International Day of Women and Girls in Science - 11 February 2025
The social media campaign of Department of Geosciences based on "joint interviews" with male and female professors, researchers and Ph.D. students.
Ph.D. Course in Geosciences - Thesis Defenses XXXVII Series - 11th February 2025
in classroom 1F and online on Zoom
Geology & Planetary Mapping Winter School 2025
In real time in the week 10-14 February 2025, and asynchronously on the Streavent platform for the following month, The 2025 edition will cover planetary surface processes and features of Venus, Mercury, The Moon and Mars.
GeoSguardi: Geosciences in the Spotlight with a Series of Seminars in Padua
A series of four seminars addressing the scientific and social challenges of our time through the lens of Earth Sciences. From January 18 to April 12, 2025, at the Centro Culturale San Gaetano (Spazio 35) in Padua, starting at 5:30 PM with free admission.
Nano-crystals in Diamonds: €2 Million for Fabrizio Nestola's Project
by the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS) of the MUR for the project ‘Discovering mineral nanoinclusions in diamonds’.
A Sand Island and a Sea of Doubts: The Effects of the Mo.S.E. on the Venice Lagoon
The recent news of the formation of a new "island" (or rather, a thin strip of intertidal deposits) near Bacàn has reignited the debate about the effects of the Mo.S.E. system on the morphology and ecosystem of the Venice Lagoon. A comment by Andrea D'Alpas, Full Professor of Department of Geosciences
Seminars for students in the framework of the Excellence Project
The Department of Geosciences has organized a special series of seminars focused on key research issues of the Excellence Project. Each session will feature two speakers. The foutrh seminars will take place on Thursday, January 16th, 2025
The Department of Geosciences hosts a series of seminars for the first semester of the a.y. 2024/2025
Here the calendar of the seminars and workshops
Water and Earthquakes: New Insights into the Connection Between Hydrology and Seismicity
A recent study published in Nature Communications has opened new horizons in understanding seismic phenomena. The research is the result of collaboration between the University of Padua, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the University of Naples Federico II, and Acquedotto Pugliese. For the Department of Geosciences, researcher Piero Poli participated.