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Faculty of Geological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: geological engineering; rock mechanics; soil mechanics; slope instabilities; seismicity; geological risks; stresses in situ

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Geodynamics, Stratigraphy and Paleontology Department, Geological Sciences Faculty, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: geoheritage; geoscience education; sedimentary provenance studies; sedimentary rocks weathering; Sedimentology; Sedimentary Petrology; clay minerals; microtextures; paleoenvironments; paleoclimates

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Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: hydrological modeling; flood risk quantification; unsaturated soil mechanic; landslide modeling; early warning systems

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, 10125 Turin, Italy
Interests: structural geology; tectonics; orogenic belts; regional geology; shear zones; petrochronology; metamorphic petrology; Himalaya; Southern European Variscan belt
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School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Interests: biogeochemistry; petroleum source rocks; organic pollutants; carbon cycling in the Arctic; food quality and geographic provenancing; isotope tree ring analysis for palaeohydrology
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Departament of Geology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: geoparks; geological heritage; geoconservation; geotourism; sustainable development; palaeontology
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Water Centre, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: soil mechanics; cyclic loading; shakedown; fatigue; geotechnics; anthropogenic soils; road engineering; soil improvement; recycled concrete aggregate; construction and demolition materials; fly ash; balst furnace slag
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Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: geophysics; electromagnetics; volcanism; geothermal; mineral exploration

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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Via La Pira, 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy
Interests: landslide mapping and monitoring; land subsidence; InSAR data interpretation; geohazard monitoring; EO techniques
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Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences (DiBEST), University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata, Italy
Interests: stratigraphy and sedimentology; geothematic map; coastal-marine geology; geographic information systems; remote sensing; siliclastic and evaporitic deposits; sedimentary basin analysis; semiquantitative models of erosion-transport-sedimentation processes; management of natural resources; landslide and subsidence

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Institut Català de Paleontologia, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: vertebrate paleontology; palebiology; paleoecology; tafonomy; dinosaurs; saberthooted cats

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1. Kosygin Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, Russia
2. PNK GeoScience, Tampa, FL, USA
Interests: Igneous rocks; mantle petrology and geochemistry; subduction zone processes; volcanic arc geochemistry; ore-forming processes and fluids; highly siderophile and chalcophile metals; diamonds; geology and geochemistry of wine
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Interests: soil moisture; land-atmosphere interaction; SMAP; ASCAT; AMSR2; SMOS; FY-3B; radiometer; radar; reanalysis data; sand dust; GNSS

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Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsingin Yliopisto, Helsinki, Finland
Interests: petrology; geochemistry; isotope geology; A-type granites; crustal evolution; extensional volcanism
James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Interests: experimental rock mechanics and geomechanics; underground space utilization (caverns, tunnels); DEM modeling; python-based machine learning; geothermal energy; THMC coupling; underground mining
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Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: applied geophysics; archaeo geophysics; landscape geophysics; ground penetrating radar; electrical resistivity tomography; electromagnetic (EM) induction method; integrated geophysical methods; archaeological prospections; inverse problems; photogrammetry; remote sensing and GIS
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Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Interests: slow-moving landslides; geohazard; coastal geomorphology; coastal boulder deposits; UAVs
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School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Interests: environmental geochemistry; surface complexation modeling; speciation

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Department of Soil Geography and Evolution, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Interests: palaeopedology; palaeoecology in the Holocene; soil science; archaeopedology; ancient anthropogenic landscape reconstructions; microbiomorphycal analysis; soil science analysis
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Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: hydrogeology; geothermics; heat transfer; inverse problems; hydrogeophysics; fractured media; alluvial aquifers; groundwater
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Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens, 11810 Athens, Greece
Interests: active tectonics; crustal deformation; GNSS analysis; seismotectonics; tectonic geomorphology; structural geology; geological mapping
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Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: geotechnical engineering; pile foundation; pile-soil kinematic and inertial interaction; soil-structure interaction; seismic response analysis; soil liquefaction; geotechnical in-situ tests; partially saturated soil; BEM; FEM
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GeoRessources Lab, Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, Université de Lorraine, BP 70239, F-54506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy CEDEX, France
Interests: fluid/rock interactions; geochemistry; high pressure experiment; geological storage of wastes and gases; glass weathering
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Independent seismologist, Salerno, Italy
Interests: volcano seismology; source mechanism modelling; nonlinear dynamical systems; data analysis
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Interests: landslides; earthquakes; unsaturated soils; natural hazards

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Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017 Moscow, Russia
Interests: palaeopedology; geoarchaeology; phytoliths; palaeoecology; people and nature in the past

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Geography Department, University of Porto, Via Panorâmica, s/n, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal
Interests: fluvial geomorphology; coastal geomorphology; tectonic geomorphology; coastal management; natural hazards; water resources; GIS
Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Interests: turbulence; sediment transport; machin learning
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Interests: tectonics; sedimentary basin; mountain uplift; climate change; paleomagnetism
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Polytechnic University of Turin, 10129 Turin, Italy
Interests: tunnelling; soil conditioning; mechanized tunnelling; permeation grouting; rock wear; mechanised tunnelling; vibration control in D&B
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