Newsletter n.8
INGV newsletter | no.8 | October | 2021 | year XV
- Written by Staff
With videos and infographics you "enter" the INGV Operations Rooms
Four videos and as many infographics to understand what happens in the Operations Rooms of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, Naples and Catania.
THE EDITORIAL
The month of October for Italian science really started auspiciously: the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Giorgio Parisi "for the discovery of the interaction between disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from the atomic to the planetary scale". A Nobel Prize winner who makes all Italians proud and pays tribute to an extraordinary scientist who manages to communicate his exceptional discoveries with simple metaphors: sciences are like the headlights of a car driven by others who, with limited output, light the way to follow. It is truly true that the Enlightenment has faded a bit, despite the fact that our quality of life has improved incredibly, as has the increase in average life span: scientific discoveries are the result of the intelligence and intuition of the individual, but they are also the result of a dynamic, stimulating, vital environment in which the researcher lives and interacts.
L'GUEST OF HONOR
As a scientist and as a Neapolitan, how do you feel about the relationship with the volcanoes in Campania? We asked Professor Aldo Zollo, Professor of Seismology at the University of Naples "Federico II" and member of the Scientific Council of INGV, for which he provides a consultancy service to the institution's top management on issues relating to scientific activity. Guest of honor in our virtual living room, Professor Zollo told us about his professional career and some of the events that set him apart. Among these, the Irpinia earthquake of 1980.
Past earthquakes in historical catalogs and databases, precious sources of information
Aeolian Islands, Vulcano returns to arouse attention and to be talked about
Salina, pilot island for the energy transition
A RESEARCHER'S LIFE
IDENTITY CARD
Qualification: technologist
Field of activity: seismology of volcanic areas
INTERVIEW A
Passionate about English literature, she remembers her first ascent of Stromboli as one of the most exciting moments of her life. Shy and reserved, she has clear ideas about her; since she was a child she has embraced scientific subjects and the dream of studying the stars. Her life then took her elsewhere and today she is an established seismologist. She loves cats and the blues, today we discover something more about Simona Petrosino.
LAB EXPERIENCES
The Fluid Geochemistry Laboratory of Rome
Geochemistry is the branch of Earth Sciences that studies the distribution and behavior of the elements that make up our planet. A transversal science, therefore, which at INGV embraces environmental, seismic and volcanic issues. To find out more, we interviewed the head of the Lab, Alessandra Sciarra, who told us about the multiple applications of the analyzes she carries out together with her colleagues and which often took them to the field to collect samples in the arid Saharan desert areas or among the ice of Antarctica.
The high resolution portable flowmeter
THE EARTH TELLS
Even the mountains dance: when the curve of the Andes was...straight!
It's amazing to think how everything that surrounds us and that for us is a solid point of reference is, in reality, constantly changing. The mountains, the seas, the oceans: our whole planet has been moving, changing, evolving for millions of years. As simple human beings we are not able to appreciate this tireless dance with the naked eye, but science has equipped us with tools with which we can interrogate the landscape that surrounds us and let us tell its story. One of these stories took us all the way to South America, in the presence of the majestic Cordillera of the Andes: a mountain range that seems to have no end, meandering along the entire western edge of the South American continent.
IT HAPPENED TODAY
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
Seismic risk is studied in Milan. The INGV Section directed by Lucia Luzi
A Section whose history begins long before that of INGV, when the Institute for Research on Seismic Risk of Milan was a research center of excellence of the CNR. Since 1999, the year of the promulgation of the law establishing our Institute, the history of IRRS has been intertwined with that of the other four organizations which since then have constituted - now under a single aegis - INGV. In its twenty years of history, the Milan Section has grown in its research and monitoring activities, becoming a scientific point of reference in the area and establishing itself in the coordination of important databases at European level. We interviewed Lucia Luzi, Director of the Milan Section since 2019, who in these first two years of mandate has had to face, alongside the scientific challenges typical of the profession, also the great difficulties that last year saw Lombardy theater of the toughest phase of the Covid-19 epidemic in our country.
EVENTS OF THE MONTH
Geosciences News TGweb of 13/10/2021
Geosciences News TGweb of 30/09/2021
Geosciences News TGweb of 16/09/2021
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October 2021 | Number 8 | year XV
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- President's editorial
- From Vesuvius to the Earthquake Early Warning. Interview with Aldo Zollo, seismologist at the University of Naples Federico II
- Past earthquakes in historical catalogs and databases, precious sources of information
- Aeolian Islands, Vulcano returns to arouse attention and to be talked about
- Salina, pilot island for the energy transition
- Simona Petrosino
- The Fluid Geochemistry Laboratory of Rome
- The high resolution portable flowmeter
- Even the mountains dance: when the curve of the Andes was...straight!
- In october
- Seismic risk is studied in Milan. The INGV Section directed by Lucia Luzi
- events of the month