TCS AH Team in EU Project – EARTH-AID. Kick-Off Meeting in Lugano, Switzerland – 28-30th of September, 2026

Kick-Off Meeting of the EARTH-AID project, brought together the project community in Lugano to launch three years of interdisciplinary collaboration. The meeting was designed to build a shared understanding of the project’s goals, technologies and ways of working, while creating space for discussion and networking across the consortium.

EARTH-AID – Agentic AI for Trustworthy Impact Simulations Integrating Digital Twins and Data Lakes for Geohazards and Georesources within Destination Earth – aims to develop a next-generation, AI-driven decision-support system for geohazards and georesources, combining Earth science, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins, high-performance computing, data infrastructures and social sciences.

The intensive programme gave us the opportunity to discuss some of the key elements that will shape the project: agentic AI, Digital Twins, data lakes and real-time data services, exposure modelling, Responsible AI, ethics and explainability, as well as approaches to effective collaboration across such a multidisciplinary consortium.

An especially valuable part of the meeting was the work on hazard-specific workflows covering earthquakes, volcanic systems, tsunamis, exposure & citizen science, and GeoEnergies & GeoResources. The breakout discussions focused on defining user-centred, end-to-end workflows and identifying the main challenges, interfaces and priorities for the first six months of the project.

The Kick-Off was also a great opportunity to meet the partners, exchange ideas during the WP poster fair and flash talks, see the first developments of the workflow, and start building connections between the scientific, technological and societal dimensions of EARTH-AID.

Many thanks to Stefan Wiemer and the EARTH-AID@SED/ETH team for organising such an inspiring and productive meeting – and to all project partners for the excellent discussions and collaborative atmosphere.

Looking forward to the next steps and to contributing to this ambitious European project!

Group photo author: Dr. Michѐle Marti, Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich

2026 TCS AH Consortium Board Annual Meeting in Oulu, Finland

The 2026 TCS AH Consortium Board Annual Meeting was hosted 22–23 September by Elena Kozlovskaya from the University of Oulu, one of the TCS AH Consortium Members.

During the meeting, reports from the TCS AH Director (Anna Leśnodorska), IT Manager (Agnieszka Mtupa-Ndiaye), and Section Leaders (Joanna Kocot, Savka Dineva, Dr Glenda Jones, and Filip Pawlus) were presented to the Consortium Board.

TCS AH Consortium Board members also shared their latest research activities, results, and achievements. And, as always, one of the most valuable and fruitful parts of our Annual Meeting was the discussion about the future of TCS Anthropogenic Hazards and the directions for further development of our Research Infrastructure.

We also had the opportunity to enjoy a cruise on the Bay of Bothnia, followed by a wonderful dinner together — a great setting for continuing conversations and strengthening collaboration.

A big thank you to all participants for your contributions, engagement, and valuable input into the discussions!

Jean Schmittbuhl, Savka Dineva, Elena Kozlovskaya, Alexander GARCIA, Anna Leśnodorska, Gilberto Saccorotti, Joanna Kocot, Filip Pawlus, Emmanuelle Klein-Brimont, Beata Olecka-Sikora, Diana Nunez, Agnieszka Mtupa-Ndiaye.

See you next year in Kraków! 🇵🇱

TCS AH Workshop - New equipment, Technical Solutions and case histories in monitoring Anthropogenic Hazards

Workshop is organised on 24th of September in connection with EPOS AH TCS Consortium Board meeting in Oulu, 22-23 of September 2026

Programme

9:00 – Session 1. Anthropogenic Hazard: Case histories
10:30 – Coffee break, discussions
11:00 – Session 2. New equipment and technical solutions
13:00 – Lunch
14:00 – Afternoon Session: Gilberto Saccorotti, Nicola Piana Agostinetti, Derrick Chambers: DAS for monitoring anthropogenic activities: demonstrations of web-based tools for data analysis. Participants are asked to bring their own personal computers.

When: Thursday, 24th September 2026, from 9:00 to 18:00
Where: Linnanmaa Campus of the University of Oulu, auditorium HR144
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The Final Annual Meeting of Geo-INQUIRE Project

The Final Annual Meeting of Geo-INQUIRE Project organised by GFZ in Potsdam, Germany on 16-18 June, 2026 brougth together more than 90 participants (80 on-site and 15 on-line).

Three very intense days of constructive discussions, reporting the archievements by Work Packages (WP) and impressive presentations by TNA (Trans-National Access) participants, reflecting a diverse range of research interests.

Some final remarks and recommendations before the end of the project due in September 2026 were provided. The event offered an excellent oportunity for networking and exchanging of knowledge, also at the poster session.

EPOS TCS AH RI poster presenting products integrated within the Geo-INQUIRE project was one among 18 contributions. Poster topics varied from research infrastructure descriptions, WP outcomes to scientific archievements of ECR, made possible through participation to various dissemination activities (online trainings, on-site workshops, seminars, summer schools, TNAs) offered by Geo-INQUIRE.

Some of the activities, at the GFZ venue, were carried jointly with the participants to the Geo-INQUIRE International Training Course on Seismology, Seismic Data Analysis, Hazard Assessment and Risk Mitigation (15-30 June, 2026).

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Working meeting of the TCS AH Project Consortium

On May 14, 2026, a working meeting of the TCS AH Project Consortium was held at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow. The meeting was dedicated to summarizing the project's activities and activity plans for 2026. The meeting was led by Project Manager Anna Leśnodorska from the Institute of Geolphysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The program included presentations on the project budget implementation, promotional and dissemination activities, as well as grant opportunities and funding opportunities for further initiatives. Participants also discussed the project's participation in international scientific events, including EPOS DAYS 2026 in Italy. Early Career Researchers Dr. Anna Tymińska and Dr. Jose Augusto Fonseca from the Department of Seismology reported on the EPOS meeting.

Professor Marek Lewandowski, Coordinator of the EPOS-PL Consortium, also attended the meeting and provided an update on activities implemented within the EPOS infrastructure and the importance of collaboration between national partners in the development of international research initiatives. His presentation emphasized the importance of integrating the scientific community and exchanging experiences between the institutions involved in the project.

The meeting provided an opportunity for the Consortium partners to exchange experiences and discuss directions for further cooperation and development of TCS AH activities.

Virtual access to onshore and offshore boreholes in Europe

Speakers: Paolo Primerano (ISPRA), Marco Pantaloni (ISPRA), Andrea Travan (ECCSEL/OGS), Paolo Bernardi (ECCSEL/OGS)

Research fields: Geology, Hydrogeology, Mineral Resources, Geoenergy, Natural Hazards, Geotechnics, Land Planning, Cross-disciplinary

Target audience: Geoscientist, Geologist, Hydrogeologist conducting applied research and/or public service projects. The training is open to all researchers who are interested, including scientists and professionals at any career stage, as well as students and PhD candidates.

Scope: This online session intends to present the access to data and products for georesources exploration and exploitation with a focus on boreholes at national and local scales along with the related induced seismicity events (episodes). The EPOS Platform (European Plate Observing System) will be used for the hands-on exercises. In addition, several complementary community web map portals may be showcased: Geological Survey of Italy portal, EPISODES platform and PITOP/ECCSEL operated by OGS.

Learning Goals: Discover the borehole web data services (view and download) in Europe through thematic descriptors on the EPOS platform | Discover national and local borehole datasets | Explore the linked data access to induced seismicity events (episodes)

When: Wednesday, 20th May 2026, from 10:00 to 12:15 CEST
Where: Virtual training course
Contact: Paolo Primerano (paolo.primerano (at) isprambiente.it, ISPRA)
Registration: Please register here

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Another direction of scientific cooperation - India

After China, it was time for another Asian direction - India, the NGRI (National Geophysical Research Institute) in Hyderabad, in the state of Telangana in southern India.

At the invitation of the NGRI authorities and Professor Harsh Gupta, IG PAS was represented in India by Professor Beata Orlecka-Sikora, Head of the Seismology Department, and Ms Anna Leśnodorska, Director of the TCS AH Consortium.

The IG PAS representatives took part in a three-day session organized on the occasion of the 84th anniversary of the establishment of the Indian CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research), under whose auspices NGRI operates. Four key-note speakers were invited to participate honorarily in the lecture session and to deliver the following presentations:

1. Professor Joseph Meert (University of Florida, USA), “A quarter century of Indian paleomagnetism: India’s role in Proterozoic supercontinents”
2. Professor Beata Orlecka-Sikora, “A dual-metric framework for tracking strain localization before earthquakes across scales”
3. Anna Leśnodorska, “EPISODES Platform – EPOS Anthropogenic Hazards Virtual Laboratory. A digital tool dedicated to the analysis, visualization, and processing of research by geophysics-oriented scientific communities”
4. Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma – Indian cosmonaut and Indian Air Force pilot (the first Indian to travel to outer space in 1984), “Challenges Facing Human Civisation on Planet Earth”

After the presentations, the most outstanding scientists and individuals involved in the development of NGRI were awarded for their work.

The visit to India provided a perspective for broad potential cooperation between scientists from IG PAS and NGRI. IG PAS representatives visited numerous laboratories and research units of the Institute, where ongoing scientific and monitoring activities were presented. In addition to meetings with research group leaders, meetings were also held with PhD students, who presented the results of their research to date.

The contacts established resulted, just a few days after the visit, in the participation of Indian scientists in the monthly webinar organized by the TCS AH Consortium. Members of the NGRI community also expressed interest in participating in the proposed workshops on anthropogenic seismicity and the use of the EPISODES Platform.

TCS-Anthropogenic Hazards 2025 Annual-Round Up in Strasbourg, France

This year the annual Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS-AH) Consortium Board meeting took place on November 24-26 in France alongside a successful TCS AH Symposium. Hosted by The School and Observatory of Earth Sciences (EOST), Université de Strasbourg, the events gathered attendees to review developments within the consortium and in worldwide human-induced geohazard research.

The Consortium Board meeting included TCS-AH members and technical section leaders. Welcomed by the chair Gilberto Saccorotti, the director, Ania Lesnodorska, started the meeting with a report on most important activities in 2025. Alongside, section and EPISODES Platform reports for 2025, open discussions and presentations took place focusing on the most important and interesting TCS AH activities in 2025 presented by the CB members. The meeting highlighted important developments of the EPISODES platform and associated infrastructures including:

• 3 new EPISODES in the framework of the Geo-INQUIRE project. One of these STIMTEC, a fluid injection experiment complements the existing multi-scale GFZ laboratory experiment episodes and brings the total EPISODES available to 48.
• New applications related to the DT-GEO project for example seismic hazard forecasting which makes 83 services now available
• Increased internationalisation efforts with Spanish language integration
• A new data node at the LULEA University of Technology
• EPOS data portal (ICS-C) integration developments of the EPISODES platform
• A Digital Twin Component for Anthropogenic Geophysical Extremes Forecasting (DTC-AGEF) created in the framework of DT-GEO project. AGEF4 – Induced Seismic Hazard Map Workflow – a full pipeline of seismic hazard assessment – from seismic data detection and source parametrization to the ground motion prediction – in the form of reproducible workflows
• The integration of new borehole information under the framework of the geo-INQUIRE project

Other highlights include strategic developments in building partnerships with the pan European projects ENCITE and EARTH AID; key global promotion and dissemination events including the RaSiM 11 Conference, 10th Oulu Mining Summit, Workshop on the EPISODES Platform" at the China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing and increasing efforts across the member institutions to integrate anthropogenic geohazard teaching and EPISODES platform use in higher education curricula.

The symposium, with over 30 in-person attendees, took place at the European Doctoral College (CDE) of the University of Strasbourg and focused on an interdisciplinary discussion on research developments in human-induced geohazards. The day was split into 4 sections with 16 presentations covering:

1. Advances in seismic monitoring: Deep Borehole Sensor as a high-resolution seismic generator by Rachit Gautam; The monitoring of deep geothermal reservoir using ambient seismic noise, Flavien Mattern; Micro-seismic repeaters in deep mines talk by Mariano Arnaiz; Low-cost seismic networks in urban areas by Riccardo Minetto and Analysis of DAS data in borehole CCS monitoring by Gilberto Saccorotti.
2. Rock mechanics and fault dynamics: Rock mechanics for energy transition by Anne Pluymakers; Fracture reopening and pressure propagation in deformable faults by Kamal Ahmadov and Induced seismicity below the host city of Strasbourg, Jean Schmittbuhl.
3. Case studies and frameworks: Intermittent induced seismicity during the multiyear operation of a geothermal reservoir by Oliver Lengliné; Deciphering induced seismicity from Daniel Amorese; The FORGE Project, Vanille Ritz; The traffic light protocols in Italy by Thomas Braun and Induced seismicity controlled by injected hydraulic energy, Jean Schmittbuhl.
4. Citizen science and data centres: The Sismo-Citoyen project from Antoine Schlupp; Data centre for multidisciplinary research, Salsabyl Benlalam and National and regional perspective on induced seismicity monitoring, Benoit Derode.

The symposium gave the opportunity to share cutting-edge research and insights on the growing challenges posed by anthropogenic influences within the field of geosciences while fostering new potential collaborations and future projects under the EPOS ERIC framework of TCS-AH.