Dr. Lorraine Tighe (Sher/Her) obtained her Ph.D. (Earth Sciences - Physics) from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a graduate diploma in Remote Sensing (Geology) from the Nova Scotia Community College, and a B.Sc. (Physics and Geology) from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She currently works at Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) as the Director of Earth Sciences Solutions; Dr. Tighe oversees expanding the use of Esri software and technologies across six Earth sciences disciplines (geoscience, environmental monitoring, sustainable energy, climate science, GIS weather, and marine science). She has lectured on extracting geological information from interferometric SAR (InSAR) and optical data using GIS. Her graduate thesis focused on the extraction of mineralization along a fault zone using remotely sensed data in a GIS. She has published various papers in journals.

Dr Alvarez obtained MsC and PhD degrees from University of California at Berkeley in 1970 and 1972, respectively. He has spent 48 years at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as a Professor and Researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IIMAS) and the Institute of Geophysics. In the 1989-1977 period he was director of the Institute of Geography. Between 1975-1977 he was Principal Investigator in NASA’s Lunar Sample Program. He has done research in electrical properties of rocks, Tectonics, and volcanic structures. 

After graduating in Earth Sciences at La Sapienza ( Univ . Rome - 1997) he obtained his PhD in Southampton ( UK - 2002), awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei for interdisciplinary studies carried out on the Venice Lagoon (2003). He was an ISPRA researcher, an expert at the Ministry of the Environment and a contract professor at various universities and an evaluator of projects for ministries, regions and banks. In ENEA, since 2008 , he deals with the sustainability of interventions on the territory and environmental requalification; during the Earthquake Emergency in Central Italy (ESCI) he was ENEA delegate at the Emergency Committee of the Prot . National Civil (2016-2017).

Past, Present, and Future of Renewability and Sustainability

Keynote Speech Title: Microplastic sources, abundance, and cycling dynamics in an Appalachian headwater basin, USA

Extraction of metals from minerals using deep eutectic solvents

The geomorphic evolution of coastal sand dunes along Lake Michigan (USA) in the past ~ 5,500 years.