15-17 October -The second year ASTARTE meeting 3rd General Assembly will take place in Heraklion (ASTARTE-test site) back to back with the ​International Workshop on Tsunamis in the World (ITW2015) 14-15 October

Field trip 18 October 2015

Venue: ​the Natural History Museum of Crete, in Heraklion

​International Workshop on Tsunamis in the World (ITW2015).

The EGU General Assembly 2015 was a great success with 4,870 oral, 8,489 poster, and 705 PICO presentations. 577 unique scientific sessions together with 310 side events created an interesting programme. At the conference 11,837 scientists from 108 countries participated, of which 23% were students.

ASTARTE had a visible presence in this meeting. 

ASTARTE was presented at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan held on 14-18 March, 2015.

Bringing together over 6,500 participants from 187 Member States, the conference adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: 2015-2030. The ASTARTE presentation was entitled “Assessment, Strategy And Risk Reduction for Tsunamis in Europe – New Directions for Tsunami Research in Europe” (by Maria Ana Baptista and the ASTARTE Team). It was presented on March 15, 2015 by Dr. Kenji Satake who works at the Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan — one of the partners in the ASTARTE consortium.