The "Village for the Earth" kicked off today in Rome, on the Terrace of the Pincio, and will end on 25 April. Among the appointments, the global March for science in defense of the independence of research which will start from Piazza della Rotonda, in front of the Pantheon, and arrive in Piazza Campo de' Fiori, in front of the statue of Giordano Bruno. There will be a live link to the Washington march.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU), an association that brings together geophysicists from all over the world, is one of the promoters of the march. For the occasion, the AGU has published a special collection of texts commissioned from researchers of different disciplines and different countries that describe the role of Earth Sciences in society. Micol Todesco, researcher of the INGV-Section of Bologna, and Associated Editor of the AGU journal, JGR Solid Earth, contributed with the text "A leap in the dark: geological considerations on an unpredictable planet" (The leap in the dark: geological thoughts about an unpredictable planet, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014274) - original text (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017JB014274/full). For the same event, the work entitled: 'Understanding volcanic hazard at the most populated caldera in the world: Campi Flegrei, Southern Italy' was published by the journal 'Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystem', also published by AGU. INGV researchers Giuseppe De Natale, Claudia Troise, Christopher Kilburn, Renato Somma, Roberto Moretti (DOI of the paper: DOI10.1002/2017GC006972)
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