Since ancient times, the growth of populations has been strongly combined with the presence of volcanoes, due to their ability to provide nutrients to soils (and so to agriculture) and resource extraction. One great example is described in our blog post about Volcanoes and wine. However, living near a volcano has its (obvious) drawbacks, starting with lava flows (see the recent Cumbre Vieja erupti ...[Read More]
In simple words, the volcanic risk (R) can be defined as R = Value × Vulnerability × Hazard. The value is a figure that varies according to the total number of population and / or infrastructures at risk during a volcanic eruption, vulnerability is the percentage of value at risk for a given volcanic event and the hazard is the probability that a certain place may be affected by a determined hazar ...[Read More]
Happy Friday! The last day of the #EGU22 has arrived! I really hope you had a great conference experience so far and we would be grateful if you would share your feedback here with us! But now some last tips on how to spend your last day of the general assembly. We hope you recovered already from our dinner yesterday, because Friday morning starts off quite intense right at 8:30 am. How about star ...[Read More]
It’s Thursday! Many European countries would actually have a holiday today with a long morning in bed or a nice stroll around nature, but what is there that’s better than spending this day at the EGU conference center?! To help you make the best out of this holiday, we’ll give you some highlights of the day to navigate around! We suggest you to start your day early, there are some great sessions o ...[Read More]
