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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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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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Full Professor within the Class 08/A4 - Geomatics at the University of Bologna Department DICAM. Coordinator of the PhD@DICAM Doctoral course, composed by four curricula (PhD in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering) of DICAM. Scientific Responsible of the Land Surveying and Geomatics Laboratory (LARIG). Part of the International GNSS Service and member of the University Consortium: UNAVCO.
Main scientific and research activities in the polar regions:
- Researches in Antarctica for the study of geodynamics and for the study of glaciers movements, within the National Program of Research in Antarctica (PNRA) since 1990.
- To date he attended 10 scientific expeditions in Antarctica and one in Arctic (Svalbard Islands) in 2002.
- Responsible of the GPS geodetic network for the study of the ice surface velocity field around the site of the deep ice coring at Dome Concordia (European Project for Ice Core in Antarctica, EPICA).
- Member of the European Project H2020 Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice, with the aim to retrieve a continuous ice core to bedrock in Antarctica, covering the climate history of the Mid Pleistocene Transition and beyond.
- Responsible of the GNSS permanent station installed at Station Concordia.
- Contribution for the installation and data analysis of a tide gauge station at Italian Mario Zucchelli Station (Antarctica).
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)
The Outreach and Communication Working Group is made up of 10 members, appointed by the Director, and with the following tasks:
- Development and updating of the institutional website.
- Check for updates of websites associated with national polar activities.
- Updating the public of our activities through social media.
- Organization of seminars.
- Internal communication within the Institute.
- Collection and cataloguing of ISP Communications and Dissemination activities.
- Collaboration with the CNR Outreach site working group.
- Collaboration with the Press Office of the CNR.
- Collaboration with the Communication Office of the CNR.
Contact: isp-gdl-comunicazione AT isp.cnr.it
The Communication WG of the Institute of Polar Sciences consists of:
Angelo Pietro Viola
(Coordinator from 2019 to March 2023 )
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Daniela Beatrici
(Webmaster) Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
Francesco De Biasio
Angelina Lo Giudice
Mauro Mazzola
Paolo Montagna
Maria Papale
Jasmin Rauseo
Francesca Spataro
Clara Turetta
(Coordinator)
Giulio Verazzo
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She is Graduated in Biological Sciences and specialized in Applied Microbiology.
Since 1982 she has carried out research activity at the CNR, Istituto Sperimentale Talassografico of Messina, now part of the ISP-CNR. Since 2001 she is Senior Researcher.
From the beginning she has been involved in research in the field of microbial ecology. She studies the interactions among environmental factors and marine microbial communities; in particular the effects of climate change on biogeochemical cycles, through the study of the decomposition rates of organic matter (measurements of enzymatic activity such as peptidases, glucosidases and phosphatases).
Other research interests are: -testing the antimicrobial activity of essential oils and new polymers; -evaluation of the health risk in coastal waters (by experimentation of the immunofluorescence technique for the direct count of Escherichia coli, Vibrio spp, Photobacterium). P.I. of National (PRISMA 1, Marine Ecosystems/SINAPSI; MIPAF IV triennial plan N.C16; PON-RSF 2000-2006 N.12745; VECTOR L.4–5.2) and regional projects. Author of over 130 scientific papers published in international and national journals.
Recently she has collaborated on PNRA projects: 2014-2015 PNRA Project: Coastal Ecosystem Functioning in a changing Antarctic ocean (CEFA). P.I. Prof. L. Guglielmo, UO 7, dr. R. La Ferla.
2016-2017 PNRA16 proposal: Biodiversity and functioning of the planktonic ecosystems of the Ross Sea in the changing Southern Ocean (P-ROSE), P.I. dr. O. Mangoni, UO 7, dr. R. La Ferla Microbial biogeochemical rates.
2016-2017 PNRA16: 00207 - A3 - CELEBeR (CDW Effects on glaciaL mElting and on Bulk of Fe in the Western Ross sea (CELEBeR). P.I. dr. P. Rivaro, U.O. dr. Maurizio Azzaro.
2020-2021 PNRA18-0041-B2, Screening of antibiotic-resistance phenomena in bacterial strains isolated from water, sediment and intestine of Antarctic teleosts. P.I. Dr. M. Mancuso.
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CTER VI - Staff at the CNR since April 2011.
From 2011 to 2020 permanent position, profile technician, at Constructive Technology Institute (CNR-ITC) in Padova with the following duties:
• Purchasing Department: arrangement of purchase drafts, later representative of the ITC Direction for purchases and maintenance;
• employee Administration: management of employee procedures (open-handed and fixed-term contracts, researchers, doctoral candidates, PhD students);
• delegate for the ITC Accident Registry and representative for Prevention and Protection Service (SPP);
• responsible for ITC Library: journals subscription; cataloguing and filing of and scientific material (monographs, periodicals, theses, etc.) into ACNP (Italian Periodicals Catalogue) and Documents Service of Padua Research Area; management of Document Delivery via Nilde (Network Inter-Library Document Exchange); purchase and filing of UNI rules.
Since March 2020, transferred to Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP). In charge of Health Surveillance, Employees Registry and Administration.
Since 2011 she was a research scientist at the IDPA-CNR Venice. Since June 2019 has been working at the ISP-CNR. Her research interests include: creating new analytical methods using HRGC-LRMS, HRGC-HRMS, HPLC-HRMS and HPLC-MS/MS for the determination of organic micropolluttants, tracers and biomarkers, and chemical characterization of organic fraction of environmental matrices. She actively participates in PNRA Antarctic, Arctic and European Projects.
Degree in Education Science specialization in Expert in Training Processes. She has acquired a solid foundation of basic computer skills through courses such as the professional training course Multimedia Applications and Web solutions development 800-hour and the specialization course for Administrative neo-boards of cooperative enterprises 500-hour. From 2005, after a year of European Voluntary Service abroad in Belgium, she started working as an administrative assistant at the Municipality of Jesolo. From 1.12.2021 she works in the administrative office of the CNR-ISP Venice.
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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Researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) since July 2020. Previously researcher at the University Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy) and at the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). He received his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy), after a thesis entitled “Habitat distribution models for the management of fishery and conservation concern species in lagoon environment”. His work was carried out in the framework of different EU (FP7, Horizon 2020, Interreg) and Italian (PRIN) projects, and his main research topics are: 1) analysis of the spatial distribution of plant and animal species in coastal water bodies; 2) Community ecology in transitional water ecosystems; 3) Use of fish fauna assemblages as indicators of ecosystem ecological status; 4) Ecological models for food webs analysis; 5) Climate change effects on aquatic ecosystems.
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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
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