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Rosalda Punturo

Associate Professor of [GEO/07]
Membership Section: Earth Sicnce section
Contacts

Office: palazzo Ramondetta (sezione Scienze della Terra), 2° piano
Email: rosalda.punturo@unict.it
Phone: 0954783757
Web Site: www.dipbiogeo.unict.it/it/content/il-dipartimento

Office Hours
Friday from 10:00 to 12:00 Tutoring can be held either in remote and in attendance modalities

Keywords

Petrography, Petrophysics, asbestos minerals, environmental occurrences, natural geomaterials, circular economy.

VERSIONE ITALIANASTUDIUMAREA RISERVATA

I am associate professor in Petrography and Petrology, member of the research group "Meigepeg" (Metamorphic and Igneous Petrology Group) at UNICT. We are involved in many projects concerning research topics mainly focused on crystalline basements, including sedimentary rocks. My expertise focuses on the petrophysical properties of minerals and rocks and on the environmental and human health aspects related to asbestos and other potentially hazardous geomaterials. I also deal with the valorisation of natural geomaterials, with a view to the circular economy. I am also scientific responsible for the agreements between the Department, the Sicilian Agency for the Protection of the Environment (ARPA) and Elettra Sincrotrone (Trieste) and ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute).

I am responsible for the sample preparation and analytical chemistry laboratory at the Department of Biological, Geological, Environmental Sciences. I was a member of the board of directors of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP) and of the NAtional Group of Petrography (GNP).

In my opinion, society must benefit from the results of research carried out with public money; to facilitate this, the population must be informed of what we do in universities and therefore we academics must do our utmost to achieve this.

Selected publications (2021-2023)

1) Rizzo, G., Buccione, R., Dichicco, M., Punturo, R., Mongelli, G. Petrography, Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Serpentinite Rocks Exploited in the Ophiolite Units at the Calabria-Basilicata Boundary, Southern Apennine (Italy) (2023) Fibers, 11 (10),:10.3390/fib11100081

2) Punturo, R., Visalli, R., Cirrincione, R. A Review of the Mineralogy, Petrography, and Geochemistry of Serpentinite from Calabria Regions (Southern Italy): Problem or Georesource? (2023) Minerals, 13 (9), art. no. 1132 DOI: 10.3390/min13091132

3) Punturo, R., Indelicato, V., Lanzafame, G., Maniscalco, R., Fazio, E., Bloise, A., Muschella, L., Cirrincione, R. Petrographic, microstructural and petrophysical study of asphaltic limestone employed in the Late Baroque towns of the Val di Noto UNESCO site (south-eastern Sicily) (2023) Construction and Building Materials, 371, art. no. 130730 DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.130730

4) Punturo, R., Ricchiuti, C., Giorno, E., Apollaro, C., Miriello, D., Visalli, R., Pinizzotto, M.R., Cantaro, C., Bloise, A. POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS (PTES) IN ACTINOLITE SERPENTINITE HOST ROCKS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE BASILICATA REGION (ITALY) (2023) Ofioliti, 48 (2), pp. 93-104. DOI: 10.4454/ofioliti.v48i2.563

5) Maniscalco, R., Fazio, E., Punturo, R., Cirrincione, R., Di Stefano, A., Distefano, S., Forzese, M., Lanzafame, G., Leonardi, G.S., Montalbano, S., Pellegrino, A.G., Raele, A., Palmeri, G. The Porosity in Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir Rocks: Tectonic versus Diagenetic Imprint—A Multi-Scale Study from the Hyblean Plateau (SE Sicily, Italy) (2022) Geosciences (Switzerland), 12 (4), art. no. 149, DOI: 10.3390/geosciences12040149

6) Ricchiuti, C., Pereira, D., Punturo, R., Giorno, E., Miriello, D., Bloise, A. Hazardous elements in asbestos tremolite from the basilicata region, southern italy: A first step (2021) Fibers, 9 (8), art. no. 47, . DOI: 10.3390/fib9080047

7) Bloise, A., Ricchiuti, C., Navarro, R., Punturo, R., Lanzafame, G., Pereira, D. Natural occurrence of asbestos in serpentinite quarries from Southern Spain (2021) Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 43 (8), pp. 2965-2983.

8) L’oro del diavolo - Storia dello zolfo e della sua estrazione in Sicilia- Itinerari nelle solfare siciliane A cura di: Rosolino Cirrincione, Rosanna Maniscalco, Rosalda Punturo. Monografie CSC CAI, 2023. 75 pp. ISBN 978-88-7982-138-4.

9) Rosalda Punturo Caratteristiche chimico-mineralogiche dello Zolfo. pp. 25-30. In: L’oro del diavolo - Storia dello zolfo e della sua estrazione in Sicilia- Itinerari nelle solfare siciliane A cura di: Rosolino Cirrincione, Rosanna Maniscalco, Rosalda Punturo. Monografie CSC CAI, 2023. 75 pp. ISBN 978-88-7982-138-4.

10) Rosolino Cirrincione, Patrizia Fiannacca, Rosalda Punturo. Pp. 41-52.  In: L’oro del diavolo - Storia dello zolfo e della sua estrazione in Sicilia- Itinerari nelle solfare siciliane A cura di: Rosolino Cirrincione, Rosanna Maniscalco, Rosalda Punturo. Monografie CSC CAI, 2023. 75 pp. ISBN 978-88-7982-138-4.

11) Rosolino Cirrincione, Rosalda Punturo. Itinerario D - L’Altopiano gessoso-solfifero della Sicilia centro meridionale. Pp.67-77. In: L’oro del diavolo - Storia dello zolfo e della sua estrazione in Sicilia- Itinerari nelle solfare siciliane A cura di: Rosolino Cirrincione, Rosanna Maniscalco, Rosalda Punturo. Monografie CSC CAI, 2023. 75 pp. ISBN 978-88-7982-138-4.

12) R. Punturo. Dalla nascita della cristallografia ai minerali come importante risorsa di materie prime: un excursus storico a partire dall’alba del XIX secolo. Congresso Ad limina - Frontiere e contaminazioni

transdisciplinari nella storia delle scienze. Convegno Nazionale della Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza. Catania, 30 maggio - 1 giugno 2022 Abstract book

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Academic Year 2015/2016

My main research activities, recently conducted, concern the following topics:

- Petrophysical properties of minerals and rocks (eg seismic, magnetic) and their applications in Geosciences for the modeling of crystalline bases, for the research of hydrocarbons and the study of Cultural Heritage;

- Study of natural geomatics and implications for health (eg asbestos, potentially toxic metals).

- Natural raw materials

Member of the group for the dissemination of SIMP disciplines. As part of the dissemination activities carried out by SIMP, dissemination videos and the SIMP discipline dissemination project were created: the young people of the Italian Alpine Club discovering minerals and rocks. Approved by the SIMP Presidential Council

Member of the Regional Scientific Committee of the Italian Alpine Club - Sicily

Thanks to the contribution of the National Science Degree Plan - geology - Catania, two geological educational itineraries have been set up: 1) Monte Grosso- MOnte Gemmellaro (Etna) and 2) Valle del Loddiero, an itinerary between fossil coral reefs and extinct volcanoes (MIlitello V.C., Hyblaean Mountains)

Collaboration for the creation of television programs of science dissemination:

The investigation into fine particles by Maurizio Torrealta, directed by Flaviano Masella broadcast on Rainews 24 (http://rainews24.rai.it/it/canale-tv.php?id=23558)

Focus TV: Geological wonders of Italy: CAlabria (https://mediasetinfinity.mediaset.it/video/meravigliegeologicheditaliailsud/ep-2-calabria_F311126401000201)

Focus TV: Geological wonders of Italy: Sicily (https://mediasetinfinity.mediaset.it/video/meravigliegeologicheditaliailsud/ep-5-sicilia-prima-parte_F311126401000501)

Focus TV: Quando il Mediterrano si prosciugò - una storia geologica. https://mediasetinfinity.mediaset.it/video/promo/quando-il-mediterraneo-si-prosciugo_FD00000000379361

I have published several popular articles in the Amedit-Amici del Mediterraneo magazine (also available online www.amedit.it).

Furthermore, I am  dedicated to the scientific dissemination of geological disciplines s.l. holding seminars at associations (Associazione Arma Aeronautica, Rotary) and at the Italian Alpine Club and organizing thematic excursions. On behalf of the Gioenia Academy of Catania and the PNLS Geology of Catania (the latter manages the Facebook page), you hold seminars for school teachers.