GNGTS 2022 - Atti del 40° Convegno Nazionale

238 GNGTS 2022 Sessione 2.1 GEO-INQUIRE – A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPLOITING EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CURIOSITY-DRIVEN RESEARCH THROUGH TEST SITES AND TRAINING F. Cotton 1 , A. Strollo 1 , K. Fleming 1 , G. Festa 2 , S. Murphy 3 , M. Majdański 4 , Geo-INQUIRE Consortium 1 GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany 2 UniNA - University of Naples Federico II, Department of Physics, Italy 3 IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, France 4 IGF-PAS - Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland The Geo-INQUIRE (Geosphere INfrastructure for QUestions into Integrated REsearch) project, supported by the Horizon Europe Programme, is setting out to strengthen collaboration between geoscience infrastructures in Europe for the provision of access to selected key data, products, and services. Such access will have the aim of making better known the resources available to researchers to engage in curiosity-driven studies into dynamic processes within the geosphere, allowing them to be monitored and modelled at new levels of spatial and temporal detail and precision. Included in such activities are efforts to overcome cross-domain barriers, especially the land-sea-atmosphere environments, and the exploitation of innovative data management techniques, modelling and simulations methods, developments in AI and big data, and the extension of existing data infrastructures to disseminate these resources to the wider scientific community. Geo-INQUIRE, starting in October 2022 and with a duration of 4 years, is calling upon the expertise of a partnership of 51 partners made up of major European research institutes, universities, national geological surveys, and consortia from within the ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium). Two critical and potentially high value-added activities within Geo-INQUIRE are the theme of this poster. The first involves the provision of Transnational Access (TA, both virtual and on-site) at six test beds located around Europe: the Bedretto Laboratory, Switzerland; the Ella- Link Geolab, Portugal; the Liguria-Nice-Monaco submarine fibre infrastructure, Italy/France; the Irpina Near-Fault Observatory and the Eastern Sicily facility, Italy; and the Corinth Rift Laboratory, Greece. The second series of activities concern the holding of training workshops (directed to researchers at all stages of their careers) dealing with the most effective use of the services and data provided by the Geo-INQUIRE partnership. The test beds provide state-of-the-art research facilities covering the Earth’s surface, subsurface, and marine environments over a range of spatial scales (small-scale laboratories to wide-spread field stations). They will facilitate the investigation of fundamental processes associated with geohazards and georesources, such as the preparatory phases of earthquakes, themovements of fluids within the Earth’s interior, the interactions between ocean, the seabed, and the underlying Earth crust, and the impact of geothermal exploitation. Provision will be made for researchers to undertake their own experiments at these sites, with the resulting observations and results contributing to the already existing products, all in turn being made available via the project’s strict adherence to FAIR principles. The first TA call is expected in summer 2023. The training activities in turn will aim at cross-disciplinary interoperability, with a number of online and onsite workshops and two summer schools dealing with existing big data sets and developments in data science relevant to the geosciences, high performance computing, and developing a cross-disciplinary and cross-domain multi-disciplinary awareness of the product and services available being hosted by the project. Two hackathon events will be organized in Cracow (Poland) and Bologna (Italy), where it is planned to focus on big data analysis and related software development. The first summer school will be organized in Catania (Italy) with a focus on cross-disciplinary data, including Solid Earth and Marine Sciences, related to the geohazards associated with Mount Etna. Ultimately, Geo-INQUIRE, with its efforts to enhance the dissemination of a substantial product and service portfolio under continuous improvement, will enable the next generation of scientists to carry out leading-edge research addressing societal challenges from a multidisciplinary perspective, making intelligent use of these resources.