Applied Geology to protection and sustainable development of territory

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.

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.

Educational objectives

To develop knowledge on quantitative study methods of geology, in particular on: the statistical analysis of experimental data; use of IT systems necessary for data acquisition and control, calculation of indicators, dissemination of results; use and integration of various sources of statistical information.

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Practical application of mathematical models to solve problems in geology.
Application and solution of forward and inverse problems to geological data to infer physical properties.
Understand challenges and potentialities of quantitative data analysis and modelling in the context of geology.

Educational objectives

Educational goals: the course aims at providing fundamental knowledge on magmas, processes and products of volcanic activity and suitable methods for the study of volcanic deposits aiming at reconstructing the related genetic processes.
Learning ouctomes: Acquiring knowledge and ability on the: assessment of the origin and evolution of magmas, and styles of volcanic activity as also related to different geological-structural settings; analysis and interpretation of volcanic products and landforms in terms of pre-eruptive and eruptive processes; reconstruction of stratigraphy and geology of volcanic areas with implications for environmental and hazard issues.

Educational objectives

Educational goals: Knowledge and use of the main methods of sampling and hydrogeochemical analysis. Ability to design and interpretation of hydrogeochemical surveys.

Learning ouctomes: Knowledge of the main physical parameters that regulate the geochemical mobility of exogenous factors in the environment.
Identification of geochemical anomalies and their relation to the geological environment.

Educational objectives

Educational goals: organize and address engineering-geological knowledge towards applications in the engineering

Learning ouctomes: basics on the soil-structure interaction; combination of geological, geomorphological, hydrogeological, geotechnical information usel to plan, realize and monitor engineering structures.

Educational objectives

Educational goals: The main goal of the course consists on preparing to a modelling of slopes for evaluating their stability conditions, by a correct definition of a geological model of the slope and a rupture mechanism of existing/possible landslides. During the course will be showed and discussed many case histories related to different types of landslides; the selected case histories exemplify natural phenomena which strongly involved man-made structures or activities and that can be regarded as examples for natural risk management.

Learning ouctomes: the students should become able to classify and distinguish landslide mechanisms, to perform slope stability analyses via analytical and/or numerical modeling approaches, to plan slope stability studies.

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

Educational objectives

Educational goals: This course develops the normative and applied aspects of issues relating to the efficient (sustainable) use of groundwater resources, their management, monitoring and protection. The project and the management of groundwater wells are explained.

Learning outcomes: successful students will be able to assess the degree of water well operation, to determine the necessary elements to plan a well, then to use thematic mapping on the management and protection of groundwater resources. They also have acquired basic knowledge about the causes and types of pollutants and their transmission among non saturated media and groundwater, as well as the main methods used for the hydrodynamic characterization and for the remediation of the contaminated aquifers.

Educational objectives

Educational goals: The course will offer to the students a synthetic description of the geological storage techniques with a particular focus on site characterization and monitoring

Learning ouctomes: The student will learn the procedure and studies required for geological storage.

Educational objectives

Knowledge of the different types of volcanic activity and volcanic hazard assessment, ability to critically review the scientific volcanological literature, with particular reference to petrological, geochronological and thephrostratigraphical data, applied to volcanic hazard assessment. Ability to interpret geophysical and geochemical data from volcano monitoring networks. Acquisition of the skills needed to develop and plan actions aimed at mitigating volcanic disasters

Educational objectives

Educational goals:
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.

Learning ouctomes:
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.

Educational objectives

To gain the basics to deal with soil behaviour in seismic conditions and with the monitoring of geotechnical structures; To introduce to the methodologies to improve subsoil conditions and stabilization measures

Educational objectives

To train expert technicians in the field of groundwater monitoring in groundwater bodies, contaminated industrial sites, waste cycle plants, in relation to Italian and European legislation.

Educational objectives

Educational goals: The main goal of the course consists on providing fundamental elements for the local seismic response analysis applied to seismic Microzonation Studies and/or to the design of structures or infrastructures interacting with rocks or soils. These applications are part of risk mitigation management particularly focused on the seismic risk.

Learning ouctomes: Critical interpretation of results and outputs from available studies of local seismic response. Engineering-geological modelling applied to local seismic response through instrumental and numerical analyses.

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