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Seminario - Progress and challenges to earthquake predictability

Relatore: Warner Marzocchi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | Martedì 26 Marzo - ore 16.30 | Aula Arduino

26.03.2024

Earthquake predictability is the essential scientific ingredient for any sound seismic risk mitigation planning. But what do we really know about earthquake predictability? Since the optimistic approach to deterministic earthquake prediction in the seventies, seismological community is moving towards probabilistic forecasts, in which seismologists can estimate probabilities for the earthquake occurrence in any specific space‐magnitude‐time windows.

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Seminario di “Avvio al lavoro” Il telerilevamento con drone

Relatore: Dott. Geol Stefano Brugnaro, libero professionista | Martedì 19 Marzo 2024 – ore 16,30 | Aula Arduino

19.03.2024

La crescente digitalizzazione cartografica ha visto una forte evoluzione circa l’utilizzo nella professione del geologo dei rilievi tramite drone (Sistema Aeromobili a Pilotaggio Remoto), sia in contesto civile che ambientale e territoriale. La capacità di gestire sensori di differente natura ha agevolato l’esponenziale utilizzo tecnico applicativo, soprattutto da figure professionali già inserite nel settore topografico. Ad oggi il drone viene utilizzato come strumento per l’acquisizione di informazioni dall’alto e quindi la ricostruzione di modelli bidimensionali e tridimensionali.

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Seminario - Rivers, humans and the carbon-rich soils of the ancient Amazon

Relatore: Dr. Taylor Perron - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) – Earth Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences. | Martedì 12 Marzo 2024 – ore 16,30 | Aula Arduino

12.03.2024

The seminar show how South American river systems created a template for this successful agricultural strategy, argue that ancient people managed soil using practices that are still employed today by Amazonian indigenous groups, and demonstrate the potential for carbon storage in anthropogenic soils. Along the way, the seminar will consider the climate sensitivity of rivers and some lessons from the past about sustainable tropical agriculture.

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Seminario di “Avvio al Lavoro” The role of the geologist in the design field

Relatore: Dott. Geol Pietro Buiatti - F & M Ingegneria - Mirano (VE) | Martedì 5 Marzo 2024 – ore 16,30 | Aula Arduino

05.03.2024

Currently we are increasingly surrounded by works and constructions that range from the most complex structures to the simplest, so much so that they can be defined as almost “ordinary”. Perhaps the habit of crossing a bridge or entering in a building, for those unfamiliar with the design sector, often leads to underestimate or not considering the difficulties faced during the design phase of the aforementioned works. Technical design is a fascinating but also complex world, bringing with it technical but also administrative difficulties. This seminar will offer a moment of discussion for all those interested in learning more about the field of planning and in particular the role of the geologist in this multidisciplinary activity, both in the private and in the public sector.

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Seminario - Climate predictions: recent developments and applications

Relatore: Dr. Paolo Ruggeri, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi" - Università di Bologna | Giovedì 18 Gennaio 2024 – ore 16,30 | Aula Arduino

18.01.2024

In this seminar, the historical development and the rationale of climate predictions and their contemporary classifications into sub‐seasonal, seasonal and decadal forecasts will be discussed. The seminar will review the state‐of‐the‐art operational predictions and will provide insight into promising proofof‐ concept approaches to bridge them with sectoral applications. Example applications in the context of water management and human health are also provided.

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Seminario - Geopolymers: From the Earth to the Moon

Relatore: Shima Pilehvar, Department of Engineering – Østfold University College, Norway | Giovedì 11 Gennaio 2024 – ore 16,30 | Aula Arduino

11.01.2024

Geopolymers consist of silico-aluminates in an amorphous to semi-crystalline three-dimensional structure and exhibit an excellent performance. 3D-printing of geopolymers produced from lunar regolith is an interesting option for space in situ habitats. In this study, the influence of the severe lunar environmental conditions such as extreme temperature variations and vacuum on the physical and mechanical properties of lunar regolith geopolymers were also investigated.

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Porous material in geological processes: From physical principles to applications

Relatore: Marc A. Hesse Department of Geological Sciences - University of Texas, Austin | Giovedì 14 Dicembre 2023 – ore 16:30 | Aula Arduino

14.12.2023

The seminar will give an overview of three projects that show case fundamental porous media research and its application to the Earth and Planetary Sciences.

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Seminario - The “complex” electrical conductivity of ice and frozen ground

Relatore: Dr. Adrian Flores-Orozco (Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Technical University of Wien - Austria) | Giovedì 23 Novembre 2023 – ore 16:30 | Aula Arduino

23.11.2023

This Seminar will revise ongoing approaches in the investigation of alpine permafrost using geophysical electrical methods and demonstrate the importance of accounting for interfacial conductivity in the case of frozen ground, as presented in Figure 1. Moreover, the seminar will present some of our recent results regarding the application of transient electromagnetic soundings to delineate ice‐rich areas in alpine permafrost. To this end, we propose a stochastic modeling and inversion approach explicitly considering interfacial conductivity that permits us to evaluate the uncertainty of the resulting model parameters.

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Seminario - A multiscale approach to fluid-rock interaction processes from Earth’s depth to the surface

Relatore: Dr. Tommaso Tacchetto (Curtin University - Australia) | Giovedì 26 Ottobre 2023 – ore 16:30 | Aula Arduino

26.10.2023

In this seminar, it will be shown how the application of a suite of cutting‐edge techniques can allow us to enhance our understanding of the nanoscale manifestation of fluid‐rock interactions and their consequences for larger‐scale dynamics. The analytical workflow is applied to type localities of deep crust fluid‐melt‐rock interaction and weathering patterns of the World’s largest sites of human heritage.

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Seminario di “Avvio al Lavoro” - Le applicazioni della Geologia nei Servizi Ambientali

Relatore: Dr.Alessio Bonetto - Gruppo Veritas S:P:A. | Giovedì 19 Ottobre 2023 – ore 16:30 | Aula Arduino

19.10.2023

Nel corso del seminario saranno analizzati attraverso una serie di casi di studio i numerosi contesti in cui le competenze geologiche possono trovare impiego e sviluppo all’interno delle varie attività svolte da una società multiservizi in ambito ambientale.

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