Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse: Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources

Who we are

The Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (IGG), is an institute of National Research Council of Italy (CNR), and it is devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the Geosciences, including application-oriented approaches.

Award for the best master thesis in mathematics and publication in the journal "Applications in Engineering Science"

Antonio Giovinetto, a student at the University of Florence, has been awarded the Prize in memory of Prof. Tristano Manacorda for the best thesis of Master Thesis in Mathematics 2021.

Published a new study about the bioaccumulation and biomagnification of trace elements in elasmobranchs and trophic transfer

A new study has been published on Marine Pollution Bulletin about trace elements. This study aims to provide the first concurrent assessment from 12 elasmobranch species from Djibouti (Gulf of Aden).

A Heterogeneous Mantle under the African-Arabian Plate boundary revealed by boron and radiogenic (Sr-Nd-Pb) isotopes

Researchers from IGG, along with colleagues from Universities of Firenze and Roma, INGV and IGAG published a study reporting original geochemical data, including radiogenic isotopes and Boron (B) isotope data for a dataset of alkali basalts cropping out in a wide area close to the Arabia-Africa-Anatolia triple junction and on the Arabian Plate foreland.

Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution a study quantifying the influence of climatic and environmental factors on biodiversity

In a paper published on Nature Ecology & Evolution a research group of the University of Milan and CNR (IGG and ISAC) showed how some environmental factors (climate, land use and human population density) influenced the composition and functionality of arthropod populations.

A new hypothesis for the development of the chaotic terrains on Mars

The development of these of these complex areas of the surface of Mars, which do not exist on Earth, has long been a subject of debate among experts. Water, either liquid or as ice, played a central role in this process, according to the common theory. A study published in the journal “Geophysical Research Letters”, in which researcher from the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IGG) participated, suggests a different cause of formation: volcanic processes.

New study published in Scientific Reports on the surface rupture and kinematics of the Petrinja earthquake (Croatia)

The study published in Scientific Reports provide a first-hand description of the coseismic surface effects caused by the Mw 6.4 Petrinja earthquake that hit central Croatia on 29 December 2020.

Evolution of volcanism and geodynamic framework of Sivas-Malatya region (Central-Eastern Anatolia): new isotope (Sr-Nd-Pb) and geochronological (K-Ar and ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar) data

Researchers from IGG, together with colleagues from the Universities of Firenze and Tunceli (Turkey) published a study on the volcanic rocks of Central Eastern Anatolia based on new isotopic and geochronological data, that allow to reconstruct the temporal and geochemical evolution of volcanic activity, providing important constraints for the reconstruction of the geodynamic evolution of the region over the last 20 million years.

New multicollector Ar/Ar data on microtektites from Transantarctic Mountains (Antarctica)

Tektites, and their submillimeter equivalents microtektites, are siliceous natural glasses which represent a component of the distal ejecta produced by hypervelocity impacts from large asteroidal impactors.

Mapping the global threat of land subsidence

LaSII - Land Subsidence International Initiative from UNESCO published the first global subsidence map due to groundwater depletion in SCIENCE. The research, led by Herrera-García from the Geological Survey of Spain, was also developed with the collaboration of Italian researchers Luigi Tosi (IGG-CNR and LaSII), Mauro Rossi (IRPI-CNR), and Pietro Teatini (ICEA-University of Padua and LaSII).

New tephrostratigraphical and tephrochronological data on a thick tephra layer from the Wood Bay area (Antarctica)

Tephra in marine sequences, similarly to those recovered in ice archives, represent invaluable isochrons for dating and correlating the records and the synchronization of climate proxy records.

Water transparency in the Venice Lagoon during COVID-19 lockdown revealed by Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites

A paper entitled “COVID-19 lockdown measures reveal human impact on water transparency in the Venice Lagoon” has been recently published by a team of researchers from the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (CNR-IGG) and the Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR). The article discusses the environmental changes related to the COVID-19 lockdown in Venice and analyzes the different factors that affected turbidity in the lagoon waters.

New study published in Scientific Reports on the development of complex normal fault systems

A group of scientists coordinated by the University of Padova in cooperation with the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IGG) has obtained new data on the development of complex fault patterns in regions undergoing continental extension.

A global map to identify suitable areas to use geothermal energy for power production

In the framework of a collaboration between the Institute of Science and Technologies Information "A. Faedo" (CNR-ISTI) and the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (CNR-IGG), the researchers Gianpaolo Coro (CNR-ISTI) and Eugenio Trumpy (CNR-IGG) realised the first suitability global map with a 50 km of spatial resolution, for the use of geothermal energy for power production.

New study on carbon dioxide fluxes and their drivers in alpine tundra

This study, published in Science of the Total Environment, describes a statistical study of carbon dioxide fluxes and their drivers in alpine tundra.

A new study on the Norian/Rhaetian boundary sampled in sections located all over the world, from both Hemispheres

An international work group, which includes IGG researchers and professors associated with the Institute, has published a study on the Norian/Rhaetian boundary (Late Triassic) sampled in sections located all
over the world, from both Hemispheres. The turnover of ammnoids, conodonts, radiolarians, bivalves, coral reef, terrestrial and marine vertebrates is recorded across the limit. These changes in biota coincide with a strong variation in the isotopic composition of carbon which implies a strong perturbations in the ocean-atmosphere system, probably linked to the emission of very large volumes of magmatic gases.

Determination of the asbestos content in metamorphic rocks

An article entitled "Estimation of natural asbestos content in rocks by fracture network modeling and petrographic characterization", has been recently published in Engineering Geology, issue 271. The article reports the results of a multidisciplinary research, carried out in consortium with the University of Turin, for the determination of the asbestos content in metamorphic rocks crossed by the excavation of the tunnel of the Gronda di Genova highway system.

How the High Atlas belt in Morocco was formed: a new perspective

A paper dealing with the formation of the High Atlas mountain belt in Morocco has been now published in the Journal of Structural Geology. It suggests a new interpretation of the structural evolution of the High Atlas characterized by a long history of transpressional and transtensional reactivations along a major lithospheric shear zone, since the break-up of Pangea.

Fluid-driven tectonic and anthropogenic seismic activity at the Larderello-Travale geothermal field

Recently, some geothermal projects have attracted public attention for the hypothesis that they could produce moderate to high magnitude earthquakes.

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Funded Projects

LEAP-RE

LEAP-RE (Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy) is Horizon 2020 EU-funded project, in response to the LC-SC3-JA-5-2020 H2020 call for proposal. The duration of the action will be 63 months as of 1 October 2020 (‘starting date of the action’).

LEAP-RE seeks to create a long-term partnership of African and European stakeholders in the field of renewable energy.

AL.C.h.E.Mi.S.T.

The Project regards the integrated study of Albanian speleothem, with the general aims to explore and develop the potential of Albanian caves as archives of past climatic and environmental variations, and with the perspective of properly valorise their scientific, didactic and historical value.

Bilateral Project Italy - Morocco

The bilateral project aims to study the main fault systems of the High Atlas in Morocco, whose long history of activation in different geodynamic contexts characterized the overall evolution of the mountain belt. The Atlas orogen resulted from a long history of reactivations in alternating transtensional–transpressional tectonic regimes of lithospheric faults (Tizi n'Test fault system in the western High Atlas, South Meseta and South Atlas fault systems in the central High Atlas).

HIETE Project

The purpose of the "Scientific Research of Excellence", funded by the CARIPARO Foundation, is to support innovative research projects that help generate positive economic and social effects, promoting the advancement of scientific knowledge in the most diverse fields.

One of the most debated scientific aspects in relation to the impacts of global changes is whether, how and for how long transitional coastal environments such as lagoons, estuaries and deltas will be able to survive the expected Sea Level Rise (SLR).

BRIC-INAIL Asbestos Call

The project “Crystallochemical characterization and study of surface reactivity of mineral fibres of environmental and health interest, for an accurate hazard analysis”, was financed in the frame of the “Bric” research funding program of INAIL - the Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work.

ORMA

The ORMA Project, funded by the Region of Tuscany with Executive Decree no. 7426 of 14/05/2020 and started on December 1, 2020, aims to train experts to support innovation, technology transfer, promotion of the relationship between research and business and europlanning and to strengthen the skills of the territory in the field of research/enterprise integration, internationalization, technology transfer, culture of innovation, monitoring and forecasting of technologies and europlanning.

Bilateral project Italy - China

Deltas, estuaries, lagoons form complex and highly fragile transition zones between river dominated lowlands and coastal marine systems. Such systems have proven to react sensitively to climate change and anthropogenic forces: the present morpho- hydro- geological setting and ecosystem of coastal systems result from human-induced processes superposed to the natural coastal zone evolution.

TRETAMARA

In the northern Adriatic Sea there are marine and coastal habitats that favor and support a significant animal and plant biodiversity, represented by the geo-biogenic outcrops of Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto, by the Cladocora caespitosa dead corallites on the Slovenian side, by the numerous coastal-littoral ZSC-ZPS.

MoST

Project coordinator: Prof. Paolo Salandin University of Padova, Department ICEA (paolo.salandin(at)unipd(dot)it);CNR Scientific Responsible: Dr. Luigi Tosi, CNR-IGG (luigi.tosi(at)igg.cnr.it)

ASTERIS

Project coordinator: Prof. Simone Galeotti, Università degli studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”; CNR Scientific Responsible: Dr.ssa Barbara Nisi, CNR-IGG (barbara.nisi(at)igg.cnr.it)

GECO

The project aims to study and develop, at industrial level, the production of geothermal energy with zero emissions. Geothermal fluids can naturally contain small variable amounts of CO₂ and H₂S that, if released into the atmosphere, can contribute negatively to the climate change.

Venezia 2021

The loss of land elevation with respect to the mean sea level (relative sea level rise – RSLR) is one of the processes potentially more impacting flat low-lying coastlands. Today, a continuous updating of the knowledge on land subsidence is becoming even more necessary. This holds in particular for the Venice area where land subsidence is characterized by a significant variability because of the hydro-geo-morphological complexity typical of this transitional environment. Although land subsidence in the Venice coast does not peak to values recorded in other coastal areas worldwide, the process is here severely threatening the territory because of its very low elevation, which is generally below the mean sea level, and the peculiarity of the lagoon environment.

IGCP 663 - IM2LSC

Land subsidence severely threatens most of the coastal plains around the world where high productive industrial and agricultural activities and urban centers are concentrated. Coastal subsidence damages infrastructures and exacerbates the effect of the sea‐level rise at regional scale. Although it is a well‐known process,

VIOLA

The VIOLA project is one of the activities funded under POR Puglia. The IGG is involved in the project for activities concerning the isotopic applications of O, H, B, and Sr in the study of the interactions between the waters selected and the carbonate aquifers of the Apula platform.

GEOENVI

CNR Scientific Responsible: Dr. Adele Manzella, CNR-IGG (adele.manzella(at)igg.cnr.it). Link to project web site: https://www.geoenvi.eu/.

OT4CLIMA

The general objective of the OT4CLIMA project is to develop advanced Earth Observation (EO) technologies and methodologies for improving our knowledge of the effects of Climate Change (CC) and our capability to mitigate them at the regional and sub-regional scale.

EUROVOLC

The H2020 EUROVOLC Project aimed at creating a European network of observatories and research infrastructures for volcanology. CNR Scientific Responsible: Dr. Maddalena Pennisi, CNR-IGG (maddalena.pennisi(at)igg.cnr.it). Link to project web site: https://eurovolc.eu/.

DG-ETIP

Deep Geothermal ETIP (Support to the activities of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Deep Geothermal) is a geothermal project, funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme Horizon 2020.

GEMex

GEMEx is a project of international cooperation in the geothermal field between Europe and Mexico, funded by Horizon 2020 EU framework programme for research and innovation.
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Bilateral Project Italy-Taiwan

Geochemical tracers and indicators for the evaluation of geothermal resources is a Joint Research Project between National Council of Research of Italy and Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, funded for 2 years.
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ERA4CS

The ERA-NET Consortium “European Research Area for Climate Services”, so-called ERA4CS, has been designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services in Europe.
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ECOPOTENTIAL

Ecosystems are the product of the interaction between the biosphere and the geosphere, between living organisms and the physical, chemical and

DESCRAMBLE

DESCRAMBLE, is a European project, co-funded for three years by the European Commission within Horizon 2020.
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Bilateral Project Italy - Moldova

Italy Partner: Dr. Barbara Nisi
Moldova Partner: Dr. Oleg Bogdevici
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IMAGE

IMAGE is a European project, co-funded for four years by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development 2007-2013.
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NextData

Mountains are sentinels of climate and environmental change and many marine regions provide information on past climate variations.
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Geothermal ERA-NET

Geothermal ERA-NET is a European project co-funded for four years by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development 2007-2013.
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ATLANTE

The Geothermal Atlas of southern Italy is a project aimed at characterizing, assessing and mapping of conventional and unconventional geothermal resources for power production in southern Italy.
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VIGOR

VIGOR was a four year Project launched at the end of 2010, coordinated at national level by CNR-IGG and dedicated to a comprehensive assessment of geothermal energy and its technological applications in four regions of southern Italy (Calabria, Campania, Apulia and Sicily, the “Regioni Convergenza”).
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VAPORE

VAPORE project points to quantify the residual capacity of Stabilised Organic Fraction (SOF) and already buried waste, to produce biogas in anaerobic conditions.

SMAT

Climate Change and Groundwater resources
Principal Investigator for CNR-IGG: Antonello Provenzale (antonello.provenzale(at)cnr.it)
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Sa.Pe.Vo.

The Sa.Pe.Vo. project is a product of the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of CNR. The project team includes Unifi, Unipa, UNIRM1 and Universidad de El Salvador. The Italian Agency for International Cooperation has financed the project.
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VEGEO

The VEGEO project, funded by the National Park of Vesuvius, is aimed at the definition and the description of the Geosites that are present inside the Park area.
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LaMMA Regional Projects

“LaMMA” REGIONAL PROJECT (Tuscany Region funds)
Coordinator: Dr. Alessandro Ellero
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