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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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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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