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Beatrice Giuliante Yilin Yang
“The field campaign at Krafla could be summarized as productive and “The experiment is the first adventure that all the early stage
exciting at the same time: it was a unique and amazing opportunity to researchers worked together. For deformation measurements, we
meet and work together with the other early stage researchers for the received much assistance from researchers working on other
first time. It was also nice to get involved in their filed campaign methods. During the tough time with storms and covid, IMPROVE
activities, to better understand their projects. Personally, I was able to people supported and looked after each other. All these made it an
perform both static and dynamic gravity measurements, together unforgettable experience.”
with my colleague Ana Martinez Garcia and her supervisor Joe
Gottsmann. Working with them, allowed me to learn a lot about the
steps followed when performing gravity surveys, and the planning of
such surveys.”

IMPROVE on the Neapolitan volcanoes

A two-day field trip on November 9-10, 2022, brought the IMPROVE
researchers to meeting the Neapolitan volcanoes. Led by Sandro de
Vita with the precious support by Domenico Sparice, the field trip
developed on Vesuvius first, then on Campi Flegrei. The leading team by
the INGV – Osservatorio Vesuviano illustrated the structure,
composition, behavior, and volcanic products of these two nearby still
different volcanoes – Vesuvius being a quiescent stratovolcano with a
summit caldera, and Campi Flegrei a large caldera which has been in a
state of unrest during last decades, and from where some of the largest
eruptions ever in the Mediterranean and European regions originated. A
lesson in the field at the Solfatara crater by Stefano Caliro illustrated the
characteristics of the degassing in the area and the reconstructed
underground degassing structure. Finally, the Director of the
Osservatorio Vesuviano, Mauro Di Vito, kindly introduced the IMPROVE
researchers to the modern 24/7 Operational Room where the data from
four continuously monitored volcanoes are collected and analyzed.
Visiting the 24/7 control room at the Osservatorio Vesuviano of INGV

IMPROVE on top of Vesuvius

Editorial work: Patrizia Pantani