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The research of Paolo Cescon is currently focused on three main areas:
- Climate impacts on natural and human systems.
- Heavy metal speciation in environmental matrices from areas subjected to various degrees of human activity.
- Chemical contamination on a planetary level.
He is an author of 170 scientific publications in qualified, high impact factor international journals, and has set up important collaborations with many international scientific institutions.
Previous appointments and activities
- Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the National Institute of Health
- National Coordinator of the Section “Chemical Contamination” of the National Program of Scientific Research in Antarctica (PNRA)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of the Environment
- Vice-Rector of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Member of the National Scientific Commission of the PNRA
- Director of the national Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Technologies-CNR
- Director of the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes-CNR
- Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Special Commissioner for the Italian Agricultural Research Council (CRA)
Diploma of technical-tourist maturity. 1992-1998: research support activities at the Ca' Foscari University, Department of Environmental Sciences, with freelance work contracts. 1998-2011: permanent position, as technician, at the Ca' Foscari University, Department of Environmental Sciences.
She was assigned, by convention, to the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes of the CNR (IDPA), formerly Centre of Study on Chemistry and Technologies for the Environment. From 1 November 2011 employee CNR (following mobility between entities) at the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes (IDPA), profile C.T.E.R. - VI level. From 2004 to 2019 she assumed the role of Administrative Secretary of IDPA. In June 2019 she moved to the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) where she serves as Administrative Secretary.
In the first years of activity Valentina Cester has taken care of the logistic part of the expeditions in Antarctica relatively to the activities of the researchers of IDPA and of the group of Environmental Analytical Chemistry of the University Ca' Foscari. She has also played an active part in the organization of the National Conferences of the Environmental Contamination-PNRA Sector.
Diploma of Linguistic Maturity. From 2007 to 2018 hired at the CNR with fixed-term contracts of employment, with the professional profile of Collaborator Administration, Level VII, under an agreement between the National Research Council and the Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea - Directorate General for Environmental Assessments - Division IV (now Division III - Major Risk and Integrated Environmental Authorization) with tasks relating to the organization and management of information flows and documents relating to the procedures ex D. L. gs 152/2006 et seq. L.gs 152/2006 and subsequent amendments and additions relating to AIAs of national competence, with regard to the coordination of both technical and economic-financial activities. Support for the management of information systems dedicated to the conduction of the AIA procedures and use by the public of the relative data.
From December 2018 permanent member of staff of the CNR with the profile of Collaborator, VII level, under the same Collaborative Agreement.
From September 2019 transferred to the Institute of Polar Sciences, at the Secondary site of Rome Tor Vergata.
Roberto Colombo is professor of Remote Sensing at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca. The main research interest is to develop remote sensing tools for quantitative estimation of land surface properties. He works with a wide range of Earth Observation data at different scales and geophysical methods, assimilating multi-source, multi-spectral and multi-temporal remote sensing data, from field spectroscopy to satellite level for modelling terrestrial and environmental dynamics, with focus on vegetation fluorescence and snow properties. Current activities include space mission concepts and definition, airborne campaigns and field cal/val strategies, engineering and design of proximal remote sensing instruments, algorithm development, environmental modelling and new applications.
He joined the Institute of Polar Sciences in November 2020 as a Scientist. He got a Master degree in Geology (2009) and a PhD in Environmental Science (2013) during which he honed his skills at the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS). He is a CNR permanent staff since 2001 after working in the technical staff of the Istituto Talassografico in Trieste (2001-2004) and at the Marine Science Institute (2004-2020) in the Climate and Paleoclimate Research Group. Since 2015, he is also Adjunct Professor in Glaciology at the Department of Mathematics and Geosciences of the University of Trieste.
His Research centers around the interactions between the cryosphere (glaciers, permafrost, ice caves) and the climate, spanning from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. Key research topics are glacial and periglacial geomorphology, glaciology, weather/climate monitoring with a focus on high elevated alpine areas, quaternary geology, ice deposits in caves.
He took part in several scientific expeditions in Antarctica (2015 and 2016) with the British Antarctic Survey, in Pakistan-Karakorum (2013) and in the Chilean Andes (2012). In 2014-2017 was a Council Member of the European Meteorological Society.
Present Responsibilities:
- Italian Representative of the International Permafrost Association
- Scientific Editor of the Journal of Mountain Science (Springer)
- Guest Editor Special Issue Interactions between the Cryosphere and Climate (Change) - Atmosphere
- Topical Editor of the International open-access proceeding s journal Advance in Science and Research
- President of the Alpine-Adriatic Meteorological Society
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Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Advanced Technologies (University of Siena) and Master’s degree in Physics and Astrophysics (University of Florence). Erasmus+ study program (University of Bergen, Norway) and Erasmus+ traineeship program (Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz centre for polar and marine research (AWI) Bremerhaven, Germany). Acoustic data analyst for the Marine Environmental Quality program of Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Arctic region (DFO). PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada) studying the impacts of climate change and vessel underwater noise on marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic using passive acoustic monitoring. Currently working for the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR – ISP) of Venezia Mestre with the role of Station Leader of the Italian Arctic station Dirigibile Italia in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard.
Researcher; her main fields of research are quantification and identification of small microplastics (1-100 µm) in different environmental matrices (permafrost, biota, sediments, etc.) via MicroFTIR, quantification and identification of microplastic fibers via MicroFTIR, speciation of trace elements in Antarctic waters, geospeciation of trace elements and REEs in sediments and soils, bioaccumulation of trace elements and REEs in feathers, microscopical techniques and ancillary analyses. Author of several peer-reviewed articles, she has participated to national and international congresses and is reviewer for journals such as STOTEN (Science of the Total Environment) Estaurine Coastal and Shelf Science, International Journal of Environmental Pollution and Remediation, Scientific Reports Nature. She is member of the Scientific Committee of ICEPR – International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation. She is member of the Institute Committee (CdI) and she is also CNR representative on the Executive Board of District of Venice Research and Innovation (DVRI) and is member of the Leonardos group for Science Gallery Venice.
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CTER IV livello – IT Manager
System administrator of the CNR-ISP Messina detached branch. In this context, it carries out the following activities:
- Access Port Manager (APM) - technical reference to the GARR;
- maintains the network infrastructure of the Messina institute;
- maintains network services and, in particular, the servers (e.g. file server, web server, firewall, DNS, NAT, etc…) for the delivery of transversal and local services;
- management of transmission networks (LAN and wireless);
- management of routing polices (router CISCO and firewall);
- hardware and software assistance and support to workstations in offices and laboratories;
- support for videoconferencing;
- use of statistical software for processing and interpretation of experimental results (in particular through the use of R, a specific development environment for statistical analysis of data).
He also manages the local staff institute data: attendance, absence, skills, meal vouchers, through ePAS, the system for detecting and managing attendance of CNR staff.
Research interests
Development of mass spectrometry-based advanced analytical methodology for trace and ultra-trace determinations in environmental, biological and agrifood matrices; long-term paleoclimate and atmospheric chemistry from ice cores; heavy metals in polar and temperate ice and snow.
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She received her Ph.D. in Science and Engineering of sea (2010) at the University “Federico II” in Naples. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP-CNR). Her research is mainly focused on Marine Microbiology and Biotechnology in particular on: i) Structure and function of microbial marine microbial community associated to oil contaminated area; ii) Genetic and physiology of marine bacteria for biotechnological application; iv) Bioremediation and monitoring in marine environment (focus on technology and biotechnology in situ and ex situ). She spent one year at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Cal State Fullerton University California, United States working on artificial vectors engineering and in vitro techniques for transformation and conjugation of bacteria cells. She had many occasions for international and national collaboration since she has participated to several national research programs (PRIN, PON, PNRA) and international programs (KBBE FP7 es. MAGIC-PAH, KILLSPILL, BRAAVOO)
She is author/co-author of over 30 international peer-reviewed publications, and 4 book chapters
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He received his Master's degree in Chemistry (LM-54) in 2013 from the University of Ferrara, carrying out research activities in the field of theoretical and computational chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Celestino Angeli. In 2017 he received a Ph.D in Environmental Sciences at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, presenting a study on the diffusion of volatile organic compounds in snowpack under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Barbante. From 2017 to 2020 he was a Research Fellow at CNR-IDPA/CNR-ISP, working at the Col Margherita meteo-climatic observatory and developing low-cost technologies for environmental monitoring in remote alpine and polar areas. From 2021 he is Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow and was conducting research activities in the field of wireless sensor networks in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley (PIONEER - MSCA-IF-2018). Since April 2023, he is TD researcher at CNR-ISP in Venice, where he continues research and development of technologies to build sensor networks for environmental monitoring in remote alpine and polar areas in collaboration with UC Berkeley, NILU and AWI (MISO - HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-07).
Graduated in Physics in 1993, he is currently researcher at the National Research Council, Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP). He has over 20 years of experience in the field of marine meteorology at the micro- and meso-scale, through the use of remote sensing with active microwave instruments in the marine environment, on satellite and on observation platforms during campaigns at sea (Adriatic Sea: Acqua Alta tower, platforms ENI; Kikeneiz research platform on the Black Sea).
He deals with analyzing historical series of meteorological-marine data acquired both through in situ and remote sensing data. He is co-author of some works on wind characterization at the air-sea interface through the analysis of SAR images with the continuous wavelets technique. He participated in the MIUR RITMARE project dealing with the acquisition and interpretation of remote sensing scatterometric data for the determination of the wind at the sea surface.
He participated in the ESA eSurge-Venice project on the expansion of the possibility of using satellite data to predict storm surges. Recently he has carried out research in the ESA Sea Level Climate Change Initiative (SL_CCI), in carrying out the ESA SL_CCI Bridging Phase project, dealing with applications of satellite altimetry.
He participates in the ESA Radar Altimetry for the Coastal Zone and Inland Waters project, which involves the development of specific applications of SAR satellite altimetry in coastal areas and inland waters.
He has been the scientific manager of three research projects funded by the Tide Forecasting and Reporting Center (Municipality of Venice). His main scientific interests include microwave remote sensing of the marine environment and the interpretation of synthetic aperture radar images; continuous wavelet transformation techniques; time series analysis of wind, sea level and backscatter radar; storm surge forecasts; complementarity of atmospheric modeling and satellite remote sensing. He is the author/co-author of more than 30 indexed products (source Scopus) as articles published in international journals or as acts of international conferences. Its scientific production can be quantified by a number of citations equal to 242 and an h-index equal to 9 (source Scopus).
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Master’s degree in Forest and Environmental Science (University of Padua), PhD in Land Environment Resources and health (University of Padua).
Current position: Researcher at Institute of Polar Sciences-CNR, Venezia; permanent position. Since 2010, my research activities have been on mountain and environmental science with a focus on the relationship between climate change and snow and ice dominated high altitude environments.
After my master’s degree, my activities were on geomorphology, hydrology and glaciology at TESAF department of the University of Padua. I have analyzed the interaction between the climatic variations of the last century (e.g. modification of the thermo-pluviometric regimes) and the changes of the Alpine cryosphere (e.g. variations in volume, variation of the seasonal snow cover etc.) as well as the consequences of global warming on the evolution of the glacial masses over thousands of years. During last years, I collaborated with international research projects such as Ortles project (a paleoclimatic research project) and POLLiCE project (analysis of pollen present on ice cores from the Alps).
My topic is on the analysis of climate evolution during the last 2000 years through the study of Alpine and Apennine ice cores. Since 2017, I am in the Italian team of Ice Memory, an international mountain glaciers salvage program research project. At the same time, I'm collaborating to the Col Margherita Atmospheric Observatory (MRG) project with the aim of measuring the atmospheric composition above 2500 m in the Dolomitic region.
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Degree in Biological Sciences (1983), and Ph.D. in Environmental sciences: Marine environment and resources (1989), and CNR researcher in marine ecology (1994).
The scientific work is summarized in several Technical Reports of oceanographic cruises (as scientific head) and more than 100 publications on national and international journals in the following lines of research:
(i) ecological and physiological role of phytoplankton size-fraction in marine food webs of coastal and off-shore zone in the Mediterranean Sea, Ross Sea (Antarctica) and the Straits of Magellan;
(ii) study of the trophic conditions in the brackish lagoon ecosystems exposed to chemical pollution and eutrophication phenomena (Habs);
(iii) development of automatic monitoring of physico-chemical, optics and biological parameters (phytoplankton) in coastal marine environments through in situ (buoy and ship) and remote sensing (MIVIS, SeaWiFS).
He has participated in several national programs (ROSSMIZE, PRISMA, CLUSTER10, SNOW Artide) and projects of CNR and the Mi.P.A. and international (EU VFP: Strategy; EU FP6: SPICOSA WT 10.3 leader ; INTERACT EU: Sponge).
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