The Master Degree Course in Earth and Planetary Geology Sciences and Technologies offers students complete and advanced training in Geosciences. The teaching methodology is multidisciplinary and multi-scale, theoretical and practical, aimed at understanding long-term geological phenomena, concerning the lithosphere-atmosphere ecosystem, for managing and controlling the corresponding ongoing geological and environmental processes. The course offers a traditional and naturalistic methodological approach and a quantitative, innovative, digital, and technological one. The master's degree program is divided into three interrelated curricula, which are:- Applied and Environmental Geology, - Georesources and Environmental Sustainability, - Structural Geology and Geophysics for Seismic and Volcanic Risk.The curricula are organized in lectures and laboratories and provide professional and/or research internships.The curriculum in "Applied and Environmental Geology" has a solid applicative identity and provides methodological, technical, and scientific skills for:- Multidisciplinary soil analysis and highly professional thematic cartography, created with new technologies; numerical modeling applied to the environment.- Study, management and monitoring of exogenous (floods, landslides), anthropogenic (pollution), and climatic (extreme meteoric events) phenomena.- Geological characterization and modeling of the subsoil also for the construction of infrastructures (bridges, tunnels, railway tracks, buildings, ..), for the research of natural resources (water, renewable resources), for environmental sustainability, for geomorphological susceptibility, and for environmental pollution.The curriculum in "Georesources and Environmental Sustainability" is dedicated to the sustainability of anthropogenic and natural systems and provides methodological, technical, and scientific skills for:- Study of reservoirs for the production and storage of fluids (gas, CO2, geothermal); study of fossil and renewable energies (geothermal, hydrogen) to manage the energy transition and the sustainable use of natural resources.- Minero-petrographic and geochemical characterization of environmental resources for their recovery and sustainable use; petrographic and geomechanical analysis of rocks for the use of geomaterials in the industrial field, conservation, and enhancement of architectural heritage and historical-cultural heritage.- Mitigation of climate change effects, waste management, and recyclingThe Curriculum in "Structural Geology and Geophysics for Seismic and Volcanic Risk" has a dual identity, theoretical and applicative, dedicated to understanding past and present complex phenomena (earthquakes and volcanoes) and the tectonic and geodynamic context that determines and controls them. In addition, it is aimed at developing strategies for the reduction and mitigation of territorial risks at a global level. In particular, it provides basic and frontier methodological, scientific and technical skills, enabling new territorial control and management strategies and enhancing the geologist's managerial role. The Curriculum consists of :- Geological survey, morphotectonic and structural analysis, digital thematic cartography, and three-dimensional modeling; reconstruction of regional and local, shallow and deep deformation models, also aimed at identifying and defining energy sources (e.g. deep geothermal).- Earthquake geology, seismology, and geodynamics for seismotectonic and seismic hazard assessment; geological and geophysical investigations for the local seismic hazard (seismic microzoning), and archaeoseismology.- Volcanology and volcanotectonics.- Data and metadata analysis and technical-scientific activities for managing seismic and volcanic emergencies.All curricula offer the training foundations for a wide range of work activities pertaining to geologists and geophysicists, including: - professional activities for the geological characterization of the territory aimed at the research of water resources, the study of landslides, floods, and extreme meteoric events, remediation of contaminated sites, support for the design and construction of small and large works, seismic microzonation and projects, etc.). - Geologist in national and local public institutions, regional agencies for the protection of the environment, local authorities etc, in Companies and Service Companies; - PHD-- and pre-doc positions in universities and national and international research centers.
