Geophysics

The German research vessel Meteor sailed today from Catania, on a 5 week campaign to study mud volcanoes and gas hydrates in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The R/V Meteor M112 campaign will begin offshore Calabria, investigating mud volcanoes discovered by OGS in 2005 in the context of the EC

New published research on the geologic history of an area of the Antarctic Peninsula where a large floating ice shelf disintegrated in the early 2000’s indicates that the cataclysmic break-up was primarily a result of a rise in air temperature and melting at the surface of the ice, rather than a

From August 25 to 27 in Veli Lošinj (Croatia) will take place a workshop on "Status and Future of the Geothermal Energy in the Peri-Adriatic Area". The purpose of the workshop (open to all interested persons) is to convene research institutions, public administrations, professionals, operators

On July 7, at 10:00, at seminar room "Antonio Michelato", building "Ferruccio Mosetti" - OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, Dr. Fausto Ferraccioli (British Antarctic Survey) will present the seminar: : "Esplorazione aerogeofisica in Antartide" Link: http://nettuno.ogs.trieste.it/jungo/caffe_scientifico/en

Geophysics Section (GEO) of OGS was awarded with the IHS Kingdom Educational Grant Program. Since January, 2008, IHS Program has donated thousands of software licenses to over 150 colleges and universities in dozens of countries around the world. Beginning in 2001, yearly grants, including all

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

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-

Workshop HPC@OGS, 6-7 June 2013 Michelato Room, Pal. E The Workshop is organized in the frame of the research agreement for High Performance Computing (HPC) between CINECA and OGS. The program of day 1 (6 June, start at 10am), open also to other scientific institutions of the Trieste area, is based