Year 1

Home Institution: University of Malta Host Institution: Ruden AS, Oslo Duration of stay(days): 9 Objectives:  The aim of the visit is to implement a robust quantitative use of geophysical logs from deep Oil&Gas wells drilled in the southern offshore of Sicily (Italy), to estimate and/or extract groundwater salinity information as the base for a groundwater 3D...

Home Institution: The Academy of Technical Applied Studies, Belgrade Host Institution: Stockholm University Duration of stay(days): 14 Objectives: The objective of this Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the groundwater transmissivity from the Svalbard fjords. This involves examining the chemical and physical characteristics of soil/sediment cores recovered from Svalbard to gain a...

Home Institution: University of Trieste Host Institution: Utrecht University Duration of stay(days): 14 Objectives: This STSM’s major objective is to broaden the understanding of groundwater flow system of the Venetian-Friulan Plain by building a three-dimensional groundwater flow model using state of the art modelling tools and methods. Based on stratigraphic data and seismic lines, a geological model...

Home Institution: Ruden AS, Oslo Host Institution: Earth Science Department, University of Oxford Duration of stay(days): 19 Objectives: The project will be a collaboration between myself from Ruden AS, Norway and Dr. Claudia Bertoni from Oxford, UK, and her colleagues at the Department of Geography and/or Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics. I am working on...

Home Institution: University of Roma Tre Host Institution: Université de Montpellier Duration of stay (days): 10 Objectives: The aim is to define a methodology for the analysis of deep wells (in particular offshore) to investigate the characteristics of deep groundwater. The main objective will be to define a detailed workflow based on the multidisciplinary analysis...

Home Institution: Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne Host Institution: Stockholm University Duration of stay (months): 5 Objectives: Offshore freshened groundwater (OFG) is known as an unconventional water resource in the continental margins all over the world having an approximate volume of 0.072% water on Earth1,2. The existence of these freshened aquifers may play an important role...

Home Institution: Institute for Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) Host Institution: Earth Science Department, University of Oxford Duration of stay(days): 17 Objectives: The objectives of this STSM are to create thematic maps on the occurrence, characteristics and extent of OFG identified in the waters of European countries, and to identify areas of interest, with potentially...

Home Institution: Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht Host Institution: University of Malta, Faculty of Geosciences Duration of stay(days): 15 Objectives: The main goals are to build 3D stochastic geological model of Israel continental shelf (or part of it), to use it as input into a numerical groundwater model to study salinity trends in past glacial-interglacial cycles,...

Home Institution: Marine Geology Seafloor Surveying Msida Host Institution: The MarCoast Ecosystems Integration Lab, at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology Duration of stay(days): 15 Objectives: The primary goal of this STSM is to collect and prepare data that will be utilized to assess the Offshore Freshened Groundwater (OFG) potential on the Israeli continental...

Home Institution: University of Oxford Host Institution: Institute for Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) Duration of stay(days): 15 Objectives: The general objective of the project is to identify potential unconventional water resources, in line with the COST Action WG1 tasks, through targeted hydrogeological simulations. The study area to undertake the simulations is the Eastern Mediterranean....

Home Institution: University of Roma Tre Host Institution: University of Malta Duration of stay (days): 16 Objectives: The main objective of this STSM would be to generate a 3D model of the carbonates of the Gela platform as a possible reservoir of fresh groundwater. The main goals of the STSM are 1) to work on...