Institute

Advisory Board

The Institute Advisory Board (Art. 13, Regolamento Organizzazione e Funzionamento CNR del 2019) consists of the Director, who presides over it, six elected representatives of the researchers and technologists of the Institute and one technical-administrative staff representative.
 
The ISP Advisory Board members are:

. . . . . . . .
Mauro Sclavo
(Interim Director)
 C.Barbante (until 2024/30/04)
Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Pamela Cialli
(Representative of the
Technical-Administrative staff)
Fabiana Corami
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Francesco Filiciotto
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Angelina Lo Giudice
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Angelo Lupi
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Francesca Spataro
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)

 

Previous Advisory Board
December 21, 2019 - December 19, 2023
Director: Carlo Barbante
Representatives of the researchers and technologists: Maurizio Azzaro, Fabiana Corami, Federico Giglio, Elena Gregoris, Mauro Mazzola, Rosamaria Salvatori
Representative technical-administrative staff: Alessandro Cosenza

Interim Director - SCLAVO MAURO - direttore.isp AT cnr.it

The Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) of the National Research Council was born on June 1st, 2019 with act n.81 on 31/05/2019 of President Inguscio. The idea of a Polar Institute has its roots in research activities, which have expanded over time, starting from the first years of Antarctic research in 1985. The construction of the Italian base in Antarctica (MZS station) before and the base in the Arctic (DI station) afterwards, has allowed the development of two generations of polar researchers who have made these remote environments their natural laboratory and their home away from home.
 

The mission of the ISP is to contribute to increasing the quality of Italian scientific and technological research in the polar regions, and to provide knowledge on global changes in support of Italian and European environmental policies by the development of new technologies and survey methodologies.

The Institute aims to be a reference point for:

- CNR polar research; as ISP has extensive links to universities as well as national and international public and private bodies. ISP offers multidisciplinary skills and technologies that are essential to studying and protecting the environment;

- scientific personnel, able to make qualified contributions to the National Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA), the Arctic Research Programme (PRA) and European Commission projects through the development of research and monitoring activities;

- interdisciplinary polar cooperation and research, including the development of meetings, publications, research opportunities and complementary activities, and interacting with society;

- the standardisation of measurements and preparation methods to improve the quality of results, and the development of coordinated measures aimed at common research plans and/or general common objectives;

- the training of the next generation of polar scientists.

Fulfilling our mission will allow us to improve our understanding of the climatic changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic environments and possible future developments at both polar and global levels. Our studies address research issues related to both the chemical/geochemical and physical aspects of the poles using a multidisciplinary approach to protect these vulnerable extreme environments. The repercussions of climate change on these dynamics are still largely unknown and will require integrated research using long term multidisciplinary methods to understand them fully.

Sclavo Mauro Institute of Polar Science (CNR-ISP)

SCLAVO MAURO Interim Director
Degree in Physics, University of Padua; Post Graduate School in Maritime and Coastal Engineering, University of Padua. In 1996-1997 Human Capital Mobility EC grant at Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (Birkenhead-Liverpool, UK) where he made research on numerical and physical sensitivity in coastal and shallow water environments.
Researcher at CNR from 1998, presently Director of Research at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISP). He has done research work on wind wave modelling and on coastal processes with special focus on sediment transport; the models used are numerical wave and sediment transport models coupled with 3D circulation models. His research interests currently are the physical processes at the air-water and water-sediment interfaces, the wave-current coupling and the wave climate variations due to climate changes and their impact on coastal vulnerability. Other interests include the application of indicators for the integrated management of the coastal zone and the measurements of wave spectra with stereoscopic techniques.
Co-author of more than 70 scientific papers in ISI journals and of more than 150 conference papers; co-author of 2 patents and editor of MEDATLAS: Wind and Wave Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea. He participated in and coordinated several national and international research projects. In 2017 and 2018 he has been Head of the Institute of Marine Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR).

E-mail: direttore.isp AT cnr.it
c/o Campus Scientifico - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Via Torino, 155
30172 VENEZIA MESTRE (VE)

 

Previous directors:
Carlo Barbante (From the 1st May 2020 until the 30th April 2024)
Leonardo Langone - Interim Director (From the 1st June 2019 until the 30th April 2020)

Antonelli Giuseppe ANTONELLI GIUSEPPE
E-mail: giuseppe.antonelli AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

BEATRICI DANIELA
E-mail: daniela.beatrici AT cnr.it
- Treasurer of the secondary site of Rome
 

Administrative Secretariat: CESTER VALENTINA
Phone: +39 041 2348547
E-mail: isp-amministrazione-ve AT isp.cnr.it
Cester Valentina   - Coordination of the Institute’s administrative secretariat;
  - preparation and management of the Institute’s budget;
  - administrative and accounting management of active contracts;
  - management of the Institute’s contract staff (temporary staff, research grants), through the preparation of all documents (selection notices/notices, publication, ranking measures, letters of entrustment/contracts to the winners) including accounting management;
  - administrative support for examining committees during the stages of carrying out insolvency procedures;
  - support to the Institute’s researchers in preparing budgets for applications for funding for national and European research projects;
  - management and reporting of national and European research projects;
  - support for the management of the Institute by the preparation of the documentation requested by central administration of CNR.

Cialli_Pamela CIALLI PAMELA
Phone: +39 06 45488349
E-mail: pamela.cialli AT cnr.it
  - Management of the Protocol and Attendance Certificates for the Secondary Offices of Roma Montelibretti and Roma Tor Vergata.
  - Collaboration with the head office for:
    - verification of the accounting data relating to mission orders and consequent reimbursements for all the Institute’s offices;
    - preparation of all administrative acts relating to purchase orders.

 

 

Cosenza Alessandro COSENZA ALESSANDRO
E-mail: alessandro.cosenza AT cnr.it
- Treasurer of the secondary site of Messina

 

 

 

 

Di Leo Guglielmo DI LEO GUGLIELMO
E-mail: guglielmo.dileo AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

 

Nogarotto Alessio NOGAROTTO ALESSIO
E-mail: alessio.nogarotto AT cnr.it
 - Treasurer of the secondary site of Bologna

 

 

 

 

SACCHETTO ALESSIO
E-mail: alessio.sacchetto AT cnr.it

 

Zanella Jacopo ZANELLA JACOPO
Phone: +39 049 8295714
E-mail: jacopo.zanella AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

Zanotto Emanuela ZANOTTO EMANUELA
Phone: +39 041 2348902
E-mail: emanuela.zanotto AT cnr.it
  - Treasurer of the headquarters of Venice;
  - management of expenditure orders procedure (measures, checks of requirements, electronic market);
  - support to payment procedures for passive invoices;
  - support for the management of mission orders.

Working Group on International Cooperation

The Working Group "International Cooperation" partakes in and supports the international cooperation activities of ISP. It is made up of 4 members, appointed by the Director. A not exhaustive list of their tasks includes:

  - assist the director in managing the international cooperations in progress;
  - support the preparation and signing of new collaborations and agreements with international institutions;
  - support the director in responding to requests that may come from Ministries and / or national and international organizations with respect to international cooperation;
  - sustain the participation of the Institute in international coordination programs; in particular the EU Polar Cluster, EU Polarnet 2, as well as the national representative role in SAON;
  - collect and provide background information on current developments in the polar regions relevant to/for international cooperation;
  - offer an advisory function to specific requests of the Director in relation to international collaboration.

The WG International Cooperation has the general objective of preserving the wealth of skills and relationships that have been accumulated over the years, favoring a natural generational turnover within the Institute, and at the same time fully developing the function of ISP as a point of reference for the national polar research community towards its international counterparts.
 
Contact: Isp-relazioni-internazionali AT isp.cnr.it
 
The International Cooperation WG of the Institute of Polar Sciences consists of: :

Nicoletta Ademollo       Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
 
Angelina Lo Giudice       Chiara Venier
 
Vito Vitale (Coordinator)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

The CNR is present in various international coordination and scientific planning organizations in the Arctic and Antarctica. These include the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the European Polar Board (EPB), the Forum of Arctic Research Operators (FARO), the Ny-Ålesund Scientific Managers Committee (NySMAC) and the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON).

Furthermore, thanks to signed treaties or political agreements, the CNR actively supports the presence of our country, with its experts, in scientific organizations, committees and working groups. CNR researchers participate to the Working and Expert Groups of the Arctic Council (AC). With regards to Antarctica, the CNR takes an active part in the various permanent committees of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

ISP is strongly committed to guaranteeing the participation of the CNR in the SIOS (Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System) initiative whose purpose is to integrate, optimize and coordinate resources and research in the Svalbard archipelago at an international level.

In this context, the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) supports the CNR’s representation on international bodies with the presence of:

Acronym Organisation Name Role
AC-ACAP
Arctic Council - Arctic Contaminants Action Programme
POPs and Mercury Working group
Warren Cairns Component
AC-EGBCM
Arctic Council - Expert Group on Black Carbon and Methane Stefania Gilardoni Component
AC-AMAP
Arctic Council - Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Programme Nicoletta Ademollo, Vito Vitale Components
AC-AMAP
Arctic Council - Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Programme
Mercury Working group and POPs Working group
Warren Cairns Component
APECS
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
National Committees
Andrea Spolaor Component
ARICE
Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium Leonardo Langone CNR reprensentative
CAFF-PAME
Marine Invasive Alien Species in Arctic Waters Maurizio Azzaro National Delegate
EPB
European Polar Board Vito Vitale CNR reprensentative
FARO
Forum of Arctic Research Operators Mauro Mazzola National reprensentative
GEOTRACES
An International Study of the Marine Biogeochemical Cycles of Trace Elements and Isotopes Paolo Montagna National Delegate
IASC
International Arctic Science Committee Carlo Barbante National Delegate
IASC
International Arctic Science Committee
Cryosphere Working Group
Andrea Spolaor Component
IASC
International Arctic Science Committee
Marine Working Group
Tommaso Tesi Component
IPA
International Permafrost Association Renato R. Colucci National Delegate
NySMAC
Ny-Ålesund Science Managers Committee Angelo Viola National representative
SAON
Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks Vito Vitale Component
SAS
Synoptic Arctic Survey Scientific Steering Committee Maurizio Azzaro Component
SCAR-IMPACT
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Input Pathways of Persistent Organic Pollutants to Antarctica
Nicoletta Ademollo Component
SIOS-BoD
Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System
Board of Director
Vito Vitale Component
SIOS-RICC
Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System
Research Infrastructure Coordination Committee
Mauro Mazzola, Stefania Gilardoni Components
SIOS-SDMS
Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System
SIOS Data Management System Working Group
Giulio Verazzo Component
WOAIII
United Nations, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea,
World Ocean Assessment III
Maurizio Azzaro Expert
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