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From Alaskan Glaciers to Icy Moons: Unraveling Space Mysteries on Earth

29.08.2025

The Department of Geosciences, with researcher Riccardo Pozzobon, is involved in the GEMINI project, led by Costanza Rossi of the INAF Astronomical Observatory of Padua and funded by the National Geographic Grant Programme.

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A study to which Dr. Francesco Marra collaborated ranked third in the ADIA Lab call for Best Paper Award in Climate Data Science

14.07.2025

The paper “A Method to Assess and Explain Changes in Sub-Daily Precipitation Return Levels From Convection-Permitting Simulations”, published in the journal Water Resources Research in 2024, ranked third in the ADIA Lab call for Best Paper Award in Climate Data Science.The competition was launched

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Innovative Virtual Field Trips Enhance Geosciences Education at University of Padova

30.06.2025

The project is called Trail Geo and introduces virtual geological field trips to complement traditional on-site excursions. The first case-study was the Santerno Valley

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Claudia Benvegnù wins the Italian Canoe Marathon Championships

28.05.2025

More great sporting achievements for Claudia Fabiola Benvegnù, a canoe athlete and student at our Department, where she is currently in her first year of the Master's degree in Environmental Geology and Earth Dynamics (Earth Dynamics curriculum).At the Italian Canoe Marathon Championships, held in

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GeoTalk, Book presentation: Our Concept of the Earth

Library of Department of Geosciences | Friday, May, 23 - 2025 - 2,30 pm

23.05.2025

How do we truly know our planet? What tools, insights, mistakes and hypotheses have shaped the scientific image of the Earth we rely on today? These questions will be at the heart of the GeoTalk event on Thursday, May 23, at the Geoscience Library of the University of Padua, where geophysicist and

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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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