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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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An Italian Geophysicist in the World. Let's Meet Luca Dal Zilio

Tuesday 6th May 4,30 PM | Arduino Classroom - Department of Geosciences | Meeting organized by Alumni UniPD

06.05.2025

Luca Dal Zilio, a geophysics alumnus and now a leading researcher at the Earth Observatory in Singapore, returns ‘home’ to share his scientific and human journey in the world of geophysics.In this meeting, Luca will accompany us on a journey that starts from the underground and reaches the frontiers

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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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