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Seminario - Functional Soil Properties in Viticulture: Soil and Geological Controls on Terroir Across Scales

Relatore: Edoardo A.C. Costantini CNR-IBE - Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences Department, Sesto Fiorentino | Martedì 10 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

10.03.2026

The presentation examines how soil properties and geology shape terroir and wine quality at different scales. Terroir is defined as the unique combination of environmental and human factors influencing wine quality. Key soil properties—such as texture, stoniness, drainage, color, water and nutrient

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Seminario - How unique is our home planet? Geochemical evidence for an ancient subduction zone on Mars

Relatore: Prof. Frank E. Brenker – Schwiete Cosmochemistry Laboratory, Goethe University, Frankfurt | Giovedì 5 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula 1F

05.03.2026

Habitable Earth seems a rather unique place in our Solar System. Comparing processes like plate tectonics at different planetary bodies will help to better understand mechanism on our home planet.Although some moons of Jupiter show evidence for icy plate tectonic processes, recent plate tectonics

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

Relatore: Prof. Katherine B. Lininger– Geography Department, University of Colorado Boulder (USA) | Martedì 3 Marzo 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

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

Relatore: Prof. John Long - College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide (South Australia) | Giovedì 19 Febbraio 2026 | ore 15,30 - Aula 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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Seminario - Testing the permeability of the barrier separating the inner and outer circumsolar disk

Relatore: Dr. Yves Marrocchi - Director of the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG-CNRS, France) | Martedì 24 Febbraio 2026 | ore 16,30 - Aula Arduino

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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