Seminar - Do we need to reevaluate the oxygen isotope fractionation equations between biogenic aragonite and water?

Prof. Dr. Christophe Lécuyer - University Claude Bernard Lyon, CNRS, Institut Universitaire de France | Tuesday 2025 | 4,30 pm - Classroom Arduino

20.05.2025

Reconstructing past ocean temperatures has major scientific implications, including insights into Earth’s radiation balance, the CO₂ cycle, and climate-driven limits on biodiversity and biomass. Surface temperature patterns also influence ocean circulation, oxygen levels, and sea level changes. This

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GeoTalk, Book presentation: Our Concept of the Earth

Library of Department of Geosciences | Friday, May, 23 - 2025 - 2,30 pm

23.05.2025

How do we truly know our planet? What tools, insights, mistakes and hypotheses have shaped the scientific image of the Earth we rely on today? These questions will be at the heart of the GeoTalk event on Thursday, May 23, at the Geoscience Library of the University of Padua, where geophysicist and

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Francesco Marra wins the Jim Dooge Award for research on sub-hourly precipitation extremes

12.05.2025

The European Geosciences Union has awarded Francesco Marra, researcher at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua, the Jim Dooge Award 2024 for the best article published during the year in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS). The award was presented during the EGU General

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Exploring Urban Geology: a walking tour with Prof. Paolo Mozzi

Thursday, May 15, 2025 – 5:00 PM - Historical centre of Padova

15.05.2025

Over the centuries, the historic center of Padua has taken shape as a true urban relief — an artificial hill, layered with three thousand years of history, environmental change, and human activity. The Geological Walk, led by Professor Paolo Mozzi, geologist and faculty member of the Department of

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Seminar – LARES Italia in the Civil Protection System

Eleonora Benà, Sara Franzè and Elisa Saler - Lares Veneto Operational Section | Tuesday 13 May 2025 | 16.30 - Aula Arduino

13.05.2025

Technical-scientific skills and specialized volunteering for risk and emergency managementThe role of trained graduates within the national Civil Protection system will be the focus of the seminar “LARES Italia in the Civil Protection System”, scheduled for Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 4:30 PM in Aula

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Seminar - The Rock Art of Serranía del Chiribiquete: a geoarchaeological and geomorphological heritage in the heart of the Amazon

29.04.2025

New discoveries in Amazonian rock art: paintings, pigments, and some of the oldest traces in South America. Deep in the Colombian Amazon lies the Chiribiquete Massif, a chain of table mountains with steep quartz-sandstone cliffs. It was in this remote and dramatic setting that anthropologist Carlos

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A Roman Ostriarium in the Venetian Lagoon: the Discovery at Lio Piccolo Reveals an Ancient Landscape

17.04.2025

In the northern Venetian lagoon, at Lio Piccolo, archaeologists have uncovered a Roman ostriarium dating to the 1st century CE—the first ever found in Italy. The structure is a rectangular basin built with bricks and wooden planks, buried in the lagoon sediment, and used to keep oysters alive before

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Crystallization and Bubble Formation in Basaltic Magmas: A Seminar with Fabio Arzilli

Speaker: Dr. Fabio Arzilli - University of Camerino | Tuesday 15 April 2025 | 4.30 PM - Arduino Classroom

15.04.2025

Hidden 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

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Caves, Tepuis and Extreme Life: Francesco Sauro's New Book

11.04.2025

On 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 of

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Martha Pamato on Earth’s Deep Water Origins

11.04.2025

Online lecture by the 2024 EMU Research Excellence Medal awardee on hydrogen in mantle minerals and the origin of Earth’s water.On 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

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Seminar "Career Workshop" - From academic training to a professional career: the experience of a geoscientist at the Environmental Agency

08.04.2025

From University to Environmental Work: the Story of a Geologist at ARPAVWhat does it really take to turn an academic path into a professional career? On Tuesday 8 April 2025 at 4:30 p.m., in Aula Arduino at the Department of Geosciences, Matteo Cultrera will try to answer this question by sharing

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From the Caves of the Amazon to TV: Francesco Sauro on Kilimangiaro

The researcher talks about his expeditions among the tepui and his new book Auyán-tepui

30.03.2025

On 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 — a remote and largely unknown landscape where

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Seminar - Landform evolution in sedimentary tablelands: patterns of escarpment retreat and the role of subsurface processes

Speaker: Prof. Piotr Migoń - Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland | Tuesday 25 March 2025 | 4,30 PM - Arduino Classroom

25.03.2025

In 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 presentation of tools available to recognize that the role is indeed very important.

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Seminar - Is There a Bulldozer in Your Model?

Speaker: Prof. Eli Lazarus - University of Southampton (UK) | Tuesday 1 April 2025 | 4,30 pm - Arduino Classroom

01.04.2025

Humans 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

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Seminar - Weird dynamics of flood deposits in built environments

Speaker: Prof. Eli Lazarus - University of Southampton (UK) | Friday 28 March 2025 | 2,30 pm - Arduino Classroom

28.03.2025

Extreme 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.

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