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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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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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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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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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Field Mission in South America for the Applied Geophysics Group

30.01.2025

The objective is to characterize frozen soils in Andean environments, with a particular focus on permafrost in arid cryosphere regions. This activity is part of the COLD SPOT project, within the 2023-2027 Excellence Project"Geosciences for Sustainable Development"

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