EDUCATION Ph. D. in Physics, University of Messina (1978)

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1 Giancarlo NERI Curriculum EDUCATION Ph. D. in Physics, University of Messina (1978) POSITIONS HELD Contract Researcher of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Catania, Italy (1981) Researcher of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Catania, Italy ( ) Contract Professor of Geophysics, Università di Messina, Italy ( ) Associate Professor of Solid Earth Geophysics, Università di Messina, Italy (1992 to 2006) Full Professor of Solid Earth Geophysics, Università di Messina, Italy (2006) PRESENT AFFILIATION Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Messina, Salita Sperone 31, Messina, Italy

2 LEADERSHIP OF PROJECTS, CENTRES AND LABORATORIES Leader of the CNR Project "Seismicity in the region of the Eolian Islands volcanic arc" ( ) Leader for the Italian part of the Italy-USA Bilateral Project "Mechanisms of the strongest earthquakes of south Italy" (the leader for the USA part was Prof. Max Wyss of University of Alaska Fairbanks) ( ). Leader of the Messina University Seismological Team in the framework of the Italian National Projects by: - Ministero Università e Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, MURST 40% Vulcanologia ( ) - Gruppo Nazionale per la Vulcanologia ( and 2000-present) - Gruppo Nazionale per la Difesa dai Terremoti ( and 2000-present) - Dipartimento Nazionale di Protezione Civile and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia ( ). Responsible of the Geophysical Section of the Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia, CNR, Catania ( ) Responsible of the Eolian Islands Seismic Network, CNR ( ) Responsible of the Messina Section of Sistema Poseidon per la sorveglianza sismica e vulcanica della Sicilia Orientale, Dipartimento Nazionale di Protezione Civile ( ) Vice-Director of Sistema Poseidon per la sorveglianza sismica e vulcanica della Sicilia Orientale,

3 Dipartimento Nazionale di Protezione Civile ( ) Responsible of the Geophysical Surveillance Centre of Gruppo Nazionale per la Vulcanologia of Italy during the "Vulcano 1988" Volcanic Emergency (1988) Director of the Earth Science Department of Messina University (2006 to date) Member of the Committee for Messina Emergency Plans, Civil Defense National Law 3633 of 5 December 2007 (2008 to date) PARTICIPATION TO SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS Commission on Volcano Geophysics, International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth Interior ( ) Commission of Gruppo Nazionale per la Vulcanologia of Italy for evaluation of eruptive scenarios at Vulcano island (1987) Commission of Gruppo Nazionale per la Vulcanologia of Italy for evaluation of CNR projects for seismic monitoring of the Etna volcano (1987) Scientific Committee of Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia, CNR ( ) Scientific Committee of Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra Solida, CNR, (also responsible in this framework of the Seismological Section of Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra Solida, )

4 Scientific Committee of Sistema Poseidon per la sorveglianza sismica e vulcanica della Sicilia Orientale, Dipartimento Nazionale di Protezione Civile ( ) SUPPORT TO SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Reviewer for several international journals: Physics and Chemestry of the Earth, Geophysical Research Letters, Annals of Geophysics, Tectonophysics, Earth Science Reviews, Geophysical Journal International, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. Convener and chairman of many seminars, workshops and sessions of congresses, the most recent of which are - the Workshop on Seismogenic faulting and seismic activity in the Calabro-Peloritan Arc region, Taormina (Italy) October 16-17, 2003 (co-convener G. Valensise of Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy) - Session S10 on Seismic detection of large seismogenic faults supported by geophyical and geological data of the 2004 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Frascisco (USA) December 13-17, 2004 (co-convener G. Valensise of Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy). - State of the art of earthquacke invenstigations in South Italy, new project, including the construction of a

5 bridge linking Sicily to the peninsular Italy. Tsukuba, Japan, 9 march 2005 SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS investigation of seismicity of Italy for identification of active faults, detection of seismogenic stress and seismic strain and modelling of local-to-regional scale geodynamic processes; development and tests of new methods for hypocenter location, stress inversion and analysis of earthquake temporal patterns, with the primary cooperation of the Universities of Washington-Seattle, Colorado-Boulder and Alaska-Fairbanks. investigation of crust properties by tomographic inversion of seismic data and analysis of earthquake statistical distributions in space, time and energy domains. modelling of volcanic processes at Vulcano, Stromboli, Etna and St. Helens volcanoes by investigation of volcano seismicity and other geophysical and geological features related to volcanic fluid dynamics. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Bottari, A., Federico, B., Neri, G., Some seismological features from an analysis of the recent seismic activity in the Messina Strait. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 71, 4, Bottari, A., Neri, G., Some statistical properties

6 of a sequence of historical Calabro-Peloritan earthquakes,. Jour. Geophys. Res., 88, B2, Caccamo, D., Neri, G., A new analytic procedure to determine hypocentral parameters of local seismic events, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 74, 2, Bottari, A., Caccamo, D., Cefali, F., Lo Giudice, E., Neri, G., Recent shallow seismicity in the Southern Calabro-Peloritan Arc region. Ann. Geophysicae, 4, B, 1, Bottari, A., Capuano, P., De Natale, G., Gasparini, P., Neri, G., Pingue, F., Scarpa, R., Source parameters of earthquakes in the Strait of Messina, Italy, during this century. Tectonophysics, 166, Neri, G., Malone, S., An analysis of the earthquake time series at Mount St. Helens, Washington, in the framework of recent volcanic activity, Jour. Volcanol. Geothermal Res., 38, Neri, G.,1990. Earthquake clustering on volcanic and tectonic structures, Tectonophysics, 175, 1/3, Bottari, A., Caccamo, D., Neri, G., An example of seismic occurrence modelling by a several-state random process. Geophys. Jour. Int., vol. 108:1, Neri G., Wyss. M., Preliminary results from stress tensor inversion of earthquake fault plane solutions in the Southern Tyrrhenian region, Boll. Geof. Teor.

7 Appl., XXXV, 139, Neri G., Caccamo D., Cocina O., Montalto A., Geodynamic implications of earthquake data in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Tectonophysics, 258, Caccamo D., Neri G., Sarao' A., Wyss M., Estimate of stress directions by inversion of earthquake fault plane solutions in Sicily, Geophys. J. Int., 125, 3, Cocina O., Neri G., Privitera E., Spampinato S., Stress tensor computations in the Mount Etna area (Southern Italy) and tectonic implications, Jour. Geodyn., 23, 2, De Luca G., Filippi M. L., Caccamo D., Neri G., Scarpa R., Crustal structure and seismicity of Southern Tyrrhenian basin, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 103, Eva E., Solarino S., Eva C., Neri G., Stress tensor orientation derived from fault-plane solutions in the South-Western Alps., Jour. Geophys. Res., 102, B4, Cocina O., Neri G., Privitera E., Spampinato S.,, Seismogenic stress field beneath Mt. Etna (South Italy) and possible relationships with volcano-tectonic features, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 83, Barberi G., Caccamo D., De Luca G., Neri G., Scarpa R., Seismic response to stress-strain fields in the

8 lithosphere of Sicily. Annali di Geofisica, 42, 5, Slejko D., Neri G., Orozova I., Renner G., Wyss M., Stress field in Friuli from fault plane solutions of activity following the 1976 main shock, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 89, 4, , Bruno G., Guerra I., Moretti A., Neri G, Space variations of stress along the Tyrrhenian Wadati- Benioff zone, Pure Appl. Geophys., 156, 4, Barberi G., Cocina O., Neri G., Privitera E., Spampinato S., Volcanological inferences from strain tensor computations at Etna volcano, Sicily, Bull. of Volcanology, 62, Aloisi M., D Agostino M., Dean K.G., Mostaccio A., Neri G., 2002 Satellite analysis and PUFF simulation of the eruptive cloud generated by the Mount Etna paroxysm of 22 July Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, B12, Aloisi M., Cocina O., Neri G., Orecchio B., Privitera E., Seismic tomography of the crust underneath the Etna volcano, Sicily. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 134, Neri G., Barberi G., Orecchio B., Aloisi M., Seismotomography of the crust in the transition zone between the Southern Tyrrhenian and Sicilian tectonic domains. Geophys. Res. Letters, 29 (23), Neri G., Barberi G., Orecchio B., Mostaccio A., 2003.

9 Seismic strain and seismogenic stress regimes in the crust of the southern Tyrrhenian region. Earth Planet. Science Letters, 213, Schorlemmer D., Neri G., Wiemer S., Mostaccio A., Stability and significance tests for b-value anomalies: example from the Tyrrhenian Sea. Geophys. Res. Letters, 30, 16. Neri G., Barberi G., Oliva G., Orecchio B., Tectonic stress and seismogenic faulting in the area of the 1908 Messina earthquake, South Italy. Geophysical Res. Letters, 31, 10, L Barberi G., Cosentino M.T., Gervasi A., Guerra I., Neri G., Orecchio B., Crustal seismic tomography in the Calabrian Arc region, south Italy. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 147, Neri G., Barberi G., Oliva G., Orecchio B., Spatial variations of seismogenic stress orientations in Sicily, south Italy. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 148, ISSN: Neri G., Oliva G., Orecchio B., Barberi G., A possible seismic gap within a highly seismogenic belt crossing Calabria and eastern Sicily, Italy. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 96 (4), , doi: / Billi A, Barberi G, Faccenna C, Neri G., Pepe F, Sulli A., Tectonics and seismicity of the Tindari fault system, Southern Italy: crustal deformations at the transition between ongoing contractional and extensional domains located above the edge of a subducting slab. Tectonics. 25 (2), doi: /2004tc Barberi G, Beranzoli L, Favali P, Neri G., Sgroi T., Seismic location improvements from an obs/h temporary network in Southern Tyrrhenian Sea.

10 Annals of Geophysics. 49 (2-3), Arrigo G., Roumelioti Z., Benetatos Ch., Kiratzi A., Bottari A., Neri G.., Termini D., Gorini A. Marcucci S., A source study of the 9 september 1998 (mw 5.6) Castelluccio earthquake in Southern Italy using teleseismic and strong motion data. Natural Hazards. 37 (3), Amoruso A, Crescentini L, Neri G., Orecchio B, Scarpa R., Spatial relation between the 1908 Messina Straits earthquake slip and recent earthquake distribution. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33 (17). doi: /2006gl Billi A, Presti D, Faccenna C, Neri G., Orecchio B., Seismotectonics of the nubia plate compressive margin in the south tyrrhenian region, Italy: clues for subduction inception. Journ. of Geophys. Res., Solid Earth. 112, b08302, isi: Presti D., Orecchio B., Falcone G, Neri G., Linear versus non-linear earthquake location and seismogenic fault detection in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy. Geophys. Journ. Intern., 172, , doi: /j x x. Billi A., Funiciello R., Minelli L., Faccenna C., Neri G., Orecchio B., Presti D., On the cause of the 1908 Messina tsunami, southern Italy. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L06301, doi: /2008gl Neri G., Orecchio B., Presti D., Sismicità attuale,campo di sforzo e dinamiche litosferiche, nell area dello Stretto di Messina, in: Il terremoto ed il maremoto del 28 dicembre 1908, a cura di Guido Bertolaso, Enzo Boschi, Emanuela Guidoboni e Gianluca Valensise, SGA-Storia Geofisica Ambiente srl, Bologna, Neri G., Orecchio B., Presti D., Tafaro F., Sismicità e scuotimenti del suolo attesi nell area dello Stretto di Messina, in: Ingegneria Antisismica: Messina cento anni dopo a cura di G. Falsone, Ed. Flaccovio (Palermo). Neri G., Orecchio B., Totaro C., Falcone G., Presti D., Subduction beneath southern Italy close to ending: results from seismic tomography,

11 Seismological Research Letters, 80, 1, 63-70, doi: /gssrl D Amico S., Orecchio B., Presti D., Zhu L., Hermann R. B., Neri G., Moment tensor solutions for moderate earthquakes in the Messina Straits, southern Italy, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.. Billi A., Presti D., Orecchio B., Faccenna C., Neri G., Incipient extension along the active convergent margin of Nubia in Sicily, Italy: Cefalù-Etna seismic zone. Tectonics, 29, Prof. Giancarlo Neri Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Facoltà di Scienze MM.FF.NN. - Università di Messina Salita Sperone Messina - Italy Phone: +39(090) Fax: +39(090) geoforum@unime.it