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Battaglia Francesca Master's degree in Exploration Geology (University of Rome "La Sapienza"), PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change (Cà Foscari University of Venice, OGS Trieste and University of Otago, New Zealand) funded by the Italian National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA). Current position: research fellow at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the CNR (CNR-ISP) in Bologna. Previously assistant researcher at the geochemistry laboratory of the University of Otago in New Zealand.
Currently the research concerns the study and characterization of the terrestrial organic carbon along the Adriatic margin through stable carbon isotopes and organic markers as part of the PRIN-PASS 2017 Project.

Coppolaro Veronica 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.

Marzaro Jessica Graduated in Communication Strategies at the University of Padua, during her studies she could experimented different formats of scientific communication, being part of the Planet Book photobook project (Contrasto editor) and participating several times at the public presentations of the book. She wrote as a volunteer for the CICAP online magazine, Query, deepening the theme of the relations between science, pseudoscience and society.
She graduated at the Master’s in Science Communication “Franco Prattico” at SISSA (Scuola Internazionale di Studi Superiori Avanzati) in Trieste. During the Master experience, she had the opportunity to test her skills trying different medium and formats for scientific communication and to learn the theorical basis. During her traineeship, she carried out support activities for the institutional communication of the Institute of Polar Sciences of CNR, managing and creating the contents and the strategy for the social media channels.
Currently, she is handling the presence of the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice Core project on social media and she is also involved on outreach and disseminations activities related to the project. She is also taking care of the development of Beyond EPICA communications strategy with partners and the relations with them.

Nicolai Alessandro Bachelor Degree in Environmental and Natural Sciences (University of Udine) and Master's Degree in Marine Biology (University of Bologna). Current position: research grant at the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP) in Bologna. I'm studying microplastics and POP pollution in the continuum snow-ocean of the Arctic domain in the European Project Horizon-CL6-2023 INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR BUILDING EFFECTIVE RESILIENCE AND ARCTIC OCEAN POLLUTION-CONTROL GOVERNANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE (ICEBERG).

Plaksina Alisa Got her Bachelor’s degree in Animal Care at the University of Padova with a thesis on Caffeine-induced Changes in a shoal behaviour of Tiger Barb (Puntigrus tetrazona). During her studies went to the University of South Bohemia, Institute of Complex Systems FFPW to participate in a project on Changes in shoal behaviour of aquarium fish in the presence of contaminants. Afterwards obtained her Master’s degree in Marine Sciences at the University of Milan-Bicocca with a thesis Picophytoplankton dynamics in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Gulf of Trieste). During the course of her studies went to Thudufushi, Maldives as a Marine Biologist. Moreover, did an experience at The National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS (Trieste) using optical (flow cytometry), molecular, and bioinformatics techniques for the study of planktonic microbes in the Gulf of Trieste and Venice. Currently works at the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP-CNR) in Messina with a research project HALOVITA: anaerobic sulfur-respiring extreme halophilic archaea as model organisms for studying the criteria for a claim of active life detection.

Ripa Chiara She obtained her Master's degree in Ecobiology (environmental and evolutionary biology) at the University of Rome La Sapienza. She took part in different projects of scientific research in Italy and abroad, mainly focused on the study of biodiversity, through genetic and morphological studies, and on the environment through remote monitoring systems, having the opportunity to deal with several topics and acquire different skills. She is currently a research fellow in the 'NADC National Antarctic Data Center' project, funded by the PNRA. She works at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the CNR (ISP-CNR) in Rome, where she is in charge of data management and managing the IT infrastructure for cataloguing and sharing data and metadata related to scientific projects mainly related to climatology, radiation and marine biology carried out in Antarctica.

Rosso Beatrice PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, with a thesis on the assessment of Small Microplastics (<100 µm) fluxes and other pollutants from the atmospheric compartment to highways stormwaters run-off. Research fellow (2019-2020) at Ca’ Foscari University with a research project in the development and analysis of microplastics (<100 µm) and plastic additives via MicroFTIR and PyrGC/MS in different environmental matrices, such as water, sediment, biota, snow, aerosol and ice cores also from Svalbard Islands. Winner of an Arctic Field Grant 2020 on the quantification and identification of small microplastics, additives, and plasticizers in snow and aerosol from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard Island.

Current position: Research Fellow at CNR-ISP on the microplastics and plastic additives analysis and environmental impact assessment in different polar matrices.

Sabino Mathia He obtained in 2016 his Master’s degree in Applied Earth Sciences at the University of Turin. In 2021, he obtained his PhD at the University of Hamburg (Germany) in the Department of Earth Sciences. For his doctoral project, he investigated the paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental conditions in the Mediterranean area about 6 million years ago, when the Mediterranean Basin became almost completely isolated from the global ocean. To carry out his research, he mostly uses fossil molecules preserved in marine sedimentary rocks that can be assigned to a biological source in the environment, i.e. lipid biomarkers.

Currently, he is a research fellow at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the CNR carrying out his research at the Aldo Pontremoli join-lab of Lecce and in Bologna. His research deals with the use of lipid biomarkers to reconstruct the effects of permafrost thawing on the Arctic Ocean.

Scoto Federico 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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Spagnesi Azzurra 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.

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