RISK SCENARIOS IN THE IBLEO TERRITORIAL SYSTEM

RISK SCENARIOS IN THE IBLEO TERRITORIAL SYSTEM

MEDITERRANEAN PALACE - Via Roma, Ragusa

Science, Territory and Community: the future is built together

In the heart of the Iblean territory, among the extraordinary geological complexities of south-eastern Sicily, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology promotes a scientific and institutional event of national importance, included in the celebrations of its 25th anniversary.

The INGV Seminar in Ragusa (9-10 June 2025) was created to Strengthen the dialogue between research, administrations and local communities, with a focus on the main natural and environmental risks affecting the area: seismicity, marine intrusion, pollution and sustainable land management. The direct involvement of the INGV offices in Catania and Palermo, provincial and local institutions, the Civil Protection and the Regional School Office testifies to the integrated and multidisciplinary approach of the event.

A two-day event of discussion, dissemination and sharing, in the name of applied science at the service of the territory, with a careful eye on the environmental and technological challenges of the future.

To enrich the event, an organ concert in the baroque Cathedral of San Giorgio in Ragusa Ibla, to celebrate the profound connection between knowledge, identity and beauty.

Programme:

Monday June 9 2025

15:30 - Welcome coffee - Exhibit INGV

Opening greetings, moderated by Dr. Massimo Chiappini, INGV

Prof. Maria Rita Schembari, President of the Province (LCCR)

Attorney Giuseppe Cassì, Mayor of Ragusa

Dr. Fabio Florindo, President INGV-National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

Dr. Fabio Ciciliano, Head of the DPC - Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Pref. Dr. Stefano Laporta, President of ISPRA and SNPA

Eng. Salvatore Cocina, General Manager of the Regional Department of Civil Protection

First session, moderated by Dr. Isabella Munda, INGV

16:30 - Dr. Massimo Chiappini, Director of the Environment Department of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

 Environmental monitoring of natural and anthropogenic risks, advanced technologies and INGV experiences. 

16:45 - Arch. Francesco Venerando Mantegna, Coordinator of the Study Seminar Risk Scenarios and Land Management, Prevention and Planning 
   

17:00 - Dr. Stefano Branca, Director of the INGV Etna Observatory in Catania

 The activities of the Etna Observatory.

17:15 - Dr. Antonio Paonita, Director of the INGV Section of Palermo 

The activities of the Geochemical Section of the INGV in Palermo

17:30 - Dr. Domenico Patanè, Research Director INGV Etnean Observatory

The OSU-Urban Seismic Observatory, programming of seismic monitoring network in Ragusa and in the provincial territory.

17:45 - Dr. Sergio Gurrieri, Research Director INGV, Palermo Section

Geochemical monitoring activities on aquifers, intrusive phenomena, monitoring planning on the Ragusa coast.

18:00 -Closing of works        
                                  

CULTURAL EVENT

19:40 - Organ concert at the Cathedral of San Giorgio, Ragusa Ibla, Organum Maximum Serassi-Allieri 

Prof. Maria Rita Schembari, opening of the event

Don Giuseppe Antoci. Parish Priest of the Cathedral, greeting message

Prof. Marco D'Avola Master Organist

Repertoire of Italian Baroque and Romantic Organ Music 

 Tuesday June 10 2025

Second session, moderated by Dr. Isabella Munda, INGV

09.30 - Dr. Marco Anzidei, INGV Research Director, Expert in Complex Systems Physics

Sea level rise: implications for coastal multi-hazards.      

09: 45-  Dr. Rosario Ruggieri, Geologist, Member of the Karst Commission of the International Association of Hydrogeologists

Localized emergencies - The first experience of studying the salt wedge in coastal aquifers, polluting impacts of different origins in the Iblean territory.

10:00 - Dr. Antonio Megna, Agronomist, expert in plant nutriphysiology, senior researcher in agricultural analysis

Impact of soil salinization on crops, latest generation technologies in irrigation management and possible evolutionary scenarios of greenhouse cultivation in the Iblean coastal strip.

10:15 - Dr. Rosario Mineo, Head of Geophysical Networks of the Free Consortium of Municipalities of Ragusa

The LCCR experience in the study of earthquakes and Radon gas.

10:30 - Prof. Giovanni Randazzo, Full Professor of Physical and Geomorphological Geography at the University of Messina, President of the Scientific Committee of the Nebrodi Park

Evolution of erosion processes on the Iblean coast.

10:45 - Coffee break - INGV Exhibit - Monitoring technologies illustrated by INGV Researchers.

11:15 - Prof. Giorgio Flaccavento, Art Historian and leading expert in local history and traditions

“The historical memory of the cataclysm of 1693 and the reconstruction”

11:30 - Dr. Daniela Mercante, Director of the Ragusa Territorial Area USR Sicily

The School's mission for the knowledge of the territory, its environmental characteristics and identity culture.

11.45 - Final summary of the works

Arch. Francesco Venerando Mantegna, General Director of MARIS, former President of the Institutional Committee for Seismic and Volcanic Surveillance in Sicily and Scientific Advisor to ISPRA

Territorial management, the DSS-Decision Support System and AI applications, methodological notes on the Thétis Project. Collection and delivery of the Seminar proceedings and proposals to the LCCR and local authorities. 

12:15 - Greeting from the artistic godmother of the event, Sonia Fuschi