• An Arctic natural oil seep investigated from space to the seafloor 

      Panieri, Giuliana; Argentino, Claudio; Ramalho, Sofia P.; Vulcano, Francesca; Savini, Alessandra; Fallati, Luca; Brekke, Trond; Galimberti, Giulia; Riva, Federica; Balsa, João; Eilertsen, Mari Heggernes; Stokke, Runar; Steen, Ida Helene; Sahy, Diana; Kalenitchenko, Dimitri Stanislas Desire; Bünz, Stefan; Mattingsdal, Rune (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-19)
      Due to climate change, decreasing ice cover and increasing industrial activities, Arctic marine ecosystems are expected to face higher levels of anthropogenic stress. To sustain healthy and productive ocean ecosystems, it is imperative to build baseline data to assess future changes. Herein, a natural oil seep site offshore western Svalbard (Prins Karls Forland, PKF, 80–100 m water depth), discovered ...
    • Biogeochemistry and timing of methane-derived carbonate formation at Leirdjupet fault complex, SW Barents sea 

      Argentino, Claudio; Lee, Amicia; Fallati, Luca; Sahy, Diana; Birgel, Daniel; Peckmann, Jörn; Bünz, Stefan; Panieri, Giuliana (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-25)
      The origin of modern seafloor methane emissions in the Barents Sea is tightly connected to the glacio-tectonic and oceanographic transformations following the last ice age. Those regional events induced geological structure re-activation and destabilization of gas hydrate reservoirs over large areas of the European continental margins, sustaining widespread fluid plumbing systems. Despite the ...
    • Characterizing Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano (Barents Sea) cold seep systems by combining ROV-based acoustic data and underwater photogrammetry 

      Fallati, Luca; Panieri, Giuliana; Savini, Alessandra; Varzi, Andrea Giulia; Argentino, Claudio; Bünz, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-31)
      Cold-seep systems have a unique geo-ecological significance in the deep-sea environment. They impact the variability of present-day submarine sedimentary environments, affecting the evolution of the landscape over time and creating a variety of submarine landforms, one of which is Mud Volcanoes (MVs). MVs are submarine landforms form due extrusion of mud, fluids, and gas, mainly methane, from deeper ...
    • How Academics and the Public Experienced Immersive Virtual Reality for Geo-Education 

      Bonali, Fabio L.; Russo, Elena; Vitello, Fabio; Antoniou, Varvara; Marchese, Fabio; Fallati, Luca; Bracchi, Valentina; Corti, Noemi; Savini, Alessandra; Whitworth, Malcom; Drymoni, Kyriaki; Mariotto, Federico Pasquaré; Nomikou, Paraskevi V.; Sciacca, Eva; Bressan, Sofia; Falsaperla, Susanna; Reitano, Danilo; van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin; Krokos, Mel; Panieri, Giuliana; Stiller-Reeve, Matthew Alexander; Vizzari, Giuseppe; Becciani, Ugo; Tibaldi, Alessandro (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-24)
      Immersive virtual reality can potentially open up interesting geological sites to students, academics and others who may not have had the opportunity to visit such sites previously. We study how users perceive the usefulness of an immersive virtual reality approach applied to Earth Sciences teaching and communication. During nine immersive virtual reality-based events held in 2018 and 2019 in ...