Master’s degree in Natural Sciences (University of Milano), PhD Candidate in Environmental, Geological and Polar Sciences and Technologies (University of Siena) co-financed by the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA). Current position: research fellow at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the CNR (CNR-ISP) in Milano.
Currently the research concerns the use of satellite images for the estimation of optical and thermal properties of glaciers at the margins of the Antarctic Ice Sheet as a part of the PNRA18 Project Bio-Geo Albedo feedback at Antarctic Ice-Sheet margins. Previously the research concerned the analysis by remote sensing of ablation areas in Antarctica, i.e., wind crust and blue ice, with particular attention to the snow megadune fields on the Antarctic plateau. He attended two PhD courses at The University Centre in Svalbard (NO), with which took part in a campaign in Nordaustlandet Island. As a visiting PhD student, he spent a period at the Finnish Meteorological Institute of Helsinki (FIN) and taught as a tutor for master’s and bachelor laboratories of Cartography and Geographic Information System at the University of Milan. Author of seven scientific publications in international journals.

Degree M.Sc. Geology (University of Padua).
Current position: Researcher at Institute of Polar Sciences-CNR, Venezia; permanent position.
Previously: Researcher at the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes – CNR; scholarship at Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (Italy); fellowship at Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (Italy); research assistant at Institut de Biogeochimie Marine - ENS – CNRS, France.
Fields of interest: trace elements in real matrices (waters, particulate, microlayer, sediments, snow and ice) using ICP-mass spectrometry. Stable isotopes (δD, δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ¹⁸O) in water, snow and ice by means of IR-mass spectrometry. Geochemical characterization of oceanic water masses. Rare earth elements as geochemical tracer in natural water systems: in snow and ice for paleoclimatic reconstruction, in aerosol as tracer of source area. Characterization of natural systems (seawater, particulate, sediments) via chemometrics tools.
Recent Research Projects - H2020: Beyond Epica (2019-2025) - Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core: 1,5 Myr of greenhouse gas – climate feedbacks – Researcher and member of the Management Support Team; PNRA project (2017-2019): EvASIon - Mercer and Whillans lakes: Evolution of hydrologically Active Subglacial environments – Project Leader; PNRA project (202-2014): CaBiLA- Geochemical characterization of Antarctic subglacial lakes) – Project Leader.; Progetto Premiale ARCA: Arctic - present Climatic change and pAst extreme events; Regione Veneto: Q-ALiVe - Quality of Venetian Littoral Environment – Project Leader; PRIN15 (2017-2020): RESACC - Responses of sensitive alpine ecosystems to climate change; PRIN09 – Arctica, Referent for WP4. Researcher under Antarctic campaigns on-board Italica vessel (2001 and 2005-2006 as project referent). Her research activity is testified by more than 60 research articles in international journal with peer review and 160 abstracts for communication/poster presentation in congresses. Present Hirsch Index: 20.

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Scopus - Author ID: 6602486850    http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3130-2901    WoS Researcher ID: O-2849-2015    Research Gate: Clara Turetta

Graduated in Biological Sciences (2006) at Sapienza University, Rome and PhD in Ecology and Natural Resources Management (2013),Tuscia, University, Viterbo. She recently joined as researcher the CNR, Institute of Polar Sciences (2020) in Rome (Montelibretti) and she is lecturer in Remote Sensing and GIS for the Master Degree Course in Ecobiology at Sapienza, University, Rome.
Her scientific activities started with studies on the anthropogenic impacts in marine and coastal environments and in 2011 she joined the team of technical research collaborators at the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research as an expert in ecology and geospatial application to environmental monitoring with a permanent position.
Her research spans from terrestrial to aquatic sphere and includes the use of remote sensing principles and methods in the field of ecology, geography and environmental sciences. She develops integrated models for ecosystem services assessment, natural capital estimation and natural resources monitoring, considering bio-geosphere cross scales interaction and addressing landscape spatial patterns and temporal process. She has experience in national and international research and capacity building projects, publications and dissemination in scientific contexts. She actively participates in the GEOBON Ecosystem Structure working group and in the technical roundtables supporting the European Copernicus and National Space Economy programs.

Born in Vibo Valentia. Currently, he is Researcher (permanent position) at the Institute of Polar Sciences – CNR, since June 2019.
   - Degree (MS) in Chemistry (University of Rome “La Sapienza”);
   - Master's Diploma at the Department of Chemical Engineering (University of Rome “La Sapienza”);
   - Doctoral school in Chemical, Environmental and Safety Engineering (University of Rome “La Sapienza”), and Doctoral school in Chemical Sciences (University of Ferrara) where He obtained his PhD. Previously.

He carried out research activities at the:
   - Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes (CNR-IDPA) in Venice,
   - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA) in Montelibretti (Rome), and afterwards in Rende (Cosenza),
   - Institute of Hygiene “G. Sanarelli“/Department of Public Health (University of Rome “La Sapienza”).

He taught General and Inorganic Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" as Adjunct Professor (Professore a contratto) (2008-2019). He collaborated with several research groups, developing and optimizing active and passive sampling strategies and chemical analytical methods for organic and inorganic micro pollutants (PCDDs, PCDFs, PCBs, PAHs, COVs, and heavy metals) as well as major ions. He applied chromatographic methods, in particular, gas-chromatography/mass spectrometry, to matrices such as ambient air, atmospheric particulate matter, atmospheric deposition and natural waters. His interests have been focused on quantifying levels of contaminants, studying their transport, dynamics, fate and environmental impacts, in urban, rural and remote areas. In recent years he has been focusing on the determination of mercury at ultra-trace levels by using atomic fluorescence techniques, in air and atmospheric deposition, as well as in potable waters. He has substantially improved some analytical aspects by eliminating the operational criticalities associated with Hg detection. In the framework of the Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS) project, coordinated by the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA). He was responsible for analytical mercury measurements in bulk and wet-only deposition samples from different remote sites at the CNR-ISP.

He is member of the research group carrying out measurements at the high-altitude Observatory of Col Margherita (MRG) in the Eastern Alps (Belluno Dolomites). This activity is within the scope of the iGOSP (Integrated Global Observing Systems for Persistent Pollutants, strand 3 - Global Change and Environmental Treaties) of the European ERA-PLANET project (2017-2020). He has been involved in several measurement campaigns, in an oceanographic campaign in the Mediterranean Sea on board the research vessel R/V “Urania” as Chief-Scientist, and in research activities (e.g. Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments- iCUPE and Microtracer projects) at the CNR Arctic Station “Dirigibile Italia” as “Acting Station Leader” and “Field Scientist” in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard Islands, Norway (Four expedition, 2018-2022). In 2022, he was appointed as RSU (Trade-Union Representative) and as RLS (Workers Safety Representative) for the CNR Research Institutes of the Venice area.

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