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Urban areas developed above salt-karst systems are particularly sensitive to ground deformation processes driven by dissolution, suffosion, and anthropogenic disturbances. Detecting and monitoring these processes in densely built environments requires observation techniques capable of capturing small-scale morphological changes with high spatial resolution and repeatability. This study demonstrates the use of recurrent UAV-based LiDAR surveys to detect and measure ground instability in the town of Slanic Prahova (...

Urban areas built above salt deposits are especially vulnerable to ground instability caused by dissolution, suffosion, and human activities. Monitoring these environments is difficult due to the complex subsurface structures and dense infrastructure constraints. Understanding the dynamics of these processes requires combining multiple investigation and monitoring methods to capture both underground conditions and surface movements. This paper shares initial findings from an ongoing multi-method monitoring project...

Understanding environmental change relies on observational technologies that analyze the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter. Spectroscopy provides the physical foundation for many sensing techniques used in Earth sciences, operating across the ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS), and infrared (IR) spectral domains. Technologies such as LiDAR, thermal imaging, photogrammetry, and optical remote sensing rely on these principles to observe environmental processes and monitor changes in the Earth sys...

The global development of society requires constant updating of the objectives that education pursues and how they are achieved. Science education is an area undergoing advanced transformation, both at the level of objectives and methodologies, with a strong social, economic, and knowledge impact. Research-based education is a well-established term, especially in the higher education system. More studies and key policy documents argue that education must be based on cutting-edge research. Essential in this equatio...

In the past decades, the necessity for detailed earthquake microzonation studies was recognized for Bucharest city first because significant damage occurred here during the last major earthquakes, as well as for other densely populated cities in Romania exposed to major seismic risk due to the intermediate-depth earthquakes occurring in Vrancea zone and local site effects. Numerous studies established different approaches incorporating non-linearity analyses, which generally did not consider groundwater level chan...

First results about crustal models were obtained from various geophysical and seismological methods applied in Romania in the last part of XX century. A thorough interpretation of these data lead to the first partial models of crustal structure in the western part of Romania. In the first years after 2000 two regional seismic refraction lines were performed within a close cooperation with German partners from University of Karlsruhe. One of these lines is Vrancea 2001, with 420 km in length, almost half of the eve...

Over the last few years, science has advanced unprecedentedly in explaining phenomena and facts with a high impact on society: earthquakes for example. On the other hand, new technologies are transforming the way (seismological) information is collected and transmitted to public and other various stakeholders categories. From interactive multimedia content to immersive experiences, difficult concepts become easier to be transmitted and understood by a wide variety of audience, starting with children, a most import...

Earthquakes represent a real threat in Romania. They can cause important damages, loss of lives, socio-economic as well as cultural losses. The National Institute for Earth Physics (NIEP) is the only governmental organization responsible for monitoring the seismic activity on RomaniaпїЅs territory. NIEP provides different kind of information minutes to hours after the occurrence of a significant earthquake in Romania: near realtime information (location, depth and magnitude), ground shaking parameters and maps wit...