Mohammad Farzamian (IDL/ULISBOA) has now started the Electrical Resistivity Tomography surveys at Deception Island. Mohammad and Miguel Angel de Pablo (UAH) are also maintaining the observatories of Crater Lake, Irizar, Alluval fan and Chilean hut.
This year, the applied geophysics group of IDL (Prof. Monteiro Santos, Dr. Mohammad Farzamian and Miguel Esteves) developed an automated Electrical Resistivity Tomography system with a solar panel-driven battery and multi-electrode configuration to install at Deception Island, associated to the existing Crater Lake site of the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network (CALM) and corresponding boreholes of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) in order to study the long-term climatic trend on the ground thermal regime as well as to investigate the impact of the short-lived extreme meteorological events on the soil horizon.
