Congratulations
Silvia Peppoloni!
Silvia is in charge as a new Councillor of the IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences for 2018-2022.
If you want to know more about Silvia, look at her profile published in Episodes (the journal of the IUGS): http://www.episodes.org/journal/download_pdf.php?doi=10.18814/epiiugs/2018/v41i4/006
Some sentences from the Silvia's profile:
"Ever since I was a child, the grandeur of geological phenomena has fascinated me. For hours I used to listen astonished to my grandfather telling me stories about the Vesuvius Volcano: he was from Naples and had personally experienced the destruction of the last eruption in 1944. I remember perfectly the fear and wonder I was feeling while he talked me, the sense of impotence and precariousness that, in my imagination, the population must have felt; that perception of living in a “dancing land”, as my grandfather defined Italy. Perceiving that the Earth is a “living” planet and the strength of its processes is that generates similar responses in every living being: that’s where my love for geology comes from......."
(download Silvia's profile at: http://www.episodes.org/journal/download_pdf.php?doi=10.18814/epiiugs/2018/v41i4/006)
Silvia's profile can be downloaded also at:
http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/5195a5_7a2252617a064315810a1f970eb6350d.pdf
IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences:
http://www.iugs.org
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