1. GSNL 2.0: leveraging on Open Science to promote science-based decision making in Disaster Risk Reduction  Stefano Salvi1,Giuliana Rubbia1, Luigi Abruzzese1 1 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia,Roma, Italy
EGU General Assembly 2017 Vienna | Austria | April 2017
Session IE4.2/NH9.11/GI1.5/GMPV5.7/SM5.11/TS5.8 The GEO Geohazards Supersite initiative: improving science uptake in Disaster Risk Reduction
GSNL 2.0 The Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratory initiative (GSNL) is a voluntary international partnership aiming to improve, through an Open Science approach, geophysical scientific research and geohazard assessment, promoting rapid and effective uptake of the new scientific results for enhanced societal benefits in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
GSNL promotes Open Science
GSNL and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Data: the increased availability of in situ and satellite data stimulates better research
Knowledge sharing: we exploit methods to also share research results in digital format as openly as possible
International collaboration: Supersites are meeting points for the global geohazard community, where new collaborations can start and research capacities can be shared and improved
GSNL demonstrates that international collaboration among scientists, in situ and satellite data providers and decision makers can make Disaster Risk Reduction more efficient.
This is fully compliant with the priorities of Sendai Framework
The specific GSNL 2.0 objectives are:
to enable the global scientific community with open, full and easy access to a variety of space and ground-based data, over selected, high risk areas of the world: the Supersites and the Natural Laboratories;
to promote the conditions by which state of the art geohazard science is generated by the global scientific community over the selected sites;
to communicate scientific results useful for geohazard assessment to authoritative bodies and other stakeholders, supporting informed decision making in Disaster Risk Management activities at the selected sites;
to promote innovation in the development and testing of technologies, processes, and communication models, to enhance data sharing, global scientific collaboration, knowledge transfer and capacity building in geohazard science and applications.
GSNL is a initiative in the Disasters Societal Benefit Area
GSNL can increase your funding
The funding Supersites network can be used by scientists to enhance the level of their research, by providing evidence of direct societal benefit.
Between cash funds and in kind contributions GSNL attracted over 20 M€ in the last 5 years.
Typical Supersite scientific results/products
Long term ground deformation maps
Short term ground deformation maps
Strain rate maps
Seismic and volcanic source models
Maps of active faults
Seismicity, and Regional Moment Tensor solutions
Long term fault slip rates, recurrence intervals and other parameters
Coulomb stress transfer analysis maps
Hazard and damage scenarios
Maps of the effects of earthquakes and eruptions: fault scarps, landslides, soil liquefactions, fractures, lava and pyroclastic flows, lahars, ash clouds, etc.
Models of volcanic sources and plumbing systems
Maps of building and infrastructure damage
Volcanic hazard scenarios
Near real time scenarios for mass eruption rate, plume heights, ash fall, etc.
Information products to support Hazard Assessment and Risk Prevention
Information products to support Disaster Response
Permanent
Supersite
(since)
Coordinator
End-user
Hawaiian volcanoes
M. Poland USGS, USA
Hawai’I County Civil Defense, Hawai’I Volcanoes National Park
Icelandic volcanoes
F. Sigmundsson, K. Vogfjord Univ. of Iceland and IMO, Iceland
Icelandic Police - Dep.t of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, Environmental Agency of Iceland, Directorate of Health
Mt.Etna volcano
G. Puglisi, INGV, Italy
National Department of Civil Protection, Regional Civil Defense
Campi Flegrei & Vesuvius volcano 2014
S. Borgstrom, INGV, Italy
Marmara Fault
S. Ergintav, N. M. Ozel KOERI, Turkey
Istanbul municipality
Ecuadorian volcanoes
P. Mothes IGEPN, Ecuador
Secretariat for Risk Management, Regional governments, Municipalities
Taupo volcanic zone, NZ
N. Fournier, I. Hamling GNS Science, New Zealand
Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, Department of Conservation, Regional councils, MetService
Gulf of Corinth- Ionian Islands
A. Savvaidis ITSAK , Greece
EPPO, Greek Civil Defense
San Andreas Fault Natural Laboratory
C. Wicks USGS, USA
California Office of Emergency Services, Federal Emergency Management Agency, plus many other local stakeholders
Group on Earth Observations
GEO is a voluntary partnership of governments and organizations aiming to realize a future wherein decisions and actions, for the benefit of humankind, are informed by coordinated, comprehensive & sustained Earth observations and information.
GSNL 2.0 is fully compliant with the GEO Strategic Objectives:
Advocacy of Earth observation. Thanks to the partnership with CEOS, GSNL is able to provide more open accessibility to satellite imagery for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The partnership with in situ monitoring agencies ensures that the ground data are also openly shared and used by a wider scientific community.
Engagement with stakeholders. The GSNL 2.0 model is based on a well-structured engagement model including the data providers and the global and local technical/scientific communities. These experts are both value adders and service providers for the decision-makers. The latter in turn are able to make explicit their needs for new geohazard information, stimulating focused research of direct societal benefit.
Delivery of useful products and services. The Supersite coordinators are scientific/technical experts belonging to national authoritative frameworks for Data Risk Management (DRM). This ensures that the information products generated by the wider community are effectively used for local science-based decision-making.
Success Stories
Support to Emergency Management during the Bardabunga, Iceland, 2014 eruption.
Eruption starts August 16, 2014 under a 800 m - thick ice cap. The possibility of a disastrous eruption as for Eyjafjallajokull in 2010, prompted for red alert.
GSNL Roadmap
Exploit the concept of multi-hazard Supersites
Reform the governance to improve stakeholders’ engagement
Improve open access to research results
Improve scientific collaboration and capacity building through Virtual Research Environments (science gateways)
Improve outreach activities
The international scientific team analysed many different datasets, and eventually confirmed that magma was moving outside of the ice cap. The scientific products helped take many decisions during the emergency, eventually lowering the red alert to orange when the data showed that the eruption was not going to happen under the ice cap but well outside of it, in Holuhraun.
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