World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22 to promote an increased focus on the most valuable asset for life on Earth: water. It was established by the UN in 1992 for a more conscious use and management of water resources, in order to promote a sustainable development of the planet. On the

On April 7, at 11:00, at seminar room "Antonio Michelato", building "Ferruccio Mosetti" - OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, Silvia Rova (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia) will present the seminar: "Provision of ecosystem services in the lagoon of Venice: an initial spatial assessment " Link: http:/

On March 25, at 11:00, at seminar room "Antonio Michelato", building "Ferruccio Mosetti" - OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, Rocco Auriemma will present the seminar entitled: "Evolution of macrozoobenthos community at S. Croce (Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic) after protection of the area with submerged

On April 8, at 11:00, at seminar room "Antonio Michelato", building "Ferruccio Mosetti" - OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, Angelo Camerlenghi will present the seminar entitled: "Deep-sea record of Mediterranean Messinian events (DREAM): Perforazione scientifica nel Mediterraneo". Link: http://nettuno.ogs

From 22 February to 5 March, three OGS researchers will join an international team aboard the Irish research vessel Celtic Explorer for the second GATEWAYS campaign. The vessel will leave Galway for the Celtic Sea continental shelf, to investigate landforms deposited by the last British-Irish Ice

PAST Gateways (Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal Gateways) is an IASC endorsed network, with the scientific goal to understand and reconstruct Arctic environmental changes, during the period preceding instrumental records and across decadal to millennial timescales. The network involves scientists

On January 24, at 11.15, at seminar room "A. Michelato", building E – OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, Heloise Lavigne (Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche sur Mer Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris) will present the seminar entitled: “First results of the NAOS project: analysis of the

OGS has been invited to join BRITICE-CHRONO, an international project to investigate the stability of marine-influenced ice sheets. The objective is to reconstruct the pattern and timing of collapse of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet, by integrating observations from onshore and offshore glacial

OGS and the Laboratoire d’Oceanologie (University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) from Villefranche-sur-mer have been collaborating in realization of the project NAOS (Novel Argo Ocean Observing System) and Argo Italy. Two groups of experimental oceanography (ExO and MAOS) are responsible for

CO2CARE-Final Conference at GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Is it possible to store the greenhouse gas CO2 safely and permanently in the deep underground? This is the key question which geoscientists and engineers have been approaching for almost three years within the EU project CO2CARE-