IPOC is a decentralized instrument network at Chile's convergent plate margin for the observation of earthquakes, deformation, magmatism, and surface processes.

GONAF aims at gaining new insights into the physical processes before, during and after a large earthquake, by using a borehole-based seismometer network at the offshore part of Eastern Sea of Marmara (NW Turkey).

TERENO-NE, the observatory “TERrestrial Environmental Observatories - Northeastern German Lowland Observatory” focusses on the impact of climate and land use change on terrestrial ecosystems and comprises six main research sites, stretching from the Uckermark region to the Baltic Sea coast.

The primary scientific goal of the Central European Volcanic Province Observatory is to better understand and map the processes in transcrustal magma systems beneath distributed intraplate volcanic fields, and to assess their volcanic hazard and their potential sustainable use for energy generation and natural resource deposit.

The eastern to south-eastern flank of Mount Etna slides into the Ionian Sea at a rate of several centimetres per year. Such unstable flanks can have catastrophic consequences and trigger landslides that can lead to tsunamis. The Etna region in southern Italy is ideal for understanding how such dangers develop.

The task of SMARTIES [Supercritical fluids and MAgma Reconnaissance for Transformative Iceland Energy Solutions] is to register long-term measurement series in order to obtain an interdisciplinary observation and modelling approach for the evaluation of reservoirs. The design of appropriate strategies for the optimal quantification of reservoirs and harnessing of geothermal resources (heat and energy production) will enable energy sustainability through a better constrained model defining optimized resource management.

In cooperation with the Central Asian Institute of Applied Geosciences, we maintain a network of remotely-operated multiparameter stations (ROMPS) in Central Asia. The stations continuously acquire a multitude of hydrometeorological parameters that are used to study changes in climate, water availability, and glacier mass balances.

The observatory is a long-term monitoring site of Earth surface processes, solid, solute and gaseous matter fluxes and biogeochemical cycles and their drivers, straddling an active mountain landscape from orogen ridgepole to coastline in Taiwan.