Presented research

General

Agius, M. R., Schaeffer, A., Licciardi, A., Arroucau, P., D'Amico, S. (2015, April). Seismology for non-seismologists. EGU General Assembly Short Course.
Rietbroek, R., Cain, M., Agius M. R., Noack, L., Illingworth, S. (2015, April). Oral presentation feedback round. EGU General Assembly Short Course.
Agius, M. R. (2013, August). Science of Music and Earthquakes. Evening on Campus, University of Malta. (Invited talk)

Mediterranean

Agius, M. R., Galea, P., D’Amico S (2015, April). Recent developments in the setting up of the Malta Seismic Network. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 17, p. 4523).
Agius, M. R., Galea, P., D’Amico S (2014, August). An improved real-time seismic network in the Central Mediterranean. ESC 34th General Assembly, Istanbul , Turkey.
De Pascale, F., Bernardo, M., Muto, F., D’ Amico, S, Zumbo, R., Galea, P., Agius, M. R. (2014, May). Perception of seismic risk in the new Anthropocene geological era. A comparison between two case-studies: Calabria (South Italy) and Malta. 35th Annual conference of the European Association of Geographers (EUROGEO), Valletta. (Best poster award)
Agius, M. R., Galea, P., D’Amico S (2014, April). An improved real-time seismic network in the Central Mediterranean. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 16, p. 4793).
D'Amico, S., Agius, M. R., Galea P. (2014, April). Assessment of earthquake effects – contribution from online communication. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 16, p. 3562). (Oral)
De Pascale, F., Bernardo, M., Muto, F., D’ Amico, S, Zumbo, R., Galea, P., Agius, M. R. (2014, April). Perception of seismic risk in the new Anthropocene geological era. A comparison between two case-studies: Calabria (South Italy) and Malta. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 16, p. 4416).
Agius, M. R., Galea, P., D’Amico S. (2013, October). In the process of a major upgrade at the Seismic Monitoring and Research Unit, University of Malta. XXXV UNESCO-RELEMR International Workshop on Seismicity and Earthquake Engineering in the Extended Mediterranean Region, Malaga, Spain. (Oral).
Lebedev, S., Neenan, E., Knapmeyer-Endrun, B., Meier, T., Agius, M. R., Schaeffer, A. J., Tirel, C., Friederich, W. (2012, April). Lithospheric dynamics in eastern Mediterranean: Insights from seismic structure and anisotropy. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 14, p. 6626).
Neenan, E., Schaeffer, A. J., Agius, M. R., Lebedev, S. (2012, April). The North Anatolian Fault and lithospheric deformation in eastern Mediterranean: A seismic surface-wave study. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 14, p. 6650).
Neenan, E., Agius, M. R., Schaeffer, A. J., Lebedev, S. (2012, February). The North Anatolian Fault and lithospheric dynamics in eastern Mediterranean: a seismic surface-wave study. 55th IGRM, University College Cork, Ireland.
Neenan, E., Agius, M. R., Lebedev, S. (2011, December). Lithospheric Anisotropy and Deformation in Anatolia, Eastern Mediterranean: A Seismic Surface-Wave Study. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 1, p. 2431).
Galea, P. and Agius, M. R., (2010, September). A new insight into the seismicity of the Sicily Channel. ESC 32nd General Assembly, Montpellier, France.
Agius, M. R., Galea, P. (2008, May). The Seismic Monitoring and Research Unit (SMRU), University of Malta, ORFEUS Observatory Co-ordination Meeting, Barcelona.
Agius, M. R., Galea, P. (2008, April). Digital Seismic Recording in Malta - 13 years on, Physics Seminar Presentation, University of Malta. (Invited talk)
Agius, M. R., Galea, P. (2007, May). Automated Single-Station Location of Earthquakes in the Central Mediterranean at WDD Station Malta, ORFEUS-NERIES Observatory Co-ordination Meeting, Romania. (Oral)

Mongolia

Middleton D., Agius, M. R., Lebedev, S. (2010, February). The cause of Cenozoic uplift and volcanism in Western Mongolia: A seismic study. 53rd IGRM, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Middleton, D., Agius, M. R., Lebedev, S. (2009, December). Lithospheric structure of Mongolia and surroundings: A surface-wave study. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

Pacific Ocean

Lynch, P., Schaeffer, A. J., Agius, M. R., Lebedev, S. (2012, February). Robust shear-velocity profiles within oceanic lithosphere and asthenosphere: Implications for thermal and compositional structure. 55th IGRM, University College Cork, Ireland.
Lynch, P., Schaeffer, A. J., Agius, M. R., Lebedev, S. (2011, December). Robust shear-velocity profiles within oceanic lithosphere and asthenosphere: Implications for thermal and compositional structure. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

Ireland

Lebedev, S., M. R. Agius, A. J. Schaeffer, C. Horan, D. Piccinini and N. Piana Agostinetti (2012, December). Strike-slip tectonics in northwestern Ireland? Evidence from the 2012 January seismic sequence in Co. Donegal, Ireland. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Blake, T., S. Lebedev, B. O'Reilly, N. Piana Agostinetti, M. R. Agius, A. J. Schaeffer (2012, December). An unusual occurrence of a moderately sized earthquake (Ml ~4.2) on the Irish continental shelf and passive margin. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Lebedev, S., C. Horan, P.W. Readman, A.J. Schaeffer, M.R. Agius, J. Adam, L. Collins, F. Hauser, B.M. O Reilly, and T. Blake. Ireland Array: A New Broadband Seismic Experiment Targets the Structure, Evolution and Seismicity of Ireland and the North Atlantic (2012, August). European Seismological Commission 33rd General Assembly, Moscow, Russia. (Oral)
S. Lebedev, C. Horan, P. W. Readman, A.J. Schaeffer, M. R. Agius, L. Collins, F. Hauser, B. M. O'Reilly, and T. Blake (2012, April). Ireland Array: A new broadband seismic network targets the structure, evolution and seismicity of Ireland and surroundings. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 14, p. 3615).
Lebedev, S., P. Readman, C. Horan, A. Schaeffer, L. Collins, M. R. Agius, F. Hauser, B. O’Reilly, T. Blake (2011, October). Ireland Array: Broadband seismic investigation of the lithospheric structure and evolution of Ireland and surroundings. Atlantic Ireland 2011, A Petroleum Conference Organised by PIP-ISPSG, Dublin.

Tibet

Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2014, April). Deformation of Tibetan lithosphere and asthenosphere as inferred from broadband surface waves. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 16, p. 11360).
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2014, April). Multi-layered azimuthal anisotropy beneath Tibet, constrained by broadband Rayleigh-wave dispersion. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 16, p. 16689).
Lebedev, S., A. J. Schaeffer, and M. R. Agius (2014, April). The Greater India beneath Tibet: A detailed new seismic mapping. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 16, p. 2248). (Oral)
Lebedev, S., T. Meier, A. J. Schaeffer, M. R. Agius, and J. M.-C. Adam (2014, April). Seismic structure and dynamics of cratons: Stability and modification, continental collision and subduction. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 16, p. 1789). (Oral)
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2013). Subduction of the Indian lithosphere beneath Tibet and deformation of the Tibetan crust and mantle, imaged with broad-band surface waves. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 15, p. 7912). (Oral)
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2012, February). The shear velocity structure of the lithospheric mantle beneath Tibet. 55th IGRM, University College Cork, Ireland. (Oral)
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2011, December). The shear velocity structure of the lithospheric mantle beneath Tibet. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Lebedev, S., M. R. Agius, A. J. Schaeffer (2011, December). Shallow-angle subduction of the Indian Plate beneath Tibet: New seismic images and implications for the evolution of the plateau. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Vozar, J., J. Fullea, A. G. Jones, M. R. Agius, and S. Lebedev, (2011, December). Electromagnetic, seismic and petro-physical investigations of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary in central Tibet. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2011, March). The crustal and mantle structure beneath Tibet, from shear-velocity profiles. University of Malta. (Oral)
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2011, February). Crustal and mantle structure beneath Tibet, from shear-velocity profiles. 54th IGRM, NUI Galway, Ireland.
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2010,December). Shear velocity profiles in the crust and lithospheric mantle across Tibet. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2010, July). Lithospheric structure across the Tibetan Plateau, from broadband surface-wave analysis. Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior, 12th Symposium, Santa Barbara, California.
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2010, June). Lithospheric structure across the Tibetan Plateau, from broadband surface-wave analysis. Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research 2010 Summer Program, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California - Santa Barbara.
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2010). Shear-velocity profiles across the Tibetan Plateau from broadband, surface-wave, phase-velocity measurements, in Leech, M.L., and others, eds., Proceedings for the 25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2010-1099.
Lebedev, S. and M. R. Agius (2010). Lithospheric structure and dynamics of Ti-bet: Constraints from shear-velocity distributions, in Leech, M.L., and others, eds., Proceedings for the 25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2010-1099, 2 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1099/ lebedev/.
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2010, February). Crustal and lithospheric structure of Tibet from shear velocity profiles. 53rd IGRM, Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Oral)
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2009, December). Shear-velocity profiles across the Tibetan Plateau, from broadband interstation dispersion of surface waves. AGU Fall Meeting. (Oral)
Lebedev, S. and M. R. Agius (2009, December). Lithospheric structure of Tibet and East Asia: New constraints from surface waves. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2009, October). Shear-velocity profiles across the Tibetan Plateau, from broadband interstation dispersion of surface waves. INDEPTH Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, 28-30. (Oral)
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2009, September). Surface-wave phase-velocity analysis across the Tibetan Plateau using broadband interstation dispersion measurements. BGA Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting, London, Britain. (Oral)
Agius, M. R., S. Lebedev (2009, August). Surface-wave phase-velocity analysis across the Tibetan Plateau using broadband interstation dispersion measurements. The 5th International Symposium on Tibetan Plateau and the 24th Himalaya-Karakorum- Tibet Workshop, Beijing, China.
Lebedev, S., M. R. Agius (2009, August). Seismic structure of Tibet: new constraints from surface waves, The 5th International Symposium on Tibetan Plateau and the 24th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop, Beijing, China.