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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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Seminar – LARES Italia in the Civil Protection System

Eleonora Benà, Sara Franzè and Elisa Saler - Lares Veneto Operational Section | Tuesday 13 May 2025 | 16.30 - Aula Arduino

13.05.2025

Technical-scientific skills and specialized volunteering for risk and emergency managementThe role of trained graduates within the national Civil Protection system will be the focus of the seminar “LARES Italia in the Civil Protection System”, scheduled for Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 4:30 PM in Aula

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An Italian Geophysicist in the World. Let's Meet Luca Dal Zilio

Tuesday 6th May 4,30 PM | Arduino Classroom - Department of Geosciences | Meeting organized by Alumni UniPD

06.05.2025

Luca Dal Zilio, a geophysics alumnus and now a leading researcher at the Earth Observatory in Singapore, returns ‘home’ to share his scientific and human journey in the world of geophysics.In this meeting, Luca will accompany us on a journey that starts from the underground and reaches the frontiers

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Seminar - The Rock Art of Serranía del Chiribiquete: a geoarchaeological and geomorphological heritage in the heart of the Amazon

29.04.2025

New discoveries in Amazonian rock art: paintings, pigments, and some of the oldest traces in South America. Deep in the Colombian Amazon lies the Chiribiquete Massif, a chain of table mountains with steep quartz-sandstone cliffs. It was in this remote and dramatic setting that anthropologist Carlos

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