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Department of Geography - Climatology

LABORATORIES

Laboratory of Physical Geography

The Laboratory of Physical Geography (LPG) deals with air-sea-land interactive processes forming the earth’s surface morphology (sub-aerial and sub-aqueous), i.e. river deltas, beach zones, fluvial geomorphology, morphotectonic processes, karstification, aeolian processes, geoarchaeological studies, coastal indicators of relative sea level changes, climate change (past, present and future), coastal oceanography, sediment dynamics, photogeology, remote sensing and GIS applications. .

It is equipped with:

  • autonomous driller of fine-grained sediments,
  • sieving analysis (dry and wet),
  • autonomous continuous recording tidal gauge,
  • manual operated current meter
  • thermo-salino-meter,
  • portable weather stations,
  • GPS
  • Tachymeter
  • Software: SPS (statistics), MATLAB (incl. fuzzy logic tools), ERDAS (analysis of satellite images) CEDAS (nearshore hydrod dynamics), DAVIS (weather station software), ArcGIS (handling, interpreting, presenting geo-data.

Lab Director: Serafeim Poulos

Laboratory of Climatology and Atmospheric Environment

The Laboratory of Climatology and Atmospheric Environment (LACAE) specialises in the study of climate change on various time and space scales, urban climatology, studies on the ozone layer, measurements of ultraviolet radiation, meteorological parameters and air quality, climatic effects from aircraft emissions and impacts of weather/climate variability and air quality on human health. The members of LACAE have long experience in teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate courses and have supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate theses in the fields of climatology and the atmospheric environment.

It is equipped with:

  • One Brewer MK IV monochromator measuring columnar amounts of ozone, SO2 and NO2.
  • Two Yankee UV-B instruments measuring solar erythermal doses
  • Instruments measuring atmospheric pollution (CO, CO2, NO2, PM)
  • A complete autonomous/automatic meteorological station.
  • A portable meteorological station

Lab Director: Panagiotis Nastos

Laboratory of Remote Sensing

The Laboratory of Remote Sensing (LRS) was established in order to meet the educational and research requirements of the Department of Geology during the early 1990’s. Its research interests expand in the fields of modern space-borne Earth Observation Systems associated with the disciplines of Geodesy (Satellite Geodesy), Surveying, Photogrammetry, Digital Cartography and Remote Sensing. In general, the purpose and function of the LRS within the University of Athens and the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, is the following:

  1. To satisfy under- and post-graduate educational requirements of the Department.
  2. To develop teaching and research curricula for the post-graduate study programmes.
  3. To pursue basic and applied research aiming at: 
  • The development of techniques and applications associated with the Country’s needs,
  • The creation of opportunities for collaboration between the Academic staff and the Industry,
  • To pursue and promote collaborative research between researchers of Hellenic Universities and Research Institutions,
  • To provide services in accordance with Law 159/1984.

Current activities of the LRS members, include GPS measurements and Radar Interferometry (both conventional and advanced InSAR (PS and Stacking), including satellite imaging analysis (LANDSAT, ASTER, IKONOS, QUICKBIRD) and Orthorectification.

Lab Director: Emmanouel Vassilakis