Dr. Patrick Allard, IPGP, France, collaborating on volcanology, instrument development and field work
Dr. Colin Macpherson, University of Durham, UK, collaborating on volatile recycling
Dr. Luca Fiorani, ENEA, Italy, collaborating on LIDAR development
Dr. Francesco D’Amato, CNR-INO, Italy, collaborating on laser spectroscopy
Dr. Silvia Viciani, CNR-INO, collaborating on laser spectroscopy
Dr. Tommaso Caltabiano, INGV, Italy, collaborating on instrument testing and validation
Dr. Giuseppe Salerno, INGV, Italy, collaborating on instrument testing and validation
Dr. Alessandro La Spina, INGV, Italy, collaborating on instrument testing and validation
Dr. Raffaela Pignolo, INGV, Italy, Project Administrator
Dr Patrick Allard, is Director of research in the French CNRS and currently attached to the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP). He has dedicated most of his career to the study of volcanic gas emissions and magma degassing processes on many volcanoes worldwide, using various tools for both in-situ and remote sensing field measurements. In particular, during his PhD then State Thesis he has been early specialised in studying the stable isotope composition of water, carbon, sulphur and helium in magmatic and volcanic fluids, using mass spectrometry. In the seventies-nineties he has contributed to launch SO2 flux measurements on Etna and Stromboli using remote COSPEC. In the past decade, he has applied OP-FTIR spectroscopy to the remote sensing of volcanic gas compositions during effusive and explosive volcanic eruptions. He has produced more than 80 publications in these fields (among which 7 in Nature and 1 in Science). P. Allard has been scientific responsible of several research projects and contracts at national and international (e.g. EU) levels. He has been in charge of volcanic gas monitoring in the Italian Poseidon System (2000) and is President of the Volcanology section of the French CNFGG (since 2002). He has also been Executive Secretary of the IAVCEI Commission on "Volcanic Gases" and of the Committee for the Mitigation of Volcanic Hazards of the French Government (1983-85). He has extensive experience working in the target field area, Indonesia, and has good working relationships with senior Indonesian volcanologists.
Dr. Macpherson joined Durham in 2000 as a Lecturer after research positions at the SE Asia Research Group at Royal Holloway (London), Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of Saskatchewan. Colin was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005 and to Reader in 2009. He has been responsible for innovative application of new and established geochemical techniques to understand magmatic fluxes and tectonics in many subduction systems and has received significant Natural Environmental Research Council funding to support this work. Colin is supervising one current and one recently-completed PhD project on petrogenesis in the Sunda Arc as well as five recent (since 2004) post-doctoral and PhD projects on subduction zone petrogenesis in Borneo, Halmahera, New Zealand, the Lesser Antilles, and Tonga as well as his own projects in the Philippines, Marianas, Andes and several ancient subduction zones. Colin also has considerable experience in studying volatiles in subduction-related magmatic systems. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society, co-leader of the IAVCEI Sub-commission on Subduction Zone Magmatism and in 2007 won the Geological Society’s Wollaston Fund for innovation in applying stable isotope ratios to geological problems.
Dr. Fiorani is a senior researcher with ENEA in Frascati, Italy. He is an expert in applying LIDAR to gas detection and quantification, and recently worked on LIDAR measurements of H2O in the volcanic plume of Stromboli. In 2000 Dr Fiorani was appointed researcher at ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) where he carries out research and development on laser remote sensing, mainly on atmospheric LIDAR, funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and Research), and hydrospheric LIDAR, funded by PNRA (Italian Antarctic Research Program). In the field of atmospheric LIDAR he has led the development of the rapidly tunable differential absorption LIDAR ATLAS, installed on the mobile laboratory ENVILAB (field measurement campaigns at industrial zones, Mount Etna and Stromboli Volcano). He is the author of 52 peer-reviewed papers.
Dr. D’Amato is a senior researcher with CNR-INO in Florence, Italy. A specialist in gas measurements using sophisticated laser and optical cell techniques, he deals with electro-optical devices for basic research and for industrial, environmental and medical applications. His expertise is in the fields of development and applications of spectroscopic techniques, of development of gas laser sources, of vacuum and cryogenic techniques, of the development of analytical devices, of the realization of software for data reduction and instrumental automation, of the coordination of international research projects, of the training of students and industrial employees. He has been several times an evaluator of research projects proposed to INTAS and CEE calls. He is presently the responsible of the Aerospace Optics Group, which deals of analytical instrumentation and of the design of optical systems for space applications. He is the author of 64 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Silvia Viciani, a laser spectroscopist at INO, will also contribute time to the project.
Within INGV we collaborate with colleagues Tommaso Caltabiano, Giuseppe Salerno and Alessandro La Spina, who are responsible for the remote sensing gas measurements on Etna and Stromboli volcanoes. Tommaso Caltabiano has conducted SO2 flux measurements on Etna since the mid-eighties and has published 20 papers in ISI journals on this subject. Giuseppe Salerno is completing a PhD on automatic SO2 flux measurements on Etna, and has published 24 papers in ISI journals. Alessandro La Spina is expert in measurements with OP-FTIR, having used the instrument on many of the world’s active volcanoes. He has published three papers in ISI journals.
Dr. Pignolo is the external project administrator for INGV Pisa, where she manages EC projects from "People", "Cooperation" and is the official administrative contact person for the CO2VOLC "Ideas" project.