Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
Science outreach is traditionally committed to individual
scientists, who communicate to the public to promote
awareness of science. Becoming increasingly important
to bring science to a wide audience, the Istituto Nazionale
di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, shortly after its foundation
in 2001, has organized a team of part-time outreach
scientists aimed at promoting science education, with
particular emphasis to volcanic and seismic hazard. We
present here an overview of the science outreach activities
developed by our Institute, which have schools and
public as their target groups. There are several venues
of these activities: the headquarters of INGV in Rome
and its many departments in Italy, from Milan to Catania.
The Neapolitan region, with Vesuvius and the Phlegrean
fields, and Sicily, with Stromboli, Vulcano, and
Etna volcanoes, are the subject of several initiatives of
scientific dissemination we organize, sometimes with
the contribution of local authorities and Civil Defense, to
explain how volcanoes work. Aim of these initiatives is
to convey public understanding of the many-facet risks
of Italian volcanoes, from paroxysmal eruptive activity
to the menace of lava flows and ash fallout to infrastructures
and inhabited areas, to landslides and tsunamis.
Our activities also encompass a wide variety of formats,
such as the opening of our labs to guided visits, contributing
to national (e.g., the Italian “Week of the Scientific
Culture”, launched by the Ministry of Education and
Research) and international (e.g., the European “Night
of the Researchers”) events, editing educational videos,
creating multimedia tools also available on web. In museums
and academies, and in concomitance of expositions
and science festivals, we also organize exhibitions
with experiments, models and exhibits designed
to teaching and learning geophysics. Finally, we offer
guided visits to the control rooms run by our institute,
which ensures the round-the-clock volcanic and seismic
surveillance of the whole Italian territory.
Description:
Published
Description:
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Description:
5.9. Formazione e informazione
Description:
open
Keywords:
Earth Science Outreach
;
05. General::05.02. Data dissemination::05.02.99. General or miscellaneous
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
Oral presentation
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