Objective
To understand the complex Earth System requires an integrated observational strategy and infrastructure to record key diagnostic features of its dynamics. Accordingly, this infrastructure must include geographically distributed and multidisciplinary monitoring instruments and observations. The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) will meet this challenge. The proposed RI (EPOS) will create a single sustainable, permanent and distributed infrastructure, integrating land-based geophysical monitoring networks, local observatories (including permanent in-situ and volcano observatories) and experimental laboratories in Europe. EPOS will give open access to geophysical and geological data and modelling tools, enabling a step change in multidisciplinary scientific research into different fields, including seismic and volcanic hazards, environmental changes as well as energy and long-term sustainability. This will result in benefits to society.
Presently, the different European countries own a mosaic of hundreds of impressive, but separated networks, observatories, temporary deployments, labs and modelling facilities, etc... for solid earth studies. Long-term sustainability of plate observations, optimising access to, and combining a wide variety of solid Earth data and modelling tools are prerequisites to innovative research for a better understanding of the physical processes controlling earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other catastrophic events (landslides, tsunamis) together with those controlling Earth surface dynamics (crustal response to deformation and to global change). EPOS will enable the scientific community to study the same phenomena from a multidisciplinary point of view, at different temporal and spatial scales (from laboratory to field and plate tectonic scale experiments). EPOS intends to create the prerequisites for Europe to maintain a leading role in solid Earth science research.
Field of science
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/geology/seismology/plate tectonics
- /social sciences/other social sciences/social sciences interdisciplinary/sustainable development
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-CSA-Infra-PP - Construction of New Research Infrastructures - Preparatory PhaseCoordinator
00143 Roma
Italy
Participants (21)
75794 Paris
14473 Potsdam
Participation ended
1081 HV Amsterdam
3732 GK De Bilt
077125 Magurele-bucuresti
108 Reykjavik
8092 Zuerich
SN2 1EU Swindon Wiltshire
5020 Bergen
06100 Ankara
D02 X285 Dublin
1049-001 Lisboa
28006 Madrid
11810 Athina
751 05 Uppsala
01-452 Warsaw
1165 Kobenhavn
14131 Praha 4
3731 GA De Bilt
Participation ended
1081 HV Amsterdam
3584 CS Utrecht
