Stage ENS-SSC@Etna : April 23 – May 1 2023

Interdisciplinary course around Mount Etna (Eastern Sicily)

The course is organised with the Scuola Superiore di Catania in the framework of the partnership established in May 2022 between the ENS and the SSC. It brings together ENS students and SSC students. It is also supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologie (INGV) with which student internships were initially set up in 2011 (see section Field trips of the volcano web page of ENS), by the University of Catania, the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), the Regional Park of Etna.

Click here to see photos of the course

• Monday 17 April – Saturday 22 April: preparation phase (without the students)
  • Monday 17 April
    • morning: Visio-conference with Giuseppe Angilella, Tjarda Roberts, Mary Guglielmino, Germana Ragusa
    • afternoon: at INGV-OE
  • Tuesday 18 April
    • morning: work with Francesco Privitera at SSC
    • afternoon: PB at Accademia Gioenia and at INGV
  • Wednesday 19 April
    • morning and afternoon: PB at SSC
  • Thursday 20 April
    • preparation work at SSC
    • lunch at SSC
    • afternoon: G. Puglisi, F. Privitera, P. Briole make reconnaissance for the excursion of April 24
  • Friday 21 April
    • morning and afternoon: work at SSC (evaluation of the change needed in the programme after the cancellation of Anca mission)
    • afternoon: arrival of Marie
    • evening: meeting with B. Behncke (preparation of the excursion of Friday 28)
  • Saturday 22 April
    • morning: PB reconnaissance of the tour in Catania planned for Thursday 27 April
    • afternoon: arrival of Tjarda, Maurine, Anselme, preparation at the SSC
  • Sunday 23 April
    • PB, Maurine, Anselme, Marie: reconnaissance of the access to Schiena dell’Asino (in prevision of the excursion of Tuesday 25)
• Sunday 23 April afternoon:
  • Castello Ursino (Marie, Anselme, Jeanne)
• Sunday 23 April evening:
  • 19:00-20:00 welcome meeting with the students of the SSC (those who will be there on Sunday 23)
  • 20:00-21:00 dinner at SSC
  • 21:00-21:30 briefing – preparation of the following day
  • 21:30 : the students of ENS go back to their B&Bs in the centre of Catania (20 to 30 mn walk)

• Monday 24 April: Catania – Nicolosi – Viagrande – San Gregorio – Aci Trezza – Catania
  • Direction of the excursion: Giuseppe Puglisi INGV-EO
  • Scientists from Catania:
    • Francesco Carnemolla UNICT
    • Alessandro Bonforte INGV-OE
  • Total number of participants: 16 (as on 05/21: 11 students ENS + 2 supervisors + Giuseppe Puglisi + Alessandro Bonforte + Francesco Carnemolla)
  • Logistics vehicles
    • Two cars of the INGV-OE (5 seats each)
    • One car of UNICT (5 seats)
    • One car of the mission (5 seats)
  • General Google-map of the excursion – download kml file
  • arrival of the students of ENS at 07:00 at the SSC
  • 07:15-07:45 breakfast at SSC
  • departure from Catania at 08:00 (vehicles of Univ. CT and INGV-OE)
  • Phase 1:
    • Scuola Superiore di Catania – Due Obelischi
    • Due Obelischi – Massa Annunziata
    • Massa Annunziata – Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Catania Sciara
    • Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Catania Sciara – Nicolosi
    • Nicolosi – The ancient Benedettini monastery of San Nicolo l’Arena (Nicolosi), now headquarters of the regional park of Etna
  • Phase 2: The ancient Benedettini monastery of San Nicolo l’Arena (Nicolosi), now headquarters of the regional park of Etna 10:00-11:30
  • Phase 3: Pedara – Trecastagni 11:30-12:30
  • Phase 4: lunch in front of the main church of Trecastagni 12:30-13:30
  • Phase 5: Volcano museum Viagrande 13:30-14:30
  • Phase 6: San Gregorio fault 14:30-16:00
  • Phase 7: Aci Trezza 16:00-17:00
  • Phase 8: Aci Castello 17:00-18:00
  • Phase 9: Way back to Catania 18:00-19:00
  • 20:00-21:00 dinner at SSC
  • 21:00-21:30 briefing – final preparation of the next day excursion

• Tuesday 25 April: Sunrise at Schiena dell’asino – Montagnola – Serra la Nave observatory – Nicolosi – Catania
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  • Direction of the excursion: Pierre Briole CNRS-ENS
  • Scientists from Catania:
    • Isabella Pagano INAG (afternoon at Serra la Nave)
    • Giuseppe Leto INAF (afternoon at Serra la Nave)
  • Total number of participants: 34 (as on 05/23: 11 students ENS + Zoé Dubois + Léa Guichard + 2 supervisors + 19 students from Catania)
  • Logistics vehicles: 8 cars
    • Pierre Briole, one car (5 seats)
    • Zoé Dubois, one car (5 seats)
    • Nino Greco, one car (5 seats)
    • Luciano Mandolfo, one car (5 seats)
    • Maria Carla Merlo, one car (5 seats)
    • Marcello Napoli, one car (5 seats)
    • Dario Caruso, one car (4 seats)
    • Pietro Campochiaro (5 seats)
  • General Google-map of the excursion – download kml file
  • departure from Catania at 03:20
  • Phase 1: by night: parking at 04:30 – 06:00 reaching Schiena dell’asino from the parking – sunrise at 06:08
  • Phase 2: walking up towards Montagnola and Cisternazza hole 07:00-10:00
  • Phase 3: back to the parking through the sandy slopes 10:00-11:00
  • Phase 4: picnic at Serra la Nave astronomical observatory (& visit of the observatory?) 11:00-15:00
  • Phase 5: back to Catania & rest before dinner 15:00-16:00
  • 20:00-21:00 dinner at the pizzeria Sazi e Sani

• Wednesday 26 April morning: Catania
  • Direction of the visit: Pierre Briole CNRS-ENS
  • Scientists from Catania:
    • Rossella Bruno
    • Stefano Branca & INGV-OE scientists
    • Giorgio de Guidi
    • Gian Pietro Giusso del Galdo
  • General Google-map of the excursion – download kml file (caution: not up to date)
  • 07:15-07:45 breakfast at SSC
  • 07:50 departure from SSC
  • 08:30-10:00 Museums of the University – corso Italia
  • 10:15-11:15 visit of INGV volcano monitoring centre
  • 11:30-12:45 Botanic Garden
  • 13:30-14:15 lunch at SSC
• Wednesday 26 April afternoon 14:30-18:30: workshop at the SSC
  • 14:30-15:10 (30 mn presentation + 10 mn discussion) Stefano Branca – INGV-OE – La rappresentazione delle eruzioni storiche dell’Etna dal XVI secolo alla moderna cartografia geologica
  • 15:10-15:50 (20 mn presentation + 20 mn discussion) Barbara Mancuso – UNICT – L’Etna vista dagli artisti: qualche raffigurazione in pittura e disegni dell’Etna tra Cinque e Seicento
  • 15:50-16:10 break
  • 16:10-16:50 (40 mn discussion) Rodolfo Brancato – UNINA – L’Olympieion di Siracusa – Discussion of the context of the visit and field work of Saturday 29 at the Temple of Olympian Zeus of Syracuse. R. Brancato will be available on-line. Important: the students must have seen in advance the video of the presentation made by Rodolfo Brancato on April 7.
  • 16:50-17:30 (30 mn presentation + 10 mn discussion) Marco Anzidei – INGV-Roma – Breve storia dall’antichità ad oggi delle coste che circondano la Sicilia
  • 17:30-18:10 (20 presentation + 20 mn discussion) Tjarda Roberts – CNRS-ENS – My life as a volcanologist
  • 18:10 – 18:30 break
  • 18:30-20:00 free
  • 20:00-20:45 dinner at SSC
  • 21:00-23:00 who is who of the students
    • 3 minutes pitch presentation by the 11 students of ENS and the 14 students of the SSC
    • total duration 2 hours (from 21:00 to 23:00)
    • in five clusters of 5 students, separated by 5 mn break
    • each student has 180 seconds and can present one to three (maximum) PPT slide(s)

• Thursday 27 April morning: Catania
  • Direction of the visit: Lucrezia Longhitano UNICT & Pierre Briole CNRS-ENS
  • Scientists from Catania:
    • Rita Angela Carbonaro (Biblioteche)
    • Francesco Privitera
    • Carmelo Monaco
  • General Google-map of the excursion – download kml file (caution: not up to date)
  • 07:15-07:45 breakfast at SSC
  • 08:00 departure from SSC
  • 08:20 – 08:50 Palazzo Università Via Etna
  • 09:00 – 10:10 Teatro greco-romano
  • 10:15 – 10:45 Via Crociferi (Chiesa di San Giuliano)
  • 10:50 – 12:00 Benedettini monastery (Chiostro di ponente, Giardino dei Novizi, …, fronte lavico 1669)
  • 12:00 – 12:45 Biblioteche riunite « Civica e A. Ursino Recupero »
  • 12:45 – 13:00 San Nicolo l’Arena church
  • 13:30-14:15 lunch
• Thursday 27 April afternoon: workshop at the SSC
  • 14:40-15:25 (25 mn presentation + 20 mn discussion) Boris Behncke – INGV-OE – Etna, il gran tour infinito » (new show, updated from Paris March 10, 2023)
  • 15:25-16:15 (25 mn presentation + 15 mn discussion) Salvo Gugliemino – INAF – Storia dell’astronomia a Catania e sull’Etna dalle fine del ottocento ad oggi 29 aprile
  • 16:15-16:30 break
  • 16:30-17:15 (25 mn presentation + 20 mn discussion) Lucrezia Longhitano – UNICT – Title to be determined
  • 17:15-17:45 (20 mn presentation + 10 mn discussion) Salvatore Giammano – INGV-OE –  The Salinette of Paterno and the Lake Naftia, story, myth and science ?
  • 17:45-18:50 (50 mn presentation + 15 mn discussion) Tjarda Roberts – CNRS-ENS- The Purple Air sensors, citizen science, towards a array ENS-SSC of environmental monitoring for education and science around Etna
• Thursday 27 April evening: Cineclub SSC-ENS
  • 21:30 Projection of the movie Nuovo Cinema Paradiso of Giuseppe Tornatore 1988 (in italian with english subtitles) – duration 173 mn
  • 00:30-01:00 Discussion around the movie coordinated by the students of the SSC

• Friday 28 April: « In the footsteps of the work of Fouqué and Silvestri in 1865 » (see details in the catalog made by Marvin Ozturk-Bazin of the SGF-ENS Fouqué Silvestri exposition) : Catania – Rif. Citelli – Serra Cozzo – Craters Sartorius – Citelli – Ripe della Naca – San Alfio – Giarre – Catania
  • Direction of the excursion: Boris Behncke INGV-OE
  • Scientists from Catania:
    • Salvatore Consoli INGV-OE
  • Total number of participants: 21 (as on 05/18: 11 students ENS + 5 supervisors + 5 students from Catania)
  • Logistics vehicles: 5 cars needed
    • 2 cars from INGV-EO
    • 1 car from the mission
    • at least one car from student of Catania
    • ?
  • General Google-map of the excursion – download kml file
  • participants and vehicles to be defined
  • 07:00-07:30 breakfast at SSC
  • 07:45 meeting at the entrance of SSC before departure
  • Catania – Zafferana – Milo 08:00-09:00
  • stop in the square of Milo 09:00
  • Milo – Rifugio Citelli 09:30-10:00
  • Rifugio Citelli – Grotta di Serracozzo 10:00-11:00
  • lunch on the north rim of Valle del Bove 12:30-13:30
  • Serracozzo – Monti Sartorius 13:30-15:00
  • Work around Monti Sartorius 15:00 – 17:00
  • Monti Sartorius – Rifugio Citelli 17:00 – 17:45
  • Rifugio Citelli – Catania 17:45 – 19:15

• Saturday 29 April morning: Archaeological park
  • Direction of the excursion: Jeanne Gil and Anselme Dojat
  • Total number of participants: 14 (10 students ENS, 2 teachers ENS, Zoé Dubois, F. Carnemolla)
  • Logistics vehicles:
    • 1 car of the mission
    • personal car of Francesco Carnemolla
    • personal car of Zoé Dubois
  • Stop 1:
  • Stop 2: the Greek theater of Syracuse
  • Stop 3: the Roman amphitheater of Syracuse
• Saturday 29 April 13:00-16:00: Temple of Olympian Zeus
  • Direction of the excursion: Rodolfo Brancato – UNINA and Martina Forzese – UNICT
  • Total number of participants: more than 16 (10 students ENS, 2 teachers ENS, Zoé Dubois, F. Carnemolla, R. Brancato, M. Forzese, V. , and various other scientists from UNINA)
  • Measurement of one reference point (TZS0) and 9 GNSS anchor points on the site (click here to see in Google Maps the location of the points)
    • Rinex file of the reference point TZS0 (format Hatanaka) and SCRS-PPP solution report
    • Rinex file of the observations made by Francesco Carnemolla (four ground control points) and SCRS-PPP solution report
    • Rinex file of the observations made by Jeanne Gil (north-south profiles followed by three ground control points) assisted by Marie Sondard and Anselme Dojat, and SCRS-PPP solution report
    • Rinex file of the observations made by Ilyas Jaah (east-west profiles followed by two ground control points) assisted by Timothé Lin and Mélanie Sturmel, and SCRS-PPP solution report
  • Receivers used during the 2023 course ENS-SSC@Etna2023
    • TPSHIPER_V Q09FHIBNOQW 1143-11554
    • TPS HIPER_SR O1TI23GN1A2 1212-11851 U1 Francesco-Carnemolla
      • Time UT / Ground control point n° / East / North / Up in UTM33 – ITRF2020
      • 12:00 – 12:04 1G 522911.7323 4100648.4815 56.8998
      • 12:06 – 12:11 2G 522978.3501 4100618.6682 55.6860
      • 12:13 – 12:20 5R 522955.7330 4100598.2107 55.5649
      • 12:24 – 12:43 3G 522938.9408 4100564.6161 55.8040
    • TPS HIPER_SR O036K6YTL38 1212-12330 C1 Jeanne-Gil
      • 12:12 – 12:21 4R 522874.8639 4100662.4982 57.5373
      • 12:22 – 12:31 2R 522824.2978 4100642.2105 56.2987
      • 12:33 – 12:43 4G 522874.5272 4100559.6079 56.7704
    • TPS HIPER_SR O03D2PXJIMC 1212-12332 C2 Ilyas Jaah
      • 12:17 – 12:25 3R 522846.3286 4100693.1181 55.6962
      • 12:26 – 12:42 1R 522809.6522 4100585.7080 56.2244
  • Operation of a drone DJI Mavic Duo Mini on the site (click here to see a 45s clip showing the recuperation of the drone by Martina at the end of a survey), flight at 30m elevation over ground, surface to be mapped around 30.000 square meter, expected duration of the survey less than two hours, expected number of single images???, expected total size of the date set xxxGbytes
• Saturday 29 april afternoon (16:30 to around 18:30): Syracuse Ortigia
  • Direction of the activity: Pierre Briole -CNRS-ENS & Francesco Carnemolla – UNICT
• Sunday 30 April: Taormina (except Pierre Briole, Tjarda Roberts, Maurine Prédhomme)
  • Direction of the visit: The students themseves
  • Total number of participants: 10 (9 students ENS, 1 Zoé Dubois)
  • Evening: departure of four students (Lucie, Timothé, Ilyas, Mélanie)

• Monday 1 May:
  • Departure of six students (Marie, Matthias, Jeanne, Anselme, Alexandra, Maurine) & Tjarda Roberts
• Tuesday 2 – Friday 5 May: feedback phase (without the students)
  • Arrival of Simon Bufféral at 14:30 on May 2
  • Departure of P. Briole on Friday 5 May 14:20 (Easyjet EJU 4570)

Supporting material

• Workshop (D)Ecrire l’Etna (10 march 2023)
  • Programme on the Translitterae web portal
  • Video of the presentations
• Catalog of the exposition « Silvestri-Fouqué. Une collaboration scientifique et une amitié nées en 1865 sur les pentes de l’Etna »
• Seminar of Rodolfo Brancato (7 april 2023) on « Mapping Ancient Sicily. Archaeological research and digital integration of heritage data for the ancient topography of Eastern Sicily » in the seminars of Geoarchaeology and historical geography (https://www.archeo.ens.fr/geographie-historique-et-geo-archeologie.html) – Click here to watch the video.

People involved

Supervision – administration

• Daniele Malfitana – daniele.malfitana@unict.it
• Germana Ragusa – germana.ragusa@unict.it
• Maria Guglielmino – maria.guglielmino@unict.it
• Bice Immè – bice.imme@unict.it

Supervision – didactics

• Giuseppe Angilella SSC-UNICT – giuseppe.angilella@ct.infn.it
• Pierre Briole CNRS-ENS – briole@ens.fr
• Francesco Carnemolla UNICT – francesco.carnemolla@unict.it
• Anca Dan CNRS-ENS – anca-cristina.dan@ens.fr
• Adriana Di Stefano SSC-UNICT – adistefano@lex.unict.it
• Giuseppe Puglisi INGV-OE – giuseppe.puglisi@ingv.it
• Tjarda Roberts CNRS-ENS – tjarda.roberts@lmd.ipsl.fr

Local scientists from involved

• Marco Anzidei INGV-Roma – marco.anzidei@ingv.it – 26 April – cancelled but provided documents
• Boris Behncke INGV-OE – boris.behncke@ingv.it – 27 April afternoon and 28 April
• Alessandro Bonforte INGV-OE – alessandro.bonforte@ingv.it – 24 April
• Stefano Branca INGV-OE – stefano.branca@ingv.it – 26 April afternoon
• Rosselle Bruno – rosbruno@unict.it – 26 April morning and 27 April morning
• Salvatore Caffo Ente Parco Etna – salvatorecaffo@tiscali.it – 24 April morning
• Martina Forzese – UNICT – martina.forzese@gmail.com – 29 April afternoon
• Gian Pietro Giusso del Galdo – UNICT – giangius@unict.it – 26 April morning
• Salvatore Giammanco – INGV-OE – salvatore.giammanco@ingv.it – 27 April afternoon
• Salvatore Guglielmino – INAF – salvatore.guglielmino@inaf.it – 27 April afternoon
• Giuseppe Leto INAF – giuseppe.leto@inaf.it – 25 April afternoon
• Lucrezia Longhitano – UNICT – lucrezialonghitano@gmail.com – 27 April morning and afternoon
• Barbara Mancuso UNICT – b.mancuso@unict.it – 26 April afternoon – provided documents
• Carmelo Monaco UNICT – cmonaco@unict.it – 27 April morning and afternoon
• Isabella Pagano INAF – isabella.pagano@inaf.it – 25 April afternoon
• Francesco Privitera – franc.privitera@gmail.com – 27 April morning
• Rodolfo Brancato – Univ Federico II Napoli – rodolfo.brancato@unina.it – 29 April afternoon

Students from ENS involved

• Lucie Boucher – Géosciences – Licence 3 – lucie.boucher@ens.psl.eu
• Matthias Delmetz – Géosciences – Licence 3 – matthias.delmetz@ens.psl.eu
• Geneviève de Montalembert – Sciences de l’Antiquité – master 2- genevieve.de.montalembert@ens.psl.eu
• Anselme Dojat – Littératures et langage (auparavant Histoire) – Master 2 – anselme.dojat@ens.psl.eu
• Jeanne Gil – Sciences de l’Antiquité – Master 2 – jeanne.gil@ens.psl.eu
• Ilyas Jaah – Géosciences – Licence 3 – ilyas.jaah@ens.psl.eu
• Timothé Lin – Géosciences – Licence 3 – timothe.lin@ens.psl.eu
• Alexandra Moni – Littératures et langage – Licence 3 – alexandra.moni@ens.psl.eu
• Maurine Prédhomme – Sciences de l’Antiquité – Master 1 – maurine.predhomme@ens.psl.eu
• Marie Sondard – Philosophie – Semestre d’échange avec la Freie Universität de Berlin (Wintersemester) – marie.sondard@ens.psl.eu
• Mélanie Sturmel – Littératures et langage – Licence 3 – melanie.sturmel@ens.psl.eu

Students from SSC participating to the excursion of April 25 and other activities (see also https://archivio.ssc.unict.it/it/chi-sono-gli-allievi)

• Leonardo Alma – Matematica – Anno 1 – leoalma2004@gmail.com
• Pietro Campochiaro – Matematica – Anno 4 – campochiaropietro.18@gmail.com
• Dario Caruso – Medicina e chirurgia – Anno 5 – dario.caruso.99@gmail.com
• Carlotta Cascino – Filosofia – Anno 3 – carlotta.cascino@libero.it
• Nicoletta Cassitella – Lettere – Anno 1 – nicolettacassitella@gmail.com
• Miryam Catalano – Beni Culturali – Anno 2 – mirycatalano@gmail.com – pitch
• Miryea Cuccia – Lingue e culture europee euroamericane ed orientali – Anno 2 – miryeacuccia@gmail.com
• Bruno D’Arrigo – Lettere – Anno 1 – bruno.darrigo09@gmail.com
• Andrea Gibilaro – Fisica – Anno 3 – gibilaroandrea@gmail.com – ?
• Francesca Greco – Biotecnologie – Anno 2 – francescaagrecoo20@gmail.com
• Nino Greco – Fisica – Anno 3 – ninogrecojunior@gmail.com – also escursion of April 28 – pitch
• Beatrice Magrì – Lettere – Anno 1 – bicemagri@gmail.com
• Luciano Mandolfo – Lettere – Anno 1 – luciano.mandolfo2003@gmail.com
• Maria Carla Merlo – Storia e cultura dei Paesi mediterranei – Anno 5 – mariacarla.merlo.mcm@gmail.com
• Marcello Napoli – Beni culturali – Anno 1 – marcellonapoli@hotmail.com
• Lorenzo Naselli – Fisica – Anno 1 – lorynas04@gmail.com
• Francesco Orlando –
• Vittorio Turco – Fisica – Anno 2
• Veronica Viero – Storia, politica e relazioni internazionali – Anno 2 – veronicaviero6@gmail.com
• Marianna Vinciguerra – Lettere – Anno 1 – mariannavinciguerra04@gmail.com

Other students from ENS-PSL involved partly

• Zoé Dubois – Géosciences – Master 1 – zoe.dubois@ens.psl.eu – excursion of April 25, April 29
• Léa Guichard – Sciences pour un monde durable PSL – Licence 3 – lea.guichard@psl.eu – escursion of April 25, scientifc afternoons of April 26 and 27