Images of submarine hydrothermal emissions off the coast of the island of Panarea. A natural laboratory where it is possible to explore and investigate the impact of gas emissions on the marine environment and on organisms. An ideal site for developing new generation technologies and instruments.
Photo of the "Marine Research and Technologies" Functional Unit, INGV - Sec. of Palermo
Activities at INGV are always in full swing and this month of May has also seen our agenda full of appointments. And, among them, I would like to highlight those in which the encounter with civil society makes our activity as researchers full and tangible.
After years always spent on the "front line" of the national emergency, a less pressing adventure has begun for some time now, at least from the point of view of life times.
Geology and opera, geochemistry and sailing. Guenda Pecoraino, researcher of the Palermo section of the INGV, lives her life as a scientist combining her passions inside and outside the laboratory, between study, research, regattas (possibly in pink) and opera arias that smell of childhood . All without forgetting the long walks by the sea in her Mondello. We asked her a few questions to get to know her better.
IDENTITY CARD'
COURSE TITLE | Giovannella Pecoraino
YEARS | 57 and a half
QUALIFICATION | Researcher
HEAD OFFICE | INGV Palermo
FIELD OF ACTIVITY | Geochemistry of fluids
MY SLOGAN | One of everything…without hurting anyone (including myself)
The Stable Isotopes Laboratory of Palermo began its activity towards the end of the 80s within the Fluid Geochemistry Institute of the National Research Council (CNR), which later merged into the INGV. Inside, determinations are made of the isotopic ratios of light elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen in solid, liquid and gaseous samples. Giorgio Capasso, researcher and laboratory manager, answered some curiosities about his research activity.
Our peninsula has always had to deal with the effects of earthquakes that have hit its territory over the centuries. For this reason, Italy boasts one of the oldest traditions in this regard, think that the first anti-seismic house was designed by Pirro Ligorio back in 1570. On this topic we interviewed Graziano Ferrari, a researcher at INGV who reconstructed some of the fundamental stages of the "earthquake culture".
ScienzAperta is a major event created eight years ago by INGV to offer the public throughout the country the opportunity to get to know the places of scientific research in the Earth Sciences. With Giuliana D'Addezio, INGV researcher and national coordinator of the project, the experts in teaching and scientific dissemination of the Rome, Milan, Portovenere, Rende, Catania and Palermo offices met the children and young people under one hundred years old from March to May 2019.
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