Seminars - Workshops

Seminar - Geomorphic controls on organic carbon storage and flux in river corridors

Speaker: Prof. Katherine B. Lininger – Geography Department, University of Colorado Boulder (USA) | Tuesday 3 March 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom

03.03.2026

River corridors (channels and floodplains) are active components of the carbon cycle, transporting, transforming, and storing carbon. However, the details of how carbon is partitioned and stored in river corridors are still relatively unexplored. In this seminar, I provide examples of how geomorphic

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Seminars - Workshops

Seminar - The Secret History of Sharks. A story of evolution and survival

Speaker: Prof. John Long - College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide (South Australia) | Thursday 19 February 2026 | 3,30 p.m. - Classroom 1F

19.02.2026

Chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and holocephalans) originated around 465 million years ago, but their fossil record is very scant for the first few tens of millions of years. They survived all 5 of Earth's mass extinction events, but they haven't always had it easy. Their origin story (Ordovician

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Seminars - Workshops

Seminar - Testing the permeability of the barrier separating the inner and outer circumsolar disk

Speaker: Dr. Yves Marrocchi - Director of the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG-CNRS, France) | Tuesday 24 February 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom

24.02.2026

Meteorites provide key insights on the evolution of the solar system. The recent discovery of a fundamental isotopic dichotomy between non-carbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (C) meteorites attests that the solar system was divided by a physical barrier into two distinct reservoirs. However, the

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Seminars - Workshops

Seminar - Disaster Risk Management and Emergency response: The Italian Civil Protection System

Speaker: Dr. Daniela Di Bucci - Italian Civil Protection Department | Thursday 15 January 2026 | 10,30 am - Classroom 1F

15.01.2026

Dr. Daniela Di BucciStructural Geologist, Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, Master's degree in Behavioural Sciences and Administrations, National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor of Structural Geology. Expert in geo-hazards and in the relationship between the scientific community and policymakers in

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