The East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR) and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) wish to inform those who may be interested of a GEO@EAIFR webinar. This seminar will take place on July 11, 2024 and will be broadcast live on ZOOM. It will also be recorded and later posted on the ICTP-EAIFR YouTube channel, where one can find the previous recorded GEO@EAIFR webinars. Below all the details:

Speaker: Dr. Carolina Pagli, Associate Professor of Solid Earth Geophysics at the University of Pisa (Italy).

Title: Deformation of magma chambers and faulting in East Africa from InSAR and seismicity.

When: July 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm (Kigali time).

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All are very welcome.

Abstract: InSAR revolutionised crustal deformation studies when it started over three decades ago. Now, advancements in the new satellite missions means we can measure displacements at mm-scale, over 100's-km wide areas at a revisit time of a couple of weeks. This allows scientists to identify signals from deep magma chambers as well as capture the dynamic behaviour of fault slip. In this presentation, I will show recent results from InSAR studies of deep and shallow sills in Afar and in the Main Ethiopian rift. I will also present how a conjugate fault system slipped in Northern Afar. The studies are complemented with seismicity and other geophysical measurements.

Biography:  I did my PhD at the University of Iceland where I studied volcanic and glacio-isostatic deformation in central Iceland with InSAR and GPS. After a short post-doc at the University of Luxembourg where I continued on glaciologist-isostasy with GPS, I moved to the University of Leeds where I was a post-doc studying the magma deformation during the DAbbahu rifting event in Afar. I then became a permanent lecturer at Plymouth University and finally I returned to my home University, University of Pisa as a 'Rita Levi montalcini' fellow. I am now associate professor of Solid Earth Geophysics  at the University of Pisa.