Dr Sebastiano D’Amico, lecturer at the Department of Geosciences, and Ms Daniela Farrugia a Ph.D. student in the same Department, have participated in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held in San Francisco (USA) from 10 to 15 December 2016.
This is the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world with approximately 24,000 attendees. Dr D’Amico chaired a special session titled 'Capturing the complexity of site effects' together with three colleagues from Italy, New Zeland and Switzerland.
Furthermore, Ms Farrugia and Dr D’Amico presented three papers titled 'Using ambient noise for investigating cultural heritage sites and evaluating seismic site response', 'Ambient vibration technique to explore mud volcanoes structure', and 'Modelling of earthquake ground response in the Maltese islands using results from geophysical investigations' with details on recent research activities conducted by the Seismic Monitoring and Research Group (SMRG).