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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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Director of Research at the CNR Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) in Bologna, involved in polar research and management since 1986, both in Antarctica and in the Arctic. I am an expert of radiative transfer processes into the atmosphere, with research focus on radiation budget and role that atmospheric composition and surface characteristics play in modulating Shortwave (SW) and Longwave (LW) radiation components, determining their seasonal and inter-annual variability. In the last 10-15 years, I also promote implementation of complex and multidisciplinary observing platforms, as the Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower at Ny Alesund, to investigate coupling processes at the air-snow-land interface and in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL).
Research activities in this period included also (i) studies on effects of ozone depletion events in the Arctic on UV surface fluxes and their propagation at lower latitudes, (ii) investigation of snow surface albedo (broadband, spectral) and melting process, (iii) observations of aerosol vertical profiles (stratification) in polar (ABL) with tethered balloon (iv) improvement of polar night aerosol measurements thanks to the new lunar photometric technique. Always interested to improve observation capabilities in/for harsh environments, developing also custom instrumentation. At the moment, efforts are devoted to develop new systems for snow optical characteristics (spectral albedo, BRDF reflectance), as well as to improve atmospheric measurements over the ocean in general, and in particular quality, continuity and accuracy of ship measurements of radiation, cloudiness characteristics, and columnar aerosol (AOT).

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Degree in Geological Sciences - University of Bologna, 1999. Researcher at the CNR ISMAR in Bologna, 2000- 2019. Researcher at the CNR-ISP in Bologna, 2019-present.
She deals with sedimentological, mineralogical and biogeochemical reconstructions, transport pathways and depositional processes of the bottom sediments and suspended particles; assessments of impact by inputs of nutrients and contaminants from urban, industrial, harbours, aquaculture and offshore activities in lakes, transitional environments, and coastal to deep marine ecosystems. She specialized in the phosphorus cycle to identify the causes of the onset of dystrophic crises, anoxic crises and mucilaginous phenomena. She studies the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nutrients and metals, their speciation, early diagenesis processes, bioavailability and benthic flows at the water-sediment interface.
She has been participated to the deployment and management of permanent automatic buoy stations and moorings and the development, calibration and validation of sediment incubators, benthic chambers and landers for the measurement, sampling and analysis of marine environmental parameters for marine researches and monitoring.
She is involved in the study of carbon, nutrients, contaminants and organic matter in particulates and in their calculations of mass balance, vertical flows and lateral transport from the continental shelf to deep basins.
Participation in EC, PRA and PNRA Projects, Conventions with Italian Regional Authorities and Contracts with large and small-medium Enterprises. PI or WP leader of national and international projects. More than 50 oceanographic cruises (25 as Chief Scientist). Supervisor and tutor in over 30 degree thesis and traineeships. Author and co-author of ca. 100 scientific reports, 20 publications, 50 abstracts, 149 citations, H index = 8 (Scopus).

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Master degree in Physics at the Padova University. Researcher at CNR since 1988. The main research activity is on the field of Earth Observarion, carried out using active instruments (Synthetic Aperture Radar-SAR, scatterometer), to monitor the sea surface, with the main focus on the meteorological processes at meso and micro scales (below 5 km) and on the extraction geophysical parameters from the SAR images. He is involved in alpine glaciers modelling, to study their evolution under the different scenarios of the climate change.
He coordinated projects with ESA (European Space Agency) and is co-investigator in projects of ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana). At present he is Principal Investigator of IsCSK4MOSAiC, an ASI and CNR project, to provide to the artic expedition MOSAiC (mosaic-expedition.org, September 2019-September 2020) SAR images of CosmoSkyMED in near real time.
He is associated professor of Remote Sensing at the Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran.

Current position: retired

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In memory (1955 - 2023)
 
He graduated degree in Physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza a thesis in physical oceanography. Hired in 1984, in the CNR he carried out research in the field of satellite remote sensing of the sea surface. In 1992 he began to deal with processes in the atmospheric boundary layer using acoustic remote sensing from the ground. He collaborated in the development and implementation of sodar (SOund Detection and Ranging) in the development of new methodologies for observing the lower atmosphere. As part of these activities, he participated in several campaigns in Antarctica at the Mario Zucchelli and Concordia stations, for the study of the dynamic characteristics of the atmospheric boundary layer in a polar environment.
Since 2009 he has oriented his research activity on the processes relating to climate change in the Arctic polar region, which has seen a strong revival of research in the atmosphere, with the construction of the Climate Change Tower, an important infrastructure to measure physical parameters of the lower atmosphere, for which he is responsible. He currently has a coordination role in the working group of the Italian research activities at Svalbard, he represents the CNR in the NYSMAC and is included in the SIOS coordination working groups for the data management in Svalbard (SDMS) and he is Chair of the WG for Research Infrastructures Coordination Committee (RICC). He is also one of the Italian representative within the Arctic Council's AMAP (atmospheric monitoring) working group. Finally, he is the scientific manager of the IADC (Italian Arctic Data Center) the digital infrastructure for the management of data collected at the Arctic station Dirigibile Italia.

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Geologist, from 2003 technologist at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Her research interests are in knowledge organisation, science language, terminology tools (Thesauri, Glossaries, and Ontologies) and environmental assessment (impact studies reports and emission inventories). Experience in planning, designing and implementing webGIS and GIS, focusing especially on thematic cartography.

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Graduated in Natural Sciences in 1984.
CNR researcher since 1994 at the Institute of Biomedical Technologies (CNR-ITBM). Since 2002 at the Institute on Atmospheric Pollution (CNR-IIA). From 2019 to the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP).
CNR macro areas of reference: Earth and Environment.
Research interests:
  - environmental and geographical knowledge organization
  - qualitative and quantitative analysis of vertebrate fauna
  - Geographic Information Systems
  - military geosciences
He currently carries out research on conceptual development and technological innovation in the field of knowledge organization, controlled terminology and multilingual thesauri for the environment. He collaborated, among others, with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), with the European Environment Agency (EEA), with the American Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). He is co-author of the UNEP-Infoterra Thesauri, GEMET, GEneral Multilingual Environment Thesaurus and EARTh, Environmental Applications Reference Thesaurus.

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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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