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1 MEMBERS FROM ROMANIA: Name, Surename ship Function Residence 1. ZUGRĂVESCU, Dorel Full Founding President of the, MC-AR section Bucureşti 2. BULIGA, Gheorghe Full Bucureşti 3. DEMETRESCU, Crişan Full Founding, MC-AR Bucureşti 4. MUNTEANU, Florin Full Scientific Secretary of the Section Braşov 5. RADULIAN, Mircea Full Bucureşti 6. STĂNICĂ, Dumitru Full Founding Bucureşti 7. UDRIŞTE, Constantin Full Bucureşti 8. BLEAHU, Marcian Bucureşti 9. DAMIAN, Aurică Corresponding Bucureşti 10. IELENICZ, MIHAI Bucureşti 11. BANDOC, Georgeta Associate Bucureşti OVERSEAS MEMBERS: Name, Surename ship Function 12. MANDEA, Mioara Full Germania 13. BONATZ, Manfred Germania 14. DUCEA Mihai 15. ENESCU, Bogdan 16. GEORGESCAULD Dinu Stephane 17. LE MOUËL, Jean-Louis 18. NABIGHIAN, Misac 19. ROMAN, Constantin 20. Van RUYMBEKE, Michel 21. XIE, Xiande SUA Japonia Franţa Franţa SUA Anglia Belgia China 1
2 22. YOKOYAMA, Izumi Japonia actualizare: 27 august
3 MEMBERS FROM ROMANIA: ZUGRĂVESCU, Gheorghe-Dorel Corresponding of the Romanian Academy, President of the Section, Founding Full of AOSR Senior researcher, Ph.D., director of Sabba S. Ştefănescu Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy Areas of expertise: Introduction in Romania of instrumental geodynamics, equipment / sensors, acquisition systems / storage / processing; production of cross sections, polygons and geodynamics observatories, initially exclusively equipped with equipment from our very own construction and installation of geodynamics equipment, including of our own manufacturing, also in foreign observatories. BULIGA, Gheorghe Full Oil and gas engineer, Ph.D., President of the Society of Petroleum and Gas Engineers. Areas of expertise: Hydraulics of hydrocarbon deposits, rock mechanics, development and substantiation of salt exploitation technologies (now classic) in solutions through wells, technologies for exploiting oil deposits with mining methods, gas separation through membranes, etc. He is the author of inventions and innovations, of scientific papers in the fundamental fields of Earth sciences, extraction technologies, transport and storage of oil and gas hydrocarbons; author of books on the structure and composition of the Earth and of historical books on the evolution of the Romanian school and oil and gas industry, etc. 3
4 DEMETRESCU, Crişan Corresponding of the Romanian Academy, Founding Full of AOSR Senior researcher, Ph.D., Director of the Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy. Areas of expertise: Researches on geomagnetism: main geomagnetic field distribution, reference fields, secular variation of the main field, solar cycle variations, magnetic structure of the lithosphere, conductivity of the mantle; researches on heat flux: construction of equipment and methodology problems of continental and marine heat flux measurements, distribution of the thermal flux field in Romania, deep geothermal regime, modelling of the evolution of certain thermomechanical tectonic units in Romania (basins and the Carpathian orogeny), rheological behaviour of the lithosphere, seismicitytemperature relation; researches on earthquake prediction: study of forerunning phenomena in the temporal variations of natural fields (geomagnetic, geoelectric, thermal); researches on climatology: paleoclimatic changes caused by the inversion of temperature data measured in wells, effects of solar variability on climate change. Full MUNTEANU, Florin Senior researcher, engineer, Ph.D., Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy; President of the Centre for Complex Studies UNESCO centre; General Manager of Astech Solutions SRL. Areas of expertise: researches on materials technology: design and construction of equipment in the fields of plastic deformation of metals by magnetic pulse, laser cutting of materials, magnetic control of the electric arc upon plasma welding, stored energy welding, industrial robots, computerised systems for non-destructive flaw detection; design and development of the first personal laboratory (PL), for individual study in a virtual environment; research in complexity science: original methods of fractal analysis of time series; applications of chaos theory in biophysical studies; biostructure mathematical modelling; construction and study of fractal antennas; intelligent systems for extracting information from data streams (data mining); applications of complexity paradigm in engineering, economics (econophysics), law (jurisdynamics), environment; research in geodynamics: the complex study of geodynamically active regions: Vrancea - Romania, Reunion the Indian Ocean. 4
5 RADULIAN, Mircea Full Senior researcher, physicist, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute for Earth Physics. Areas of expertise: Physics of seismic source (discrete modelling of seismic source, numerical simulation of the seismic process; inversion of high frequency waveforms generated by weak earthquakes to determine the seismic moment tensor; use of relative deconvolution techniques (spectral ratios, empirical Green s functions) to obtain source parameters; scaling properties analysis of Vrancea intermediate depth earthquakes; study of the complexity of the seismic phenomenon (inhomogeneity of the faulting process, nonlinearities in the distributions of seismic activity in space, time and energy) through the systematic analysis of digital waveforms recorded by the national network; seismicity and focal mechanism analysis according to the subduction process in Vrancea region; physics of seismic wave propagation (study of seismic wave attenuation; seismic tomography; anisotropy of seismic waves; effects of local structure); hazard, microzoning and seismic risk. 5
6 STĂNICĂ, Dumitru Founding Full Senior researcher, engineer, Ph.D., Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy. Areas of expertise: development of geophysical methodologies and technologies of investigation of active regions in terms of geodynamics with high natural and anthropogenic hazard (seismically active, landslides and subsidence in regions with underground holes, etc.); introducing for the first time in Romania the magnetotelluric method, contributing to the development of its theoretical and experimental bases, being successfully used to solve highly topical issues such as: deciphering the deep geological structure of Romania s territory; assessment of phenomena / parameters preceding geodynamic activity; correlation of electrical conductivity anomalies with the major sutures of the Romanian territory and geodynamic processes at regional scale; highlighting the process of torsion of "relict slab" in Vrancea; determining the disturbances caused by the natural electromagnetic field on high voltage power lines, etc.. Full UDRIŞTE, Constantin Professor, Ph.D., mathematician, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences - Politehnica University of Bucharest. Areas of expertise: Differential geometry, optimisations on Riemannian manifolds, magnetic dynamic systems, Geometric Dynamics and Multitemporal Optimal Control. 6
7 Sursa foto: Formula AS BLEAHU, Marcian Geologist, Professor, Ph.D. Areas of expertise: Various branches of geology (stratigraphy, tectonics, hydrogeology, geological technical), geomorphology, speleology, environment and nature protection, prospective, history of science, geography of tourism, political ecology. (stratigrafie, tectonică, hidrogeologie, geologic tehnică) He is considered to be the best expert of the geology of the Apuseni Mountains. IELENICZ, Mihai Honorific Professor PhD, PhD coordinator in Geomorphology (since 1993), physical geography ( ) and geography (after 1998) at the University of Bucharest. Areas of expertise: physical geography, theoretical geography (geographical environment and anthropic anthropical rendered environment, landscape and landscape types, zone and geographic region, zoning, regionalization and typing, etc.), environmental geography, geomorphology (regional geomorphology, climate geomorphology, glacial and periglacial geomorphology, fluvial geomorphology, coastal geomorphology, Romania s relief, current geomorphological processes, geomorphological mapping, current morphodynamics), geography of tourism (analysis of Romania s tourism potential, exploitation and potential of tourism at regional level (the Massifs of Buzau, Baiu, Penteleu and climate resorts of Tuşnad, Slănic); regional geography (hills and plateaus of Romania, Ciucas Mountains, Buzau Mountains, Banat Mountains, etc., Romania s Subcarpathians, Romanian plains and the Danube Delta), geographic mapping (detailed legends for landslides mapping, morphodynamic processes, general geomorphological maps). 7
8 Corresponding DAMIAN, Aurică Senior researcher, geologist, Ph.D., Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy. Areas of expertise: geological research on hydrocarbons, research and surface geological mapping of the molasse and flysch of the Eastern Carpathians, seismic prospecting in various sectors of the Eastern Carpathians and the Moesian Platform, activities within the Geodynamics Group of the Petroleum, Mining and Geonomics Engineering Department, the Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania. BANDOC, GEORGETA Associate Authorised Professor, PhD, Faculty of Geography, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, University of Bucharest; Vice-dean of the Faculty of Geography; Director of the Costal Research Centre for Environmental Protection, at the University of Bucharest; Chairman of the working group Systemic Environmental Analysis of the Commission of Energy and Environmental Protection of AOSR. Areas of expertise: systemic analysis of environment; environmental protection; ocean atmosphere interaction; characteristics of renewable energy resources and their energy potential; analysis and research of environmental components through an interdisciplinary approach; quantitative and qualitative modelling of dynamic geographical systems; numerical and experimental modelling of the components of dynamic geographic systems. 8
9 OVERSEAS MEMBERS: Full, GERMANY MANDEA, Mioara Areas of expertise: Space observation: observation of geopotential fields, from modern observatories and satellites to historical archives, description of spatial and temporal changes of the field adapting new mathematical tools to analyse magnetic and gravific data, studies on the deep inside of the Earth, studies on the magnetic fields of Mars, the Moon and Mercury, studies on the geophysical changes in the Arctic region., GERMANY BONATZ, Manfred Professor, engineer, Ph.D., Geodinamica, Univ. Bonn., USA DUCEA, Mihai Ph.D. in geology, professor at the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Areas of expertise: Tectonics and petrology: Crust composition, structure and magmatism of the Andes. Tectonic evolution of Western North America. Small scale geochronologic techniques. 9
10 ENESCU, Bogdan, Japan Affiliate Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Department of Science of Earth Evolution. Affiliate visiting Professor at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), Tachikawa, Tokyo. Areas of expertise: physical processes which control the occurrence of earthquakes interaction analysis and occurrence of earthquakes building reliable models based on physics which can be used to predict seismic activity temporal variations of the in the seismic properties of the earth. GEORGESCAULD, Dinu Stephane, FRANCE Professor, engineer, Ph.D., Medicine, Constructions, Chemistry Physics., FRANCE LE MOUËL, Jean-Louis Professor, engineer, Ph.D., Geophysics. Areas of expertise: influence of torques between the core and the mantle on the variations of the magnetic field and day length. 10
11 , USA NABIGHIAN, Misac Areas of expertise: in research: Potential fields in Geophysics, electromagnetic fields in Geophysics: theory, data processing and interpretation., BELGIUM Van RUYMBEKE, Michel Chef de travaux, Royal Observatory of Belgium Department of Reference Systems and Geodynamics Pr-Dr scientific instrumentation design., CHINA XIE, Xiande Areas of expertise: Geology and mineralogy. 11
12 , JAPAN YOKOYAMA, Izumi Areas of expertise: Vulcanology - Volcano Physics Geophysical characteristics of dacite volcanism, seismic energy releases from volcanoes, rheological behaviour of valcanogenic deformations, geophysical comparison of the three eruptions in the 20th century of the Usu volcano. The largest magnitudes of earthquakes associated with some historical volcanic eruptions and their volcanological significance. Anomalous crustal movements with low seismic efficiency, Campi Flegrei, Italy, and some examples in Japan. Formation processes of the 1909 Tarumai and the 1944 Usu lava domes in Hokkaido, Japan. Growth rates of lava domes with respect to viscosity of magmas. ROMAN, Constantin Corresponding, GREAT BRITAIN Professor, engineer, Ph.D., Geodynamics. Areas of expertise: Pioneer of tectonic plates. He introduced new concepts: 1. Definition of geometry of the lithosphere, sinking beneath the Carpathian arc in Romania. 2. The first plate, the tectonic model of the Carpathian arc. 3. Definition of the Black Sea plate. 4. Definition of non-rigid lithospheric plates or "buffer plates". 5. Definition of the first focal mechanisms of the big earthquakes behind the Himalayas. 12
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