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| Acronym | Organisation | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian Association of Physical Geography and Geomorphology | Renato R. Colucci | Co-opted Component | |
| Italian Glaciological Committee | Renato R. Colucci | Co-opted Component | |
| Italian Glaciological Committee | Carlo Barbante, Jacopo Gabrieli | Components | |
| Marine and oceanographic facilities Technical-Operational Manager - R/V Laura Bassi |
Leonardo Langone | Component | |
| Polar Research Committee | Maurizio Azzaro | Vice President | |
| Polar Research Committee | Vito Vitale | Component | |
| Scientific Committee for the Arctic | Carlo Barbante, Vito Vitale | Components | |
| National Scientific Commission for Antarctica | Carlo Barbante | Component | |
| Joint Research Unit | Stefano Miserocchi | CNR Reprensentative (alternate) | |
| Italian Aerosol Society Working Group 4-aerosols in polar and remote areas |
Elena Barbaro | Component | |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antarctica working group |
Maurizio Azzaro, Mauro Mazzola | Components | |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Arctic Task Force |
Carlo Barbante, Warren Cairns, Stefania Gilardoni, Leonardo Langone, Vito Vitale | Components | |
| Ministry of ecological transition
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES.org |
Maurizio Azzaro | Component | |
| Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca National technology clusters Cluster 6, Climate Energy and Mobility |
Carlo Barbante | Senior expert | |
| Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide Italian Collection of Antarctic Bacteria |
Angelina Lo Giudice | Scientific Responsible | |
| National Research Program in Antarctica Antarctic Interlaboratory System |
Maurizio Azzaro | Member of the Management Committee | |
| National Research Program in Antarctica
Committee for the Collection and Dissemination of Findings |
Angelina Lo Giudice, Andrea Spolaor | Components | |
| Italian Marine Biology Society Aquaculture Committee and Marine Climate Change Working Group |
Gabriella Caruso | Member of the Board | |
| Alpine Adriatic Meteorological Society | Renato R. Colucci | President |
Working Group on International Cooperation
The Working Group "International Cooperation" partakes in and supports the international cooperation activities of ISP. It is made up of 4 members, appointed by the Director. A not exhaustive list of their tasks includes:
- assist the director in managing the international cooperations in progress;
- support the preparation and signing of new collaborations and agreements with international institutions;
- support the director in responding to requests that may come from Ministries and / or national and international organizations with respect to international cooperation;
- sustain the participation of the Institute in international coordination programs; in particular the EU Polar Cluster, EU Polarnet 2, as well as the national representative role in SAON;
- collect and provide background information on current developments in the polar regions relevant to/for international cooperation;
- offer an advisory function to specific requests of the Director in relation to international collaboration.
The WG International Cooperation has the general objective of preserving the wealth of skills and relationships that have been accumulated over the years, favoring a natural generational turnover within the Institute, and at the same time fully developing the function of ISP as a point of reference for the national polar research community towards its international counterparts.
Contact: Isp-relazioni-internazionali AT isp.cnr.it
The International Cooperation WG of the Institute of Polar Sciences consists of: :
Nicoletta Ademollo 
Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
Angelina Lo Giudice 
Chiara Venier
Vito Vitale (Coordinator)
Where we are
The secondary site of Rome – Tor Vergata is located in the Research Area of Tor Vergata in via Fosso del Cavaliere 100 inside the Campus of the Tor Vergata University of Rome, near to Castelli Romani. This Research Area hosts different research and scientific Institutions such as ENEA, INFN, ASI and ESA. The ISP staff have a defined working area in building L (ex ISAC) and shares space with ISAC staff and have access to other Research Area services such as laboratories, the warehouse, workshops, and network services. The ISP staff can also make use of the infrastructure for laboratory and field experimental activities. Map
How to get here:
- by plane: from Fiumicino Airport take the Leonardo Express train (every 30 minutes) to Roma Termini. From Rome Termini, take Metro A, get off at Anagnina (terminus) and take bus 509 (every 30 minutes) to the terminus (CNR research area);
- by train: from Rome Termini, take Metro A, get off at Anagnina (terminus) and take bus 509 (every 30 minutes) to the terminus (CNR research area);
- by car: the area can be reached by car from the GRA Romanina - Torrenova exit, from the A1 exit Monteporzio Catone or Roma Sud exit, from Tuscolana or via di Passo Lombardo.
Contact
ISP Secondary office of Roma – Tor Vergata
Secondary site without administrative duties
Responsable
Dr. Luisa Patrolecco
CNR - Area di Ricerca di Roma 2 – Tor Vergata
Via Fosso del Cavaliere, 100
00133 ROMA
Phone:+39 +39 06 45488-349
+39 06 45488-629
CTER VI - Staff at the CNR since April 2011.
From 2011 to 2020 permanent position, profile technician, at Constructive Technology Institute (CNR-ITC) in Padova with the following duties:
• Purchasing Department: arrangement of purchase drafts, later representative of the ITC Direction for purchases and maintenance;
• employee Administration: management of employee procedures (open-handed and fixed-term contracts, researchers, doctoral candidates, PhD students);
• delegate for the ITC Accident Registry and representative for Prevention and Protection Service (SPP);
• responsible for ITC Library: journals subscription; cataloguing and filing of and scientific material (monographs, periodicals, theses, etc.) into ACNP (Italian Periodicals Catalogue) and Documents Service of Padua Research Area; management of Document Delivery via Nilde (Network Inter-Library Document Exchange); purchase and filing of UNI rules.
Since March 2020, transferred to Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP). In charge of Health Surveillance, Employees Registry and Administration.
There are no active fellowships
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
Scopus - Author ID: 7003357799 
0000-0001-8344-5723 Google Scholar
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)
She obtained the Ph.D title in Environmental Sciences in 2013 from the University of Messina and spent six years as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Messina, Department CHIBIOFARAM. Since 2019, she is Researcher at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Department of Marine Biotechnology. Research activities are mainly focused on microbial ecology, specifically focused on prokaryotic diversity, bacterial bioprospecting for the research of marine natural products to be applied in the biomedical and environmental field (in temperate and polar habitats). Particular interest is paid to the association of bacteria with filter-feeding organisms and mainly oriented to the study of bioactive molecules. She has improved her laboratory skills during several stays in foreign institutions, i.e. Karlsruhe Institute of Biotechnology (Germany), and Centro de Ciências do Mar Universidade do Algarve (Portugal).
She participated to oceanographic cruises in the Mediterranean Sea and to the 34th Antarctic Campaign at the Italian Research Station Mario Zucchelli. She has competence in drafting experimental designs, formulation of research aims and profiling of plans for data collection and analysis, interpretation and presentation of statistical findings, biostatistical analyses. She attended specialized courses on microbial metagenome analysis, cultivation and new-generation molecular methods, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry methods.
To date, she is involved in research projects on polar topics (Arctic and Antarctic microbiology). She is Topic Editorial Board Member of the open-access journals Environments, and is author or co-author of more than thirty papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index 10, 284 citations).
Scopus - Author ID: 55619021900
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.
Received his PhD in physics from Heidelberg University in 2011. He has worked in ice core and glaciological research at institutions in Germany, USA and Austria before receiving a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the University of Venice (www.unive.it/gold-ice).
He has participated in numerous field campaigns on remote glaciers in the European Alps, Kilimanjaro, Greenland and Antarctica. His recent focus lies on ice core research with laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS).
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The polar atmosphere is characterized by high stability and a the strong thermal inversion that occurs in these regions (the temperature increases with increasing altitude with respect to the ground, as opposed to what happens at mid-latitudes), both phenomena are a consequence of the almost perpetually frozen ground that is often covered with snow and ice. This also applies to the frozen surface of the sea, when covered by ice.
Another important element of the polar atmosphere is the presence of the so-called polar vortex, a swirling motion of the air masses around the pole that keeps the cold polar air masses separate from the warmer ones in mid-latitudes.
Knowledge of the thermodynamic characteristics of the polar atmosphere is fundamental studying the biogeochemical cycles of natural species and long-distance transport processes of atmospheric components from populated areas.
The research activities carried out at ISP are aimed to deepen the knowledge of the processes and the interactions between the different components of the climate system, in particular at the interfaces air-snow-soil and air-sea-sea ice.
Atmospheric composition
The polar regions represent an open laboratory to study the biogeochemical cycles of natural species, the atmospheric chemical transformations in an uncontaminated continent, as well as the transport processes from the middle and low latitudes. Several constituents characterize the atmospheric composition, among which the so-called greenhouse gases (such as water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane whose concentrations are influenced by anthropogenic activities and natural processes), and aerosols are of considerable importance. The latter have a major impact in the polar regions because they are strongly linked to the feedback processes that amplify climate change.
The atmospheric aerosol is composed of particles suspended in the atmosphere, which can be of natural origin (through the lifting by winds of particles from bare or desert surfaces, of marine spumes and of volcanic origin or linked to large fires) or anthropogenic (industrial and fuel emissions). The study of the chemical composition of Antarctic and Arctic aerosols is one of the key points in polar research. These studies are performed through the use of specific chemical tracers, such as water-soluble components, organic acids, sugars, phenolic compounds, amino acids, trace elements or rare earths. Aerosol plays an important role in climate regulation by interacting with solar radiation and modifying the microphysical properties of clouds.
Secondary ISP site in Rome-Montelibretti
Where we are
The secondary site of the Institute of Polar Sciences of Rome - Montelibretti is located at the Rome 1 CNR-Research Area, Provincial Road 35d, km 0.700, 00010 Montelibretti (RM). The ISP staff, working in the Montelibretti Area, have 252 m2 of space (including offices and laboratories) which is distributed between 2 buildings, partly shared with the staff of IRSA (Water Research Institute) and IIA (Institute of Atmospheric Pollution research). Map
How to get here:
- by train: railway line FR1 (Fiumicino-Fara Sabina), get off at the "Pianabella di Montelibretti" stop and proceed for 200 m on foot to the Rome 1 CNR-Research Area.
- by car: the Institute can be reached by car with the possibility of temporary parking within the CNR-Research Area.
- by plane: from Fiumicino airport, take the FR1 railway line (Fiumicino-Fara Sabina), get off at the "Pianabella di Montelibretti" stop and proceed for 200 meters on foot to the Rome 1 CNR-Research Area.
Contact
ISP Secondary office of Roma
Responsable
Dr. Luisa Patrolecco
E-mail: responsabile_rm AT isp.cnr.it
CNR Area della Ricerca di Roma 1
Via Salaria km 29,300 - 00015 Montelibretti (RM)
Phone:+39 06-90672797
Fax: +39 06-90672787
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Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
L'Italia e l’Artico
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National Research Council
Institute of Polar Sciences
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