Tuesday 6 December at 9.30 the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), in via di Vigna Murata 605 in Rome, recalls the birth of two entities that marked epochal turning points in the geosciences: the oldest scientific garrison of geodynamics in the world, the Vesuvian Observatory, founded in 1841, e 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.
The Minister of Education, University and Research (MIUR) Stefania Giannini, the Head of the Civil Protection Department, Fabrizio Curcio, the President of the National Research Council Massimo Inguscio, the Rector of the Sapienza University of Rome Eugenio Gaudio, as well as Michele Caputo, Academician of the Lincei and former President of ING, Roberto Battiston, President of ASI, Gabriele Falciasecca, President of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, Fabio Carapezza Guttuso, Prefect of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MIBACT), Ermete Realacci, President of the Environment Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
Speeches by: Graziano Ferrari, SISMOS-INGV project manager on Institutional geophysics in Italy before ING; Alessandro Amato, research manager 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 manager of INGV, with Not only networks: from ING to INGV, data and models for seismic hazard estimates in Italy; Antonio Meloni, former research director of INGV, with 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 union that creates knowledge; Mauro Di Vito, first researcher at INGV, with From measurements to the quantification of natural phenomena: the modeling of ground deformations that preceded the last eruption of Campi Flegrei.
Closing the works: Carlo Doglioni, President of INGV with a speech on the Working Earth project and Onno Oncken, director of the GeoForschungs Zentrum of Potsdam, with the conference The Maule 2010 earthquake and the Andes.
The day will be moderated by: Maria Siclari, INGV General Manager; Francesca Quareni, director of the Bologna section of INGV; Leonardo Sagnotti, director of the INGV Environment Structure; Andrea Bizzarri, INGV researcher.
The event will be accompanied by an exhibition of seismic instruments made by the ING workshops from the XNUMXs to the XNUMXs and by explanatory panels and videos.