All ready for the ninth edition of the “PLANET EARTH WEEK” which from 3 to 10 October will involve the public from all over Italy in the interactive discovery of Geosciences.
In fact, it is fundamental to spread respect for the environment, care for the territory and awareness of the risks to which we are exposed: because a more informed society is a more involved society.
Geosciences are part of our daily life and play a strategic role for the sustainable economic, social and environmental development of our country: they concern water resources, minerals, energy, river and coastal dynamics, protection from geological and hydrogeological, seismic and volcanic risks, environmental safety and human health.
Planet Earth Week aims to make Geosciences known to the general public through the extraordinary geological, environmental, naturalistic and cultural heritage of our country. Both the most spectacular and the less known, but no less fascinating one: the one we are lucky enough to have just a stone's throw from home.
Here are this year's geoevents with the researchers of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV):
Are you a real Risk Detective? A serious team game for classes on the prevention of natural hazards
In the Geophysical Museum of Duronia (Campobasso) a team competition along a storytelling path that will test intuition and readiness in the event of an earthquake, landslide or flood.
Players will have to have a spirit of observation and evaluate from time to time what to do in situations of risk and danger, trying to foresee the consequences.
Organized by INGV and the Municipality of Duronia, the appointment is at the Geophysical Museum of Duronia:
- Monday 4 October | from 9.00 to 13.00,
- Tuesday 5 October | from 9.00 to 13.00
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Geology and archeology: the Seiano Cave and the Pausilypon Archaeological Park in Naples
The researchers of the INGV Vesuvius Observatory, as part of the Neapolitan Women in Science Coordination, propose a suggestive excursion in Naples along the Posillipo Hill, from the Seiano Cave to the Pausilypon Archaeological Park, to discover the volcanic structure of the area and the presence of man from the Roman age to today.
Appointment:
- Wednesday 6 October 2021 | from 9.30 to 13.30
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Let's free Salvina! An online escape room to escape natural hazards
INGV offers an engaging online game that will test the survival skills of the participating teams in the event of an earthquake, tsunami, landslide or flood.
The boys will have to draw on their knowledge of natural hazards to help Salvina overcome all dangers unscathed.
Will they make the right choices in the time available?
Play:
- Thursday 7 October | from 10:00 to 11:30 with the 4th and 5th class of primary school.
- Friday 8 October | from 10:00 to 11:30 with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd class of the XNUMXst grade secondary school.
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Herculaneum | Archeology and volcanology at the excavations of Herculaneum: devastation and charm of a quiet and refined residential town, hit by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. c.
The appointment with the INGV Vesuvius Observatory is at the Herculaneum Archaeological Park (Naples).
After a multidisciplinary seminar on the history of Vesuvius, trekking will follow in the excavations of Herculaneum, with stops at the volcanological sections, which document the thickness and type of volcanic deposits, and in the domus, which give us fragments of Roman life.
Comparisons to modern uses will be startling.
Appointment:
- Saturday 9 October 2021 | - from 9.00 to 14.00
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Risk Detective, a serious team game for classes on natural hazard prevention.
Geology and archeology: the Seiano Cave and the Pausilypon Archaeological Park in Naples.
Let's free Salvina! An online escape room to escape natural hazards.
Archeology and volcanology at the excavations of Herculaneum: devastation and charm of a quiet and refined residential town, hit by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. c.