Educational objectives The course contributes to the achievement of the training objectives referred to in the Manifesto of Studies of the master’s degree in applied Geology.
In particular, the course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge related to the phenomena of contamination of soils and groundwater in order to:
a) Understand the mechanisms that govern the dispersion of contaminants in soil and groundwater based on the knowledge of the characteristics of the contaminants and of the environmental matrices of interest;
b) Select the intervention strategies for the recovery and redevelopment of contaminated sites;
c) Evaluate the adequacy of the potentially applicable solutions in the frame of the national regulatory framework
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Educational objectives Educational goals: 1. Ability of handling hydrogeological problems from a quantitative point of view at different spatial scales (from the sit to the basin scale) 2. Ability of handling the differential equations used to describe the groundwater flow and the transport of contaminants in the aquifers
Learning outcomes: Development, calibration and validation of flow and transport models
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Educational objectives Educational goals: the course aims at providing interpretive criteria and methods for the geological survey of volcanic terrains and the reconstruction of related genetic processes.
Learning ouctomes: Acquiring knowledge and ability on: distribution and style of volcanism as related to the different geological-structural settings; description and interpretation of volcanic successions in terms of eruption and emplacement processes; working criteria for stratigraphy and field mapping of volcanic terrains; field and laboratory analyses for the characterization of volcanic units and the reconstruction of related eruptive parameters.
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The aim of the course is also to provide the basic elements of knowledge for the acquisition, management and processing of data with the most modern techniques of remote sensing both for digital modeling of landforms and for the monitoring of deformation processes related to geomorphological instabilities.
The course aims to provide students with the knowledge about the basic principles of the terrain analysis and the latest, more advanced techniques for the quantitative analysis – at different spatio-tempral scales -of Earth Surface processes stating from DEMs at different resolution.
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Students will also gain experience and skills related to the management, processing and interpretation of remote sensing data through exercises with specific software packages.
At the end of the course students will therefore be able, through the use of specific tools in GIS environment, to conduct the most advanced quantitative analyses of the Earth Surface processes.
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Educational objectives Educational goals: This course describes the criteria and methods for determining the distribution of
chemical elements in the environment. Provides elements to assess the effects of rock alteration and
element mobility during water-rock interaction. Explains the basis to assess element transport in the
subsurface.
Learning outcomes: successful students will be able to examine and process anomalous elemental
distribution, solubility and complexing of elements in solution, and chemical processes in the framework of
global change. They will also have basic knowledge about solutes transport in groundwater and immiscible
liquids, with reference to the main processes that control the underground movement. Moreover, students
will understanf the basic principles and application of stable isotope geochemistry, with particular emphasis
on O, H, N, C traceability in the hydrological cycle.
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Educational objectives Provide an in-depth understanding of water/rock interaction processes and the main isotopic techniques used in the study of element mobility, with applications in forensic science and in the qualitative and quantitative assessment of water resources.
Acquire technical and practical skills for the design and execution of tracer tests and for water monitoring, with particular reference to groundwater bodies, contaminated sites, and environmental engineering works, in compliance with current regulations.
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Educational objectives At the end of the course, students should be able to apply machine learning
methodologies and advanced data analysis techniques for the quantitative interpretation
of complex geological processes. In particular, they will be able to:
- Apply mathematical analysis tools, including differential calculus (derivatives), error
analysis and the solution of overdetermined linear systems, in a geoscientific data
processing context;
- Formulate and solve optimization problems related to the modeling of natural
phenomena and the calibration of geophysical models;
- Use analytical models for the solution of flow and transport equations in porous media,
also integrating experimental data and field observations;
- Implement supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms (e.g. regression,
clustering, PCA) to extract informative patterns from complex geoscientific datasets;
- Critically evaluate the results obtained through statistical and validation metrics, with
attention to uncertainty and data quality;
The course aims to provide a solid theoretical and practical basis for the conscious use
of artificial intelligence and numerical analysis in the field of applied geosciences, with
particular attention to the problems of prediction, classification and interpretation of
geological data.
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