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ESC 2016: Session on Citizen Seismology and Geoethics
Call for abstracts: the deadline is fastly approaching!

35th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission

Trieste (Italy), 4-10 September 2016

DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!

Call for abstracts (deadline: 7 May 2016)

Session 04 "From school and citizen seismology to geoethics"

Conveners: R. Bossu, P. Denton, P. Earle, G. Di Capua

The IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics (http://www.geoethics.org) supports this session.

Session description:
Internet and social networks have multiplied the direct interactions between individual seismologists and citizens. Observational seismology has entered schools where they can detect signals from large global earthquakes and do real science with real data. Doing real science is one of the goals of citizen science projects alongside augmenting data collection and crowdsourcing observations on earthquake phenomena. Today there is a convergence between scientific and educational seismology projects. Many institutes and individual scientists are active on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Smartphone apps are replacing websites as the main source of rapid earthquake information. Communication has also expanded from rapid information to time evolving hazard, risk and even operational earthquake forecasts. These developments change the way we, as scientists interact with society. They present significant opportunities to transfer the value of scientific research to citizens, in order to avoid or minimize risky interaction as demonstrated by the l’Aquila trial.
We invite papers on schools, citizen science or public communications initiatives as well as analysis of their ethical, social and cultural implications.

How to submit an abstract: 
http://meetings.copernicus.org/esc2016/abstract_management/how_to_submit.html

International Association for Promoting Geoethics Nigeria - Official blog

The IAPG section of Mexico

Welcome to the IAPG section of Mexico! 

The section will work under the responsibility of Miguel Rangel Medina, Professor at the Department of Geology of the University of Sonora (Mexico), President of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) – Mexico Chapter, and President of the Latin American Association of Hydrogeology for Development (Asociación Latinoamericana de Hidrología Subterránea para el Desarrollo - ALHSUD).

Miguel Rangel Medina

Miguel Rangel Medina is Doctor of Sciences, on groundwater. He received post-graduate diplomas on Meteorology and Climate Prediction at the University of Mississippi, USA (1981), and Irrigation and Drainage at the University of Tsukuba, Japan (1977). Since 1997, he is Professor of Environmental Geology in undergraduate courses and of Hydrogeology in post graduate courses at the Department of Geology of the University of Sonora (Mexico), and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Group on Water Sciences at the same University.

Miguel Rangel Medina

As a consultant, he has more than forty years of experience in the development of water systems for municipal, industrial, mining, and agriculture purposes. He is Director of the consultant IDEAS, being current hydrogeology specialist and advisor of many international mining and tourism companies, working for national and international governments. He is Director of the Institute for Desert Research and Groundwater S.C. since 2007. He is a National Researcher and Member of the Net of Science and Technology of Water - CONACYT. He is Member of the "Technology Network Intrusion of Coastal Aquifers" (TIAC) and Member of the Group "SeaWater Intrusion Meeting (SWIM)". Moreover, he is President of the Latin American Association of Groundwater Hydrology for Development (ALHSUD), and chief editor of its magazine, and current President of the International Association of Hydrogeologists - Mexico Chapter (2014-2018). He is author of numerous national and international publications in journals, as well as of book chapters.

Other IAPG national sections: http://www.geoethics.org/sections.html