Research interests
Development of mass spectrometry-based advanced analytical methodology for trace and ultra-trace determinations in environmental, biological and agrifood matrices; long-term paleoclimate and atmospheric chemistry from ice cores; heavy metals in polar and temperate ice and snow.

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Researcher; her main fields of research are quantification and identification of small microplastics (1-100 µm) in different environmental matrices (permafrost, biota, sediments, etc.) via MicroFTIR, quantification and identification of microplastic fibers via MicroFTIR, speciation of trace elements in Antarctic waters, geospeciation of trace elements and REEs in sediments and soils, bioaccumulation of trace elements and REEs in feathers, microscopical techniques and ancillary analyses. Author of several peer-reviewed articles, she has participated to national and international congresses and is reviewer for journals such as STOTEN (Science of the Total Environment) Estaurine Coastal and Shelf Science, International Journal of Environmental Pollution and Remediation, Scientific Reports Nature. She is member of the Scientific Committee of ICEPR – International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation. She is member of the Institute Committee (CdI) and she is also CNR representative on the Executive Board of District of Venice Research and Innovation (DVRI) and is member of the Leonardos group for Science Gallery Venice.

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Diploma of technical-tourist maturity. 1992-1998: research support activities at the Ca' Foscari University, Department of Environmental Sciences, with freelance work contracts. 1998-2011: permanent position, as technician, at the Ca' Foscari University, Department of Environmental Sciences.
She was assigned, by convention, to the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes of the CNR (IDPA), formerly Centre of Study on Chemistry and Technologies for the Environment. From 1 November 2011 employee CNR (following mobility between entities) at the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes (IDPA), profile C.T.E.R. - VI level. From 2004 to 2019 she assumed the role of Administrative Secretary of IDPA. In June 2019 she moved to the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) where she serves as Administrative Secretary.
In the first years of activity Valentina Cester has taken care of the logistic part of the expeditions in Antarctica relatively to the activities of the researchers of IDPA and of the group of Environmental Analytical Chemistry of the University Ca' Foscari. She has also played an active part in the organization of the National Conferences of the Environmental Contamination-PNRA Sector.

I'm an analytical chemist specialised in trace elemental analysis, and trace element speciation studies. My goals include determining the role, fate and toxic effects of heavy metals in the environment and their impact on humanity. Recently I have been concentrating on mercury, it's atmospheric concentrations and presence in snow, ice and ground water, with particular emphasis on deposition phenomena. I have participated in 2 Antarctic Expeditions to Concordia Station and am the Italian National Expert on the POPs and Mercury Expert Groups of AMAP, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program as well as on the Arctic Contaminants Action Program (ACAP).
I have co-authored over 64 publications and I am a writer for the Atomic Spectrometry Updates Environmental Analysis review of the Royal Society of Chemistry. I obtained my degree in Environmental Chemistry from the University of East Anglia, followed by an M.Sc in Analytical Chemistry, I obtained my Ph.D from the University of Plymouth in 1996.

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She took her degree in Physics at the University of Padua in 1999 and her PhD in Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Florence in 2007.
She joined the National Research Council of Italy in 2002 where she won a permanent position as a researcher in 2011. From 2002 to 2019 she worked at the Institute of Atmospheric Science and Climate (ISAC), Padua, then she moved to the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP), Venice, where she is currently researcher.
Her research interests are in the fields of Atmospheric physics, Climatology and Microclimatology, Environmental Sciences.
At ISAC, she started working in microclimatology applied to the preventive conservation of cultural heritage assets, indoor environmental quality and energy saving, developing a large experience in multidisciplinary research projects. Then her research activity was more and more focused on climatology. Currently, her interest is on one side in climatic change research through the recovery, correction and analysis of proxy and instrumental series of climatic data; on the other in the study of atmospheric physical parameters and processes to investigate the energy balance and the polar climatic system. She was member of the coordination team of many FP5, FP7and H2020 European projects, and investigator in international and national projects. She was contract professor for masters and specialized course, tutor of PhD, BSc and MSc thesis.

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Arctic Frontiers Science 2021 will take place on 1-4 February 2021

Arctic Frontiers 2021 goes digital!

Pubblicato sul sito web della rivista internazionale Environment International lo Special Issue Plastics in polar regions.

Guest Editor: Ilaria Corsi, Elisa Bergami, Gabriella Caruso (CNR-ISP), Simone Cappello

A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry 

This Special Issue welcomes contributions on all compositional (chemical, physical, biological) aspects of polar and subpolar carbonates in the marine domain, recent and past.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 August 2021

Special Issue Editors: Paolo Montagna (CNR-ISP) and Marco Taviani (CNR-ISMAR)

27 Luglio 2020

Sono state osservate microplastiche negli oceani, nelle acque dolci, nei suoli, nei sedimenti, nelle acque potabili, e anche nelle aree polari. Nel lavoro pubblicato su Environmental Research, i ricercatori dell’Enea, dell’Università La Sapienza e dell’Istituto di Scienze Polari (CNR-ISP) hanno osservato la presenza di microplastiche ingerite da Gammarus setosus (Amphipoda), un crostaceo diffuso nelle Isole Svalbard e in altre aree dell’Artico.

Le microplastiche ingerite dal G. setosus sono state studiate con tecniche specifiche di colorazione e tramite spettroscopia infrarossa (Micro-FTIR). Le particelle di plastica ritrovate all’interno degli organismi analizzati avevano dimensioni comprese tra i 3 e i 370 µm (milionesimi di metro).

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