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Digital geological mapping: photogrammetry using a drone

Dal 22.03.2022 al 22.09.2022

Digital Geological Mapping is a course of the Master's Degree in Environmental Geology and Earth Dynamics of the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua. This course teaches how to use digital tools for the collection of data on the ground. In this way, it's possible to acquire

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Fabrizio Nestola Took part to an episode of the program "Il giardino di Albert" on RSI (Radiotelevisione Svizzera)

09.03.2022

In recent days, the program Il giardino di Albert, produced by RSI (Radiotelevisione Svizzera), which deals with topics related to nature, has dedicated an episode to diamonds involving Fabrizio Nestola, director of the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua. In the video, Professor

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Looking at rivers in a data rich era

Speaker: Dr. Simone Bizzi (Department of Geosciences - University of Padova) - Tuesday, 29th March – 4:30 PM | Aula Arduino

29.03.2022

For decades geomorphologists have asked what drives the fundamental difference in river functioning between single-thread meandering channel and multi-thread systems? The variety of existing river channel patterns and their functioning are nicely summarized in the river classification schemes which tells us that river forms and patterns are generated by specific drivers, namely: channel gradient, amount of sediment supply, and grain size (caliber) of the sediment supply.

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Building planetary atmospheres from magma oceans

Speaker: Dr. Paolo Sossi (Eth, Department of Earth Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland) - Tuesday, 22nd March – 4:30 PM | Aula Arduino

22.03.2022

Atmospheres around some rocky planets may be germane to the development of life. Owing to the energy deposited during accretion, most are thought to have undergone at least one magma ocean stage in their lifetime.

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Secular sea-level rise: the role of Solid Earth

Speaker: Prof. Giorgio Spada (Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Bologna) - Tuesday, 15th March – 4:30 PM | Aula Arduino

15.03.2022

It is well established that the sea-level variations due to the melting of continental ice sheets are characterized by strongly non-uniform spatial and temporal patterns. To a large extent, these result from Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), a physical process caused by the global and the regional

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