Orario di ricevimento: Lunedi' dalle ore 15 alle ore 17.
Orlando Vaselli
Professore Associato di Geochimica e Vulcanologia c/o Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra (Università di Firenze).
Dopo la laurea, dal 1989 al 1996 ha usufruito di varie borse di studio erogate dal MIUR, dal CNR, dall’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Royal Society di Londra.
Nel 1997 è ricercatore e dal Novembre 2001 è professore associato nel settore disciplinare GEO/08 (Geochimica e Vulcanologia).
Dal 2002 è associato al CNR-IGG (Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse) e dal 2015 è Incaricato di Ricerca del CNR-IGG.
Dal 2003 al 2014 è stato co-chief editor della rivista Acta Vulcanologia.
Nel 2002, 2003 e 2006 ha organizzato scuole di geotermia in Yemen, Tunisia e Bulgaria.
Nel 2002 e 2003 è stato consulente scientifico per le UN per la crisi vulcanica del Nyiragongo (RDC) e nel 2005 è stato responsabile per le UN di Vulcanologia Ambientale del Vulcano Nyiragongo (RDC).
Dal 1998 è responsabile di progetti di ricerca finanziati da: CNR, MAECI, Università di Firenze, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Città dell’Energia Spagnola, CIEMAT, Nazioni Unite, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, oltre a convenzioni stipulate con Enti locali. Responsabile di progetti per conto dell’Agenzia di Protezione Ambientale della Toscana (ARPAT).
Direttore del Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra di Firenze dal 2008 al 2012.
Dal 2020 al 2024 Presidente della Società Italiana di Geochimica. Incarico rinnovato sino al 31 Dicembre 2027.
Ha pubblicato più di 250 lavori su riviste internazionali e nazionali. Fa parte del Collegio dei Docenti del Dottorato in Earth and Planetary Sciences (Firenze).
Copre i corsi di Geochimica con Laboratorio (LT in Scienze Geologiche) e di Rischio Vulcanico e Geotermia (LM in Scienze e Tecnologie Geologiche) e Indagini isotopiche applicate all’Antropologia (LM in Scienze della Natura e dell’Uomo).
Fa parte dell'editorial board di numerose riviste internazionali. Si occupa di geochimica dei fluidi in ambiente vulcanico, geotermico e in aree ad elevata antropizzazione
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Legenda
Present position: Associate Professor of Geochemistry and Volcanology – Former Head of the Department of Earth Sciences (2008-2012).
Academic and professional background
April 1987 - January 1989: Research in the Geochemistry Laboratory of Prof. N. Coradossi (University of Florence), at the Dept. of Earth Sciences.
February 1989 – February 1990: Grant from the Italian Ministry of Education for a stage at the Dept. of Geochemistry and Petrology, ELTE University in Budapest, Hungary, for a "Geochemical and petrological study of the ultramafic xenoliths entrained in the Pleistocene alkali basalts from the volcanic apparatus of Sitke (Little Hungarian Plain)". Supervisor: Prof. Csaba Szabó.
February 1990: Technical Scientific Operator at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, responsible for the Atomic Absorption and Trace Element laboratories.
April 1991 – October 1991: awarded a grant from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Royal Society of London for a stage at the Department of Geological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, to study "The ultramafic xenoliths from the Pleistocene volcanic products of the Persani Mts. (Eastern Transylvania, Romania): geochemical isotope and petrological investigations". Supervisor: Dr. Hilary Downes.
July 1993 – November 1993: awarded a grant from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Royal Society of London for a stage at the Department of Geological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, to conduct research on "The ultramafic xenoliths from Bulgaria and Kapfenstein (Austria)". Supervisor: Dr. Hilary Downes.
January 1995 onward: Scientific Collaborator of the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (National Research Council of Italy) in its Florence Section, conducting research in three different areas headed by Dr. A. Minissale, Prof. L. Francalanci and Prof. M. Martini.
1995: Invited by Prof. F. Innocenti (University of Pisa) and Prof. P. Manetti (University of Florence) to edit, together with Dr. Hilary Downes (University of London), two special issues of the journal Acta Vulcanologica entitled: "Neogene and Related Magmatism in the Carpatho-Pannonian Region" and "Tertiary Magmatism in the Dinarides".
February – March 1996: awarded a fellowship grant from CNR for a short-term at the Department of Geological Sciences, Birkbeck College (University of London), where he carried out research on "The ultramafic xenoliths from the Nográd-Gömör (southern Slovakia-northern Hungary) and Graz Basin (Austria)". Supervisor: Dr. Hilary Downes.
September 2000: co-organiser, along with Prof. G. Ottonello and Dr. Antonella Buccianti, of the School of Fluid Geochemistry at Arezzo, Italy, under the auspices of the Italian Society of Geochemistry.
January-February 2002: consultant for the United Nations during the crisis of Nyiragongo volcano, Democratic Republic of Congo. In the same context he also acted as Rotating Volcanologist for the UN in September 2002.
January 2005: Chief Editor with Bruno Capaccioni of the journal Acta Vulcanologica
April 2005: Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the Volcanic Risk Reduction Programme in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Head of the Team studying the environmental impact of Nyiragongo Volcano.
November 2008: Head of the Department of Earth Sciences of Florence (Italy)
September 2012: Organizer of the School of Fluid Geochemistry in Abbadia San Salvatore (Italy).
September 2015: Co-organizer of the Petrological-Volcanological-Mineralogical-Geochemical congress at Florence (Italy).
December 2016: Member of the scientific committee of the Italian Geochemical Society
September 2016: Co-organizer of the School of CAMGEO at Abbadia San Salvatore (Italy).
January 2020-2027: President of the Italian Society of Geochemistry.
He is/was Head of the following research projects:
CNR-Bilateral Project: "Geochemistry and isotope geochemistry of fluids in the south-east Rift Zone of Big Island, Hawai'i, USA".
CNR-Bilateral Project: "Collisional (post-collisional) magmatism in Bulgaria: geochemical and petrological investigations for defining crustal mantle sources".
Indian-Italian Ministries of Foreign Affairs: "Geothermal potential in the Indian Peninsula (co-Head).
CNR Project: "Geochemistry of fluid phases at Arenal, Poas and Irazu volcanoes".
Florence University Project: “13C/12C in methane and 15N/14N in N2 isotopic ratios in gas phases from volcanic and geothermal environment".
CNR Project: "A pilot basin for monitoring and study of environment quality in the Alpine arc. Geochemistry as investigation tool".
Florence University Project: "The geothermal systems in Northern India".
CNR-India Bilateral Project: “Barren Island (Andaman-Nicobar Island, Indian Ocean), a remote volcanic island: volcanological, geochemical and petrological study.
CNR-Agency 2000: “The fluid geochemistry of the Pannonian-Balkan Region” Italian Space Agency (ASI): “Geochemical monitoring of fumarolic gases by infra-red tomographic systems: applications to explosive volcanism and comparison with traditional methods”.
United Nations: “The January 2002 Nyiragongo eruption (Democratic Republic of Congo): inland gas geochemistry”
United Nations: “The geochemistry of Lake Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo) waters and gases”.
INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology): “The gas emissions of Tuscany”.
Department of Civil Defence (Tuscany Region): “CO2 hazard in the Castiglione d’Orcia area”
Municipality of Arezzo: “The geochemical atlas of running and underground waters in the Arezzo Municipality.
Bilateral Joint Project between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Argentina and Italia: “Geochemical investigation of the fumarolic and therma water discharges at copahue Volcano (Argentina): evaluation of the environmental impact byh the volcanic fluids on the water resources and on the atmosphere”
Integrated project Spain/Italy: “Nitrate pollution in groundwaters: the environmental isotopes as anthropogenic and natural “tracer”
Responsible of the Department of Earth Sciences of Florence for the scientific agreement with the Department of Geological Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Responsible of the Department of Earth Sciences of Florence for the scientific agreement with the Department of Geological Sciences of the University of Antofagasta (Chile)
Florence University Project: – “Evaluation of the geothermal potential in Taiwan”.
Research project financed by the Municipality of Arezzo on the Atlas of the ground and surficial waters: stable isotopes and heavy metals.
Research project financed by the Mountain Community for the realization of a geo-tourist itinerary between Campiglia d’Orcia e Bagni San Filippo (Castiglione d’Orcia, Siena);
Bilateral international project funded by the City of the Energy (Ponferrada, Spain) for the geochemical modelling and the monitoring of geosites for the geosequestration of CO2.
Bilateral international project with CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) on the geochemical monitoring of pre- during- and post-injection of CO2 in the Rio Guadalentin Valley (Murcia, Spain).
Responsible of the project: Distribution of mercury in the Mt. Amiata volcanic region (Tuscany, Italy).
Responsible of the Agreement between Quadrifoglio Ltd. and the Department of Earth Sciences of Florence for the monitoring of the diffuse gases from municipal waste disposal landfills.
Responsible of the Agreement between the municipality of Abbadia San Salvatore (Siena) and the Department of Earth Sciences of Florence for the monitoring of Hg in the former mining area of Abbadia.
Responsible of the CNR-IGG project titled: Evaluation of the geothermal potential in the Murlo area (Siena, central Italy).
Responsible of the CNR-IGG project titled: Evaluation of the geothermal potential in the Montorio area (Siena, central Italy).
Responsible of a 2-years INGV project for Geochemistry Precursors in Active Volcanic systems.
Responsible of a DECADE project financed by the Carnegie Institution about the degassing system of Copahue volcano (Argentina-Chile).
Responsible of a 2+2 years bilateral CNR-MoST titled: Geochemical tracers and indicators for the evaluation of geothermal resources.
Responsible of several projects with private companies for water monitoring purposes and quality of gases applied to food industry.
Teaching activity
May 1997 - October 2001: he was appointed Lecturer in Geochemistry and Volcanology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence.
May 1997: Lecturer in applied geochemistry for geology undergraduates and geochemistry for undergraduates in natural sciences. He also teaches courses in geochemistry and volcanology.
November 2001: Associate Professor in Geochemistry and Volcanology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence.
December 2002: Lecturer atthe course on “Geochemical Methods in Geothermal Exploration”, organised by the CNR-IGG International School of Geothermics and sponsored by UNESCO and held in Sana’a, Yemen, 11 – 20 December 2002.
December 2003: Lecturer atthe course on “Geothermal exploration: geochemical methods”, organised by the CNR-IGG International School of Geothermics and sponsored by UNESCO and held in Sfax, Tunisia, 15 – 21 December 2003.
February 2006: Lecturer atthe course on “Geochemical research in geothermal areas, organised by the CNR-IGG International School of Geothermics and sponsored by UNESCO and held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 21-25 February, 2006.
October 2006-2011: Lecturer in: Applied Geochemistry, Volcanology, Geochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, Geochemical Cycles, Laboratory of Geomaterials, Isotope Geology for geology and natural sciences undergraduates.
Current teaching courses: Geochemistry, Volcanic Hazard, Geothermics.
Scientific interests
His main topics of interest are analytical methods in geochemistry and their applications; geochemistry and mineralogy of the Messinian sedimentary rocks in the Mediterranean region; mineralogy and geochemistry of the K-T boundary in the stratigraphic sequence of the Barranco del Gredero (Caravaca, Spain); mineralogy and geochemistry of the ophiolitic soils and related plants in Tuscany; geochemistry and mineral chemistry of the amazonite artifacts from archeological sites in the Middle East; geochemistry of thermal and volcanic systems; geochemistry and petrology of the ultramafic xenoliths from the Carpatho-Pannonian region. In 1999, as a result of his scientific activity in this area, he received the EUROPROBE-PANCARDI award.
Since 1998 he has studied precursors of eruptive mechanisms and volcanic events. This activity has involved sampling fumarolic gases and thermal water springs from several active volcanoes, including Vulcano Island, Phlegrean Fields and Stromboli (Italy), Momotombo, Concepcion, Cerro Negro and Masaya (Nicaragua), Galeras, Puracé, Cumbal, Azufral and Cerro Negro (Colombia), Furnas (S. Miguel, Azores Islands), Arenal, Rincon, Poas, Irazu, Turrialba (Costa Rica), Kilauea, Manua Loa (Hawaii, USA), El Chichon (Mexico), Isbil and Al Isi (Yemen), Nyiragongo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Copahue (Argentina), Lake Nyos.
He is head of several projects sponsored by government agencies related to fluid geochemistry in geothermal, volcanic and anthropized areas.
He was or is a member of the Italian Society of Geochemistry, EUROPROBE (PANCARDI), Italian Association of Volcanology, IAVCEI, EAG.
He is President of the Italian Society of Geochemistry.
He has published more than 200 papers in international (see below) and national journals and participation in national and international congresses.
He acts as reviewer for top-quality journals such as J. Geophys. Res., Chem. Geol., Appl. Geochem., Ophiolites, Sci. Tot. Environ., Geoderma, Eur. J. Min., J. Geochem. Expl., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., Environ. Poll., Environ. Res. and so forth.
He is in the editorial board of the Italian Journal of Geosciences, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, Processes, Geofluids, Frontiers.
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Since 1998 he has studied precursors of eruptive mechanisms and volcanic events. This activity has involved sampling fumarolic gases and thermal water springs from several active volcanoes, including Vulcano Island, Phlegrean Fields and Stromboli (Italy), Momotombo, Concepcion, Cerro Negro and Masaya (Nicaragua), Galeras, Puracé, Cumbal, Azufral and Cerro Negro (Colombia), Furnas (S. Miguel, Azores Islands), Arenal, Rincon, Poas, Irazu, Turrialba (Costa Rica), Kilauea, Manua Loa (Hawaii, USA), El Chichon (Mexico), Isbil and Al Isi (Yemen), Nyiragongo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Copahue (Argentina), Lake Nyos (Cameroon).
He is or was the P.I. of several projects sponsored by government agencies related to fluid geochemistry in geothermal, volcanic and anthropized areas. He was or is a member of the Italian Society of Geochemistry, EUROPROBE (PANCARDI), Italian Association of Volcanology, IAVCEI, EAG, Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP), Italian Association of Volcanology (AIV), Itallan Society of Geology. He is President of the Italian Society of Geochemistry.