Instituto Dom Luiz of Earth System Science

🇵🇹🪧 Did Portugal really stop during the General Strike?

Electricity: normal weekday levels, so we checked something else — seismic noise.
See images to see what the ground vibrations in Lisbon linked to human activity show:

Massive congrats to IDL's @JoaoCDuarte who was re-elected as President of the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division and Member of the Council of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)!

Students from @fcienciasulisboa visited ROV Luso — Portugal’s deep-sea robot capable of diving to 6000 m!
Organized by NEG-FCUL, IDL, and DCTE, the visit offered a look at deep-ocean missions and how ROV Luso supports science and the extension of Portugal’s continental shelf🌊🇵🇹

🦖Interested in studying the dinosaurs of Portugal?

Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência and IDL have the course for you!

Click here for info and sign up: www.museus.ulisboa.pt/dinossaurios...

IDL, mark your calendars for IDL Day, this Friday!

Five years ago, IDL’s Nuno Pimentel became Scientific Coordinator of the Oeste Geopark. Two years ago, it was approved—and now, the Geopark will host the 2027 UNESCO World Geoparks Conference, welcoming 1,500 participants from around the world! 🌍 #Geology #UNESCO

12thconferenceggnoeste.com

📣 Mark your calendars!

📍Tomorrow, October 22 is Ciências Research & Innovation Day!

See IDL's Pedro Matos Soares lecture on Climate Modelling and AI for a Resilient Earth, plus posters from all four research groups.

ciencias.ulisboa.pt/pt/evento/ci...

Five years ago, IDL’s Nuno Pimentel became Scientific Coordinator of the Oeste Geopark. Two years ago, it was approved—and now, the Geopark will host the 2027 @UNESCO World Geoparks Conference, welcoming 1,500 participants from around the world! 🌍

12thconferenceggnoeste.com

From @idlearth.bsky.social, STABLE tracks and classifies atmospheric blocking & subtropical ridge events — key patterns behind heatwaves and cold spells.

Built in Python, open to all 🌍
🔗 GitHub: github.com/mikaslima/STABLE
📄 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106729
#ClimateScience #OpenSource

Assista à apresentação de IDL's Ícaro F. Dias da Silva, “Ferro e ouro no núcleo da Cordilheira Varisca: da Pré-História ao presente”, no XIII Congresso Internacional sobre Mineração e Metalurgia Históricas no Sudoeste Europeu.

www.intecca.uned.es/portal/graba...

🌋 Ever wondered how we can tell which way magma once flowed through the Earth? In a GJI study, Scientists on Maio Island (Cabo Verde) used magnetic fabric analysis to reconstruct it.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

YouTube video by Conta Lá Conta Lá - Pensar Portugal - Sustentabilidade e Alterações Climáticas - Debate

Confira o Carlos da Câmara, do IDL, em destaque no
Conta Lá num debate sobre Sustentabilidade e Alterações Climáticas.

Ele explica o conceito de hotspots climáticos e deixa algumas palavras para os céticos das alterações climáticas.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDzT...

IDL hosted the latest meeting of SUBMERSE, an #EUHorizon project that uses existing submarine cables to monitor the Earth’s systems.
IDL contributes to data dissemination & integration, enabling real-time environmental and geohazard monitoring. #earthobservation

Tempestade Gabrielle: "É de esperar que vá continuar a enfraquecer", mas "cuidado com ignições nos próximos dias" O climatologista Carlos da Câmara perspetivou os próximos dias, tendo em conta que a tempestade Gabrielle perdeu intensidade. Mas deixou um alerta sobre possíveis ignições, devido às previsões de vent...

🌧️ IDL's Carlos da Câmara interviewed for CNN about Storm Gabrielle and its possible impacts.

#hurricanegabrielle #stormgabrielle @cnnportugaloficial.bsky.social

cnnportugal.iol.pt/videos/tempe...

🦕🌍 O IDL marcou presença na Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2025 no MUHNAC com duas atividades:
1️⃣ Gigantes do Museu – gigantismo em dinossauros e baleias.
2️⃣ Decifrando o Jurássico – pegadas & fósseis que revelam a vida em Portugal há 170–145 M.a.
✨Ciência aberta para todos

Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia - Nature Geoscience The lithospheric mantle may be delaminating from the crust in an oceanic plate segment offshore Southwest Iberia, which could be the ultimate cause of the 1755 Great Lisbon Earthquake, according to seismic imaging and numerical simulations.

New in @nature.com: research led by @idlearth.bsky.social's @joaocduarte.bsky.social shows the ocean floor off Portugal is peeling away into the mantle.

This rare process may explain the 1755 Lisbon M8.7 quake and could mark the initiation of a new subduction zone.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

IDL's Carlos da Camara featured on Rádio Renascença, discussing climate extremes across Europe:

rr.pt/noticia/pais...

IDL researcher Ricardo Trigo contributed to this study on #wildfires, showing their massively increased probability in Spain and Portugal due to climate change.

Extreme weather driven by climate change made wildfires in Spain, Portugal 40 times more likely Heat waves similar to the one that hit Spain in August are now expected to occur about every 13 years.

IDL researcher, Ricardo Trigo, contributed to a @wwattribution.bsky.social study, featured in @politico.com. It shows that due #climatechange, #wildfires in Spain and Portugal are 40x more likely.

www.politico.eu/article/extr...

🌍CIÊNCIAS recebeu este ano 115 alunos em mobilidade!
Na sessão de acolhimento, estes novos estudantes tiveram oportunidade de conhecer os restantes colegas voluntários para os ajudar na sua inclusão.
🔗➡Leia a notícia completa: t.ly/Vwz9w

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

Coauthored by IDL's Alex Koberle, new @nature.com study
study shows Earth’s max safe underground CO₂ storage is ~1,460 Gt, and can only cool the atmosphere <1 °C. Without deep CO₂ cuts, we’ll hit that before 2200.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#climatechange #climateactionnow #climatecrisis

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We’re IDL (Intituto Dom Luiz) — Portugal’s institute for Earth systems research based at the University of Lisbon.

We study 🌍 Earth, 🌱 climate, 🌊 oceans, ☁️ atmosphere & 🚀 space to shape a sustainable future.

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