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LOCATION
Getting There
GET IN
São Miguel island is accessible by air through João Paulo II International Airport (PDL/LPPD), which handles domestic and regional air traffic to the island, as well as international flights from Europe and North America. SATA International (www.sata.pt/en) and TAP Air Portugal (www.flytap.com) are the primary Portuguese air companies serving the island.
The Low-cost air companies Ryanair (www.ryanair.com) and Easyjet (www.easyjet.com) also operate flights from Lisbon (LIS/LPPT) and Oporto (OPO/LPPR) to Ponta Delgada.
LOCATION
The EGU / FORM-OSE Post-graduate Training School will be lectured on the University of the Azores (UAc), a public institution of higher education dependant on the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education. It was founded in 1976 with the aim of promote the sustained development of the Azores Archipelago.
The UAc it is divided in three campi: Ponta Delgada Campus (São Miguel Island), Angra do HeroÃsmo Campus (Terceira Island) and Horta Campus (Faial Island). It is structure organised in departments and schools, each of them oriented towards specific teaching and research area.
The course will be lectured in the Amphitheaters Complex (Ponta Delgada Campus).
The theoretical classes will be lectured in the South Amphitheater.
Accommodation
During all the course duration the accommodation of the students and lecturers will be made on the Universitary Residence.
Students will be allocated in double rooms and teachers in single rooms, each one with private WC.
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São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago)
RESUME
The Azores archipelago is located in the North Atlantic Ocean at about 1500 km from the European continent and 3900 km from the North America east coast. It is formed by nine volcanic islands and a few islets dispersed along a 600 km NW-SE direction axis.
São Miguel Island is the biggest island of the archipelago and comprises three main active polygenetic volcanoes (Sete Cidades, Fogo and Furnas) with fissural volcanic zones in between.
Since the settlement, the São Miguel Island was affected by 12 major earthquakes and seismic crises, and registered six volcanic eruptions on land and four in the sea. Some of these events triggered destructive landslides that can also occurred as a result of extreme meteorological conditions.
Processes of hazardous degassing exist in both well-established fumarolic localities and as more diffuse soil emanations. They also occur as induced phenomena in association with geothermal exploitation.
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