Today, December 6, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) recalled the birth of two entities that marked epochal turning points in the geosciences: the oldest scientific garrison of geodynamics in the world, the Vesuvius Observatory, founded in 1841, and the National Institute of Geophysics, born on 15 November 1936 within the National Research Council (CNR), by presidential order of the then president of the CNR, Guglielmo Marconi and initially located within the Sapienza University of Rome.
Speakers at the Rome headquarters of INGV were: Natale Mazzei of the Civil Protection Department (DPC), the President of the CNR Massimo Inguscio, the Rector of the Sapienza University of Rome Eugenio Gaudio, the academician of the Lincei and former President of ING Michele Caputo, the President
Followed by the reports of: Graziano Ferrari, SISMOS-INGV project manager on Institutional geophysics in Italy before ING; Alessandro Amato, research director of INGV and former director of the National Seismic Network, with Eighty years of seismic monitoring in Italy for science and society; Gianluca Valensise, research director of INGV, with Not just networks: from ING to INGV, data and models for seismic hazard estimates in Italy; Antonio Meloni, former research director of INGV, to Beyond seismology: Geomagnetism and Ionospheric Physics at ING; Francesca Bianco, director of the OV-INGV section, with Research and Monitoring on volcanoes in the Neapolitan area: the combination that creates knowledge; Mauro Di Vito, first researcher at INGV, with From measurements to quantification of natural phenomena: modeling of ground deformations that preceded the last eruption of Campi Flegrei.
The following concluded the works: Carlo Doglioni, President of INGV with a speech on the project Working Earth e Onno Oncken, Director of GeoForschungs Zentrum of Potsdam, with the conference The Maule 2010 earthquake and the Andes.
The day was moderated by: Maria Siclari, INGV General Manager; Francesca Quareni, Director of the Bologna INGV section; Leonardo Sagnotti, Director of the INGV Environment Structure; Andrea Bizzarri, INGV researcher.