Graduated in Geological Sciences (1981), obtained her PhD in Earth Sciences (1987) at the University of Rome La Sapienza. She started her scientific activity at CNR during her PhD and in 2001 become senior researcher at CNR-IIA. In 2019, she joined the CNR-Institute of Polar Science. She is Adjunct Professor in Remote Sensing and GIS at the Dept. of Ecobiology (University of Roma Sapienza) since 2011.
Scientific interests: environmental studies, at local and global scale, in Polar and Mediterranean areas using multi-sensor and multi-platform remote sensing images; geostatistical analysis of environmental data and thematic cartography in GIS environment.
Her research activity is focused on the study of the spectroradiometric properties of natural surfaces (from Visible to Thermal Infrared range) aimed to the interpretation and analysis of products deriving from Earth Observation.
Since 1997, she was involved in field surveys in Polar Regions (Antarctica and Arctic) to study the radiometric properties of snow and ice, and the interactions at snow/air/soil interface.
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CNR scientist at the Institute of Polar Sciences, headquarters of Venice-Mestre.
From 1996 to 2018 at the Center for Biology and Control of Weeds, since 2002 Institute of Agro-Environmental and Forest Biology (IBAF) and since September 2018 Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET) of Legnaro, Padua.
Graduated in Agricultural Sciences in 1992.
CNR macro areas of reference: Earth and Environment, Agri-food
Research interests
• Ecophysiology of weeds
• Modeling of the competition between weeds and crops and of light interception within canopies
• Environmental fate of herbicides Summary of activities and assignments:
From 2008 to 2016 responsible for the IBAF URT: Mountain ecosystems for the mitigation of environmental changes in the alpine area at the Alpine Studies Center of the University of Tuscia in Cinte Tesino (TN).
Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action E 47 (2005-2009): "European Network for Forest Vegetation Management: Towards Environmental Sustainability" del domain: Forests, their Products and Services.
Referee for the journals: Applied Ecology, Weed Research, Int. J. of Biodiversity and Conservation, Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, Journal of Testing and Evaluation.
Experiences abroad:
In 1995 and 1997 he spent two periods abroad at the WUR (Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands) for a total of 6 months.
In 2002 he was visiting scientist for about 4 months at the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.
In 2008 he was visiting scientist for two months at the Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Department, Rothamsted Research, UK.
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Researcher at Institute of Polar Sciences-CNR (CNR-ISP), Venice, Italy. Master graduated in Environmental Sciences in 2011 at Ca’ Foscari University, she obtained the PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2015 at the same University. She was Research fellow at the Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics of Ca’ Foscari University from 2015 to 2021. Among her main research interests are untargeted metabolomics, applied to the study of plants and environmental matrices, emerging contaminant analysis, the development of analytical methods for the determination of organic compounds with HPLC-HRMS techniques. She participated to national research projects (PNRA, PRIN); she is author of 10 publications on international journals with more than 190 citations (h index=7).
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Researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP) since December 2021. MSc. in Biology and Ecology of the Coastal Marine Environment (2012) and PhD in Environmental Sciences: Marine Environment and Resources (2016) at the University of Messina. Her main research fields include marine bioacoustics ecology, distribution, and impact of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals, with a focus on new applications and IT tools for the automated analysis of large datasets from acoustic sensors and integrated underwater systems.
From 2012 to 2018 she participated in various national and international research projects, as a student, doctoral student and as an associate in the research activities of the Institute of Nuclear Physics - LNS of Catania: KM3NeT international collaboration, SMO (FIRB-2008) and EMSO European Research Infrastructure. She conducted a research stay at the Ocean Acoustics Lab of the AWI Institute of Bremerhaven (Germany) in 2015. She was a member of the.
She collaborated on the National Marine Strategy II project, first on behalf of CoNISMa (2017), then as a research fellow at IAMC-CNR (2017-2018). She is founding member of the nonprofit organization eConscience- Art of Soundscape for research and scientific dissemination. She took part in several scientific expeditions at sea. She is co-author of about 20 international publications on ISI scientific journals and over 30 publications among national scientific journals, proceedings, books, and technical reports. She presented and co-authored over 30 presentations at national and international conferences. She is Principal Investigator of the project PRIN PNRR 2022 – KNOWhale - KNOwledge improvement for the conservation of endangered Mediterranean fin Whale in Southern Italy and Research Unit Leader of the project PRIN 2022 – Deep-sea Investigation with a View to protect Elusive cetacean Species (DIVES).
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Degree in Physics, University of Padua; Post Graduate School in Maritime and Coastal Engineering, University of Padua. In 1996-1997 Human Capital Mobility EC grant at Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (Birkenhead-Liverpool, UK) where he made research on numerical and physical sensitivity in coastal and shallow water environments.
Researcher at CNR from 1998, presently Director of Research at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISP). He has done research work on wind wave modelling and on coastal processes with special focus on sediment transport; the models used are numerical wave and sediment transport models coupled with 3D circulation models. His research interests currently are the physical processes at the air-water and water-sediment interfaces, the wave-current coupling and the wave climate variations due to climate changes and their impact on coastal vulnerability. Other interests include the application of indicators for the integrated management of the coastal zone and the measurements of wave spectra with stereoscopic techniques.
Co-author of more than 70 scientific papers in ISI journals and of more than 150 conference papers; co-author of 2 patents and editor of MEDATLAS: Wind and Wave Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea. He participated in and coordinated several national and international research projects. In 2017 and 2018 he has been Head of the Institute of Marine Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR).
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Senior Research Fellow within the European H2020 project Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core: 1.5 Myr of greenhouse gas -climate feedbacks.
MSc in Geophysical Sciences (University of Catania) and PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change (Ca' Foscari-Venice).
His research line focuses mainly on two topics: i) the reconstruction of past climatic and environmental conditions based on ice core records and ii) the study of the chemical and physical properties of the seasonal snowpack in the Arctic environment.
He is currently involved in the analysis of glacial archives from polar and alpine regions (i.e. ice cores, snow, and firn), using mass spectrometry techniques for trace elements determination. He is particularly interested in the study of halogens (bromine and iodine) in glacial records, and their link with seasonal sea ice fluctuations, as well as the study of biogeochemical cycles of heavy metals, organic compounds, black carbon, mercury, and microplastics in the Arctic cryosphere. Since 2018, he has been part of the Italian team of Ice Memory, an international research project aimed at preserving the climate signal recorded in mountain glaciers around the world. Since 2019, he has been responsible for the long-term chemo-physical snow monitoring program in Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard). During the 2023-24 and 2024-25 drilling seasons, he participated in the international research project Beyond Epica Oldest Ice at Little Dome C (LDC) in the Antarctic plateau, where he contributed to the processing of the extracted ice core. In his career, he has participated in numerous scientific expeditions to polar regions, including the Arctic (Svalbard, Alaska), Antarctica (LDC), as well as high altitude alpine areas (>4200m), and subterranean glacial environments. He has contributed, as first author or co-author, to more than 20 scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals.
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Geosciences graduate from the University of Trieste, currently pursuing a PhD in Polar Sciences at Ca' Foscari University as part of the Local Glaciers Sisimiut (LoGS) project.
His research interests revolve around the cryosphere in polar and alpine environments, employing a combination of remote sensing, geomorphological and glaciological techniques.
Laura Selbmann, MSc in Biological Sciences, PhD in Biological Evolution and Biochemistry, Associate Professor at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo. Regular guest at the Westerdijk Institute, The Netherlands from 2004 to 2010. Member of the Life Science Group of the Scientific Committee for Research in Antarctica (SCAR) since 2021. Member of MIRRI-Italia (Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure) since 2019. Since 2009 Scientific Director of the Italian National Museum of Antarctica (MNA), Mycological Section, Genoa, Italy. Her main field of study concerns microorganisms from extreme environments and in particular fungi, coordinator of many national and international projects (PNRA, PRIN, ASI, JGI, EMSL). He has participated in 4 Italian Antarctic expeditions (2010-11, 2015-16, 2018-19 and 2021-22), both at the "Mario Zucchelli" Station and the US "McMurdo" Station. He has dedicated his professional life to the study of Antarctic microbial cryptoendolithic communities to investigate their evolution and adaptation during extremes and explore them as early warning systems to monitor the effect of climate change. To date he has described more than 20 new fungal genera and more than 50 new fungal species, most of which from Antarctica. He has published > 140 articles and 4 book chapters. H index 41 Scopus; >8k citations.
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He received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry at the University of Florence in 2000. From 2001 to 2004, in the framework of his PhD at the Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, he worked on the development of semi-continuous ion chromatography coupled to Flow Analysis systems within the European project EPICA (European project for Ice Coring in Antarctica). On 20 April 2004 he got his PhD in Chemical Sciences. He took part in the national research campaigns in Antarctica 2001-2002 and 2003-2004 in the bases of Dome Concordia and Baia Terra Nova running chromatographic analyses in situ on a deep ice core perforated at Dome C as part of the EPICA project.
Since June 2002, he took part to several EPICA-DML and TALDICE ice core processing campaigns at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven (D). He participated to numerous sampling campaigns in the Arctic (at the Dirigibile Italia base in Ny Alesund) for the study of climate change through the monitoring of atmospheric aerosol. From December 2004 to 31st January 2018 he was the holder of several fellowships and research grants focused on to the development and application of analytical methods on ice cores and climate archives. From 01/02/2018 to 30/11/2018 he was Fixed term Researcher (RTDa) at the "Ugo Schiff" Department of Chemistry of the University of Florence SSD CHIM / 01. Starting from 01/12/2018 he held the position of Tenure track Researcher (RTDb) at the "Ugo Schiff" Department of Chemistry of the University of Florence SSD CHIM / 01. He is associated Professor at University of Florence since 1st December 2021.
Education
2010 – PhD (Environmental Science: Marine Environment and Resource) University of Messina Italy
2005 – Degree in Biological Science (110/110 with academic price). University of Messina Italy. Erasmus student at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland).
He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP). He is currently involved in Marine microbiology ecology and Biotechnology in particular:
• Application of omics techniques to study microbial diversity.
• Microbial biodiversity in extreme environment: deep sea, shallow and deep hydrothermal vents, hypersaline environments, Antarctic sea Ice, and subglacial lakes.
• Microbial bioremediations in oil-polluted environments
• Biotechnologies for marine bioremediation.
• Biotechnology application of microbes isolated from extremes environments.
Participant in NSF-sponsored project and different European Union Funded project Participant in several oceanographic expeditions aboard R/V Urania, R/V Europe, R/V Minerva I, R/V L’Atalante, R/V Laura Bassi. Participant in several field-work and 3 Antarctic expeditions.
Reviewer for the peer review journal for Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Microbiology Reports, Journal of Cleaner Production, Marine Genomics, Microorgansims, Marine Science and Engineering, Diversity, Chemosphere. Extreme Microbiology (specialty section of Frontiers in Microbiology).
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BSc Degree in Geology at the University of Pisa in April 2016, with a thesis on the acquisition of new dendrochronological curves for the implementation of the existing dataset of Larix decidua Miller in Alta Val di Sole. In October 2017 she pursued a MSc Degree in Geological Sciences and Technologies at the University of Pisa, with a dissertation on new surface exposure ages (3He) of deposits and surfaces of glacial erosion in Northern Victoria Land for the reconstruction of Pleistocene variations of the East-Antarctica sheet. Postgraduate trainee at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center (SUERC) in Glasgow (UK) from January to April 2018, and UniPi fellow (August-September 2018). PhD (2018-2022) in Science and Management of Climate Change (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) with a project focused on the development of a new Continuous Flow Analysis system (CFA) for the determination of biomass burning tracers, trace elements and insoluble dust particles in Alpine ice cores, with palaeoclimatological reconstructions of the Grand Combin (Switzerland) and Weißseespitze (Austria) glaciers. Currently research fellow at the CNR Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP) in Venice Mestre, for the FISR-Ice Memory-An International Salvage Program project. Her project focuses on the implementation of hardware/software systems for the development of innovative analytical techniques for the analysis of ice cores through CFA systems.
Francesca Spataro graduated in Chemistry and gained a PhD in Chemical Sciences Program at the Sapienza University in Rome; she has worked firstly with research fellows and then with a fixed-term research contract from 2005 to 2016, at the Institute on Atmospheric Pollution Research of the National Research Council (IIA-CNR). From 2016 to 2018, she carried out her research activities at the Water Research Institute (IRSA-CNR), and from 1 August 2019 she is working at the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP-CNR), Research Area of Rome - Montelibretti .
Dr. Spataro has gained experience in field monitoring campaigns in polar (Arctic) and temperate regions, through National and International projects.
Her research activities focus on:
- Formation, transport and removal processes of gaseous and particulate nitrogenous and halogenated inorganic pollutants.
- Heterogeneous processes involving nitrogen contaminants (especially NOx, NH3, HONO, HNO3).
- Study of the persistence of legacy and emerging organic micro-pollutants in different environmental compartments.
- Development and optimization of analytical methods for the determination of emerging organic contaminants (in particular pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics).
- Determination of persistent and emerging organic micropollutants in different environmental matrices through the combination of extraction techniques (pressurized liquid extraction, solid phase extraction, separatory funnels) with analytical techniques (spectrometry, HPLC coupled with UV detection, fluorescence and mass spectrometry).
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I am interested in paleoclimate and snow chemistry studies including elements and compounds post-depositional and photochemical process in surface snow and snow-atmosphere interactions. My main topic is trace elements measurements in ice cores with particular focusing on iron (includes its chemical speciation) for its role in the ocean fertilization, and halogens measurements for their connections with sea ice changes. I am also interest in the impact caused by the ancient civilization on atmospheric composition. I am involved in aerosol measurements in polar environment for understand the natural cycle of trace elements, biogenic compound and black carbon and their possible changes in the recent decades. I participate in several field expeditions in Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine regions. I am actively involved in glacier mass balance estimations.
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MS (2003) and PhD (2006) in Environmental Marine Sciences (University of Bologna).
Dr. Tesi research focuses on climate change in present and ancient systems affecting sea ice and permafrost. He was awarded with two Marie Curie fellowships to work at the Oregon State University (USA) and University of Stockholm (Sweden). He is in the Editorial Board of the Marine Chemistry journal (Elsevier) with focus on marine organic biomarkers and Guest Editor of the Ocean Science journal (Copernicus). He is the Italian representative and member of IASC (International Arctic Science Committee) Marine Working Group. He has published 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals dealing with the use of fossil biomarkers to investigate modern and paleo climate change. He served as chairman at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting in Vienna (Austria) and at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting in San Francisco (USA). He has participated to 17 oceanographic expeditions in the Mediterranean Sea and Arctic combined accounting for over 200 days of at sea activities.
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