Staff and students from the University of Malta’s Department of Geosciences participated the European Geosciences Union’s recent annual general assembly in Vienna. This year’s event attracted 13,650 participants from 109 countries and from all branches of the geosciences.

Dr Aaron Micallef delivered a poster presentation entitled ‘Failure surface development due to shallow gas: A case study from the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand’ and a Pico presentation entitled ‘Marine geomorphometry: Overview and opportunities’. He also convened a session entitled ‘Seafloor- and Sub-seafloor Expression of Geomorphic and Tectonic Processes’.

Ph.D student Daniele Spatola presented a poster entitled ‘Fluid escape structures in the Graham Bank region (Sicily Channel, Central Mediterranean) revealing volcanic and neotectonic activity’.

Ph.D seismology student Daniela Farrugia participated with a poster presentation entitled ‘Sensitivity of ground motion parameters to local site effects for areas characterised by a thick buried low-velocity layer’. She also convened and lectured in a short course entitled ‘Seismology for non-seismologists’.