Easter Holidays Closing
The Department of Geosciences will be closed until Tuesday 22 April 2025. Activities will restart on 23 April as normal
Data, Pixels and Disasters: Landslides and Floods Seen Through Machine Learning
On May 6–7, 2025 two intensive days of training on machine learning applied to optical image analysis and extreme natural events
1st Archaeological Micromorphology Summer School - Padova
Course designed for both beginners and more experienced micromorphologists. It includes an introduction to soil micromorphological description, followed by in-depth discussion on current archaeological topics in micromorphology and the analysis of archaeological thin sections
"Our Concept of the Earth": the planet, chapter by chapter
With this book, Prof. Lapo Boschi guides readers on a historical and scientific journey into the heart of the planet.
PoSalvaMare: the project to monitor river littering in Italy is underway
On April 4, 2025, PoSalvaMare officially kicks off, a project focused on monitoring and reducing plastic pollution in the Po River, Canalbianco, and Canale Villoresi. The Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua is involved through the River Lab research group, which will contribute scientific and technological expertise to the initiative.
Lithium in Igneous and Volcano-Sedimentary Systems: Geological Aspects and Exploration Strategies
On May 20, 2025, the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua will host a short course on lithium mineralization in igneous and volcano-sedimentary systems, focusing on geological aspects and exploration strategies.
The Department of Geosciences hosts a new series of seminars for the II semester of the a.y. 2024/2025
Here the calendar of the seminars and workshops
Geosciences at Unipd Among the Top in the QS Ranking 2025
The Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua stands out in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025, reinforcing its role in research and education at both national and international levels.
NEWS AND EVENTS
Media and Events
A Roman Ostriarium in the Venetian Lagoon: the Discovery at Lio Piccolo Reveals an Ancient Landscape
17.04.2025Lio Piccolo reveals Italy’s first Roman ostriarium. The results of the discovery are now on display at the Giancarlo Ligabue Museum of Natural History in Venice, in the exhibition "A Roman Ostriarium in the Venetian Lagoon", open until 2 November 2025. Prof. Paolo Mozzi part of the team.
Seminars - Workshops
Martha Pamato on Earth’s Deep Water Origins
11.04.2025On April 11, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. CET, an online lecture will be held by Professor Martha Giovanna Pamato, recipient of the 2024 EMU Research Excellence Medal. The event is organized by the European Mineralogical Union and will take place in English via Zoom.
Media and Events
Caves, Tepuis and Extreme Life: Francesco Sauro's New Book
11.04.2025On Friday 11 April at 6 p.m., the Auditorium of the Museum of Nature and Humankind, located in Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi 39, Padua, will host the presentation of Auyán-tepui, Caves at the Origins of Time (Edizioni La Venta), curated by Francesco Sauro, researcher at the Department of Geosciences
Seminars - Workshops
Crystallization and Bubble Formation in Basaltic Magmas: A Seminar with Fabio Arzilli
15.04.2025Hidden dynamics shaping magma mobility and eruptive styleOn Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at 4:30 PM in Aula Arduino, the Department will host Fabio Arzilli from the University of Camerino for a seminar exploring the magmatic processes that precede and influence basaltic eruptions.Basaltic eruptions are
Seminars - Workshops
Seminar "Career Workshop" - From academic training to a professional career: the experience of a geoscientist at the Environmental Agency
08.04.2025What does it really take to turn an academic path into a professional career? On Tuesday 8 April 2025 at 4:30 pm in Aula Arduino at the Department of Geosciences, Matteo Cultrera (geologist at the Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection of Veneto) will try to answer this question
Media and Events
From the Caves of the Amazon to TV: Francesco Sauro on Kilimangiaro
30.03.2025On Sunday, March 30, Francesco Sauro, researcher at the Department of Geosciences, was a guest on the TV program Kilimangiaro, airing on Rai 3 from 5:15 to 7:00 PM. During the interview, he talked about his explorations of the Amazonian mountains
Seminars - Workshops
Seminar - Is There a Bulldozer in Your Model?
01.04.2025Humans make deliberate, real-time interventions into geomorphic processes, especially during major storm events. Existing morphodynamic models are not built to account for active, responsive human interventions. Evolving model platforms may need to explicitly address active human interventions as mo
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Seminar - Weird dynamics of flood deposits in built environments
28.03.2025Extreme geohazard events can change landscape morphology by redistributing huge volumes of sediment. Event-driven sediment deposition is typically studied in non-built (natural) settings – despite the ubiquity of occurrence and high economic cost of these geohazard impacts in built environments. Mor
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Seminar - Landform evolution in sedimentary tablelands: patterns of escarpment retreat and the role of subsurface processes
25.03.2025In the talk, several conceptual models of escarpment retreat will be presented, with an emphasis on non-catastrophic processes involved in caprock in situ disintegration. This will be followed by the examination of the role of subsurface processes in the evolution of tablelands in clastic and presen
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Seminar - Humans as agents of coastal geomorphic change
26.03.2025Published in Progress in Physical Geography three decades ago, “Beaches and dunes of human-altered coasts” by Karl Nordstrom (Nordstrom, 1994), has proven remarkably prescient. The scale, dominance, and rapid sprawl of human impacts on physical coastal environments had some traction in the 1990s as
