Innovative Multi-disciPlinary European Research training netwOrk on VolcanoEs

Project Information

IMPROVE

Grant agreement ID: 858092

DOI

10.3030/858092

Project closed

EC signature date 22 June 2020

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 4 043 158,20

EU contribution

€ 4 043 158,20

Coordinated by

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA
Italy

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Deliverables

Other (17)

Network School 1

First network school (open to about 15 external students), on on “Geothermal areas, fluid physics and chemistry, fluid flow circulation”.

Digital Training Module 1

First digital training module, on a topic selected by ESRs based on their effective research needs.

Specialized Short Course 1

"Specialized short course on ""Near surface multiphysics (seismic, electric and EM) and seismic noise imaging techniques""."

First IMPROVE Newsletter

First newsletter published in the web and sent to academies and potentially interested industries.

Press release on Krafla field experiment

Press release describing the aims, activities, first results and expected outcomes from this EU-sponsored, relevant project activity.

Third IMPROVE Newsletter

Third newsletter published in the web and sent to academies and potentially interested industries.

Krafla open communication day

Senior personnel and ESRs will illustrate the nature of the Krafla volcano/geothermal area in layman terms for both residents and the numerous tourists visiting the area in summer.

Digital Training Module 2

Second digital training module, on a topic selected by ESRs based on their effective research needs.

Digital Training Module 4

Fourth digital training module, on a topic selected by ESRs based on their effective research needs.

Second IMPROVE Newsletter

Second newsletter published in the web and sent to academies and potentially interested industries.

Specialized Short Course 2

Second specialized short course, on “Techniques to integrate multiparameter geophysical data in geodetic volcano numerical modelling”.

Kick-Off meeting

Kick-off meeting of the project.

Vacancy advertisements

Advertisements publicized in Euraxess, Beneficiaries websites, the IMPROVE website, specialized email lists, social media, the first IMPROVE Newsletter, and personal contacts with international colleagues.

Recruitment

Recruitment calls open and accessible.

Digital Training Module 3

Third digital training module, on a topic selected by ESRs based on their effective research needs.

First IMPROVE Open Day

The first IMPROVE Open Dat will be organized by the ESRs with supervision by tutoring personnel, and will invite primary and secondary school classes and the general public to a one-day exposition and demonstration on science and technology.

Network School 3

third network school (open to about 15 external students), on “Inverse methods and forward modelling in geophysical analysis”.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Opening of project website

Project website open to the public

Documents, reports (2)

Network School 3 Evaluation

Report evaluating the network school 3 including anonymous questionnaires to participants

Network School 1 Evaluation

Report evaluating the network school 1 including anonymous questionnaires to participants

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Detection of Lowermost Mantle Heterogeneity Using Seismic Migration of Diffracted S‐Waves

Author(s): Jonathan Wolf, Edward Garnero, Benjamin Schwarz, Kuangdai Leng, Yantao Luo, Regina Maass, John D. West
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2025jb031367

sGs UnMix: a web application for spatial prediction and mixture modeling with a case study on volcanic soil CO2 fluxes

Author(s): Giulio Bini, Giancarlo Tamburello, Stefano Cacciaguerra, Paolo Perfetti
Published in: Environmental Modelling & Software, Issue 193, 2025, Page(s) 106652, ISSN 1364-8152
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106652

Seismicity Patterns and Multi‐Scale Imaging of Krafla, N–E Iceland, With Local Earthquake Tomography

Author(s): Elisabeth Glück, Stéphane Garambois, Jean Vandemeulebrouck, Titouan Muzellec, Jean Virieux, Anette K. Mortensen, Egill Árni Gudnason, Thorbjörg Ágústsdóttir
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024jb030425

Size matters: a new view of the relationship between shape and size for molten volcanic ballistics

Author(s): A. Sork, B. Kennedy, L. Watson, J. Taddeucci, R. Fitzgerald, M. Sellier, C. Biensan, D. Andronico, P. Scarlato, E. Del Bello, T. Ricci
Published in: Bulletin of Volcanology, Issue 87, 2025, ISSN 1432-0819
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-025-01845-w

Joint Bayesian Modeling of Velocity Break Points, Noise Characteristics, and Their Uncertainties in GNSS Time Series: Far-Field Velocity Anomalies Concurrent With Magmatic Activity in Iceland

Author(s): Yilin Yang, Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Halldór Geirsson
Published in: Geophysical research Letters, Issue 50, 2023, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2023gl103432

Airspace Contamination by Volcanic Ash from Sequences of Etna Paroxysms: Coupling the WRF-Chem Dispersion Model with Near-Source L-Band Radar Observations

Author(s): Umberto Rizza, Franck Donnadieu, Mauro Morichetti, Elenio Avolio, Giuseppe Castorina, Agostino Semprebello, Salvatore Magazu, Giorgio Passerini, Enrico Mancinelli, Clothilde Biensan
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 3760, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs15153760

Gas equilibrium in the H2O-H2-CO2-CO-CH4 system for wet-steam geothermal-well fluids and their sources: A case study from Krafla, Iceland

Author(s): Giulio Bini, Matteo Lelli, Stefano Caliro, Tullio Ricci, Anette K. Mortensen, Ásgerður K. Sigurðardóttir, Alessandro Santi, Antonio Costa
Published in: Geothermics, Issue 130, 2025, Page(s) 103322, ISSN 0375-6505
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2025.103322

Improving passive reflection seismic imaging in complex geological settings through site effect reduction: application to Krafla volcano, Iceland

Author(s): Regina Maass, Ka Lok Li, Christopher J Bean
Published in: Geophysical Journal International, Issue 241, 2025, Page(s) 756-769, ISSN 0956-540X
Publisher: Geological Society by Blackwell Scientific
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggaf072

Heat from dyke intrusions released by boiling of warm groundwater and steaming into the atmosphere during the 1975–1984 eruptive and intrusive activity at Krafla, Iceland

Author(s): Patricia Fehrentz, Magnús T. Gudmundsson, Hannah I. Reynolds, Anette K. Mortensen, Sydney R. Gunnarson, Joaquin M.C. Belart, Michaela A. Chodora
Published in: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Issue 466, 2025, Page(s) 108396, ISSN 0377-0273
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108396

sGs UnMix: a web application for spatial prediction and mixture modeling with a case study on volcanic soil CO2 fluxes

Author(s): Giulio Bini, Giancarlo Tamburello, Stefano Cacciaguerra, Paolo Perfetti
Published in: Environmental Modelling & Software, Issue 193, 2025, Page(s) 106652, ISSN 1364-8152
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106652

Gas equilibrium in the H2O-H2-CO2-CO-CH4 system for wet-steam geothermal-well fluids and their sources: A case study from Krafla, Iceland

Author(s): Giulio Bini, Matteo Lelli, Stefano Caliro, Tullio Ricci, Anette K. Mortensen, Ásgerður K. Sigurðardóttir, Alessandro Santi, Antonio Costa
Published in: Geothermics, Issue 130, 2025, Page(s) 103322, ISSN 0375-6505
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2025.103322

Seismicity Patterns and Multi‐Scale Imaging of Krafla, N–E Iceland, With Local Earthquake Tomography

Author(s): Elisabeth Glück, Stéphane Garambois, Jean Vandemeulebrouck, Titouan Muzellec, Jean Virieux, Anette K. Mortensen, Egill Árni Gudnason, Thorbjörg Ágústsdóttir
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024jb030425

Stacking of Distributed Dynamic Strain Reveals Link Between Seismic Velocity Changes and the 2020 Unrest in Reykjanes

Author(s): Regina Maass, Sven Schippkus, Céline Hadziioannou, Benjamin Schwarz, Philippe Jousset, Charlotte Krawczyk
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 129, 2024, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2023jb028320

In flight fragmentation reduces bomb size range and hazard during explosive volcanic eruptions

Author(s): C. Biensan, J. Taddeucci, M. Alatorre-Ibarguengoitia, P. Scarlato, D. Andronico, T. Ricci, E. Del Bello, L. D’Auria, M. Asensio-Ramos, D. M. Palladino
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-20900-2