Global Change. Earth Sciences facing a challenge of Humanity

The Earth is a planet in constant change and evolution, not only at the climatic level, but at all geophysical levels, which affect the conditions of human life: accelerated climate change, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, hydrological cycle, evolution of ocean conditions, etc.

Earth Sciences collaborate in the continuous monitoring of all these natural phenomena or those caused by human activity, measuring these changes and predicting their evolution, causes and effects.

This round table is intended to give a global vision of how Earth Sciences have to play the role of monitor of the Earth and its associated dynamic phenomena, as well as the technical and scientific evolution necessary in these sciences to play this fundamental role, in such a way that they are useful to society in an issue as transcendental as the global changes of the Earth.

Composition:

Chairman: Roberto Brasero, journalist and presenter
Ana Mª Alonso Zarza, Director of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME)
Miguel Ángel López González, President of AEMET
Carmen López Moreno, Deputy Director of Surveillance, Warning and Geophysical Studies, National Geographic Institute (IGN)
Luisa Magalhaes, President of the Executive Committee of RAEGE (Atlantic Network of Geodynamic and Space Stations)
Jorge Miguel Alberto de Miranda, President of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA)
Mateo Valero Cortés, director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)