Greece
NOA
The National Observatory of Athens (NOA) was founded in 1842 and is a national research center (http://www.noa.gr/indexen.html). The mission of NOA is stated to be ‘the observation, the collection of relevant data and the research of the stellar and solar space, the atmospheric environment, the crust and the Earth interior. It is composed by 5 institute being a single legal entity. The Geodynamic Institute (GI) is one of the over mentioned five NOA’s Institutes and it is specialized in the study and the promotion of research in the fields of seismology, of the physics of the earth’s interior, of geophysics, of plate tectonics, of volcanology, of geothermy and of seismotectonics. One of its main tasks is the continuous monitoring of seismicity and ground deformation in Greece under the NOA supervision, responsibility and in its premises.
Contribution to the PP.
NOA will participate in all Work packages, however with more emphasis on WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6 and WP8.
WP3: Prof. K. Makropoulos Task 3.2, 3.3 and 3.5.
WP4: Task 4.4
WP5: Prof. K. Makropoulos and Dr. G. Drakatos Task 5.4.
WP6: Dr. N. Melis, Dr. I. Kalogeras, Dr. P. Papadimitriou and Dr. G. Kaviris Task 6.2.
WP8: Prof. K. Makropoulos, Dr. G. Drakatos and Dr. A. Ganas
Principal personnel involved.
Prof. Konstantinos (Kostas) Makropoulos: Professor of Seismology; Director of Geodynamic Institute of the NOA since 2008; President of the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organisation since 2005. Specialisation: Seismicity, earthquake hazard, risk analysis, earthquake engineering.
Dr. George Drakatos: Research Director in seismology at the NOA. He is an expert in seismic tomography and on the active tectonics of the Aegean region.
Dr. Nikolaos Melis: Senior Researcher in seismology at the NOA. Responsible of the broadband seismic network and expert in instrumentation and software for real-time earthquake monitoring, computational and observational aspects of earthquake source mechanics.
Dr. Athanassios Ganas: Senior Researcher in geodesy at the NOA. He is a Principal Investigator for the European Space Agency (ESA), ERS and ENVISAT missions. Responsible of the Greek GPS network.
Dr. Ioannis Kalogeras: Research Director in seismology at the NOA. Responsible of the Greek accelerometric network. Specialisation: Strong motion analysis, instrumentation and software for real time strong motion monitoring.
Dr. Panayotis Papadimitriou: Associate Professor of Seismology at the University of Athens. Specialisation: source parameters determination, body wave modelling, seismological networks and seismic monitoring. He will contribute to the PP by his active participation in EPOS meetings and workshops.
Dr. George Kaviris: Research Fellow of the Department of Geophysics of the University of Athens. Specialisation: earthquake source properties, anisotropy and development of seismological networks. He will contribute to the PP by his active participation in EPOS meetings and workshops.
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