March 12, 2010: An interview of RAI International with Marino Maroccu on GRIDA3 and multi-model ensemble forecast on limited area.

February 25, 2010: Poster presentation and live demo of EIAGRID: In-field optimization of seismic data acquisition by real-time subsurface imaging using a remote GRID computing environment, at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Wave Inversion Consortium (WIT), Hamburg, Germany, by Zeno Heilmann*, Ana M. Vallenilla Ferrara, Guido Satta, and Ernesto Bonomi.

August 26, 2009: : Oral presentation of EIAGRID: In-field optimization of seismic data acquisition by real-time subsurface imaging using a remote GRID computing environment, at the 11th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society (SBGf), Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, by Zeno Heilmann*, Ana M. Vallenilla Ferrara, Guido Satta, and Ernesto Bonomi. Extended abstract

July 2, 2009: VIII GRIDA3 Project Management Meeting at CRS4

June 4, 2009: Oral presentation of GRIDA3 to Ugo Cappellacci, President of the Sardinian Region in visit to CRS4, by Ernesto Bonomi.

May 26, 2009: Oral presentation of GRIDA3 at the CCT-Apras Workshop by Ernesto Bonomi.

April 10, 2009: GRIDA3 internal meeting on the “implementation of the distributed data-infrastructure”, h. 9:30 at DIGITA, Cagliari, Italy.

March 17-19, 2009: Training sessions on iRODS by Adil Hasan (University of Liverpool) at CRS4, Italy. Other presentations:

April 19–24, 2009: CRS4 co-organization of the ESSI13 session on Geosciences Applications on Grid and HPC of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria. CRS4 contributions (with live demos at the EGEE booth):

February 25-27, 2009: oral presentation by Eva Lorrai AGISGRID working progress in the GRIDA3 project at the X Meeting degli utenti GRASS & GFOSS, Aula Magna of the Faculty of Engineering, Cagliari (Italy).

February 2-6, 2009: oral presentation by Francesco Locunto Using iRODS with the EnginFrame grid portal into the GRIDA3 project at the iRODS workshop @ CC-IN2P3, Lyon (France).

January 17, 2008: Fabrizio Murgia - oral presentation and abstract on "Grid Services in environmental sciences: The GRIDA3 problem solving platform (with live demos)" authored by E. Bonomi et al., 3rd GRID & e-Collaboration Workshop for the Earth Science Community, ESA ESRIN Premises, Frascati (Italy).

January 23, 2008: Ernesto Bonomi - oral presentation Shared Resources Manager for Environmental Data Analysis and Applications (GRIDA3), authored by E. Bonomi et al., Second FIMA International Conference on "Energy and Environment: New Challenges to Mathematical Modelling and Applications", Champoluc (Valée d’Aoste, Italy), 21-24 January 2008.

February 13, 2008: V GRIDA3 Project Management Meeting - GRIDA3 Mid-project Review, at CRS4

April 16, 2008: Fabrizio Murgia - oral presentation on GRIDA3 problem-solving platform for environmental monitoring, management and planning authored by E. Bonomi, Z. Heilmann, G. Lecca, M. Marrocu, F. Murgia, G. Pusceddu, G. Satta, A. M. Vallenilla Ferrara, at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2008, session: Geosciences applications on Grid, Vienna (Austria), with GRIDA3 demos at the EGEE booth.

May 14, 2008: Giuditta Lecca - short presentation on GRIDA3D problem solving platform for environmental planning and management (AQUAGRID-PHREEQC application) at the XVIII Settimana Scientifica e tecnologica May 12-17, 2008, Sessione "La ricerca per la riqualificazione delle aree minerarie", Miniera di Monteponi, Iglesias, Italy.

May 27-30, 2008: Pierluigi Cau – oral presentation on Data grid Web based approach to groundwater modeling using SRB at the workshop Building data grids with iRODS, e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh.

June 3, 2008: Giuditta Lecca - oral presentation AQUAGRID: a problem solving platform for contaminated groundwater (a case study in a mining area in Sardinia) at the 10th International Mine Water Association Congress, June 1st—5th Carlsbad / Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

July 4, 2008: VI GRIDA3 Project Management Meeting and Progress Review of the GRIDA3 Project by Domenico Laforenza, at CRS4

Sept 16, 2008: Riccardo Biddau - oral presentation AQUAGRID: a Grid service for advanced modeling and geochemical data analysis in groundwater resurces management at the 84^ Congresso Nazionale Società Geologica Italiana, Sept 15-17, 2008, Sassari, Italy.

Dec 15, 2008: VII GRIDA3 Project Management Meeting at CRS4

January 29-30, 2007: I GRIDA3 Project Management Meeting - First Planning Meeting, at CRS4

January 31-February 2, 2007: EnginFrame tutorial, at CRS4.

March 15, 2007: II GRIDA3 Project Management Meeting - Grid Infrastructure, at CRS4

April 26, 2007: III GRIDA3 Project Management Meeting - Conceptualizing Empirical Research, at CRS4

June 04, 2007: Andrea Piras - seminar on “Semantic Web e Ontologie” - pdf | odp (OpenOffice2), at CRS4

June 13, 2007: Alessandro Comunian - seminar on "WWHYPDA – A World Wide HYdrogeological Properties DAtabase", at CRS4

June 13, 2007: Jean-Yves Nief - seminar on "Working experience with SRB and the road to iRODS", at CRS4

June 14-15, 2007: GRIDA3 Poster at the 2nd DEGREE workshop on Grid Portals and Data Management Techniques for Earth Science Applications held at CRS4

July 4-6 2007: Andrea Deiana - oral presentation and proceedings paper on AGISGRID: AGISGRID: A Spatial Dataset Infrastructure for Environment Modelling authored by A. Deiana, P. Valera , E. Muntoni, A. Mazzella, R. Demontis, E. Lorrai, L. Muscas, at the 13th EC-GI&GIS Workshop “INSPIRE Time: ESDI for the Environment”, Porto (Portugal).

July 4-6 2007: poster on AGISGRID: Spatial Dataset Infrastructure for Geochemical Hazard Analysis and Forecast: AGISGRID authored by A. Deiana, P. Valera , E. Muntoni, A. Mazzella, R. Demontis, E. Lorrai, L. Muscas, at the 13th EC-GI&GIS Workshop “INSPIRE Time: ESDI for the Environment”, Porto (Portugal).

September 10-13, 2007: Andrea Vacca - A Grid Based Approach to Support Soil Management and Soil Use in Sardinia, Italy (poster presentation) at International Workshop on Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development in Arid and Semi-arid Regions, Alashan (China)

September 11 2007: Paolo Valera - oral presentation and proceedings paper on Web Diffusion Of Information: The Various Angles of Html Code authored by P. Valera, at the Sixth Earth Science Italian Forum (Workshop), Rimini (Italy).

September 12 - 14 2007: Paolo Valera - oral presentation and proceedings paper on Relationships Between Heavy Metals and Health in Sardinia: a Preliminary Study authored by Muntoni E., Valera P., Deiana A., Muntoni Sa., at the Sixth Earth Science Italian Forum, Rimini (Italy)

October 23, 2007: IV GRIDA3 Project Management Meeting - Infrastructure and application integration, at CRS4

December 4, 2007: Fabrizio Murgia - oral presentation and proceedings paper on AQUAGRID: The subsurface hydrology Grid service of the Sardinian regional Grid infrastructure authored by G. Lecca, F. Murgia, P. Maggi & A.Piras, at the 3rd EELA Conference, Catania (Italy).

November 28, 2006: The GRIDA3 Kick-off Meeting, at Technological Park "Sardegna Ricerche"

April 18, 2008: Giuditta Lecca - lecture on Modeling Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers (real case-studies demonstrations via the GRIDA3-AQUAGRID portal) at the PhD Course ADVANCED NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN SOILS AND AQUIFERS (ANMFT), Certosa di Pontignano, April 7-18, 2008, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy.

May 6- July 10, 2008: Michela Mascia - stage “IFTS/CIPE Ricerca” at CRS4 as final requirement of the course on TECNICO SUPERIORE PER IL MONITORAGGIO E LA GESTIONE DEL TERRITORIO E DELL'AMBIENTE. The stage is entitled “GRIDA3 advanced open source software tools for environmental management and planning” under the tutorship of Giuditta Lecca (OR4) and Eva Lorrai (OR7). The stage includes theory and practice of a broad spectrum of software applications integrated into the GRIDA3 portal and more. The chief application software analyzed are: PostgreSQL, postGIS, gvSIG. The stager will make an end-user evaluation of the online simulation graphical user interfaces (AQUAGRID-PHREEQC geochemical DB) and a GIS application to the Capoterra aquifer using the SINTACS method.

Sept 18-19, 2008: Giuditta Lecca - lectures on Coupled groundwater flow & contaminant transport model; AQUAGRID technological platform to simulate large and complex contamination problems and geochemical data analysis at the Ph.D School in Environmental and Land Engineering and Sciences, Sept 1-22, 2008, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.

Sept 22, 2008- Apr 30, 2009: Andrea Girau - stage “ ImpresAmbiente--BORSA FORMAZIONE TRASFERIMENTO TECNOLOGICO NEL SETTORE DEI RISCHI AMBIENTALI” at CRS4 focused on the process of transfer technology and innovation from research activities towards the operational activities of small and medium enterprises in the sector of environmental risks. The stage includes the development and testing of a modeling study on “Acid Mine Drainage Reactive Transport Model with PHREEQC” -as a part of the AQUAGRID portal- to be proposed to stakeholdes in the field of groundwater contamination from mining activities (tutor: Giuditta Lecca).

April 20- MAY 15, 2009: Samir Nahhal stage at CRS4 on “Optimization of pumping and injection rates in the Gaza aquifer (Palestine) using CODESA-3D coupled with Genetic Algorithms” as a partial fullfillment of the requirements for the Master Degree in Water Resources Engineering - Islamic Unviersity, Rafah - Gaza - Palestine (tutor: Giuditta Lecca).

Sept 21, 2009: EBI Business Incubator by Luigi Fusco (ESA) slides of the seminar at the Parco Scientifico, Pula.

March, 2-6 2009: EGEE-User Forum/OGF25 & OGF-Europe's 2nd International Event in Catania, Italy.

June 2-5, 2009: Grid Technologies for GeoSpatial Applications in Hannover, Germany.

November 9-12, 2009: 1st International Workshop on High Performance Distributed Data Management (HPDDM09) in London, UK (held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions-ICITST-2009).

January 16-17, 2008: 3rd GRID & e-Collaboration Workshop for the Earth Science Community taking place at ESRIN premises, Frascati (Italy).

April 13-18, 2008: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008, Vienna (Austria).

June 1-5, 2008: Xth International Mine Water Association-IMWA Congress “Mine waters & the environment”, Carlsbad/Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic).

October 13-16, 2008: International Symposium IAHS UNESCO on “The Role of Hydrology in Water Resources Management”, Isle of Capri (Italy).

Dec 5, 2008: CYCLOPS project final workshop Towards a European e-Infrastructure for Civil Protection in Rome, Italy.

March 7-8, 2007: European GeoInformatics Workshop, National e-Science Centre (NeSC), Edimburgh, UK

April 15–20, 2007: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2007, Vienna, Austria (see for example the Union Symposium on Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI): Standardization and Interoperability of Web Services across the Geosciences), short report)

May 9-11, 2007: EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) User Forum, Manchester, UK

June 14-15, 2007: 2nd workshop of the DEGREE (Dissemination and Exploitation of GRids in Earth sciencE) project on Grid Portals and Data Management techniques for ES Applications, CRS4-POLARIS, Pula, Italy.

September 10-13, 2007: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007 , (cyber-proceedings available online), Nottingham, UK

December 4-6, 2007: CyberSAR Grid Users Day, Aula 18 Cittadella Universitaria, Cagliari ( CyberSAR GRID project).

December 3-5, 2007: 3rd EELA Conference, Catania (Italy).

December 5-6, 2007: 4th e-Infrastructures Concertation Meeting, Sophia-Antipolis (France); online presentations.

June 16, 2006: CYCLOPS Project Open Conference - CYber-Infrastructure for CiviL protection Operative ProcedureS, Dept. of Civil Protection, Rome Italy (EU SSA) .