Other activities
Awards & recognitions
2023 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
GEO3BCN-CSIC member: Martin Schimmel
Paper awarded: Seismic Detection of the Martian Core
Oriol de Bolòs Natural Sciences Scholarship 2023
GEO3BCN-CSIC member: Dario Pedrazzi
Work awarded: Absolute age and volcanological characterization of two of the potentially youngest volcanoes in Garrotxa: Montolivet and Rocanegra.
Appointed as Honorary Professors of Institut Teknologi Sumatera, Indonesia
GEO3BCN-CSIC members: Ramon Carbonell & Juan Alcalde
Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation
The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), coordinator of the UCC+I Network, recognizes Geociencias Barcelona as a unit of scientific culture and innovation.
Honorable Mention in the CSIC Awards for Scientific Dissemination and Citizen Science
GEO3BCN-CSIC members: Adelina Geyer & Santiago Giralt
Project awarded: Photography exhibition 'Una mirada polar'
Honorable Mention in the Scientific Communication Awards of the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication
GEO3BCN-CSIC members: Adelina Geyer & Olaya Dorado
Project awarded: 'Discover the volcanoes: Accompany the Volkis on their volcanic adventure'
Congresses
List of poster and oral presentations authored or co-authored by GEO3BCN-CSIC staff in national and international congresses during 2023.
23-28 April 2023, Vienna (Austria)
Ba, Sr and Rb feldspar/melt partitioning in the basanite-phonolite suite from Teide-Pico Viejo volcanic complex, Tenerife. GEO3BCN members: Olaya Dorado & Joan Marti.
Compositional and textural tephra characteristics of the 1970 eruption at Deception Island (Antarctica): Implications for volcanic hazards. GEO3BCN members: Adelina Geyer & Dario Pedrazzi.
Digital Twinning of Geophysical Extreme Phenomena (DT-GEO). GEO3BCN members: Ramon Carbonell & Arnau Folch.
Eruptive processes and landforms recognition in the Garrotxa Volcanic Field, Iberian Peninsula. GEO3BCN members: Dario Pedrazzi, Daniela Cerda, Adelina Geyer, Joan Martí & Xavier Bolós.
Evidence of Synorogenic Extension in the Upper-Middle Crust in Central Taiwan. GEO3BCN members: Olivia Lozano Blanco, Joaquina Álvarez-Marrón & Dennis Brown.
Experimental investigation of multiple industrial wastes for geochemical carbon dioxide removal strategies. GEO3BCN members: Liam Bullock & José-Luis Fernandez-Turiel.
Gravity-constraint salt distribution and migration model in the South Pyrenean Central Salient. GEO3BCN members: Concepción Ayala.
IESDB – A comprehensive database of evaporite structures in Iberia. GEO3BCN members: Juan Alcalde & Eloi González-Esvertit.
Imaging the upper crust in the eastern Pyrenees with ambient seismic noise. GEO3BCN members: Sergi Ventosa, Martin Schimmel, Jordi Díaz & Mario Ruiz.
Influence of the basement on the eruptive dynamics: the case of the Puig de la Banya del Boc volcano, Garrotxa Volcanic Field, NE Iberian Peninsula. GEO3BCN members: Daniela Cerda, Dario Pedrazzi, Adelina Geyer, Joan Martí & Xavier de Bolós.
Insights into the fluid migration dynamics of Tajogaite eruption, La Palma. GEO3BCN members: Martin Schimmel.
Mediterranean biodiversity gradient initiated by basin restriction. GEO3BCN members: Daniel Garcia-Castellanos.
Numerical modelling of opposing subduction in the Western Mediterranean. GEO3BCN members: Jaume Vergés & Ivone Jiménez-Munt
Physics-based modeling of earthquakes in slow deforming areas: a case study from the Eastern Betic Fault System (SE Spain). GEO3BCN members: Paula Herrero-Barbero.
The demise of Paratethys in the time of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: impact on Eurasian paleogeography and Mediterranean environments. GEO3BCN members: Hanneke Heida & Daniel Garcia Castellanos.
The hunter-gatherers of Abra del Toro rock shelter, northwestern Argentina, suffered the effects of the large 4.2 ka Cerro Blanco eruption. GEO3BCN members: Jose-Luis Fernandez.
The metasomatism affecting karstic bauxites from the south-central Pyrenees, Catalonia (NE Spain) and its implications on the REE geochemistry in similar geological settings. GEO3BCN members: Jordi Ibáñez-Insa.
Unsupervised clustering to jointly interpret geophysical datasets across the Alhama de Murcia active fault, Spain. GEO3BCN members: Adrià Hernandez i Pineda, Juan Alcalde; David Martí & Ramon Carbonell.
Volcanoes in motion: El Hierro and La Palma (Canary Islands). GEO3BCN members: Jose-Luis Fernandez-Turiel.
Advances in the knowledge of seismogenetic structures in the eastern edge of the Pyerenees. GEO3BCN members: Mario Ruiz, Jordi Diaz & Jaume Vergés.
At which temperatures do crustal earthquakes nucleate? Northwestern South America as a case study. GEO3BCN members: Ángela María Gómez García.
Extraction of diving body waves from a dense network of seismometers at kilometric offsets: a case study from the Paris Basin. GEO3BCN members: Martin Schimmel
Geochemical carbon dioxide removal potential of Spain . GEO3BCN members: Liam Bullock, José-Luis Fernandez-Turiel & Juan Alcalde
Geophysical-petrological model for bidirectional mantle delamination of the Adria microplate beneath the Apennines and Dinarides orogenic systems. GEO3BCN members: Ivone Jimenez-Munt, Wentao Zhang, Montserrat Torné, Jaume Vergés, Estefanía Bravo-Gutierrez & Daniel Garcia-Castellanos
Late Messinian Mediterranean base level fall: insights from sulfur isotopic variations coupled with isostasy-based paleo-depth estimates. GEO3BCN members: Hanneke Heida.
Limited Mediterranean sea-level drop during the Messinian salinity crisis inferred from the buried Nile canyon. GEO3BCN members: Hanneke Heida & Daniel Garcia-Castellanos.
Magnetostratigraphy and stable isotopes record of Paleogene global climate events in a 30Myr expanded foreland basin succession, Isabena river, Southern Pyrenees, Spain. GEO3BCN members: Luis Valero & Bet Beamud.
Noble gas geochemistry to explore the sources of magma feeding the Antarctic submarine volcanism in Bransfield Strait (NW Antarctica). GEO3BCN members: Adelina Geyer.
Pre-conditioned seismic attributes applied to deep vintage seismic reflection line: enhancing fault patterns on the Italian CROP-04. GEO3BCN members: Ramon Carbonell.
The EuroHPC Center of Excellence for Exascale in Solid Earth. GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch.
The record of the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum in the carbonate platforms of the South Pyrenean Basin (Santo Domingo, External Sierras). GEO3BCN members: Elisabet Beamud.
Tracking storms in the Pyrenees using a dense seismic network. GEO3BCN members: Jordi Diaz, Mario Ruiz & David Martí.
11-15 Decembre 2023, San Francisco (United States)
Assessing the geometry and distribution of leucogranites plutons within the Greater Himalayan Crystalline Complex using deep seismic reflection transect. GEO3BCN members: Ramon Carbonell & Hongqiang Li.
Challenges in the Transition from Seismic Field Data to Digital Twins: an example from Waveform Simulation Workflows. GEO3BCN members: Paula Herrero-Barbero, David Marti, Martin Schimmel, Leonardo Mingari, Arnau Folch & Ramon Carbonell
High-resolution imaging of the faults bounding the Guadalentín Valley (SE Iberian Peninsula): The UnriDDLE Project. GEO3BCN Members: Paula Herrero-Barbero, Hongqiang Li, Ramon Carbonell, Juan Alcalde & David Martí.
Perspectives and Difficulties of Digital Twinning the Environments. GEO3BCN members: Ramon Carbonell & Paula Herrero-Barbero
Seismic Characterization of mineral-hosting structures in Sotiel-Elvira, (Iberian Pyrite Belt, Spain). GEO3BCN members: Juan Alcalde, David Marti, Mario Ruiz & Ramon Carbonell.
Ambient-noise 3D body wave tomography of an anticline structure. GEO3BCN members: Martin Schimmel.
The Variscan Orogenic Belt in South-Western Iberia: Deep Lithospheric Structure. GEO3BCN members: Ramon Carbonell, Hongqiang Li, David Martí, Juan Alcalde & Montserrat Torne.
11-20 July 2023, BerlIn (Germany)
Alteration processes in Deception Island volcano (Antarctica), a first step in the study of the current hydrothermal system”. GEO3BCN member: Adelina Geyer & Jordi Ibañez-Insa
Ba, Sr and Rb feldspar/melt partitioning in recent eruptions from Teide-Pico Viejo volcanic complex, Tenerife. GEO3BCN members: Dorado, Olaya, Martí, Joan & Geyer, Adelina
Composition and textural tephra characteristics of the 1970 eruption at Deception Island (Antarctica): Implications for volcanic hazards. GEO3BCN member: Adelina Geyer & Dario Pedrazzi.
Improving tomographic models of the Pyrenees region (NE Iberia): Preliminary results from Full-Wave form Inversion. GEO3BCN member: Ramon Carbonell, Arnau Folch, Mario Ruiz, Jordi Díaz, Paula Herrero-Barbero.
A digital twin component for volcanic dispersal and tephra fallout. GEO3BCN Members: Leonardo Mingari, Arnau Folch & Alejandra Guerrero.
Modeling the priming mechanisms of phreatic eruptions: challenges and possible solutions. GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch.
Quantifying uncertainty in model validations of volcanic gas dispersion. GEO3BCN MEMBERS: Arnau Folch.
Physical Characterization and Tephra Sedimentation of Long-Lasting Hybrid Eruptions: the 2021 Tajogaite Eruption of Cumbre Vieja (La Palma, Canary Islands). GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch.
Modeling the Iberian thermal lithosphere. Geodynamic implications and perspectives on deep geothermal studies. GEO3BCN members: Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Montsé Torné, Jaume Vergés, Juan Alcalde & María Gema Llorens.
25-28 July 2023, Porto (Porgual)
Estudio de propiedades magnéticas en fuegos paleolíticos de la Cova del Gegant (NE de la Península Ibérica). GEO3BCN members: Elisabet Beamud.
Lightning-triggered remagnetization in the Serra del Esquers Permian andesites (Cadí basin, Eastern Pyrenees). GEO3BCN members: Elisabet Beamud.
Estudio de la curvatura de las unidades de pliegues y cabalgamientos de la zona oblicua del Segre (Pirineos meridionales). GEO3BCN members: Elisabet Beamud.
La Grande Coupure y el tránsito Eoceno-Oligoceno en la Cuenca del Ebro. GEO3BCN members: Elisabet Beamud.
Magnetic fabrics in sedimentary Permian red beds in the Cadí basin (Southern Pyrenees). GEO3BCN members: Elisabet Beamud.
Paleomagnetismo y magnetismo de rocas en el relleno sedimentario de la Cova del Gegant (NE Península Ibérica): Variación secular y cambios climáticos durante el Pleistoceno superior. Elisabet Beamud & Estefanía Maestre.
Reconstruyendo el Sistemas de transporte de sedimentos en la Cuenca de Antepaís Sudpirenaica durante el Paleógeno Inferior y Medio. GEO3BCN members: Luis Valero & Elisabet Beamud.
30 January – 3 February 2023, Rotorua (New Zealand)
Alteration-related minerals from fluid-rock interactions: implications for new clues assessing volcanic hazards. GEO3BCN members: Adelina Geyer.
Data and service management of the European volcanological community by the Volcano Observations Thematic Core Service (EPOS-ERIC). GEO3BCN members: Adelina Geyer.
Integrating magma flow and heat transfer numerical models with application to contact metamorphism around sills. GEO3BCN members: Adelina Geyer.
Digital Twin Components in Volcanology. GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch & Leonardo Mingari.
Magnitude analysis of the Canary Islands volcanoes through Energy based Probability Density Functions (E-PDFs). GEO3BCN members: Alejandra Guerrero, Arnau Folch & Joan Martí
Reconstructing tephra fall deposits via ensemble-based data assimilation techniques. GEO3BCN members: Leonardo Mingari & Arnau Folch
Short-term Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard Assessment in operational environment from Campi Flegrei, Italy. GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch & Leonardo Mingari.
23-26 May 2023, Barcelona (Spain)
A digital twin component for volcanic dispersal and fallout. GEO3BCN members: Leonardo Mingari, Arnau Folch & Alejandra Guerrero.
HPC projects in the Solid Earth ecosystem. GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch.
Improving Probabilistic Gas Hazard Assessment through HPC: Unveiling VIGIL-2.0, an automatic Python workflow for probabilistic gas dispersion modelling. GEO3BCN members: Alejandra Guerrero, Arnau Folch & Leonardo Mingari.
Volcanic ash dispersal and deposition workflow on HPC . GEO3BCN members: Alejandra Guerrero, Arnau Folch & Leonardo Mingari.
14–20 July 2023, Rome (Italy)
Importance of Holocene sea level rise in the development of coastal platforms enabling lava delta progradation in El Hierro, Canary Islands. GEO3BCN members: José Luis Fernandez-Turiel.
Middle Miocene development of the modern-like Antarctic Circumpolar Current. GEO3BCN members: Luis Valero.
How did the 4.2 ka BP Cerro Blanco eruption impact the hunter-gatherer community of the Yocavil valley, NW Argentina? GEO3BCN members: José Luis Fernandez-Turiel.
Long-term change in the lowland forests of the Yasuní National Park, western Amazon. GEO3BCN members: Encarni Montoya, Nuria Cañellas-Boltà & Mª Carmen Trapote.
Volcanic reconstruction of the Belba¿han¿ Pumice eruption: a late Quaternary fallout deposit emitted in the Central Anatolian Volcanic Province (CAVP), Turkey. GEO3BCN members: Dario Pedrazzi.
26-30 November 2023, Istanbul (Turkey)
Integrating Apennines and Dinarides fold belts across the Southern Central Mediterranean to reconstruct the Adria Plate. GEO3BCN MEMBERS: Estefanía Bravo-Gutiérrez, Jaume Vergés, Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Montserrat Torne, Wentao Zhang & Daniel García-Castellanos.
Origin of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous dolomitization in the Southern Pyrenees. GEO3BCN members: David Cruset, Jaume Vergés & Mar Moragas.
Early calcite cementation in a metric-scale delta front: changes in reservoir quality. GEO3BCN members: David Cruset.
Congreso Internacional Parícutin 80
19-24 February, Morelia (México)
Monogenetic volcanism at the Garrotxa volcanic field, iberian peninsula: morphometric analysis and implications for landforms recognition and eruptive processes. GEO3BCN members: Dario Pedrazzi, Daniela Cerda, Adelina Geyer, Joan Martí & Xavier Bolós
Vulnerability assessment and risk perception facing a monogenetic volcanic field. A case study from Olot, Garrotxa Volcanic Field, Spain. GEO3BCN members: Daniela Cerda, Dario Pedrazzi, Adelina Geyer & Xavier de Bolós
A complex monogenetic edifice in the Garrotxa volcanic field: stratigraphy and eruptive history of the Puig de la Banya del Boc volcano. GEO3BCN members: Daniela Cerda, Dario Pedrazzi, Adelina Geyer, Joan Martì & Xavier de Bolós
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28th AIRAPT and 60th EHPRG
23-28 July 2023, Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
High-pressure Structural Stability of Ni3V2O8 and Co3V2O8: Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy (Ni, Co) and X-ray diffraction (Co) studies. GEO3BCN members: Jordi Ibáñez-Insa & Robert Oliva.
Pressure-induced phase transition and bandgap decrease in semiconducting Na3Bi(IO3)6. GEO3BCN members: Jordi Ibáñez.
Pressure-induced band-gap increase in hydrated Ca(IO3)2 [Jamieson Award Introduction and Lecture]. GEO3BCN members: Jordi Ibáñez.
BN under high pressure revisited. GEO3BCN members: Ramón Cuscó.
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54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2023
13–17 March 2023, Texas (United States)
A Cerberus Fossae Seismic Network. GEO3BCN members: Martin Schimmel.
Characterization of Martian Convective Vortices Using InSight’s Seismic and Meteorological Data. GEO3BCN members: Martin Schimmel.
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XV Congreso Internacional de Energía y Recursos Minerales
22-24 November 2023, León (Spain)
Inversión gravimétrica del granito de Andorra-Mont Louis (Pirineos) y análisis de incertidumbre asociado. GEO3BCN members: Concepción Ayala.
Monitorización de la variabilidad estructural en una mina activa: un enfoque multidisciplinar en tiempo casi real. GEO3BCN members: Montse Torné, Martin Schimmel, Abraham, Helena Seivane, Jordi Díaz & David Martí.
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The XVIII International Congress for Mine Surveying
28-31 October 2023, Xuzhou (China)
Near real time monitoring, the STONE project, Riotinto Mine in Huelva (Spain): The InSAR approach. GEO3BCN members: Montserrat Torné, Martin Schimmel, Abraham Balaguera & Helena Seivane.
Near real time monitoring, the STONE project, Riotinto Mine in Huelva (Spain): The passive seismic interferometry approach. GEO3BCN members: Martin Schimmel, Montse Torné, Helena Seivane, David Martí, Jordi Díaz, Mario Ruiz & Abraham Balaguera.
InSAR deformation monitoring and Defsour® deformation interpretation. GEO3BCN members: Montserrat Torné, Abraham Balaguera, Helena Seivane & Martin Schimmel.
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36th International Meeting of Sedimentology (2023)
2 – 16 June 2023. Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Petrothermal and petrophysical characterization of alluvial fan, fluvial fan and lacustrine Paleogene sediments of the Ebro Foreland Basin, South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt. GEO3BCN members: David Cruset, Jordi Ibáñez-Insa & Jaume Vergés.
The Sofia 7 core: new insights into the Messinian sedimentary record of the Sorbas Basin. GEO3BCN members: Jordi Ibáñez.
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28 Réunion des Sciences de la Terre
30 October – 1 November 2023, Rennes (France)
Geophysical constraints on the distribution of leucogranites within the Greater Himalayan Crystalline Complex: A new view of the Indepth-I seismic reflection profile. GEO3BCN members: Hongqiang Li & Ramon Carbonell
Multi disciplinary geophysical view of the Variscan Orogenic Belt in South-Western Iberia. GEO3BCN members: Hongqiang Li, Juan Alcalde & Ramon Carbonell.
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XII CONGRESO ARGENTINO DE QUÍMICA ANALÍTICA
12-15 September 2023, San Juan (Argentina)
Escombreras mineras como oportunidad para la captura de CO2. GEO3BCN members: José Luis Fernandez-Turiel.
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IBERGRID 2023 – Better Software for Better Science, 12th Iberian Grid Conference
25-29 September 2023, Benasque (Spain)
A digital twin for geophysical extremes: interim results from the DT-GEO project. GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch & Ramon Carbonell.
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GARR Conference
14-16 June 2023, Florence (Italy)
Digital Twin Components for Geophysical Extreme Phenomena: the example of Volcanic Hazards within the DT-GEO project. GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch.
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Goldschmidt 2023 Conference,
9-14 July 2023, Lyon (France)
Experimental investigation of multiple industrial wastes for geochemical carbon dioxide removal strategies. GEO3BCN members: Liam Bullock & José Luis Fernández-Turiel.
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34th Anual conference of the Academia Europaea
09-11 October 2023, Munich (Germany)
The Destination Earth initiative: how it will contribute to forecast and manage natural hazards? GEO3BCN members: Arnau Folch
International & national committees
ANECA
Joaquina Álvarez Marrón, member of the evaluation committee for knowledge transfer activities in the Natural Sciences and Biochemistry area.
Ramon Carbonell, member of the Earth Sciences Evaluation Panel.
Comisión Técnica del Área de Ciencias y Tecnologías Medioambientales del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades para la convocatoria Ramón y Cajal
Conxi Ayala, member
Advisory Committee EMSO
Montserrat Torné, member
Consejo Rector del CSIC
Montserrat Torné, member
Comisión de Área Vida del CSIC
Joaquina Álvarez Marrón, member
Joaquina Álvarez Marron, Appointed memeber
European Innovation Partneship (EIP) on Raw Materials
María José Jurado, operational expert group member
Comisión de Control del CSIC
Montserrat Torné, president
Comisión de seguimiento del Programa de doctorado y Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra de la Universitat de Barcelona
Jordi Diaz, vocal
Comité de Expertos FONDO SUPERA COVID-19 (Línea 2)
Joaquina Álvarez Marrón, member
Consell Consultiu, Pacte Nacional per a la Societat del Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Joaquina Álvarez Marrón, member
Consortium Board of ESFRI EPOS TCS MultiScale Laboratories
José-Luis Fernández-Turiel, co-chair
Comisión para la Coordinación y racionalización de Infraestructuras Científicas Singulares y participación en Infraestructuras de Investigación
Montserrat Torné, president
CES49 Planetology, Structure and History of the Earth. Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Jordi Díaz, panel member
Sociedad Geológica de España-Paleomagnetism committee
Elisabet Beamud, coordinator
Comisión de Seguimiento del Protocolo de Actuación entre el IGME y el Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya
Conxi Ayala, president
GeoMod biannual international meeting on Modeling in Geoscience
Daniel García-Castellanos, member
Science Panel for the Amazon
Encarni Montoya, member
Sección de Ciencias Criosféricas del Comisión Española de Geodesia y Geofísica
Maria Gema Llorens, member
Panel ‘Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences’ for access to the BSC-RES
Ivone Jiménez Munt, coordinator
Earth Sciences panel of the Academy of Finland
Santiago Giralt, Reviewer of Earth Sciences finnish proposals
Premios Nacionales de Investigación - Modalidad Blas Cabrera
Ramon Carbonell, Evaluation Panel Member
Editorial Activities
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)
Montserrat Torné, assessment agency reviewer
PROBIST-Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Montserrat Torné, Pannel member
Estudios Geológicos
José Luis Fernandez-Turiel, associate editor
Geology
Dennis Brown, science editor
Santiago Giralt, editor
Joaquina Álvarez Marrón, managing scientific editor
Adelina Geyer, managing scientific editor
Conxi Ayala, editor
Geophysicial Journal International
Martin Schimmel, editor
Mineralogistes de Catalunya and Paragénesis
Jordi Ibáñez, advisory board
Palynology journal
Encarni Montoya, Associate editor
Minerals
Jordi Ibáñez, editorial board member
Joan Martí, editorial borad member
Tectonophysics
Ramon Carbonell, editor-in-chief
Water
Daniel García Castellanos, editorial board
Solid Earth
Juan Alcalde, Topical editor (Special Issue)
Frontiers in Earth Science
Carles Soriano, associate editor