Seminar - A Decade in the Arctic Sky: Clouds, Water Vapor, and Precipitation at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

Speaker: Prof. Kerstin Ebell – Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne (Germany) | Tuesday 13 October 2026 | 4,30 P.M. - Catullo Classroom and online on Zoom: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/81031358198

13.10.2026

Climate change signals are especially strong in the Arctic, where warming from 1979 to 2021 proceeded at nearly four times the global average rate. The magnitude of this warming varies across the region, and the Svalbard archipelago, located in the warmest part of the Arctic, has experienced

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Professor Omar Bartoli receives the Marco Beltrando Award

25.09.2026

The Italian Geological Society has awarded Omar Bartoli, Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences, the Marco Beltrando Award for the 2025–2026 biennium.The award recognises outstanding research, particularly research using innovative approaches to investigate the evolution and dynamics

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Geophysical surveys on the Grand Combin Glacier as part of the Ice Memory project

10.07.2026

Researchers from the Geophysics team of the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padova are currently conducting a new field campaign on the Grand Combin Glacier in the Swiss Alps, in collaboration with the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), as part

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To spread scientific knowledge as a means of protecting one of the world’s most fragile and precious environmental areas: the Venice Lagoon.

28.02.2026

The Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua, following funding donated by Italia Nostra Onlus – Venice Section, a national association for the protection of the historical, artistic, and natural heritage of the nation, in collaboration with Banca Generali, announces a competition for

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