Valero (2017), Magnetic fabrics of the Pyrenean foreland, relation to the last deformational stages (San Felices thrust sheet, External W Rull, V., et al. (2017b), Vegetation and landscape dynamics under Sierras), Geogaceta, 61, 83-86. natural and anthropogenic forcing on the Azores Islands: A 700- year pollen record from the São Miguel Island, Quaternary Science Reviews, 159, 155-168, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.01.021. W Oliva, M., et al. (2017), The Little Ice Age in Iberian mountains, Earth-Science Reviews, 177(Supplement C), 175-208, doi: https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.010. 24 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 W Rull, V., and E. Montoya (2017), Holocene vegetation dynamics on the W Rull, V., and T. Vegas-Vilarrúbia (2017), Potential responses of Apakará summit of the neotropical Guayana Highlands and potential vascular plants from the pristine “lost world” of the neotropical environmental drivers, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 240, guayana highlands to global warming: Review and new perspectives, 22-32, doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.02.007. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00081. W Rull, V., M. C. Trapote, E. Safont, N. Cañellas-Boltà, N. Pérez-Zanón, J. W Soto, R., E. Beamud, E. Roca, E. Carola, and Y. Almar (2017), Sigró, T. Buchaca, and T. Vegas-Vilarrúbia (2017c), Seasonal patterns Distinguishing the effect of diapir growth on magnetic fabrics of of pollen sedimentation in Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees) and syn-diapiric overburden rocks: Basque–Cantabrian basin, Northern potential applications to high-resolution paleoecology: a 2-year Spain, Terra Nova, 29(3), 191-201, doi: 10.1111/ter.12262. pilot study, Journal of Paleolimnology, 57(1), 95-108, doi: 10.1007/ s10933-016-9933-z. W Valero, L., P. Huerta, M. Garcés, I. Armenteros, E. Beamud, and M. Gómez-Paccard (2017), Linking sedimentation rates and large-scale W Rull, V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T. and Montoya, E. (2017), Paleoecology as architecture for facies prediction in nonmarine basins (Paleogene, a guide to landscape conservation and restoration in the neotropical Almazán Basin, Spain), Basin Research, 29, 213-232, doi: 10.1111/ Gran Sabana, Past Global Changes Magazine, doi: 10.1111/bre.12222. bre.12145. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 25 Research projects 2017 National Funding Agencies W Project Title: PALEOMODES, Holocene W Project Title: POSVOLDEC, Understanding post-caldera climate and ecological impacts of the volcanic processes in Deception East Atlantic (EA) pattern and North Island (Antartica): Implications for assessing Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) future potential volcanic hazards interplay in southwestern Atlantic Europe Financed by: MINECO Financed by: CGL2016-75281-C2-2-R Years: 2016-2019 Years: 2016-2019 PI: Adelina Geyer PI: Santiago Giralt International Funding Agencies W Project Title: EPOS – European Plate Observing System Implementation Phase Financed by: European Unión - 676564 Years: 2015-2019 PI: Josep Gallart & Ramon Carbonell 26 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 Annual report ICTJA 2015 27 GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL MODELLING Group members Joan Martí Group Leader-Research Professor María José Jurado, Research Scientist Adelina Geyer, Ramón y Cajal Post-doc Carles Soriano, Research Scientist Dario Pedrazzi, Beatriu de Pinós Post-Doc Silvina Guzmán, CONICET, Argentina, Visiting Research Scientist David Casabuena, CSIC contract Laura Becerril, Juan de la Cierva-F Post-doc Jordi Mora, CSIC contract Domenico Doronzo, Juan de la Cierva-I Post-doc Sergi Conesa, Beca Jae-intro CSIC Research outline Geological, geochemical and geophysical studies are applied to model Among the most important used techniques we highlight: natural processes that can become geological hazards. These studies Simulation of geological processes using a combination of numerical include research topics related to volcanism, seismology, landslides and experimental methods or geochemical transfer in subsurface and surface land. From a mul- Application of X-ray radiation for the study of materials and residual tidisciplinary point of view, the research is focused on the physics of waters hazardous geological processes, development of analytical methods Borehole geophysics and subsurface imaging for geochemistry, borehole geophysics and remote sensing. Publications 2017 W Al-Dousari, A., D. Doronzo, and M. Ahmed (2017), Types, W Aramayo, A., S. Guzmán, F. Hongn, C. del Papa, C. Montero- indications and impact evaluation of sand and dust storms López, and M. Sudo (2017), A Middle Miocene (13.5–12 Ma) trajectories in the Arabian Gulf, Sustainability (Switzerland), deformational event constrained by volcanism along the Puna- 9(9), doi: 10.3390/su9091526. Eastern Cordillera border, NW Argentina, Tectonophysics, 703-704, 9-22, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.018. 28 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 W Becerril, L., J. Martí, S. Bartolini, and A. Geyer (2017), Assessing W Guzmán, S., M. Neri, R. Carniel, J. Martí, P. Grosse, C. Montero- qualitative long-Term volcanic hazards at Lanzarote Island López, and A. Geyer (2017a), Remarkable variability in dyke (Canary Islands), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, features at the Vicuña Pampa Volcanic Complex, Southern Central 17(7), 1145-1157, doi: 10.5194/nhess-17-1145-2017. Andes, Terra Nova, 29(4), 224-232, doi: 10.1111/ter.12268. W Carniel, R., S. Guzmán, and M. Neri (2017), FIERCE: FInding W Guzmán, S., et al. (2017b), Construction and degradation of a volcanic ERuptive CEnters by a grid-searching algorithm in R, broad volcanic massif: The Vicuña pampa volcanic complex, Bulletin of Volcanology, 79(2), doi: 10.1007/s00445-017-1102-3. southern central Andes, NW Argentina, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 129(5-6), 750-766, doi: 10.1130/B31631.1. W D’Elia, L., J. Martí, M. Muravchik, A. Bilmes, and J. R. Franzese (2016), Impact of volcanism on the sedimentary record of the W Haberland, C., L. Gibert, M. J. Jurado, M. Stiller, M. Baumann- Neuquén rift basin, Argentina: towards a cause and effect model, Wilke, G. Scott, and D. F. Mertz (2017), Architecture and tectono- Basin Research, n/a-n/a, doi: 10.1111/bre.12222. stratigraphic evolution of the intramontane Baza Basin (Bétics, SE-Spain): Constraints from seismic imaging, Tectonophysics, W Di Traglia, F., S. Bartolini, E. Artesi, T. Nolesini, A. Ciampalini, 709, 69-84, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.03.022. D. Lagomarsino, J. Martí, and N. Casagli (2017), Susceptibility of intrusion-related landslides at volcanic islands: the Stromboli W López, C., L. García-Cañada, J. Martí, and I. Domínguez Cerdeña case study, Landslides, doi: 10.1007/s10346-017-0866-z. (2017b), Early signs of geodynamic activity before the 2011–2012 El Hierro eruption, Journal of Geodynamics, 104, 1-14, doi: 10.1016/j. W Edgar, C. J., R. A. F. Cas, P. H. Olin, J. A. Wolff, J. Martí, jog.2016.12.005. and J. M. Simmons (2017), Causes of complexity in a fallout dominated plinian eruption sequence: 312ka Fasnia Member, Diego W Martí, J., L. Planagumà, A. Geyer, G. Aguirre-Díaz, D. Pedrazzi, Hernández Formation, Tenerife, Spain, Journal of Volcanology and X. Bolós (2017a), Basaltic ignimbrites in monogenetic and Geothermal Research, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. volcanism: the example of La Garrotxa volcanic field, Bulletin of jvolgeores.2017.07.008. Volcanology, 79(5), doi: 10.1007/s00445-017-1113-0. W Gaudin, D., et al. (2017), Heat flux-based strategies for the thermal W Martí, J., A. Villaseñor, A. Geyer, C. López, and A. Tryggvason monitoring of sub-fumarolic areas: Examples from Vulcano and La (2017b), Stress barriers controlling lateral migration of magma Soufrière de Guadeloupe, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal revealed by seismic tomography, Scientific Reports, 7, doi: Research, 343, 122-134, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.06.021. 10.1038/srep40757. W Geyer, A., A. Marti, S. Giralt, and A. Folch (2017), Potential W Molina, F., and J. Martí (2017), Proposal for an initial development ash impact from Antarctic volcanoes: Insights from Deception strategy for the Borinquen geothermal zone (Cañas Dulces, Island’s most recent eruption, Scientific Reports, 7(1), 16534, Costa Rica), Renewable Energy, 118, 409-424, doi: https://doi. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16630-9. org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.11.034. W Giordano, G., and D. M. Doronzo (2017), Sedimentation and W Németh, K., T. Casadevall, M. R. Moufti, and J. Marti (2017), mobility of PDCs: A reappraisal of ignimbrites’ aspect ratio, Volcanic Geoheritage, Geoheritage, 9(3), 251-254, doi: 10.1007/ Scientific Reports, 7(1), doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04880-6. s12371-017-0257-9. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 29 W Pedrazzi, D., K. Németh, A. Geyer, A. M. Álvarez-Valero, G. W Soriano, C. The Anthropocene and the production and reproduction Aguirre-Díaz, and S. Bartolini (2017), Historic hydrovolcanism at of capital, The Anthropocene Review, 0(0), 2053019617749260, Deception Island (Antarctica): implications for eruption hazards, doi: 10.1177/2053019617749260. Bulletin of Volcanology, 80(1), 11, doi: 10.1007/s00445-017- 1186-9. W Sainz-Maza, S., F. G. Montesinos, J. Martí, J. Arnoso, M. Calvo, and A. Borreguero (2017), Structural interpretation of El Hierro (Canary Islands) rifts system from gravity inversion modelling, Tectonophysics, 712-713, 72-81, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.05.010. Research projects 2017 National Funding Agencies International Funding Agencies W Project Title: POSVOLDEC, Understanding post-caldera W Project Title: EPOS – European Plate Observing System volcanic processes in Deception Island Implementation Phase (Antartica): Implications for assessing future Financed by: European Unión - 676564 potential volcanic hazards Years: 2015-2019 Financed by: MINECO National Years: 2016-2019 coordinator: Josep Gallart & Ramon Carbonell PI: Adelina Geyer W Project Title: INNOLOG, Innovative geophysical logging W Project Title: VOLCLIMA, Volcanoes and climate: tools for mineral exploration reevaluating their short- and long-term interaction Financed by: European Institute of Innovation and Financed by: MINECO Technology –EIT Raw Materials Years: 2016-2019 Years: 2017-2020 PI: Adelina Geyer PI: María José Jurado 30 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 G ENERAL SERVICES Management and General Services The Management and General Services depend directly on the Insti- Purchasing and procurement of supplies, service and maintenance tute’s Manager and include the administration of: – buildings, special infrastructures, technical services, vehicles. Human resources. Management of permanent staff, contract personnel Management of travel and subsistence expenses. and trainees, taking up their posts, contracts, grants, end of contract, The General Services are also responsible for maintenance of electrical reporting joiners and leavers to the Social Security system, etc. and mechanical installations and devices, porter, mailing, and cleaning. Project management. This includes applying for monitoring and financial management of national and international projects (public and industrial). Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 31 Manager Communication Unit José Luis López Burguillo Jordi Cortés, CSIC contract Administrative support As a reference research centre on Earth Sciences, ICTJA-CSIC has de- cided to take an active role in the social dissemination of Earth Sciences Leonor Fernández, Purchasing and procurement knowledge. Therefore, the institute created the Communication Unit, Núria Gasull, Payer which was created in November 2015 driven by COMUNICA project María Consuelo Palacio, Human Resources which is aimed to increase the social visibility of the ICTJA-CSIC activity. Esmeralda Rodríguez, Project management The main goals of Communication Unit are: Maintenance Increase external visibility of ICTJA-CSIC Óscar Ávila, Technical staff Disseminate information about research activities Miquel Ángel González, Technical staff Design and implement appropriate communication strategies Jordi Mora, Technical contract Strengthen staff links and engagement Daniel Zambrana, Technical contract Promote social knowledge of Earth Sciences Front desk Here we present some examples of Communication Unit activity in 2017: Xavier Pascual, Receptionist Alejandro Tatevosian, Receptionist Maintenance of the media database Creation and upgrade content for digital media (web and social Computing and Communications Service networks institutional accounts) Oscar Frías, Technical staff Design, creation and implementation of the new institutional web Marc Español, Technical contract page (in collaboration with Computing and Communications Unit) Dissemination of ICTJA-CSIC research activity through press-releases The main objective of this service is to facilitate the communication Creation of the ICTJA-CSIC Newsletter and computing tools and basic and advanced services to allow rese- Support to ICTJA-CSIC researchers in their outreach activities archers of ICTJA to achieve their scientific objectives. Coordination of ICTJA-CSIC outreach activities: Science Week and ESCOLAB The unit manages a network infrastructure compose of about 150 Production of audio visual content medium size computers, a Wi-Fi spread throughout the building, Regular update of the ICTJA-CSIC photographic archive some server-oriented computing, storage and connectivity with the Design of marketing products: leaflets, trifolds and posters Scientific Ring/RedIris/Geant2. Design and production of Institutional communication products: 2015 and 2016 Annual Report ICTJA facilitates the access to 3 CSIC research institutes ( IBB, IBMB and IIBB) to this Scientific Ring. In 2017 the Computing and Communications service has performed the following actions: Creation of the High Performance Computing Service Expansion of the server storage capacity Developing of the Intranet new applications Renewal of the printing infrastructure Technical implementation and maintenance of the new institutional website 32 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 Annual report ICTJA 2015 33 34 Annual report ICTJA 2015 SCIENTIFIC SERVICES AND LABORATORIES Library Staff Jordi Casadellà Saladas, Chief Librarian Emma Dalmau Ollé, Librarian Dolors Fernández, Librarian Adelina Ito Carol, Librarian Victor Sastre Jané, Librarian Laura Rincón, Geologica Acta, Journal Manager Daniel Casanueva González, Librarian he Library of Earth Sciences (UB-CSIC), housed in the Faculty repository. Up to 2017 in Digital.CSIC 1,864 documents have of Earth Sciences, is jointly managed by the Faculty of Earth been registered in the database, divided into different collections TSciences of the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Institute according to the type of content material. 50% of them are in of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (ICTJA-CSIC). This library is one of open access. the most important geology libraries in Spain in terms of repository The publication of the journal Geological Acta is also managed of journals and books and quality of service. In addition, major bibli- through this service. It is an international journal of Earth Scien- ographic databases are also offered (WOS, SCOPUS and GEOREF). ces providing an innovative and high quality media of scientific The library is currently compiling a database on Bibliography of Earth Sci- dissemination. Geologica Acta aims to stimulate rapid diffusion ences of the Iberian Peninsula (BIGPI) including more than 40,000 records of results and efficient exchange of ideas among the widespre- of articles, lectures, books, theses, etc. on any aspect of the geology of the ad communities of Earth Sciences researchers (with special Iberian Peninsula. In 2017 the documentary information of the maps of our emphasis on Latin-American, the Caribbean, Europe, and the map library of the Iberian Peninsula has been incorporated. Mediterranean regions). The Journal is edited in collaboration with the University of Barcelona and the IDAEA-CSIC institute. The library collaborates in the dissemination of the ICTJA-CSIC Since 2007, Geologica Acta is included in the Journal Citation scientific publications. Report of ISI Thomson withan Impact Factor (IF) of 1.056 in 2015 Through the delegate file service, all the digital documents produ- and a 5 year IF of 1.476. ced by researchers are registered in the Digital.CSIC institutional THE LIBRARY IN NUMBERS 18.000 books and subscription to thousands of e-books 14.000 aerial photographs 1.054 printed journals and subscription to thousands of e-journals 350 PhD Thesis 10.000 maps (geological, topographic, etc.) 8.000 article reprints of the geology of the Iberian Peninsula Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 35 36 Annual report ICTJA 2015 X-Ray Diffraction Service Staff Jordi Ibáñez, Scientific Director (CSIC) Josep Elvira, Technical Director (CSIC) María Soledad Álvarez, Technical Staff (CSIC) The X-ray Diffraction Service of ICTJA-CSIC is an analytical facility Some examples of applications provided by the laboratory to focused on the qualitative and quantitative characterization of the research groups and companies crystalline phases of materials. The XRD Service, with more than Phase identification and quantification of geological samples. 30 years of experience in the field, offers support to ICTJA rese- Identification and analysis of clay minerals archers and to external users from public and private universities Analysis of mineral phases in building materials: cement, concrete, and companies. aggregates, etc. Study of degraded calcium aluminate cements, One of the main objectives of the XRD Service at ICTJA is to support identification of fibre cements, etc. the ongoing investigations carried out by ICTJA researchers on Determination of the amorphous content in ashes and synthetic Earth Sciences topics, including studies of volcanology, petrology mixtures and sedimentology. The XRD Service offers also support to external Study of corrosion products researchers working in geology, materials science, environment, Determination of crystalline silica in respirable airborne dusts chemistry, pharmacy, archaeology, etc. A large number of companies by direct-on-filter methods and organizations from the public or private sectors make use of The XRD Service is part of the European initiative EPOS-IP infras- the XRD Service at ICTJA for their industrial applications, quality tructure and multidisciplinary global research in Earth Sciences control, environmental studies, forensics, etc. (https://www.epos-ip.org/). It integrates several hundred national Range of services offered infrastructures distributed in 25 countries in Europe, including Spain, for observation and measurement of the internal structure Identification of crystalline phases and dynamics of the planet. The XRD Service participates collecting Crystal-quality assessment, composition determination and and harmonizing available and emerging laboratory data, coordi- microstructural analyses nating the development, integration and transnational use of the Semi-quantitative and quantitative analysis of crystalline phases main Solid Earth Science lab centres and networks, and providing and amorphous content products and services supporting research into geo-resources and Application of the Rietveld method for profile adjustment, struc- geo-storage, geo-hazards and Earth System Evolution. ture refinement and quantitative phase analyses Investigation of small or inhomogeneous samples with micro-di- ffraction Determination of crystalline structures Non- destructive X-ray fluorescence analyses with a portable spectrometer for field work and cultural heritage studies Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 37 38 Annual report ICTJA 2015 Paleomagnetism Service (CSIC-CCiTUB) Staff Elisabet Beamud, Technical Director (CCiTUB) Luís Valero, CSIC contract Santiago Giralt, Research Scientist (CSIC) Juan Cruz Larrasoaña, IGME Visiting Research Scientist Mireia Barrachina, CSIC contract The Paleomagnetic Laboratory was founded in 1987 as result of The Paleomagnetism Service is part of the European initiative an agreement between the CSIC and the Catalonian Geological EPOS-IP infrastructure and multidisciplinary global research in Service of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Since 1999, the laboratory Earth Sciences (https://www.epos-ip.org/). EPOS integrates se- depends on the CCiTUB and the CSIC. veral hundred national infrastructures distributed in 25 countries in Europe, including Spain, for observation and measurement of the The laboratory provides technical support to research groups working internal structure and dynamics of the planet. The Paleomagnetism on several research topics within the Earth Sciences, among them:: Service participates collecting and harmonizing available and emer- ging laboratory data, coordinating the development, integration Magnetostratigraphic dating of sedimentary sequences and and transnational use of the main Solid Earth Science lab centres correlation with their fossil and paleoenvironmental record. and networks, and providing products and services supporting Archaeomagnetic dating of archaeological remains. research into geo-resources and geo-storage, geo-hazards and Paleomagnetism applied to the study of fold and thrust belts Earth System Evolution. and basin analysis. Environmental magnetic studies aimed to unravelling paleoen- vironmental and climatic variations in the sedimentary record. During 2017 the laboratory staff has conducted several magneto- tectonic surveys in the Basque-Cantabrian Basin and the Pyrenean fold and thrust belt as well as magnetostratigraphic sections in the Pyrenean foreland and piggy-back basins. The laboratory facilities include a superconducting and a spinner magnetometers, 3 thermal demagnetizers, 2 AF demagnetizers, a susceptibility bridge and an impulse magnetizer. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 39 40 Annual report ICTJA 2015 labGEOTOP Service - Geochemistry Laboratory Staff Jose-Luís Fernández-Turiel, Scientific Director (CSIC) Marta Rejas, Technical Director (CSIC) Luís Enrique Pezantes, CSIC contract The labGEOTOP Service, Laboratory of Elemental and Isotopic Facilities of the Service: Geochemistry for Petrological Applications, carries out multi- disciplinary research in Earth Sciences using an established core High Resolution Mass Spectrometer (HR-ICP-MS), Thermo Sci- of world class equipment and laboratories, and expertise in the entific Element XR. technical and applied aspects of their use. The service plays a key Laser Ablation Microprobe, New Wave Research UP-193 Excimer role in catalysing leading edge cross-disciplinary research within Laser Ablation System. the CSIC and into Spain. Sample preparation facilities for crushing (jaw crusher, rock saws, tungsten carbide percussion mortars), powdering (ring mill with The labGEOTOP service provides a central mass of equipment that agatha and tungsten carbide containers), drying (ovens), and sepa- enables significant scientific collaboration on a regional, national rating (binocular picking microscopes, sieves) geological samples. and international scale. We undertake a wide variety of analytical Supporting sample preparation laboratories house two special acid work for scientific institutions and industry. The labGEOTOP of- fume hoods, two evapoclean systems, high-temperature muffle fers elemental and isotopic analysis of solids and liquids covering furnaces for loss on ignition (LOI) determinations, and a Millipore the range of elements determined by high resolution-inductively water purification system (Elix + MilliQ Advantage A10 + QPod coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Element Merck Millipore). The service focuses on the analytical needs of R&D projects on: The labGEOTOP is an Infrastructure Project cofounded by ERDF through the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure National Compositional structure and evolution of Earth’s mantle: mantle Program in the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development geochemistry mainly through the open window of the volcanic and Technological Innovation (R&D) of the Ministry of Science and rocks; origin of mantle plumes. Innovation, Reference CSIC08-4E-001. Compositional structure and evolution of the lithosphere: geoc- hemical processes at the margins of tectonic plates. The labGEOTOP Service is part of the European initiative EPOS-IP Geochemical evolution of magmatic and metamorphic processes. infrastructure and multidisciplinary global research in Earth Sciences Environmental geology and paleoclimate reconstruction. (https://www.epos-ip.org/). EPOS integrates several hundred nati- Volcanism: temporal evolution of pre- and syn-eruptive magmatic onal infrastructures distributed in 25 countries in Europe, including processes: geochemical flows related to volcanic activity. Spain, for observation and measurement of the internal structure Experimental petrology and mineralogy. and dynamics of the planet. The labGEOTOP participates collecting and harmonizing available and emerging laboratory data, coordi- nating the development, integration and transnational use of the main Solid Earth Science lab centres and networks, and providing products and services supporting research into geo-resources and geo-storage, geo-hazards and Earth System Evolution. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 41 42 Annual report ICTJA 2015 Seismic Laboratory (LabSis) Staff Jordi Díaz Cusí, Scientific Director (CSIC) Josep Gallart, Research Scientist (CSIC) Mario Ruíz, Technical Director (CSIC) Antonio Villaseñor, Research Scientist (CSIC) Paula Romero, CSIC contract Martin Schimmel, Research Scientist (CSIC) Ramón Carbonell, Research Scientist (CSIC) ICTJA Seismic Laboratory is composed by two main sections, the software are available in the facility. The Centre is able to receive and Mobile Seismic Pool and the Seismic Processing Centre. store in near-real time seismic data from temporary seismic stations and selected permanent sites. The geoDB database, a repository The Mobile Seismic Pool includes seismic equipment intended to be offering free access to a significant amount of active source seismic used in temporary deployments, from short-term controlled source data is hosted in the facility. Finally, the Seismic Processing Center seismic profiling to long-term passive seismic deployments. The pool features connectivity with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and includes three branches; the broad-band branch is composed by 90 has research relationships with other computation, processing, inter- dataloggers equipped with Nanometrics T120 and TC sensors, 38 pretation and modelling facilities such as GEO-MODELS (University of them being part of the TopoIberia pool. The short-period branch of Barcelona) and the Barcelona Centre for Subsurface Imaging. offers up to 38 stations with robust, easy-to-install 2 Hz seismome- ters. Finally, the high resolution pool is composed by 250 nodes with The Seismic Laboratory is part of the European Research Infrastructure 10 Hz geophones. on Solid Earth EPOS-IP (https://www.epos-ip.org/). This initiative is a long-term plan to facilitate integrated use of data, data products, The Seismic Processing Centre includes up to 8 servers devoted to and facilities from distributed research infrastructures for solid Earth calculus, management of storage systems, data distribution, near science in Europe and involves several hundred national infrastructures real- time data acquisition and databases/web integration. Linux distributed in 25 countries in Europe. workstations, up to 218 Tb of disk space and dedicated processing Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 43 Raman Spectroscopy and Photoluminescence Laboratory Staff Lluís Artús, Scientific Director (CSIC) Ramon Cuscó, Research Scientist (CSIC) Jordi Ibáñez, Research Scientist (CSIC) The Laboratory of Raman Spectrocopy and Photoluminescence InAsSb, GaSb, GaAsN, as well as on ZnO, a II-VI wide band is focused on the study of the optical properties of semicon- gap material which is intensively being investigated because ductor materials. Among others, the lab carries out Raman of its potential applications in transparent electronics and in scattering studies on a variety of III-V compound systems blue and UV light emitters. such as GaN, InN, InGaN, InAs/GaAs, InGaAs, InP, AlGaSb, 44 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 Th-230/U-234 Geochronology Laboratory Staff Santiago Giralt, Scientific Director (CSIC) Graciela Monzón, Technical Director (CSIC) The Laboratory of Geochronology was founded in 1989 and fully The laboratory provides technical support for research groups working on: updated in 2010 with the acquisition of two 8-channel ORTEC alpha Absolute dating of upper Pleistocene and Holocene continental and spectrometers. The laboratory is specially designed for dating marine marine carbonate samples for a large variety of purposes such as and continental carbonates such as travertines, speleothems, endogenic climate, anthropic, geologic and/or environmental reconstructions. lacustrine carbonates, corals and marine crusts, although it is possible to date primary sulphates (gypsum) and chlorides (halite) using the Absolute dating of human and other archaeological carbonate uranium series disequilibrium method (230Th/234U). prehistorical ramains. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 45 SIMGEO (UB-CSIC) Staff Joan Martí, Scientific co-Director (CSIC) Ferran Colombo, Scientific co-Director (UB) The Laboratory of Geological Processes Simulation (SIMGEO) was processes that involve a risk to people and the environment, through created in 1995 as a joint venture between the Faculty of Geology of funding raised by public and private research projects and contracts the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Institute of Earth Sciences and agreements. Jaume Almera (ICTJA-CSIC) in the field of experimental and theoretical SIMGEO offers researchers a large space and equipment to design modelling of geological processes. and develop experimental models. SIMGEO seeks to promote application of experimental and theore- tical models to the study of geological processes and, in particular, 46 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 Borehole Geophysical Logging Lab - Scientific Boreholes Almera 1-2 Staff María José Jurado, Scientific Director (CSIC) Jordi Mora, CSIC contract Two scientific boreholes were drilled in 2012 in the UB campus of A subsurface connection for cables and tools with the borehole and Barcelona as part of the subsurface research studies of the Institute of monitoring research lab inside ICTJA building facilitate long term Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (ICTJA) in cooperation with the Faculty and continuous monitoring and control from the lab. This facility is of Geology of the University of Barcelona (UB). equipped with a complete system of geophysical logging tools and borehole monitoring data loggers used for testing of new devices and The Almera-1 is a 214.20 m deep borehole used as an experimental experiments in the frame of ongoing research projects. facility for the development of geophysical data logging methods. The borehole Almera-2 is 1 m away from Almera-1, reaching a depth of 46 m, and is meant to carry out routine piezometric measurements and cross hole experiments. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 47 Laboratory of Palaeoecology (PALAB) Staff Valentí Rull, Scientific Director (CSIC) Encarni Montoya, Technical Responsible PALAB analyzes biological proxies with applications on Quaternary Services provided paleoecology and paleoclimatology, radiocarbon dating, archeology Raw sample preparation (chemical treatment) and biostratigraphy. The service is open to any universities, institu- Pollen analysis at three levels (basic, detailed and specialized) tes, research groups, individual researchers and private and public Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) analysis companies. We work on a wide range of paleoarchives including lake Macrocharcoal and microcharcoal analysis sediments, peat bogs and similars, moden samples (including mosses), Graphical representation and interpretation archeological sites, caves, middens, etc. PALAB has been inaugurated Technical reports in 2016 and includes new state-of-the art facilities. We work with sedimentary archives of a wide range of environments, including re- mote locations from temperate, subtropical and tropical ecosystems. 48 ResearchAnnual Groups report ICTJA 2015 Laboratory of Geodynamic Modelling Staff Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Scientific Director (CSIC) Daniel García-Castellanos, Scientific Director (CSIC) The Laboratory of Geodynamic Modelling is the result of a group of The Laboratory of Geodynamic Modelling has a group of softwa geophysicists and geologists nucleated in 1998 at the Institute of Earth developed within the group during the last 20 years: Sciences linked by the interest on lithospheric-scale processes and – TISC. their interaction with the processes occurring on the Earth’s surface. – tAo. The Laboratory of Geodynamic Modelling, established in 2016, of- – LITMOD2D and LITMOD3D fers the experience on several codes and on the numerical modeling – CAGES techniques. It is equipped with a cluster (EARTH) and a workstation – Uhuru (MITE) with 120 and 64 processors, respectively. The Laboratory is Expertise in using other geodynamic academic tools: also connected with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. – Underworld. The services offered by the Laboratory are: – I3ELVIS High performance computing applied to geodynamic processes. Experience in developing scientific numerical codes Know-how in the study the lithosphere and upper mantle struc- Development of an Augmented Reality sandbox for science diffusion ture,and the geodynamic processes that take place on the lithos- purposes on the evolution of topography. phere-upper mantle linked with the surface. Annual reportResearch ICTJA Groups 2015 49 50 Annual report ICTJA 2015 10 highlighted papers 2017 Magmatic pulse driven by sea-level changes associated Between 5 and 6 million years ago, during the so-called Messinian with the Messinian salinity crisis salinity crisis, the Mediterranean basin became a giant salt repository. The possibility of abrupt and kilometre-scale sea-level changes during Sternai, P., L. Caricchi, D. Garcia-Castellanos, L. Jolivet, T. E. Sheldrake, this extreme event is debated. Messinian evaporites could signify either and S. Castelltort (2017), Magmatic pulse driven by sea-level changes deep- or shallow-marine deposits, and ubiquitous erosional surfaces associated with the Messinian salinity crisis, Nature Geoscience, 10, could indicate either subaerial or submarine features. Significant and 783, doi: 10.1038/ngeo3032. fast reductions in sea level unload the lithosphere, which can increase the production and eruption of magma. Here we calculate variations in 52 10 Annualhighlighted report publications ICTJA 2015 2017 surface load associated with the Messinian salinity crisis and compile link between unloading and magmatism using numerical modelling of the available time constraints for pan-Mediterranean magmatism. decompression partial mantle melting and dyke formation in response We show that scenarios involving a kilometre-scale drawdown of to surface load variations. We conclude that the Mediterranean mag- sea level imply a phase of net overall lithospheric unloading at a time matic record provides an independent validation of the controversial that appears synchronous with a magmatic pulse from the pan-Medi- kilometre-scale evaporative drawdown and sheds new light on the terranean igneous provinces. We verify the viability of a mechanistic sensitivity of magmatic systems to the surface forcing. Pressure and melt production change rate at depth in response to the MSC-related surface load variations. (Image adapted from Sternai et al, Nature Geosciences). 10 highlightedAnnual reportpublications ICTJA 20172015 53 Measuring Group Velocity in Seismic Noise Correlation mes. Our numerical and field data examples show a robust assignment Studies Based on Phase Coherence and Resampling of surface-wave group arrivals. The method is computational efficient Strategies thanks to an implementation based on pseudoanalytic frames of wa- velets and enables processing large amounts of data. Schimmel, M., E. Stutzmann, and S. Ventosa (2017), Measuring Group Velocity in Seismic Noise Correlation Studies Based on Phase Coherence and Resampling Strategies, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, PP(99), 1-8, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2631445. Seismic noise cross correlation studies are of increasing importance in the seismological research community due to the ubiquity of noise sources and advances on how to use the seismic noise wave field for structural imaging and monitoring purposes. Stacks of noise cross correlations are now routinely used to extract empirical Green’s functions between station pairs. In regional and global scale studies, mostly surface waves are extracted due to their dominance in seismic noise wave fields. Group arrival times measured from the time-fre- quency representation of frequency dispersive surface waves are further used in tomographic inversions to image seismic structure. Often, the group arrivals are not clearly identified or ambiguous depending on the signal and noise characteristics. Here, we present a procedure to robustly measure group velocities using the time-frequency domain phase-weighted stack (PWS) combined with data resampling and decision strategies. The time-frequency PWS improves signal extraction through incoherent signal attenuation during the stack of the noise cross correlations. Resampling strategies help to identify signals robust against data variations and to assess their errors. We have gathered these ingredients in an algorithm where the Field data example to show the robust group velocity extraction following the decision strategies and tuning parameters are new method proposed in the paper. The noise cross-correlations are from reduced for semiautomated processing sche- the GEOSCOPE station pair CLF (Chambon la Foret Observatory, France) and SCZ (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Interstation distance is 9.100 km (81.9∞). 54 10 highlightedAnnual report publications ICTJA 2015 2017 Vegetation and landscape dynamics under natural and tation changes. The lake levels experienced a progressive rise during anthropogenic forcing on the Azores Islands: A 700- the time interval studied, reaching a maximum by ca. 1778–1852 CE, year pollen record from the S„o Miguel Island followed by a hydrological decline likely due to a combination of cli- matic and anthropogenic drivers. Our pollen record suggests that São Rull, V., et al. (2017), Vegetation and landscape dynamics under natural Miguel were already settled by humans by ca. 1287 CE, approximately and anthropogenic forcing on the Azores Islands: A 700-year pollen one century and a half prior to the official historically documented record from the São Miguel Island, Quaternary Science Reviews, 159, occupation of the archipelago. The results of this study are compared 155-168, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.01.021. with the few palynological records available from other Azores islands The Azores archipelago has provided significant clues to the ecological, (Pico and Flores). biogeographic and evolutionary knowledge of oceanic islands. Pala- eoecological records are comparatively scarce, but they can provide relevant information on these subjects. We report the palynological reconstruction of the vegetation and landscape dynamics of the São Miguel Island before and after human settlement using the sediments of Lake Azul. The landscape was dominated by dense laurisilvas of Juniperus brevifolia and Morella faya from ca. 1280 CE to the official The study of the sedi- European establishment (1449 CE). After this date, the original forests ments and the analisis of the fosil polen from the were replaced by a complex of Erica azorica/Myrsine africana forests/ Lago Azul, in Sao Migiel shrublands and grassy meadows, which remained until ca. 1800 CE. Island (Azores), provided evidence for cereal (Seca- Extractive forestry, cereal cultivation (rye, maize, wheat) and animal le cereale) and livestock husbandry progressed until another extensive deforestation (ca. 1774 farming in the island by CE), followed by the large-scale introduction (1845 CE) of the exotic 1290, about a century and a half prior its offici- forest species Cryptomeria japonica and Pinus pinaster, which shaped al Portuguese settlement, the present-day landscape. Fire was a significant driver in these vege- estabished historically in 1449. This was the first evidence about the human presence in the Azores. 10 highlightedAnnual reportpublications ICTJA 20172015 55 Stress barriers controlling lateral migration of magma the location of seismicity, made the location of the future vent unpre- revealed by seismic tomography dictable, so short term hazard assessment was highly imprecise. A 3D P-wave velocity model is obtained using arrival times of the earthquakes Martí, J., A. Villaseñor, A. Geyer, C. López, and A. Tryggvason (2017), occurred during that pre-eruptive unrest and several latter post-eruptive Stress barriers controlling lateral migration of magma revealed by seis- seismic crises not related to further eruptions. This model reveals the mic tomography, Scientific Reports, 7, 40757, doi: 10.1038/srep40757 rheological and structural complexity of the interior of El Hierro volcanic Understanding how monogenetic volcanic systems work requires full island. It shows a number of stress barriers corresponding to regional comprehension of the local and regional stresses that govern magma tectonic structures and blocked pathways from previous eruptions, migration inside them and why/how they seem to change from one which controlled ascent and lateral migration of magma and, together eruption to another. During the 2011-2012 El Hierro eruption (Canary with the existence of N-S regional compression, reduced its options Islands) the characteristics of unrest, including a continuous change in to find a suitable path to reach the surface and erupt. 3D view of the P-wave model beneath El Hierro island showing the isosurfaces of 7.21 km/s and 7.56 km/s, which illustrate the shape of the upper-crustal Tanganasoga high-velocity anomaly, and the upper-mantle low velocity region corresponding to the magma reservoir, respectively. (Marti et al, Scientific Reports). 56 10 highlightedAnnual report publications ICTJA 2015 2017 Urban Seismology: On the origin of earth vibrations within a city Díaz, J., M. Ruiz, P. S. Sánchez-Pastor, and P. Romero (2017), Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city, Scientific Reports, 7(1), 15296, doi: 10.1038/ s41598-017-15499-y. Urban seismology has become an active research field in the recent years, both with seismological objectives, as obtaining better microzonation maps in highly populated areas, and with engineering objectives, as the monitoring of traffic or the surveying of historical buildings. We analyze here the seismic records obtained by a broad-band seismic station installed in the ICTJA-CSIC institute, located near the center of Barcelona city. Although this station was installed to intro- duce visitors to earth science during science fairs and other dissemination events, the analysis of the data has allowed to infer results of interest for the scientific community. The main results include the evidence that urban seismometers can be used as a easy-to-use, robust monitoring tool for road traffic and subway activity inside the city. Seismic signals generated by different cultural activities, including rock concerts, fireworks or football games, can be detected and discriminated from its seismic properties. Beside the interest to understand the propagation of seismic waves generated by those rather particular sources, those earth shaking records provide a powerful tool to gain visibility in the mass media and hence have the opportunity to present earth sciences to a wider audience. Seismic record during the “Encores” part of the Bruce Springsteen rock concert at FCB stadium (14/05/2016). (a) North-South component of the horizontal seismic acceleration Trace has been band-pass filtered between 1 and 10?Hz. (b) Corresponding spectrogram. Each song has a specific frequency content showing a fundamental frequency and harmo- nics. Titles of the songs are included for reference. (c) Particle motion of the horizontal components rotated to N50E/N140E during one of the Encores songs (marked by an arrow in the spectrogram). Each frame corresponds to 4?s. Some seconds after the beginning of the signal the phase shift between the fundamental and 1st harmonic mode results in a PPM following a Lissajous curve. (Image: Diaz et al, Scientific Reports). 10 highlightedAnnual reportpublications ICTJA 20172015 57 Linking sedimentation rates and large-scale architecture supply and their relationship with climate and tectonics. The study area for facies prediction in nonmarine basins (Paleogene, includes the Gómara fluvial fan, the main sediment transfer system of Almaz·n Basin, Spain) the Almazán basin during Paleogene times. Its large-scale architecture shifted through time between a stacking pattern of low density ribbon-like Luis, V., H. Pedro, G. Miguel, A. Ildefonso, B. Elisabet, and G. P. Miriam and high density sheet-like channel fills. Laterally to the fluvial system, (2017), Linking sedimentation rates and large-scale architecture for mudstone and evaporitic mudstone units represented evaporitic mud- facies prediction in nonmarine basins (Paleogene, Almazán Basin, flats which passed laterally into palustrine/lacustrine limestone units Spain), Basin Research, 29(S1), 213-232, doi: doi:10.1111/bre.12145. interpreted as lakes and ponds. Stacked calcretes occurred in distal This article focuses on the relationships between the large-scale strati- alluvial and distal floodplain settings. A magnetostratigraphy encom- graphic architecture of the Almazán basin infill and the sedimentation passing 2600 m guided by available fossil mammal biochronology has rates (SR) calculated for precise time intervals. Our aim was to improve provided a temporal framework that spans the complete Paleogene infill the understanding of the timing and causes of the architectural chan- of the basin, from Late Lutetian to Late Oligocene, filling a gap in the ges, their significance in terms of accommodation space and sediment Cenozoic chronostratigraphy of Spanish basins. This permits to constrain the kinematics of the structures both in the basin and in its margins, and to provide the timing for the depositional sequences. These data, combined with a magnetostratigraphic map, where magnetic reversals were traced through the Gómara monocline, allow a detailed analysis of the SR variability across the fluvial system and its adjacent depositional environments. The results show that high sedimentation rates (around 30–40 cm kyr¬1) are related to fluvial environments with low density ribbon-shaped channels, while low SR (around or below 10 cm kyr¬1) are related to high density sheet-like channels. Laterally, mud dominated environments with high SR (15–20 cm kyr¬1) grade into palustrine/ lacustrine carbonated environments with low SR (around 9 cm ky¬1). The lowest SR (about 3 cm kyr¬1) are related to the development of stacked calcrete profiles in distal floodplain and in the connection of distal alluvial and palustrine/lacustrine units. Magnetostratigraphic map of the Gómara monocline. Magnetic reversals had been extended through the monocline following traceable levels. Black bands mark the normal magnetic po- larity intervals. The magnetostratigraphic sampling track has been marked and corresponds to the Almazul and Mazaterón sections, unified as Miñana transect in this figure. The other sections shown correspond to the ones where sedimentation rates were calculated. A widening of the magnetic reversals towards the NW, where clastic formations dominate can be distinguished. (Valero et al, Basin Research). 58 10 highlightedAnnual report publications ICTJA 2015 2017 How the structural architecture of the Eurasian con- upper part of the margin necking zone, where there is a causal link tinental margin affects the structure, seismicity, and between fault reactivation, involvement of basement in the thrusting, topography of the south central Taiwan fold-and-thrust concentration of seismicity, and the formation of high topography. On belt the area correlated with the necking zone, the strike-slip reactivation of east northeast striking extensional faults is causing sigmoidal offset Brown, D., J. Alvarez-Marron, C. Biete, H. Kuo-Chen, G. Camanni, of structures and topography along two main zones. Here basement and C.-W. Ho (2017), How the structural architecture of the Eurasian is not involved in the thrusting; there is weak focusing of seismicity continental margin affects the structure, seismicity, and topography and localized development of topography. We also show that there of the south central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt, Tectonics, 36(7), are important differences in structure, seismicity, and topography 1275-1294, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004475. between the margin shelf and its necking zone. Studies of mountain belts worldwide show that along-strike changes are common in their foreland fold-and-thrust belts. These are typically caused by processes related to fault reactivation and/or fault focusing along changes in sedimentary se- quences. The study of active orogens, like Taiwan, can also provide insights into how these processes influence transient features such as seismicity and topography. In this paper, we trace regional-scale features from the Eurasian continental margin in the Taiwan Strait into the south central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt. We then present newly ma- pped surface geology, P wave velocity maps and sections, seismicity, and topography data to test the hypothesis of whether or not these regio- nal-scale features of the margin are contributing to along-strike changes in structural style, and the distribution of seismicity and topography in this part of the Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt. These data show that the most important along-strike change takes place at the eastward prolongation of the Simplified geological map of the island of Taiwan (redrawn from Chen et al. [2000]). In the Taiwan Strait, the depth to the top of the Mesozoic basement [from Lin et al., 2003]. The location of the necking zone offshore is indicated by the thick dashed lines and the shelf slope break by the thick dashed red line. The bathymetry is shown to the south and east of Taiwan. The study area on land in Taiwan is outlined by the dashed box. (Brown et al, Tectonics). 10 highlightedAnnual reportpublications ICTJA 20172015 59 The nature of crustal reflectivity at the southwest her it could be associated with pieces of mantle material emplaced Iberian margin at upper crustal levels, we calculated its reflection coefficient and compared it to a buried high-density ultramafic body (serpentinized Buffett, G. G., M. Torne, R. Carbonell, M. Melchiorre, J. Vergés, and peridotite) at the Gorringe Bank. Its reflection coefficient ratio with M. Fernàndez The nature of crustal reflectivity at the southwest respect to the sea floor differs by only 4.6% with that calculated for Iberian margin, Tectonophysics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tec- the high-density ultramafic body of the Gorringe Bank, while it differs to.2017.10.006. by 35.8% compared to a drilled Miocene limestone unconformity. This Reprocessing of multi-channel seismic reflection data acquired over means that the Gulf of Cádiz reflector has a velocity and/or density the northern margin of the Gulf of Cádiz (SW Iberian margin) places contrast similar to the peridotite at the Gorringe Bank. However, new constraints on the upper crustal structure of the Guadalquivir-Por- considering the depth at which it is found (between 2.0 and 4.0 km) timão Bank. The data presented have been processed with optimized and the available geological information, it seems unlikely that the stacking and interval velocity models, a better approach to multiple estimated shortening from the Oligocene to present is sufficient to attenuation, preserved amplitude information to derive the nature emplace pieces of mantle material at these shallow levels. Therefore, of seismic reflectivity, and accurate time-to-depth conversion after and despite the similarity in its reflection coefficient with the peri- migration. The reprocessed data reveal a bright upper crustal reflector dotites of the Gorringe Bank, our preferred interpretation is that the just underneath the Paleozoic basement that spatially coincides with upper crustal Gulf of Cádiz reflector represents the seismic response the local positive free-air gravity high called the Gulf of Cádiz Gravity of high-density intracrustal magmatic intrusions that may partially High. To investigate the nature of this reflector and to decipher whet- contribute to the Gulf of Cádiz Gravity High. Location of seismic lines analyzed (IAM-4) and reprocessed (IAM- GC1, GC2 and GC3) and their spatial relation to sea floor bathymetry and the Gorringe Bank (GB) and Gulf of C·diz Gravity highs (GCGH). (Buffet et al, Tectonophysics). 60 10 highlightedAnnual report publications ICTJA 2015 2017 Portable X-ray fluorescence identification of the Creta- Caravaca, SE Spain, have been performed. A sizable enrichment ceous–Paleogene boundary: Application to the around the K–Pg horizon of several elements such as K, Ti, Fe, Ni, Cr, Agost and Caravaca sections, SE Spain Cu, Zn, As or Pb, together with a strong reduction in the Ca content, is found with the pXRF instrument. These observations represent a Ibáñez-Insa, J., J. Pérez-Cano, V. Fondevilla, O. Oms, M. Rejas, J. L. primary geochemical signature of the K–Pg boundary in distal marine Fernández-Turiel, and P. Anadón Portable X-ray fluorescence iden- sections such as those of Agost and Caravaca. Also, the intensities tification of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary: Application to the of the pXRF peaks correlate well with elemental composition data Agost and Caravaca sections, SE Spain, Cretaceous Research, doi: obtained by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.06.004. MS) on collected samples. Hence, the pXRF field measurements are It is shown that portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) is a powerful tool shown to provide fast and useful quantitative information about K–Pg for the identification and geochemical characterization of prospective boundary sequences. Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary sites. Field measurements in two well-known K–Pg boundary sequences, located at Agost and Stratigraphic column of the Agost section (left) and field photography of the K-Pg horizon and boundary clay (upper picture). The central panels show a SEM image of a microspherule (left) and an EDS spectrum obtained from this spherule (right). Mag- netosbiostratigraphic data relevant for this section can be found in Smit, 2004. (Ibáñez et al, Cretaceous Research). 10 highlightedAnnual reportpublications ICTJA 20172015 61 Overtones of interlayer shear modes in the phonon-as- layers, with a characteristic energy of about 6-7 meV. We obtain a sisted emission spectrum of hexagonal boron nitride quantitative interpretation of the multiplet observed in each phonon replica under the assumption of a cumulative Gaussian broadening Vuong, T. Q. P., G. Cassabois, P. Valvin, V. Jacques, R. Cuscó, L. Artús, as a function of the overtone index, and with a phenomenological line and B. Gil (2017), Overtones of interlayer shear modes in the pho- broadening taken identical for all phonon types. We show from our non-assisted emission spectrum of hexagonal boron nitride, Physical quantitative interpretation of the full emission spectrum above 5.7 Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 95(4), doi: eV that the energy of the involved phonon mode is 6.8±0.5 meV, in 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.045207. excellent agreement with temperature-dependent Raman measure- We address the intrinsic optical properties of hexagonal boron nitride in ments of the low-energy interlayer shear mode in hexagonal boron deep ultraviolet. We show that the fine structure of the phonon replicas nitride. We highlight the unusual properties of this material where arises from overtones involving up to six low-energy interlayer shear the optical response is tailored by the phonon group velocities in the modes. These lattice vibrations are specific to layered compounds middle of the Brillouin zone. since they correspond to the shear rigid motion between adjacent The indirect nature of the bandgap in hexagonal boron nitride yields a fine structure in its emission band, which is associated with lattice vibrations. Low-temperature pho- toluminescence measurements at 10 K reveal a series of phonon replicas (indicated by green arrows) that we have identified as arising from the participation of overtones of the low-energy interlayer shear mode in the phonon-assisted emission. This low-energy mode, illustrated in the inset, is characteristic of layered crystals and plays a relevant role in the emission spectra of hexagonal boron nitride. (Vuong et al, Physical Review B). 62 10 highlightedAnnual report publications ICTJA 2015 2017 Other activities 64 Annual report ICTJA 2015 PhD THESES W Title: Multidisciplinary characterization of diapiric W Title: Geophysical evidence of the preparedness for basins integrating field examples, numerical a volcànic eruption: El Hierro 2011-2012 and analogue modelling: Central High Atlas PhD Student: Carmen Lopez Moreno Basin (Morocco) PhD Advisor: Joan Martí PhD Student: Mar Moragas Rodriguez Place and date: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), PhD Advisors: Jaume Vergés, Elisabet Playà i Pous 27th September 2017 Place and date: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 12th June 2017 W Title: Eruptive dynamics and petrological evolution of recent volcanism on the El Hierro island. W Title: Determinación de la estructura cortical en el Implications for volcanic hazard assessment sector argentino de la Isla Grande de Tierra PhD Student: Stavros Meletlidis Tsiogalos del Fuego PhD Advisor: Joan Martí PhD Student: Carolina Buffoni Place and date: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), PhD Advisor: Martin Schimmel 06th September 2017 Place and date: Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), 24th February 2017 W Title: Caracterización gravimétrica de zonas de rift en islas volcánicas oceánicas: aplicación a las islas de Tenerife y El Hierro PhD Student: Sergio Sainz-Maza Aparicio PhD Advisor: Joan Martí Molist Place and date: Universitat De Barcelona (UB), 05th September 2017 Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 65 MASTER THESES W Title: Estudio cortical del Pirineo mediante refracción W Title: Modelamiento 3D sistema magmático en Isla y reflexión de gran ángulo utilizando terremo- Decepción (Antártida). Integración de datos tos como fuente sísmica natural geofísicos y petrológicos Master Student: Amanda Antonio Vigil Master Student: Omar Humberto Sánchez Méndez Master Advisor: Mario Ruiz Hernández Master Advisor: Adelina Geyer Traver Place and date: Universidad De Oviedo, 15th June 2017 Place and date: Universidad de Barcelona (UB), 06th July 2017 W Title: Shallow S-wave structure across the Alhama W Title: 3D FEM model of ground deformation in de Murcia strike-slip fault system Deception Island (Antarctica) Master Student: David Roel Gómez Master Student: Sonia Garrido Ballart Master Advisor: Ramon Carbonell Beltrán Master Advisor: Adelina Geyer Traver Place and date: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 04th July 2017 Place and date: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 21st July 2017 W Title: Análisis morfométrico de los conos volcánicos post-caldera de la Isla Decepcion (Antártida) W Title: High-pressure optical and vibrational Master Student: Janina Maribel Calle Torres properties of Ga2O3 nanocrystals Master Advisor: Adelina Geyer Traver Master Student: Alberto J. del Moral Cejudo th Place and date: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 06 July 2017 Master Advisor: Jordi Ibáñez Insa Place and date: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 27th July 2017 W Title: Estudi de la perillositat a Fuerteventura Master Student: Miquel Plantalamor Seguí Title: Fire dynamics in three savannas of South America Master Advisor: Adelina Geyer Traver and Laura Becerril Carretero W Master Student: Sofia Nieto Salas Place and date: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 06th July 2017 Master Advisor: Agustín Lobo Aleu Place and date: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 10th October 2017 66 OtherAnnual Activities report ICTJA 2015 ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESSES W Ambient Seismic Noise Techniques: Sources, Monitoring and W International Meeting of Sedimentology 2017, Toulousse, France, Imaging, special session SM4.1, EGU 2017 (European Geosciences 10th-12th October, 2017, Daniel García-Castellanos, Scientific Union), Wien, Austria, April, 2017, Martin Schimmel, Convener. Comittee. W IAVCEI Scientific Assembly, Session VII.2 Volcanic geoheritage, W 2nd AntVolc Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 22nd-24th November in Volcanoes and human societies, Portland, Oregon, USA, 14-18 2017, Adelina Geyer (Convener), Laura Becerril, Darío Pedrazzi, August 2017, Joan Martí, Convener. Domenico Doronzo and Guillem Gisbert (Organization). Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 67 EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES W Geophysical Journal International: Martin Schimmel, Editorial W Palynology: Encarni Montoya, Editorial Board Board W Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research: Joan Martí, W Geologica Acta: Santiago Giralt, Editor; Editor-in-Chief Joaquina Álvarez-Marrón, Managing Scientific Editor W Quaternary: Valentí Rull, Editor-in-Chief W Frontiers in Earth Science: Adelina Geyer, Associate Editor, W Special Publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Juan Cruz Larrasoaña, Associate Editor; Valentí Rull, Geophysics: Joan Martí, Editorial Board Associate Editor, Laura Bcerril, Guest Associate Editor W Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica: Manel Fernández, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Valentí Rull, Associate Editor W Associate Editor W Frontiers in Plant Science: Valentí Rull, Associated Editor W Tectonophysics: Ramon Carbonell, Editor-in-Chief W Geology: Dennis Brown, Science Editor INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COMMITEES W Advisory Committee of Natural Hazards (EU H2020), Joan Martí, W Evaluation Panel ANR, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Program Member Earth Science and Climate, Dennis Brown, Board Member W Comissió Dona i Ciència del Consell Interuniversitari de Catalunya, W Evaluation Panel of ANR Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Pro- Joaquina Álvarez-Marrón, Dessigned Member gram Earth Science and Climate, Ramon Carbonell, Board Member W Comisión de evaluación XVI Certamen Universitario Arquímedes, W Human and Biosphere Commission of the International Union Ministerio de Educacion Cultura y Deporte, for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Encarni Montoya, Secretary Joaquina Álvarez-Marron W International Federation of Palynological Societies, Encarni Mon- W ESSEM COST Action ES1401, EU, European Cooperation in Science toya, Officer and Technology, Martin Schimmel, Management Committee Member W IAVCEI Commission on Volcanic Geoheritage and Protected W ESSEM COST Action ES1401, EU, European Cooperation in Science Landscapes, Joan Martí, Co-Chair and Technology, Martin Schimmel, Working Group 2 Leader W IAVCEI Commission on Volcano Geology, Joan Martí, Co-Chair W ESSEM COST Action ES1401, EU, European Cooperation in Science INSIGHT Project PhD Scientific Comisión Nantes University and Technology, Martin Schimmel, Core Member W Martin Schimmel W ESSEM COST Action ES1401, EU, European Cooperation in Science IUGG Commission of Geophysical Risk, Joan Martí, member and Technology, Martin Schimmel, STSM (Short-Term Scientific W Member) Board 68 OtherAnnual Activities report ICTJA 2015 W Member of the European Geoscience Union, Tectonics Division W Reviewers Panel on Natural Sciences and Technology de la Nordic Programme Committee. Daniel García-Castellanos University Hubs (NordForsk), Joan Martí, Member W Member of the Earth Sciences PhD Academic committee, Univer- W Reviewers panel of the British Ecological Society Review College, sitat de Barcelona, Joaquina Álvarez-Marron Encarni Montoya, Member W Member of the Earth Sciences PhD supervising committee, Uni- W SCAR Expert group on Antartic Volcanism (ANTVOLC), Adelina versitat de Barcelona, Daniel García-Castellanos Geyer, Deputy Chair W Member of the Earth Sciences PhD supervising committee, Uni- W Scientific Advisory Committee of “Service National d’Observation versitat de Barcelona, José Luis Fernandez-Turiel en Volcanologie”, CNRS-INSU, France, Joan Martí, President W Panel de evaluadores CINECA, Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Uni- W University College Dublin, PhD thesis committee, Martin Schimmel versità e della Ricerca, Italia, Carles Soriano Clemente member W Panel de evaluadores FONCyT, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologica W Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), PhD thesis e Innovacion Productiva, Argentina, Carles Soriano Clemente committee, Martin Schimmel member INVITED SCIENTISTS W Laura Becerril Carretero, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería W Dennis Brown, National Central University, 30th October 2017-1st (SERNAGEOMIN), 15th January - 15th March 2017, Chile May 2018, Zhongli, Taiwan W Joan Martí, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orleans (ISTO-CNRS), W Martin Schimmel, Institute Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), 1st February 2017 - 30th July 2017, Orleans, France January & 2017 (2 months), Paris, France W Laura Becerril Carretero, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et W Martin Schimmel, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Minières (BRGM), 1st-10th June 2017, Orleans, France Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina, 2 weeks GUEST & VISITING SCIENTIST W Alice Bonhomme, Université Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, W Paride Legovini, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Daniel García-Castellanos (INGV), Italy, Martin Schimmel W Silvina Guzmán, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas W Jose Luís Macías Vázquez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, Joan Martí México (UNAM), México, Joan Martí W Bob Herrmann, Saint Louis university, Saint Louis, USA, Antonio W Eleonore Stutzmann, Institute Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Villaseñor France, Martin Schimmel W Diana Elisabeth Jiménez,Universidad Gerardo Barrios, El Salvador, Joan Martí Molist y Laura Becerril Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 69 INVITED TALKS W La veritat sobre l’Antropocè. Valentí Rull, Residència d’Investiga- W L’Antropocè i les crisis ecològica i econòmica globals, Carlos dors, Barcelona, 16th January 2017. Soriano, Residència d’Investigadors, Barcelona, 19th June 2017. W Las huellas del “Antropoceno” en los registros geológicos, Santiago W The plutonic-volcanic connection: field evidence and restrictions, Giralt, Residència d’Investigadors, Barcelona, 6th February 2017. Joan Martí, Premier Ecole Thématique CNRS “Transferts magma- tiques : experimentation et modelisation”. CNRS, Orleans, France, W L’origen de la biodiversitat neotropical: vicis, paradigmes i sol- 10th-13th July 2017. lucions. Valentí Rull, Museu de ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 9th February 2017. W The IODP DREAM drilling project and the ETN SALTGIANT network: an international initiative to understand the Mediterranean Salt W How to create a volcanic hazard map in a probabilistic and syste- Giant. Daniel García-Castellanos, 6th Chinese Sedimentological matic way? Examples from Oceanic Volcanic Islands, Laura Becerril Congress , Nanjing, Japan, 28th October 2017. Carretero, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 28th April 2017. 70 OtherAnnual Activities report ICTJA 2015 SEMINARS W Vertical movements in the Moroccan High Atlas. Insights from W Pyroclastic currents and deposits: state of the art and perspectives. zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry and vitrinite reflectance Lecturer: Dr. Domenico D’Oronzo, ICTJA-CSIC. data Date: 21st April 2017 Lecturer: Mireia Domènech, División de Geociencias Aplicadas, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, San W Some controversies on the geology of the Betic Internal Zones: Luis Potosí, Mexico. state of the art, analysis of successions and paleogeographic and Mar Moragas, Group of Dynamic of the Lithosphere (GDL), Institute geodynamic implications. of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain. Lecturer: Agustín Martín-Algarra, Departamento de Estratigrafía Date: 12th January 2017 y Paleontología de la Universidad de Granada (UGR). Date: 19th July 2017. W The study of the Fe-Ni-Cu sulfide mineralization in the dunite body of Stratoniki area, Chalkidiki peninsula. W Timing of syncollisional Alpine exhumation of the Alpujarride-Ma- Lecturer: Magda Ntouma, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. laguide nappe stack: constraints from the central Betic Cordillera. Date: 18th January 2017 Lecturer: Steffano Mazzoli, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse (DiSTAR), Università di Napoli Fe- W Detrital zircon and provenance analysis of Late Cretaceous–Miocene derico II, (UNINA). onshore Iranian Makran strata: Implications for the tectonic setting. Date: 20th July 2017 Lecturer: Dr. Ali Mohammadi, Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. W Salt diapir-related Pb-Zn deposits in Tunisia the case of Bou Grine Date: 19th January 2017. and Fedj el Adoum deposit. Lecturer: Prof. Salah Bouhlel, Département de Géologie Faculté des W La veritat sobre l’“Antropocè”. Sciences de Tunis Université de Tunis el Manar. Lecturer: Dr. Valentí Rull, ICTJA-CSIC. Date: 27th Sep 2017 Date: 25th January, 2017. W El Projecte Castor. Crònica d’un desastre anunciat. W Els topònims com a fòssils geològics del passat d’un territori: Lecturer: Dr. Josep Giner (UB). Anàlisi fisiogràfica de topònims andorrans d’arrel preromana. Date: 18th October 2017. Lecturer: Dr. Xavier Planas, Tècnic de Riscos Naturals, Ministeri d’Ordenament Territorial del Giovern D’Andorra. W Adakites in SW Japan: evidence for the melting of subducting Date: 1st March 2017. oceanic lithosphere at the slab tear zones. Lecturer: Ivan Pineda-Velasco, Insitute for Planetary Materials, W Understanding the Diversity of Life in the Marine Deep Subsurface Okayama University (Japan). Sediment. Date: 3rd November 2017. Lecturer: Dr. Brandi Kiel Reese, Dept. of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University Corpus Christy (EUA). Date: 19th April 2017. Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 71 W Las plataformas carbonatadas del Eoceno medio de la cuenca de W Reconstrucció de la freqüència dels despreniments al massís del Jaca-Pamplona (Formación Guara, Sierras Exteriores): análisis Mont-Blanc (Alps, França) des de l’últim màxim glacial (LGM). estratigráfico integral y evolución sedimentaria. Estudi a partir de datació cosmogènica al 10Be i espectroscòpia Lecturer: Roi Silva Casal, Universidad del Pais Vasco/ Universidad de reflectivitat. de Zaragoza, Lecturer: Xavi Gallach, Laboratori EDYTEM, Université Savoie Mont Date: 21st November 2017. Blanc (CNRS) / Laboratori ISTerre, Université Grenoble Alpes (CNRS) França. W Algunas aplicaciones para la Mineralogía del microscopio de Date: 20th December 2017. fuerzas atómicas en líquidos. Lecturer: Dr. Carlos Pimentel, Departamento de Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Com- plutense de Madrid. Date: 13th December 2017. COURSES W Lithospheric Dynamics course of the Master Reservoir Geology W Curso Teórico-Práctico de ICP-MS 2017, ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, and Geophysics, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) & Universitat Spain, 24th-26th May 2017, José Luis Fernández-Turiel (Director), Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, 2016-2017, Daniel Gar- Marta Rejas cía-Castellanos(Coordinator), Ivone Jiménez-Munt and Jaume W Curso Internacional de Vulcanología 2017, Fundació Universitat de Vergés. Girona, Fundació d’Estudis Superiors d’Olot (FES) and ICTJA-CSIC, W Modeling tectonics and topography workshop, SUBITOP ITN, Edim- Olot, Spain, 9th-16th October 2017, Joan Martí (Director), Adelina burg, United Kingdom, 3-9th April 2017, Daniel García-Castellanos Geyer, Laura Becerril, Darío Pedrazzi. W Interferometría sísmica y procesamiento de señales de ruido W Seismic interpretation applied to salt basins in different geodynamic sísmico ambiental, Instituto Geofísico Sismológico “Ingenierio settings, Training school of the COST-MedSalt Project, Nicosia, Fernando S. Volponi”, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Na- Cyprus, 11th-15th September 2017, Daniel García-Castellanos turales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina, 20th-30th W Invited seminari at Marine Geology Master, Universitat de Barcelona May 2017, Martin Schimmel. (UB), Barcelona, Spain, December, 2017, Daniel García-Castellanos. (A) ICP-MS 2017 course participants (B) Curso Internacional de Vulcanología 2017 participants (C) Curso Internacional de Vulcanología 2017 fieldtrip (D) ICP-MS 2017 course session 72 OtherAnnual Activities report ICTJA 2015 A B C D Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 73 74 Annual report ICTJA 2015 5th ICTJA PhD STUDENT PRESENTATION AWARDS 2017 3 PhD students ICTJA-CSIC PhD students applied for this year PSPA edition:Mari Carmen Trapote presented her scientific work in poster format while Pilar Sánchez and Diana Jiménez did so in the section of oral presentations. Mari Carmen Trapote (left) and Pilar Sánchez Sánchez-Pastor (right), winners of the ICTJA-CSIC PhD Student Presentation Award 2017. Pilar Sánchez Sánchez-Pastor mechanism of this eruption from a wide rank of approaches. As it is well Winner of oral presentation known, several features characterize preeruptive volcanic phases, for instance, an increase of the seismic energy release, changes in surface Detecting and locating structural changes during 2011 El Hierro deformation and rises in geochemical anomalies. Monogenetic volca- (Canary Islands) submarine eruption. noes, as El Hierro, show those variations although the lack of structural The El Hierro eruption started in October 2011 on the southern subma- symmetry makes monitoring more complicated in comparison with rine flank of the island. There are many studies that explain the possible other kinds of volcanoes. Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 75 76 Annual report ICTJA 2015 Usually, precursory signals searching are based on historical information media during the pre-eruptive period and detect them statically without of the volcano at hand. previous information. Furthermore, we apply an imaging procedure based on the sensitivity of scattered waves to changes in the media. Thus, we The purpose of this study is to observe and monitor subsurface changes obtain a continuous scattering cross section map during such years. in El Hierro. That allows us to locate the main variations happened below El Hierro Island during 2011 and 2012 through passive seismic approaches. We over the preeruptive phase and the magmatic intrusions of 2012. We employ different correlation strategies to ambient seismic noise from eight show the potential of those techniques to obtain valuable information seismic stations placed around this island. We find different stages in the about this eruption using only ambient seismic noise. Pilar S. Sánchez-Pastor1, Martin Schimmel1, Anne Obermann 2, and Carmen López 3 1ICTJA-CSIC, Lluís Solé i Sabarís s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 2 Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 3 Observatorio Geofísico Central, Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Madrid, Spain Mari Carmen Trapote Winner of poster presentation Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of past ecological changes in in the present day landscape configuration being Cannabis cultivation and/ lake montcortes (iberian peninsula) landscape dynamics of the last or retting the most significant activity likely affecting water lake quality. 500 years. Also, human migration periods as well as heavy rainfall events have been Lakes with varved sediments are especially well suited for high-resolution perfectly recorded on fire and NPP dynamics. paleoecological reconstruction because they assure accurate time control. Multi-proxy studies at high resolution provide opportunities to examine M. C. Trapote a, b, V.Rull b, S.Giralt b, P.Corella c, E. Montoya b, frequency and magnitude of abrupt events in response to either climatic T. Vegas.Vilarrúbia a change or human impact. Here we present pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) and charcoal record at a highest resolution achieved so far from a a Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Pre-Pyrenean varved lake on the Iberian Peninsula (Lake Montcortès). We Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 compare this data with historical records to reconstruct the vegetation Barcelona, Spain. history and human activity of the last 500 years. The selected time frame b Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (ICTJA-CSIC), C. Sole covers the transition from the Little Ice Age to the industrial era, where i Sabarís s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. climate variability also responds to the anthropic origin and instrumental c Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute climatic data are available. Then, what we want is to evaluate the role of of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano, CSIC, C.Serrano 119, 28006 potential drivers (human or climatic) on landscape dynamics. Pollen data Madrid, Spain on Lake Montcortès shows that human activities have played a major role Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 77 78 Annual report ICTJA 2015 OUTREACH he scientific and technical staff of the institute continued in 96 students from 5 secondary schools visited ICTJA-CSIC facilities 2017 with the task of bringing science to society through a and took part in outreach activities (workshops and talks) proposed Tseries of activities to disseminate the scientific knowledge on by our researchers: Earth Sciences, mainly resulting from the research projects carried out at ICTJA. One of the main objectives is to bring science to young ”Qué es el ICTJA-CSIC?” by Lluch Gual people to promote scientific vocations. ”Augmented Reality Sandbox. Evolución del relieve de la Tierra” by Daniel García-Castellanos, Ángel Valverde and Lucía Struth In this sense, trying to reach the public as possible, outreach activities ”Tierra de volcanes” by Adelina Geyer, Laura Becerril and Diana Jiménez focused on showing the relevant role that Earth sciences in society, ”Explorando el subsuelo: sondeos científicos y sondas geofísicas” from the aspects related to geological hazards to the importance of by María José Jurado and Jordi Mora raw materials in the technological development. ”Regreso al futuro; pistas del pasado en los registros sedimentarios” As a example of this dissemination effort, Science Week, which takes by Encarni Montoya and Santiago Giralt place every November, is one of the most important outreach events ”¿Cómo se investiga en los laboratorios de las Ciencias de la Tierra?” of the year at ICTJA-CSIC . During five days, ICTJA-CSIC researchers by Marta Rejas propose several workshops to the secondary school students that ”¿Cómo se registran los terremotos?” by Pilar Sánchez Sánchez-Pas- visit our Institute. tor & Jordi Díaz Similar workshops and visits have been prepared for the 2017-2018 Visiting secondary schools during Science Week 2017: edition of ESCOLAB, in which ICTJA-CSIC participates for second time . • Institut Escola Costa Llobera (Barcelona), 13th November 2017 Moreover, some of the ICTJA researchers visit elementary and secon- • Institut Milà i Fontanals (Barcelona), 14th November 2017 dary schools during the year offering some workshops closely related • Institut Sant Just (Sant just Desvern), 15th November 2017 with Earth Sciences knowledge. • FEDAC Amílcar (Barcelona), 16th November 2017 Dissemination Awards • Col.legi Lestonnac (Barcelona), 17 th November 2017 XVIII Ciencia en Acción”, Honorable mention for “Las cuevas del ESCOLAB 2016-2017 Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa: una historia por descubrir Coordinated by Ajuntament de Barcelona and organized by ICTJA-CSIC. by Santiago Giralt. In the first term of 2017, two more ESCOLAB 2016-2017 edition activities were carried out: XVIII Ciencia en Acción”, Honorable mention for “BCNRocks: la App para aprender geología en la calle • 3rf February 2017: by J.L. fernández Turiel and Adelina Geyer. 24 students from Col.legi Lestonnac, Barcelona, visited ICTJA-CSIC in and took part on the following outreach workshops: Science Week 2017 “La fluorescència de rajos X” by Jordi Ibáñez Què investiguem a les Ciències de la Terra? Setmana de la Ciència “La Espectrometria de Mases amb Plasma Acoplat Inductivament 2017 (Science Week 2017) (ICP-MS)“ by Marta Rejas and J.L. Fernández-Turiel Organized by ICTJA-CSIC, 13th-17th November 2017, ICTJA-CSIC, “La radioactivitat” by Santiago Giralt Barcelona Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 79 • 24th March 2017: Institut Montserrat, Barcelona, 15th March- 6th April 2017 12 students from STUCOM Centre d’Estudis, Barcelona, visited Col·legi Sant Marc, Barcelona, 3rd October - 24th November 2017 ICTJA-CSIC in and took part on the following outreach workshops: “Com s’enregistren els terratrèmols” by Jordi Díaz “Parlem de Terratrèmols” by Jordi Díaz Cusí and Pilar Sánchez “L’evolució del relleu terrestre amb una Taula de Sorra amb Realitat Sánchez-Pastor Augmentada” by Daniel García-Castellanos Institut Torres i Bages, Barcelona, 2nd February 2017 Acadèmia Igualada, Igualada, 16th May 2017 ESCOLAB 2017-2018 The first activity of the ESCOLAB 2017-2018 edition took place in Book presentations 28th October 2017. 18 students from Institut Can Planes, Barberà del Vallès, visited ICTJA-CSIC and took part on the following outreach “La Isla de Pascua: una visión científica” by Valentí Rull, Joandomènec workshops: Ros and Francesc Amoròs “Paleoclima” by Santiago Giralt Residència d’Investigadors, Barcelona, 18th April 2017 “L’evolució del relleu terrestre amb una Taula de Sorra amb Realitat Augmentada” by Daniel García Castellanos & Ángel Valverde “La Garrotxa volcanic field of northeast Spain: case study of sus- tainable volcanic landscape management” by Joan Martí, Centre de Dissemination talks and workshops Documentació del Paisatge, Olot, 12th May 2017 Ciclo “Qué sabemos de...” Educational Training “Los Volcanes: el fuego de la Tierra” by Joan Martí, Club de Prensa Asturiana, Oviedo, 2nd October 2017 “Investigación en riesgos naturales”, El CSIC a l’Aula 2016-2017 , “Terremotos: cuando la tierra tiembla” by Arantza Ugalde, Casa de by Joan Martí, Santiago Giralt, Antonio Villaseñor and Adelina Geyer las Ciencias, Logroño, 19th October2017, & Palacio del Condestable, 16th-20th January 2017 Pamplona, 18th November 2017 Science fairs and events Ciclo “Ciudad ciencia” “Los Volcanes: el fuego de la Tierra” by Joan Martí, Centro Cultural Recerca a les ciències de la Terra, EspaiCiència, Saló de l’Ensenyament, “La Confianza”, Valdepeñas, 26th October 2017 Co-organized by ICTJA-CSIC and Facultat de Ciències de la Terra (UB). Jordi Díaz, J.L. Fernández-Turiel, Adelina Geyer, Marta Rejas,and “L’abellaïta, una troballa excepcional a la Vall Fosca. El llarg camí Jordi Cortés. Fira de Barcelona , Barcelona, 22nd-26th March2017 per descobrir un nou mineral” by Jordi Ibáñez, La Torre de Capdella (Lleida) , 18th August2017 “BCN Rocks: les roques del carrer ens parlen”, José Luis Fernández-Turiel 15a Fira Recerca en Directe, CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, 3rd-6th May 2017 “Los volcanes y la energía geotérmica” by Joan Martí EXPOMINER, Barcelona, 11th November 2017 SUBITOP project outreach sessions by Ajay Kumar, Kittiphon Boonma and Ivone Jiménez-Munt “El volcán del Teide – Erupcions passades i futures?” by Joan Martí Institut Menéndez Pelayo, Barcelona, 20th February 2017 Auditorio de la Fundación Tàpies, Barcelona, 30th November 2017 Institut Montserrat, Barcelona, 10th October 2017 “Busquem Terratrèmols” by Jordi Díaz Cusí Escola Labouré, Barcelona, 16th January, – 7th February 2017 Institut Marina, La Llagosta, 13th February - 3rd March 2017 80 OtherAnnual Activities report ICTJA 2015 In the media ICTJA-CSIC scientists contributed in the media to disseminate issues W La Isla de Pascua y los misterios más remotos del planeta, Ciencia para with ongoing research projects and to assist in the explanation news Llevar (20minutos.es), 23/2/2017 events related to the Earth Sciences. TV, radio and newspapers pu- W S. Miguel já era povoada 150 anos antes da descoberta oficial dos Açores, blished some of these interviews and informations reprinted thanks Expresso, 20/2/2017 to the press releseases provided by the Communication Unit. W Les Açores estaven habitades un segle i mig abans de la colonització portuguesa, Sapiens, 13/3/2017 Here we present some of the aparitions of ICTJA-CSIC’s researchers W Azores Islands were inhabited a century and a half before the Portuguese in the media in 2017. colonization, according to the fossil pollen found in a lake of São Miguel W Libro pide aplicar gestión de parque volcánico de la Garrotxa a otros island, Geology Page, 12/3/2017 parques, EFE, 18/01/2017 W Las Azores ya estaban habitadas 150 años antes de la llegada de los W Un modelo 3D permite entender el comportamiento del magma de la portugueses, Efe Futuro, 28/2/2017 isla de El Hierro, Agencia SINC, 26/01/2017 W Las Azores, habitadas 150 años antes del inicio de la colonización por- W El magma de El Hierro recorrió 20 km bajo el suelo hasta que halló una tuguesa, Agencia SINC, 1/3/2017 salida, EFE Futuro, 27/1/2017 W Las Azores ya estaban habitadas 150 años antes de llegada de los por- W El magma del volcán de El Hierro recorrió más de 20 km hasta su erupción, tugueses, La Vanguardia (digital), 28/2/2017 Diario de Avisos, 26/1/2017 W La Isla de São Miguel pudo ser habitada en el año 1300, El Digital de W El magma de El Hierro recorrió 20 km bajo el suelo hasta que halló una Asturias, 2/3/2017 salida, eldiario.es, 26/1/2017 W Las Azores ya estaban habitadas 150 años antes de la llegada de los W El magma de el volcán de El Hierro recorrió 20 km bajo el suelo hasta portugueses, Canal Sur, 28/2/2017 que halló una salida, La Opinión de Tenerife, 26/1/2017 W Las Islas /Azores ya estaban habitadas un siglo y medio antes del inicio W El magma de la erupción de El Hierro recorrió 20 km bajo el suelo hasta oficial de/la colonización portuguesa, Agencia DICYT, 28/2/2017 que halló una salida, Canariasenred, 29/1/2017 W Las Azores, habitadas 150 años antes del inicio de la colonización por- W El magma de El Hierro recorrió 20 km bajo el suelo hasta que halló una tuguesa, La República de las ideas, 2/3/2017 salida, La Vanguardia (digital), 26/1/2017 W Los humanos han creado ya 208 nuevos minerales, El Pais, 2/3/2017 W Un estudio revela la evolución del volcán de El Hierro, La Provincia, W Visita a l’excavació del Camp del Ninots, Girona Noticies, 3/6/2017 26/1/2017 W El suelo tembló con la remontada del Barça ante el PSG, Vozpopuli, W El magma de El Hierro recorrió 20 km bajo el suelo hasta que halló una 9/3/2017 salida, Canarias 7, 26/1/2017 W Un sismómetro detectó un ‘terremoto’ tras el 6-1 del Barcelona contra W El magma de El Hierro recorrió 20 km bajo el suelo hasta que halló una el PSG, El País, 9/3/2017 salida, Diario de Navarra, 26/1/2017 W Terremoto en Barcelona tras el 6-1, Sport, 10/3/2017 W La actividad tectónica que precedió a la erupción en El Hierro comenzó W Un sismómetro registra la apoteosis del FC Barcelona eliminando al PSG, 8 años antes, ABC, 10/2/2017 Europa Press, 9/3/2017 W El volcán de El Hierro, el primero en monitorizarse en directo desde antes W El sexto gol del Barcelona al PSG provocó un pequeño “terremoto” en el de nacer, EFE, 10/2/2017 Camp Nou, Clarín, 10/3/2017 W El volcán de El Hierro aporta claves para anticiparse a futuras erupciones, W El rastro sísmico y los temblores desencadenados por el 6-1 al PSG, El La Provincia, 11/2/2017 Mundo, 9/3/2017 W Mitos y verdades de Rapa Nui, La Tercera, 16/2/2017 W El gol de Sergi Roberto provocó un temblor en Barcelona, Cadena Ser, W Así era la costa asturiana hace 65.000 años, La Voz de Asturias, 9/3/2017 2/3/2017 W La tierra se movió durante la remontada, Marca, 9/3/2017 W El origen de las cuevas de Los Lagos se remonta a hace más de un millón W Un sismómetro registra cómo vibró -literalmente- Barcelona con el 6-1 de años, La Voz de Asturias, 26/1/2017 al PSG, RTVE (digital), 9/3/2017 W Cobijeru y el paisaje cambiante, La Nueva España, 3/3/2017 W Un sismògraf va detectar un petit terratrèmol durant la remuntada, W Las cuevas de los Lagos siguen vivas, El Comercio, 27/1/2017 Regió 7, 9/3/2017 Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 81 82 Annual report ICTJA 2015 W El suelo tembló con los goles del Barça ante el PSG, elnacional.cat, W La celebración de la hinchada del Barcelona removió la tierra (literal- 9/3/2017 mente), Peru21, 11/3/2017 W La remontada del Barça causó un miniseísmo, El Correo W Barcellona-Psg, il 6-1 di Sergi Roberto ha causato un terremoto, Corriere W La noche que el fútbol hizo temblar la tierra, Primiciaweb, 9/3/2017 dello Sport, 11/3/2017 W Barcelona fans create minor earthquake celebrating Roberto’s dramatic W Il goal di Sergi Roberto ha fatto tremare Barcellona: lo rivela un sismo- winner, Eurosport, 10/3/2017 grafo, Goal, 10/3/2017 W Un sismógrafo próximo al Camp Nou detectó un temblor durante la W BARCELONU POGODIO POTRES, EPICENTAR - NOU CAMP Povijesni remontada, Elpaís.cr, 9/3/2017 pogodak u 95. minuti dobro je zatresao Katalonce: ‘Ovo još nije nikada W La remontada del Barcelona fue registrada como un temblor, RPP zabilježeno!’, Sportske Jutarni, 10/3/2017 Noticias, 11/3/2017 W GOL BARCELONE DOSLOVNO IZAZVAO POTRES U 95. minuti seiz- W Los “temblores” provocados por los fans no son lo que crees, Vice mometar je podivljao, Index, 10/3/2017 Sports, 16/3/2017 W Terremoto é registrado no Camp Nou no momento do 6º gol do Barce- W Un sismómetro detectó pequeños temblores con cada gol de Barcelona, lona, IG, 9/3/2017 La Capital, 9/3/2017 W Sismógrafo registra pequeno terremoto no Camp Nou após sexto gol do W El gol de Sergi Roberto provocó un “terremoto” en Barcelona, Mediter- Barça, Globo, 9/3/2017 raneo Digital, 10/3/2017 W Barcelona-fansenes enorme jubelbrøl udløste mindre jordskælv, TV2, W Sismómetro reveló un temblor tras el 6-1 del Barcelona, Publimetro, 11/3/2017 9/3/2017 W Sismógrafo registou a explosão de alegria com o golo de Sergi Roberto, W La tierra tembló en el momento del gol de Sergi para el Barcelona, Bein Record, 9/3/2017 Sports, 9/3/2017 W Gol Keenam Barcelona ke Gawang PSG Ternyata Menimbulkan Gempa W Seismometer picks up Barcelona’s stunning Champions League victory, Bumi, Kok Bisa, Tribun Pekanburu, 10/3/2017 Temblor, 9/3/2017 W Až po tomto obrázku si uvedomíte silu športového zážitku: Výhra Barcelony W Causa ‘temblor’ remontada del Barsa, El Norte, 10/3/2017 spôsobila skutocné zemetrasenie!, Novy Cas, 11/3/2017 W El agónico gol de Barcelona contra PSG causó un “terremoto” en las W El gol de Sergi Roberto en la Champions provocó un sismo en Barcelona, cercanías del estadio, Todo Noticias, 10/3/2017 laopinion.com, 9/3/2017 W Barcelona fans produced ‘mini-earthquakes’ in celebrating goals at W Festejo por histórica remontada del Barcelona provoca un ligero temblor, Camp Nou during Champions League miracle, TalkRadio, 10/3/2017 El Sol de México, 9/3/2017 W En inmediaciones del Camp Nou se detectó un terremoto tras el gol de W El terremoto que ocasionó el último gol del Barça (entrevista), Herrera Sergi Roberto, Univision, 9/3/2017 en la Cope, 10/3/2017 W Un sismógrafo detectó un temblor tras el sexto gol del Barcelona ante W La tierra tembló con el agónico gol de Sergi Roberto: la hazaña de Bar- el PSG, DiarioVeloz.com, 10/3/2017 celona registró “señales sísmicas”, La Nación, 9/3/2017 W Barça-PSG: même la terre a tremblé durant la “remontada”, 7sur7, W EGimnasia recordó el “terremoto” que generaron sus hinchas en 1992 y 10/3/2017 felicitó al barcelona por imitarlo, Infobae, 10/3/2017 W Les célébrations lors du 6e but barcelonais ont causé un tremblement W Après le but de la qualification, un petit séisme a été détecté au Camp de terre, La Sueur, 10/3/2017 Nou, FDootball Stories, 10/3/2017 W Sismômetro detectou um ‘terremoto’ depois do 6x1 do Barcelona contra W Tercatat Seismograf, 3 Laga Sengit Sepakbola Ini Timbulkan Gempa o PSG, El País (Brasil), 9/3/2017 Bumi, Indosport, 16/12/2017 W La celebración de la remontada activó los sismógrafos, Estadio, 9/3/2017 W Trema la terra a Barcellona per un terremoto anomalo: a provocarlo i W Barcelona fans cause EARTHQUAKE... Supporters celebrating historic tifosi, Meteo Giornale, 10/3/2017 winner at Nou Camp created mini-tremor that registered on the Richter W Bàn th?ng c?a Sergi Roberto gây ra d?ng d?t ? Barcelona, VNExpress, scale, DailyMail, 10/3/2017 10/3/2017 W Supporterne tok så av at det ble registrert et jordskjelv i feiringa, Dag- W ¿Por qué se produjo el terremoto de Pamplona?, Hipertextual, 10/3/2017 Bladet, 10/3/2017 W La amenaza de sufrir un terremoto de magnitud 8 en Nueva Zelanda, W Barcellona da leggenda: magnitudo di un grado Ritcher al gol del 6-1, El Mundo, 17/5/2017 Fox SPorts, 10/3/2017 Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 83 W Agua caliente en Nueva Zelanda podría causar terremoto de magnitud W El Timanfaya, escudo de volcanes vivos, la Opinión de Tenerife, 12/8/2017 8, El Comercio, 17/5/2017 W Timanfaya será el escenario de la próxima erupción en Lanzarote, Ca- W Agua caliente en Nueva Zelanda podría causar terremoto, El 19 Digital, narias en Hora, 26/8/2017 19/5/2017 W El Parque de Timanfaya absorberá el grueso de los daños si Lanzarote W Los corales pueden a ayudar a predecir que un volcán marino entra en vive otra erupción, 20 Minutos, 9/8/2017 erupción, Canarias 7, 25/5/2017 W Un laboratorio sobre la Tierra, La Vanguardia, 28/8/2017 W Los corales pueden a ayudar a predecir la entrada en erupción de un W México, sacudido por el peor terremoto del último siglo, La VAnguardia, volcán marino, El Independiente, 25/5/2017 8/9/2017 W El coral, un chivato de erupciones, La Opinión de Tenerife, 27/5/2017 W Un observatorio de Barcelona detectó el terremoto registrado en México, W Los corales pueden a ayudar a predecir que un volcán marino entra en Hipertextual, 8/9/2017 erupción, La Provincia, 25/5/2017 W ¿Por qué ha habido más de mil réplicas tras el terremoto de México?, W Los corales negros pueden predecir la erupción de un volcán marino, Hipertextual, 11/9/2017 green Area, 31/5/2017 W ¿Por qué México es pasto de los terremotos?, El País, 22/9/2017 W Científicos creen haber encontrado un modo de predecir las erupciones W ¿Habrá más réplicas?, ¿por qué tiembla tanto en México?, Puebla de volcanes marinos, EMOL, 26/5/2017 Online, 26/9/2017 W ¡Sorprendente! Corales pueden predecir erupción de volcán marino, El W Una rápida desecación del Mediterráneo elevó la actividad volcánica Sol de México, 25/5/2017 del lugar, El Periódico (digital), 25/9/2017 W Los corales ayudan en la predicción de erupciones volcánicas submarinas, W La desecación elevó la actividad volcánica del Mediterráneo, El Ideal Cuatro, 3/6/2017 gallego, 26/9/2017 W Corales pueden predecir erupciones, El Comercio, W El cambio climático podría reactivar volcanes, El Independiente, 26/9/2017 W Los corales pueden ayudar a predecir erupciones volcánicas, ABC, W La rápida desecación del Mediterráneo provocó una mayor actividad 29/5/2017 volcánica, Agencia SINC, 26/9/2017 W Los corales ayudan en la predicción de erupciones volcánicas submarinas, W ¿Se llegó a evaporar el Mediterráneo hace cinco millones y medio de Agencia SINC, 31/5/2017 años?, Levante - EMV, 27/9/2017 W Los corales ayudan a avanzar en la predicción de erupciones volcánicas W ¿Se llegó a evaporar el Mediterráneo hace cinco millones y medio de submarinas, Agencia DICYT, 30/5/2017 años?, Diario Información, 28/9/2017 W Los corales pueden predecir la erupción de un volcán marino, EFEFuturo, W Climate Change 5 Million Years Ago Coincided With More Mediterranean 25/5/2017 Volcanoes, Seeker, 29/9/2017 W Los corales pueden a ayudar a predecir que un volcán marino entra en W Climate change can goad volcanoes into life, ScienceDaily.com, 25/9/2017 erupción, Rebúilica de las ideas, 25/5/2017 W Les changements climatiques peuvent réveiller les volcans, Enerzine, W Los corales pueden ayudar a predecir que un volcán marino entra en 3/10/2017 erupción, eldiario.es, 25/5/2017 W Quand la Méditerranée a perdu 2 km d’eau, des volcans se sont allumés, W Científicos logran descubrimiento clave para predecir las erupciones de Futura, 5/10/2017 los volcanes submarinos, Publimetro, 26/5/2017 W Volcanism and sea level fall, Earth pages, 29/9/2017 W Los corales pueden a ayudar a predecir que un volcán marino entra en W Desvelan qué pasó en el volcán de El Hierro: la cumbre se desmoronó a erupción, Canarias 7, 25/5/2017 los dos meses de erupción, ABC, 16/9/2017 W Corales pueden a ayudar a predecir que un volcán marino entra en W Al menos 500 seísmos en los últimos 50 años podrían tener origen erupción, CableNoticias, 25/5/2017 humano, El Periódico, 21/10/2017 W Un proyecto sísmico estudiará la naturaleza profunda de la corteza W Lapillitubus montjuichensis, el primer fósil urbano descubierto en edificios terrestre, La Vanguardia (digital), 7/6/2017 modernistas de Barcelona, Agencia SINC, 18/10/2017 W Explosiones controladas en Toro y Benavente, La Opinión de Zamora, W La Campaña Antártica Española estrenará la nueva base Juan Carlos I, 9/6/2017 La Vanguardia (digital), 31/10/2017 W Un experimento sísmico desde Ciudad Real hasta Zamora permitirá W Un investigador de la USAL trabaja en el diseño de un nuevo modelo conocer mejor la corteza terrestre, ABC, 8/6/2017 para predecir erupciones volcánicas, Europa Press, 7/11/2017 W Análisis para una erupción volcánica en Lanzarote, El Independiente, W La USAL estudia el volcán de Isla Decepción para diseñar un modelo 9/8/2017 predictivo de la actividad de estos, Salamanca 24 Horas, 7/11/2017 84 OtherAnnual Activities report ICTJA 2015 Annual report ICTJA 2015 85 W La vida de un volcán en el borde del cráter, Diario de Valladolid, 28/11/2017 W La erupción de volcanes en la Antártida afectarían el clima del hemisferio W ‘Dancing in the Dark’, la canción de Bruce Springsteen que causó un sur, Los Andes, 22/11/2017 terremoto en Barcelona, La Vanguardia, 10/11/2017 W Vulcanólogos: las erupciones en la Antártida pueden afectar al hemisferio W Una canción de Bruce Springsteen causó un sismo en barcelona, España, sur, UnionRadio, 22/11/2017 El Comercio, 11/11/2017 W Erupciones ne la Antártida pueden afectar al hemisferio sur, Día a Día, W El concierto de Bruce Springsteen que causó un terremoto en Barcelona, 22/11/2017 Hipertextual, 10/11/2017 W Las cenizas de volcanes de la Antártida podrían afectar al tráfico aéreo W Terremotos: de los goles del Barça al concierto de Bruce Springsteen, El en amplias zonas del hemisferio sur, Europa Press, 28/11/2017 Periódico, 10/11/2017 W Las cenizas de los volcanes de la Antártida podrían afectar al tráfico W El Terremoto a ritmo de Springsteen, La Almudaina, 10/12/2017 aéreo en el hemisferio suur, Agencia DICYT, 28/11/2017 W La actividad humana hace temblar la ciudad, Vozpopuli, 10/11/2017 W Alertan que ceniza de volcanes antárticos afectaría vuelos de hemisferio W Un sismómetro detecta las vibraciones de la actividad humana en la sur, La Vanguardia (digital), 28/11/2017 ciudad, Agencia SINC, 13/11/2017 W Ash clouds of Antarctic volcanoes may disrupt air traffic in the southern W El ‘setlist’ de Springsteen en 2016 en Barcelona generó vibraciones hemisphere, Phys.org, 30/11/2017 distintas sobre la ciudad, Europa Press, 10/11/2017 W An Antarctic eruption could ‘significantly disrupt’ international air traffic, W Un sismómetro detecta las vibraciones que genera la actividad humana Science Magazine, 1/12/20017 en la ciudad, Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 10/11/2017 W Las cenizas de los volcanes de la Antártida podrían afectar al tráfico aéreo W Un sismógrafo registra la actividad humana en la ciudad de Barcelona, en amplias zonas del hemisferio sur, Plataforma Científica, 10/12/2017 EFE Verde,11/11/2017 W Els volcans de l’Antàrtida poden suposar una amenaça més gran del que W Se Messi e Springsteen sono come il terremoto = Vibrazioni metropoli- es creia fins ara, 29/11/2017, El Món Planeta tane, La Repubblica, 21/11/2017 W Les cendres dels volcans de l’Antàrtida podrien afectar el trànsit aeri a W Un sismómetro detecta las vibraciones de la actividad humana en la l’hemisferi sud, 28/11/2017, 324.cat ciudad, Tecnoexplora, 10/3/2017 W Estudio propone plan para explotación de la zona geotermal de Borinquen, W Las distintas canciones del último concierto de Bruce Springsteen generaron La Republica, 28/12/2017 diferentes vibraciones sobre Barcelona, Tele 5 (digital), 10/11/2017 W Un estudio propone un plan de desarrollo inicial para la explotación W Las distintas canciones del último concierto de Bruce Springsteen generaron sostenible y eficiente de la zona geotermal de Borinquen, Ecoticias, diferentes vibraciones sobre Barcelona, Diario Siglo XXI, 10/11/2017 15/12/2017 W Científicos miden el impacto sonoro de conciertos como los de Springs- W Investigadores proponen explotación de Borinquen de forma sostenible, teen, El Diario Vasco, 10/11/2017 El Mundo, 15/12/2017 W Sismómetro detecta actividad humana, El Diario NTR, 17/11/2017 W Los científicos católicos del CSIC y la descentralización de la ciencia W ‘Dancing in the Dark’, la canción de Bruce Springsteen que causó un española: grandes hombres, Religión en Libertad, 27/12/2017 terremoto en Barcelona, Radio 70, 18/11/2017 W Metropolitane, partite, concerti, traffico: la vita in città è come un ter- Tv & Radio remoto, 3bMeteo “Les Rondes, parc nacional”, TV3, Jordi Díaz (interview), 29/5/2017 W A seismometer is able to detect the earth shacking generated by human “24 Horas”, RNE, José Luis Fernández-Turiel, (Interview),06/9/2017 activity in the city, Geology Page, 21/11/2017 “Soroll”, Cadena SER Catalunya. Jordi Díaz (Interview), 20/10/2017 W ¿Por qué ocurrió el terremoto entre Irán e Irak que ha dejado más de “Giga Mistery”, NHK BS, Daniel García Castellanos, 9/12/2017 400 muertos?, Hipertextual, 13/11/2017 W Erupciones de volcanes en la Antártida pueden afectar al hemisferio sur, The presence in the general media is reinforced by the three main El Diario de Coahuila, 23/11/2017 channels of information launched the Institute: the institutional web W Vulcanólogos: las erupciones en la Antártida pueden afectar al hemisferio page which has been renoved this last year (http://www.ictja.csic. sur, La Razón Digital, 22/11/2017 es) and the Twitter and Facebook accounts. W Vulcanólogos: “Las erupciones en la Antártida pueden afectar al clima”, Diario de Navarra, 22/11/2017 These new digital channels offer a wide range of possibilities to W Vulcanólogos: las erupciones en la Antártida pueden afectar al hemisferio disseminate content related with research and institutional activity sur, EFEFuturo, 23/11/2017 of ICTJA-CSIC. 86 OtherAnnual Activities report ICTJA 2015 ICTJA in numbers Technician Permanent PERSONNEL Contracts 9 Administration 7 Permanent Technicians 9 Permanent Researchers 24 Guest PhD Students 9 TOTAL 88 PhD Students 6 RyCResearchers 1 Guest Researchers 4 Graduate Researcher Contracts 7 Postdoc Researcher Contracts 12 Technicians- Others 28% Researchers 72% 88 ICTJAAnnual in numbers report ICTJA 2015 Public funding 1644k€ FUNDING Industry collaboration 661k€ TOTAL 2305k€ grafic per edats 2000 60 2001 52 2002 59 2003 54 PUBLICATIONS 2004 65 Source conCIENCIA 2005 70 160 152 2006 85 140 127 118 2007 118 120 105 109 98 2008 127 100 97 93 93 85 85 85 2009 105 80 70 65 2010 98 60 59 60 52 54 2011 97 2012 93 40 2013 85 20 2014 93 0 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2015 109 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 2011 2012 2015 2016 2017 2001 2002 2007 2009 2010 2013 2014 2016 152 Título de categorías 2017 85 Annual reportOther ICTJA Activities 2015 89 Image authors Pag. 4 Ramon Carbonell Pag. 7 Santiago Giralt Pag. 8 Jordi Díaz Pag. 10 Cristina Biete Pag. 11 Jordi Mora Pag. 16 Mar Moragas Pag. 18 Cristina Biete Pag. 21 Ramon Carbonell Pag. 25 Massimiliano Melchiorre Pag. 27 Laura Becerril Pag. 33 José Luis Fernández-Turiel Pag. 50 Laura Becerril Pag. 74 Laura Becerril Pag. 76 Santiago Giralt. 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