During the week 10-14 November 2025, SubRISK+ team actively took part in an intense series of research dissemination activities, in the framework of three scientific conferences/workshops:
- 5th Mediterranean Geosciences Union (MedGU), held in-person and online on 10–12 November in Athens, Greece
- XII AIT International Conference – Smart Earth Observation for a Sustainable Future, organised by the Italian Society of Remote Sensing (AIT), and held on 12-14 November in Milan, Italy
- LaSII/GSEU Workshop – Land Subsidence in Europe: from Science to Management, jointly organised by UNESCO’s working group on land subsidence (LaSII) and Geological Service for Europe (GSEU), and held on 13-14 November at the Geological Survey of Belgium, Brussels
At MedGU 2025, Paranunzio et al. delivered an oral presentation on assessing future land subsidence under climate change scenarios, with application to Bologna metropolitan area, which contributed to the Track 17 (Special Session): Land Subsidence: Triggers and Monitoring. This work is the first scientific output of SubRISK+ WP6 on Future Scenarios Analysis, aiming to assess future subsidence risk by 2050 and 2100 under different climate change scenarios accounting for urban population evolution in the 15 metropolitan cities of Italy.
Soon after MedGU, an oral contribution by Cigna et al. was presented at the AIT conference, within the thematic session T3-2 “Natural Hazard”, with a focus on the satellite InSAR-based assessment of present-day land subsidence hazard and risk in the metropolitan cities of Italy. This work was conducted in 2024 by SubRISK+ team as part of WP2 on National scale risk assessment; its core outputs are openly available in digital form within the ‘Control Room’, and described detail in the accompanying report (see DEL2.1 and DEL2.2 in the Deliverables page). The full conference programme of AIT can be accessed here.
Finally, a set of three key scientific contributions were delivered at the LaSII/GSEU workshop (see more details and full programme within LaSII webpage here), with:
- Cigna et al. opening the session on Scientific advantages of drivers, monitoring and modelling of land subsidence with a talk on monitoring land subsidence and its induced risk to urban infrastructure using satellite InSAR in Italy;
- Bonì et al. presenting a poster on InSAR-based assessment of risk levels from differential land subsidence to support sustainable urban land use planning, with application in Emilia-Romagna region, Italy; and
- Tang et al. presenting another poster on coupled 3D flow-geomechanical differential land subsidence modeling with InSAR-based data assimilation in Bologna.
These presentations involved key results from SubRISK+ WP2 and WP3 on national and regional scale risk assessment, and WP4 on advanced modeling at the local scale.
Moreover, in his role of current chair of the UNESCO LaSII working group, Prof P. Teatini opened the LaSII/GSEU workshop along with Dr J. Hollis (Secretary General of EuroGeoSurveys, EGS) and Dr L. Folin-Calabi (Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office in Brussels and Representative to the EU); while Dr F. Cigna participated in the Panel Discussion on “Subsidence data, use it local or go continental?“, together with lead experts from the University of Alicante, the Hellenic Survey of Geology and Mineral Exploration, and the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Overall, this wealthy and productive week of events provided a range opportunities not only to present SubRISK+ project to the scientific community, but most importantly to get together with many national and international land subsidence experts from academia, industry and policy institutions, and discuss this widespread geological process, available monitoring and modeling techniques and their performances, the impacts caused to urban environments, and future research directions in this field.