- Docente: Antonello Piombo
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GEOS-04/A
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Science and Technologies for Environmental Sustainability (cod. 6794)
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from Oct 05, 2026 to Jan 26, 2027
Learning outcomes
During the course, students learn to use some geophysical techniques useful to study environmental problems, in particular resistivity methods. At the end of the course, the students know the methodologies to evaluate the seismic risk for a certain area, and to elaborate a plan for the prevention and mitigation of seismic disaster.
Course contents
Introduction: environmental problems amenable to solution by geophysical means.
Resistivity surveys: electrical resistivity of earth material, theory of current flow in the ground, field procedures and selection of electrode array, instruments, interpretation of resistivity data, environmental applications.
The seismic risk: the earthquake, the plate tectonics, the seismicity in Italy, the seismic hazard estimates, the fake news, the scientific citizenship.
Note: A basic knowledge of mathematics and physics is required to easily follow the course.
Readings/Bibliography
H. R. Burger, A. F. Sheehan, C. H. Jones, Introduction to Applied Geophysics, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
W. Lowrie, A. Fichtner, Fundamentals of Geophysics (3rd edition), Cambridge University Press, 2020.Teaching methods
Lectures, educational movies, cooperative learning, field and computer labs.
Assessment methods
Oral exam consists of the presentation and the discussion of laboratory works and field measurements. The presentation should include suggestion of best practices, strategies, guidelines to prevent and mitigate environmental disaster.
The presentation will be judged on the basis of fluency, appropriate vocabulary use, organization and structure of the material presented, content/information, and comprehension.
With regard to assessment, limited, declared and non-substantial use of AI is permitted for support activities (summarising, rephrasing). Substantial use of AI to complete parts of the examination is not permitted.
Teaching tools
Power-point presentations, educational movies.
Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.
Office hours
See the website of Antonello Piombo