The university and the National University of Athens, with assistance from North Carolina State University, currently are upgrading GPS monitoring equipment at Greece’s Santorini Volcano in the Aegean Sea.
Dr Antonios Marsellos, Lecturer in the University of Brighton’s School of Environment and Technology and leading the project, said: “The upgrading, jointly funded by both institutions, will be the start of more collaborative projects in the future and, ultimately, the establishment of a Europe-wide research project. We want to study active areas throughout the continent to provide more understanding of seismic activity.”
Dr Marsellos said: “We are working towards future funded collaboration to combine seismology and geodesy to investigate ground displacement and earthquake activity in the Santorini Volcano.”