This Tuesday (December 11th, 2018), the Collaboratory for Geosciences (C4G) was announced as a new associate member of UNAVCO. The announcement was made at AGU Fall Meeting, which is being held at Washington, D.C. (USA), and it is considered one of the two most important events that reunite Earth and space scientists from all over the world.
The European Commission granted the legal status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) to the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), a long-term plan to facilitate integrated use of data, data products, and facilities from distributed research infrastructures for solid Earth science in Europe. In practical terms, this EU measure provides Read more…
Assistant Professor in the Department of Geographic Engineering, Geophysics and Energy of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (since 2016), Susana Custódio is the new president of the Executive Committee of ORFEUS, a non-profit foundation to coordinate and promote digital, broadband seismology in the European-Mediterranean area. Defining Read more…
The C4G have just acquired a grain-size analyser micromeritics SediGraph. This cutting-edge equipment keeps being the worldwide industry standard for particle size analysis, which size distribution is measured by applying sedimentation. According to Professor Fernando Joaquim Fernandes Tavares Rocha, from Geosciences Department at Aveiro University, SediGraph determines the equivalent spherical Read more…
On March 26th, 2018, C4G implementation commission had its first meeting to present and discuss the steps for C4G implementation. The meeting was opened by João Fonseca, technical director, who started explaining C4G project including its description and intelligent specialization priorities domains (ENEI). According to Fonseca, C4G implementation services follows Read more…