Preface
On 25 May 2023, the Roma 1 Section of INGV organized the "Roma 1 Daily Poster Exhibition", an 'internal' meeting that had the aim of encouraging and facilitating the exchange of information, the mutual learning of the main scientific results, the multidisciplinarity, or exchange of the ideas on which each of us is working, stimulate opportunities for collaboration between colleagues, between sections, getting to know each other, "being together".
A day dedicated to a scientific discussion between colleagues is an important event and should be considered a usual event within a research institution. We also believe that the "Roma 1 Daily Poster Exhibition" has taken on extraordinary value, especially in a slow recovery of ordinary working life following the closure of workplaces imposed by the lockdown.
In fact, during the pandemic, research certainly did not stop. The work of researchers and technologists has had, in this complex moment, an advantage: being traditionally based on the principle of autonomy, flexibility and on a form of subjective self-organization that has objectively trained them to experiment and implement with a certain elasticity, new ways of operating with a capacity for adaptation compared (in this specific phase) to such a drastic change in the working context.
Research has thus adapted, transformed and restructured. We must grasp the positive aspects of all this. Some communication and sharing technologies have become a fundamental work tool: meetings have become 'meets', virtual rooms have emerged, all while respecting rigorous physical distancing. But, although the benefits of conferences which have become standard practice in mixed mode are now also recognized, i.e., exploiting technology for science experienced in person and remotely, we wanted to try, for such a local event, to come back to meet again, to tell our experience, to enjoy direct dialogue, to recover, in a certain sense, human contact.
The Rome 1 Section presented an excellent response to the call, and 50 works were presented and divided into nine sessions (see the Program):
• Environmental Science, Georesources and Geochemistry.
• Databases and Infrastructures.
• Magnetism, Palaeomagnetism, Rock Physics and Geomaterials.
• Natural Hazards.
• Psychosocial Research and Risk Communication.
• Site Effects.
• Engineering Seismology and Seismology.
• Tectonics and Structural Geology.
• Scientific Outreach.
We present here 21 abstract representatives of the different sessions.
The day was worthwhile and achieved the objective of sharing activities and themes with a multidisciplinary and transversal approach: presenting the work of many people, making it known, creating collaborations and enhancing it, leaving our "rooms".
To conclude, we link here to a short video demonstrating how productive this day was and how beautiful it was.
Published: 2024-07-18