22 Novembre 2023

Nel campo remoto di Little Dome C, in Antartide, a pochi chilometri dalla stazione Concordia, un team internazionale composto da 16 persone, tra ricercatori e personale logistico, ha iniziato la terza campagna di perforazione profonda per il progetto europeo Beyond EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) - Oldest Ice. Il gruppo lavorerà per oltre due mesi sul plateau antartico a 3.200 metri di altitudine, dove la temperatura media estiva è di -35 °C.
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Immagine - (Credit: S. Panichi©PNRA/IPEV)

Bachelor in oceanography at Federal University of Rio Grande. Erasmus Mundus double master degree in Water and Coastal Management (WACOMA) at University of Bologna, University of Cadiz and University of Algarve. Since 2022 is a PhD student in Polar Sciences at Ca’Foscari University of Venice and at the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS). Currently focusing the thesis in the ocean circulation in the Southern Ocean using ARGO float mesurements.

The EU-H2020 funded INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) opens a call for research groups to apply for Transnational Access and Remote Access to 39 (TA) and 26 (RA) research stations.

The current call for Transnational and Remote Access applications is open until 15^th December 2023, and it is for access taking place in April -October 2024. You can find the TA/RA Call information, descriptions of stations and their facilities, and registration to the INTERACCESS on-line application system from the INTERACT website. (on-line webinar will be held on 29th November)

Master’s degree in environmental sciences at the University of Pisa. After a two-months period at the National Natural history Museum in Luxembourg, and after a period spent as a research fellow in the University of Pisa, I enrolled in the Polar Science Ph.D. program at the university of Ca’Foscari in Venice. My research revolves around paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Antarctica’s fjord utilizing calcareous microfossils.

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2199-379X    Research gate

PhD student in polar sciences at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Bachelor graduated in Physics at University of Torino and master graduated in Physics of Meteoclimatic System at University of Torino. The master thesis was based on an analysis of the Apollo cyclone and its possible transition to MEDIterranean hurricane (MEDICANE) during the 26-29th October 2021 using the WRF meteorological model.

Now she is working on remote sensing analysis of polar regions especially on the comparison of land and satellite measures near the Thule High Arctic Atmospheric Observatory (THAAO) in Greenland.

Bachelor in Geology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and Master in Geochemistry from the same University. Since 2022 is developing his PhD thesis at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in the program of Polar Sciences studying organic molecules in an Andean ice core to unveil the paleofire history in the Amazon region.

Avviso di selezione n° ISP-AR02-2023-BO, scadenza 1 Dicembre 2023

Pubblica selezione per il conferimento di n° 1 assegno per lo svolgimento di attività di ricerca nell'ambito del Programma di Ricerca del Progetto Join Research Agreement ENICNR sull'Artico. Sottoprogetto di Ricerca 2 SOURCE-TO-SINK: EFFETTI DELLO SCONGELAMENTO DEL PERMAFROST SULL'OCEANO ARTICO, da svolgersi prevalentemente presso l'Istituto di Scienze Polari (CNR-ISP) sede secondaria di Bologna ed il centro Aldo Pontremoli (ospitato nei locali NANOTE-CNR di Lecce) - CUP B24I19000530003.
Tipologia di Assegno: B) Assegno Post Dottorale
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Avviso di selezione n° ISP-AR03-2023-BO, scadenza 1 Dicembre 2023

Pubblica selezione per il conferimento di n° 1 assegno professionalizzante per lo svolgimento di attività di ricerca nell'ambito del Programma di Ricerca PNRA19_00009 - oCean Atmosphere Interactions in the Antarctic regions and Convergence latitude (CAIAC) - CUP B93C21000050001.
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31 Ottobre 2023

È iniziata la 39a spedizione scientifica italiana in Antartide con l’apertura della base Mario Zucchelli sul promontorio di Baia Terra Nova. La campagna estiva durerà oltre 4 mesi e vedrà il coinvolgimento di circa 130 tra ricercatori e tecnici impegnati in 31 progetti di ricerca su scienze dell’atmosfera, geologia, paleoclima, biologia, oceanografia e astronomia. Le missioni italiane in Antartide, finanziate dal Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca nell’ambito del Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), sono gestite dal Cnr per il coordinamento scientifico, dall’ENEA per la pianificazione e l’organizzazione logistica delle attività presso le basi antartiche e dall’Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS per la gestione tecnica e scientifica della nave rompighiaccio Laura Bassi.        Comunicato stampa 

Arrivo del primo contingente presso la stazione Mario Zucchelli (Foto ©PNRA)

Laura Zucconi Galli Fonseca (h-index 33) is Associate Professor in Botany from 2005. She has been involved in Antarctic Research projects from 1992 both as PI or responsible of RU, as well as in projects in other extreme environments, as the Arctic (INTERACT-Horizon 2020) and Alps (PRIN 2015, PRIN 2019, PRIN 2022). She joined the 2014 Arctic expedition (Ny-Ålesund) and six Italian Antarctic Expeditions (XIX, XXVI, XXXI, XXXIII, XXXV, XXXVII), appointed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) as Scientific Coordinator of the research activities carried out at the Italian Base during the XXVI, XXXV, and XXXVII Expeditions. Member of the Editorial Board of Section ‘Extreme Microbiology’ in Frontiers in Microbiology. Guest Associate Editor of two topics for Frontiers in Microbiology and two topics for Biology (MDPI).
Her scientific activity focuses on microbial ecology, in particular on Antarctic soil and cryptoendolithic communities distribution, biodiversity and adaptation to different stresses. In the last years, her research is being extended in a deeper analysis of soil microbial communities through molecular approaches, to describe the effects of environmental conditions on their composition, functionality and adaptability. Her research activities range among different fields: systematic and taxonomy of filamentous fungi, ultrastructural morphology, molecular biology, astrobiology, adaptive responses to stress conditions – including real and simulated space conditions – of both single species and whole fungal communities.

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9793-2303    Web of Science ResearcherID: U-9781-2018