Title: Bus tour: Visiting examples of University of Malta's visible impact on Maltese Society
Date: Sunday 5 November
Date: Sunday 5 November
Time: 09:00 - 12:00
Come and join us on this exciting educational tour. It is completely free!
As part of the reSEArch-EU project, we are organising a bus tour to sites where the input of the University of Malta (UM) is readily visible. On Sunday 5 November from 09:00 to 12:00 meet the experts that have done the job, who will describe the projects and their impact. A professional guide will accompany the excursion. The tour is open to all interested participants from the general public. It is also an opportunity to promote the (SEA-EU) and the .
Register by or by sending an email.
The tour is organised around stops at the following venues:
- Seismic Station, Msida - The Seismic Monitoring and Research Group from the Department of Geosciences, UM, operates the Malta Seismic Network that monitors earthquake activity around the Maltese Islands. We will visit the on-campus seismic station, one of the network's eight broadband seismic stations.
- Abattoir Water Tower and adjacent research station, Marsa - The Reinforced Concrete Water Tower (1930s) and the UM Research Station in Engineering Materials and Structural Health Monitoring. The Water Tower was restored by UM, using advanced ultra-high performance concrete with self-healing properties.
- HF Radar site, Ghar Lapsi - One of the four stations in Malta and Gozo forming part of a network of SeaSonde radars, set up during the CALYPSO Interreg Italia-Malta funded projects for the real-time observations of sea surface currents and waves in the Malta-Sicily Channel.
- Grand Harbour Breakwater, Valletta - Origins, damage, and benefits of this construction. What is being done to safeguard the historic breakwater.
