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Democratic Republic of Congo - GeoRes4Dev Project 2024

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Created: Wednesday, 09 October 2024 14:09
Published: Wednesday, 09 October 2024 14:09
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The Belgian writer David Van Reybrouck, when he first saw the gigantic estuary of the Congo River, starting point of colonizers and missionaries, whose powerful jet of debris, earth and trees transforms the ocean into a murky soup for hundreds of kilometers, immediately associated this image with a person who had cut his wrists and held them under water, but forever.

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Again in Iceland for the Hraunrásir project

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Created: Tuesday, 23 May 2023 10:24
Published: Tuesday, 23 May 2023 10:24
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The team La Venta is about to embark on a new expedition to Iceland. For the fourth time, we are going back to Fagradalsfjall volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula
In November 2022 our president Francesco Sauro was awarded with a National Geographic Society Grant in support of the "Hraunrásir" project to study the mineralogy and biology of newly formed lava tubes. We return to the volcano two years after the eruptive phase, with the most complex endeavour of this project.

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Contact cavities and the future of glaciers… a Polaroid from October 2022

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Created: Monday, 05 December 2022 08:05
Published: Monday, 05 December 2022 08:05
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The October 2022 expedition concluded the monitoring of some contact caves on the Aletsch and Gorner glaciers, both located in the Swiss canton of Valais. The collection of data and topographic surveys is linked to a study organized and carried out by the "Inside the Glaciers" team, already launched last year through the project called "Northen Side of the Alps 2021". The La Venta Association always remains at the forefront in active support of such research.

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