In recent decades, advances in analytical chemistry and the development of sampling and measurement techniques in different geochemical spheres have significantly increased the amount and kinds of available data. However, to optimise their usefulness, geochemical data must be reproducible and reusable, and collection and analysis methodologies must be transparent. At the European level, the need for a comprehensive conceptual...

The Volcano Observations Thematic Core Service (VOLC-TCS) is one of ten core services forming the European Research Infrastructure Consortium for the European Plate Observing System (EPOS ERIC). The main objective of the VOLC-TCS is the implementation of a technical, financial, and legal framework compliant with EPOS ERIC to (i) strengthen the European volcanology community represented by Volcano Observatories (VOs) and Volcan...

Submarine CO 2 emissions are a recent (probably younger than about 5 ka) expression of volcanism at Vulcano Island (off NE Sicily), a Mediterranean natural laboratory for the study of ocean acidification. An impoverished molluskan association is known from the naturally acidified waters of Vulcano, at Levante Bay, where pH drops to 5.64. Here we describe a new gastropod, Alvania acida sp. nov., living in the bay, and found at...