Winter School: Thermal history of basin-source systems

The research group of Sedimentary Geology and Basin Analysis of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences composed by Chiara Amadori, Andrea Di Giulio and Giovanni Toscani, is pleased to announce the International Winter School entitled 

“Thermal history of basin-source systems: techniques, modelling and applications”.

The School will be held on February 10^th-15^th 2020 

at the historical Palazzo San Tommaso, Aula Bottigella (location: Piazza del Lino 1) and at Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences on February 15^th (location: Via Ferrata 1). 

All info and updates at http://phd-dsta.unipv.it/thermal/

The major purpose of the School is to share and discuss the modern knowledge of the basin-source system and its thermal evolution from sedimentological, structural, geochemical and modelling point of view. In addition, the need to understand the processes of basin formation and evolution is not purely academic as sedimentary basins are the location for hydrocarbon and water reserves and host a variety of important mineral deposits; as such they are the focus of intense industrial interest.

The School is targeted to PhD students and post-docs; also advanced master students are allowed to attend the lectures because we want the future graduates and early-stage researchers to develop all necessary skills appropriate to the demands of their research or professional career. 

The School will provide 40h lectures by 11 key-note speakers from all over the World and a guided visit to the Eni’s scientific laboratories in San Donato Milanese (MI).

Our lecture program follows a “thermal philosophy”, in other words: how to study the evolution of a sedimentary basin through time-depth-temperature, and which are the best techniques to unravel those information. In detail, the first day is fully dedicated to present the fold-and-thrust belt and foreland basin systems to create the geological background for the next days, more focused on analytical techniques and numerical modelling.

Last but not least, the Winter School is sponsored by University of Pavia, Eni E&P and Earth and Environmental Sciences PhD Program.

Key works: basin analysis, fluid inclusions, organic matter, Illite/Smectite, (U-Th)/He, Ar-Ar dating, ZFT, AFT, thermal modelling, hydrocarbon.

Lectures will be held by:

-          Olivier Lacombe (Sorbonne Université)

-          Peter DeCelles (University of Arizona)       

-          Barbara Carrapa (University of Arizona)

-          M. Giuditta Fellin (ETH Zurich)

-          Sean Willett (ETH Zurich)

-          Andrea Ceriani (Khalifa University)

-          Sveva Corrado (RomaTre University)

-          Elisabetta Previde Massara (ENI)

-          Cristina Daturi (ENI)

-          M. Cristina Persano (University of Glasgow)

-          Matteo Maino (University of Pavia)

3rd PhD Congress

The 3rd PhD Congress organised by our PhD program will take place on 7th and 8th March in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, via Ferrata 1, B6 room (ground floor).

Invited speakers:

– Elena Basso and Federico Carò, researchers at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
– Emilio Sperone, researcher at the University of Calabria
– Fabio Giacometti, researcher and new materials developer at Petroceramics SpA
– Alessio Sanfilippo, researcher at the University of Pavia

Oral presentations and posters are scheduled. Contributions by PhD students are welcome.

Program of the 3rd PhD Congress in Pavia

To register, please contact dottorato@dsta.unipv.it

DSTA at the Annual meeting on UNESCO IGCP 663 group

A team of the DSTA (Roberta Bonì, Claudia Meisina and Francesco Zucca) is involved in the project UNESCO IGCP 663 "Impact, Mechanism, Monitoring of Land Subsidence in Coastal cities"  (Leader Prof Xuexin Yan, chief engineer of Shanghai Institute of Geological Survey)(). 

The project proposes a scientific cooperative program between institutions and researchers to develop better understanding of land subsidence at international level, especially the less developed countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It plans to research the Impacts of human activities and sea-level rise, hydro-Mechanism and Monitoring methods of Land Subsidence in Coastal cities. The project results will be transferred to sites in other developing countries, and recommendations will be released to play an effective role in the planning, construction, management and security assurance for different coastal cities.

The 31 October the IGCP project meeting was held in Shanghai and Roberta Bonì has presented the group's activities.

PETEX supports teaching and research activities

At the beginning of October 2018 our Department and Petroleum Experts Limited (www.petex.com) signed an important Educational Agreement.

Petroleum Experts Limited will support research and teaching activities of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department providing us 10 licenses for their Move Suite 

Move Suite is a powerful structural modelling and analysis toolkit providing  digital environments to carry out structural modelling to reduce risk and uncertainty in geological models. 

The Move suite is composed of a Core Application for data interpretation and 3D model building and 7 modules for more specific processes: 2D kinematic modelling - 3D kinematic modelling - Geomechanical Modelling - Fracture Modelling - Stress Analysis - Fault Analysis - Fault response Modelling.

Move Suite is a well known and widespread tool in more than 420 oil and gas industries worldwide.

Providing 10 licenses, Petex is donating the equivalent of more than 1.300.000 pounds to support our teaching and research activities.

This is a great opportunity for both faculty staff and students.The software will be installed on the computers of the PC lab (Centro di Calcolo, Piano E) so that MS.C students, Ph.D students and teaching activities can take advantage of it.

A bordo della Joides!

Video per il concorso On the Rocks della Società Geologica Italiana...vediamo se c'è qualcuno dell'Università di Pavia?

Geology is field trip!!!

Come to Pavia!

Winter School MEREMA: an International success

The International Winter School MEREMA (MElting and fluid/melt-rock REactions in the MAntle) has been held in the historic lecture center of the University of Pavia from 13 to 17 February 2017.
This International School on Solid Earth Geoscience, organized by the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP), in collaboration with the PhD programs of the Universities of Pavia, Ferrara, Genova, Milano and Modena-Reggio Emilia, and the University of Parma, focused on the Mantle melting process and reaction mechanisms between melting rocks and migrating melts/fluids. 

 PhD and master degree students, and young researchers, coming from 17 countries, approached the main themes by theoretical, experimental, thermodynamic, analytical, geochemical and macro/microscopic studies of mantle rocks.

Lectures have been completed by exercises and practice tests, continuously monitored by a high number of international teachers.