Enhancing Safety in a Volcano's Shadow

• Published in: Eos
• Main Authors: Martí Molist, Joan, Bartolini, Stefania, Becerril, Laura
• Other Authors: European Commission
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2016
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/185123; https://doi.org/10.1029/2016EO054161; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780

An engineer in Iceland checks the pressure levels of geothermally heated water running through a power plant’s turbines. A cowherd in the Azores leads livestock to a pasture perched on a rolling hillslope. A tourist slathers on sunscreen on the crowded shores of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. A farmer harvests maize in Garrotxa, a county in Spain’s autonomous community of Catalonia. The engineer, cowherd, tourist, and farmer all have an important aspect in common: High above the landscapes that supply them with work and entertainment loom slumbering volcanoes. This research is funded by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Unit (EC ECHO grant SI2.695524: VeTOOLS). Peer Reviewed