Understanding Deep Crustal Processes - Winter School
An intensive course on petrologic processes in the deep Earth’s crust, with emphasis on melting in the lower crust, granitoid magmatism, geochemical differentiation and crustal rheology
January, 30 - February 2, 2023
Geology & Planetary Mapping Winter School - 2023
The school is dedicated to the production of planetary geological maps of the Moon and Mars with particular emphasis to landing sites characterization.
30 January - 3 February 2023 - Online
International Conference On Fluvial Sedimentology 2023
The 12th edition will be held in Riva del Garda (Northern Italy) from 2 to 7 July. A wide program of scientific sessions, plenary lectures, short courses and field trips has been already defined.
The Department of Geosciences is among the Departments of Excellence
The Department of Geosciences is among the 11 departments of the University of Padua selected by the MUR. The funding project is called: “The Geosciences for Sustainable Development”
Superdeep diamonds: a new study sheds light on the Earth’s interior
Prof. Fabrizio Nestola is the main author of an international study, recently published in Nature, which deepens our understanding of the composition of the Earth’s mantle
Join Unipd Open Weeks for Science degree programmes
If you are an international student you will meet the Professors coordinating English-taught degree programme and get a deeper insight on the main academic features
Venice Lagoon: a miniseries to find out this unique environment
The Department of Geosciences produced a series of short videos dedicated to the Venice Lagoon. Various episodes to discover, together with Andrea D'Alpaos, Massimiliano Ghinassi and other experts, all the peculiarities of this extraordinary environment
DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES
NEWS AND EVENTS
Media and Events
Ecosystem services provided by salt marshes
30.01.2023Salt marshes have the ability to sequester carbon at an astonishingly high rate that is up to 50 times that of forests. Their contribution in terms of mitigating the effects of climate change is therefore fundamental but it can be put at risk by the degradation processes
Media and Events
Hyperion: An update on the project in the pilot sites video
26.01.2023Hyperion’s second video from the test sites of Rhodes, Venice, Granada & Tonsberg has been officially released. Let’s find out how is the work going.
Workshops and Seminars
Continental formation and demise: perspectives from the Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt
12.01.2023At convergent margins, continents are unceasingly constructed and destroyed by arc magmatism and subduction, respectively. Interestingly, these opposing processes are intimately linked together.
Workshops and Seminars
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and earthquake forecasting
01.12.2022This talk will summarize how machine learning (ML) is being used with both active and passive lab seismic data to predict lab earthquakes. These works show: 1) that ML can predict the timing and magnitude of labquakes using acoustic emissions (AE) that originate in the lab fault zone and 2) that in
Workshops and Seminars
Geothermal energy for energy transition: numerical modelling of hydrothermal systems and deep heat exchangers
24.11.2022Geothermal energy, is considered a critical renewable energy source for the future, capable of contributing to environmentally friendly carbon-neutral energy conversion. To evaluate the underground geothermal potential, the knowledge of the temperature distribution with depth is a key aspect.
Media and Events
Venice Lagoon. The salt marshes and what they need to survive
21.11.2022In the second episode of the mini-series on the Venice Lagoon we begin to discover the salt marshes, one of the most characteristic morphological structures of this humid environment. We will be discovering which depositional dynamics guarantee their survival in the face of rising sea levels.
Media and Events
Leave Your Mark: the awards cerimony of the student contest
11.11.2022The awards ceremony for the murales contest "Leave Your Mark" took place on Friday 11 November at the Library of the Department of Geosciences. Lorenzo Doppiu, winner of the contest with a project titled “What comes next”, was awarded with Rebecca Rajesh Peter who collaborated on the graphic design.
Workshops and Seminars
Ground-based radar interferometry Principles, applications and future developments - Career Workshop
10.11.2022Ground-based radar interferometry (GBRI) is a remote sensing imaging technique based on coherent radar systems, which can measure not only the amplitude, but also the phase of the microwave signals. The phase measurements can then be exploited to derive information on the deformation and topography
Workshops and Seminars
Turbidity currents and seabed infrastructures: insights from numerical models - Career Workshop
03.11.2022Turbidity currents are known to travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers into the deep ocean, reaching velocities as high as 20 m/s with potentially catastrophic consequences to infrastructure installed along their path. The submarine cable industry has experienced their impact since the first cab
Media and Events
Venice Lagoon: the morphology of the largest tidal basin in the Mediterranean
19.10.2022The first episode of the mini-series about the Venice Lagoon is dedicated to the typical morphological structures of this peculiar environment: the salt marshes, the tidal flats and the channel networks.
