The deforming and rotating Earth – A review of the 18th International Symposium on Geodynamics and Earth Tide, Trieste 2016
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Prof. Dr. Carla Braitenberg, Ph.D. is Geophysics professor at the University of Trieste, Italy. She fulfilled her Physics and Geophysics education in Germany and Italy. She has found innovative ways to use geodetic measurements to describe geologic features. In a Karst environment gravity has proven useful to delineate the extent of caves, and is a tool to detect new ones. The underground karstic waterflows were shown to be detectable by their dynamic signal in geodetic measurements of deformation. Underground strainmeters and tiltmeters were shown to be very sensitive to the underground hydrology, and useful in describing the hydraulic characteristics of the subsurface waterflows. Exploiting the modern gravity satellite missions GRACE and GOCE she has worked on regional geologic structures and geodynamics, demonstrating how knowledge of the big scale is essential to the interpretation of terrestrial observations at local scale. She develops software methodologies that aim at an intelligent integration of high resolution terrestrial data with satellite observations optimizing investigative tools for natural resource exploration.
Peer review under responsibility of Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration.