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![]() | Sediment dynamics and human impact on coasts: three in-depth seminars The Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua is hosting three seminars by Dr. Eli D. Lazarus, a professor at the University of Southampton (UK), focusing on the complex interactions between geohazard events, anthropized landscapes, and coastal dynamics | |
![]() | The Venice Lagoon: Between Climate Change and Human Pressure On March 22, 2025, as part of the GeoSguardi seminar series, Prof. Andrea D’Alpaos will discuss the environmental challenges threatening the Venice Lagoon. The event will take place at the Centro Culturale San Gaetano (Spazio 35) in Padua, starting at 5:30 PM, with free admission | |
![]() | Manuele Faccenda wins the ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the MODEM project A €150,000 grant to develop innovative technology for improving the monitoring of volcanoes and earthquakes | |
![]() | TOYS? – The interactive installation at Unipd for the week of March 8 On 7 March from 12.30 p.m. will be hosted at Via Gradenigo 6, in the ‘campus’ shared by the Department of Geosciences, the Departments of Information Engineering and the Departments of Industrial Engineering | |
![]() | Ceramic Petrology Group - Annual Meeting at the Department of Geosciences on 20th and 21st February 2025 | |
![]() | International Day of Women and Girls in Science - 11 February 2025 The social media campaign of Department of Geosciences based on "joint interviews" with male and female professors, researchers and Ph.D. students. | |
![]() | Geology & Planetary Mapping Winter School 2025 In real time in the week 10-14 February 2025, and asynchronously on the Streavent platform for the following month, The 2025 edition will cover planetary surface processes and features of Venus, Mercury, The Moon and Mars | |
![]() | Nano-crystals in Diamonds: €2 Million for Fabrizio Nestola's Project by the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS) of the MUR for the project ‘Discovering mineral nanoinclusions in diamonds’ | |
![]() | Training and Dialogue: Analysis of Ground Deformation Processes On January 23-24, 2025, the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua will host an important training event organized by Spoke VS2 RETURN | |
![]() | GeoSguardi: Geosciences in the Spotlight with a Series of Seminars in Padua A series of four seminars addressing the scientific and social challenges of our time through the lens of Earth Sciences. From January 18 to April 12, 2025, at the Centro Culturale San Gaetano (Spazio 35) in Padua, starting at 5:30 PM with free admission |