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Gambi Maria Cristina

Gambi Maria Cristina She graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Siena in 1977, and worked as a research biologist and marine ecologist at the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station in Naples, at the current Ischia Marine Center, from 1983 to 2021, coordinating the Ischia team for some periods. Since 2021 she has been an associated researcher at the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS in Trieste, she is also associated with ISPRA-Rome (September 2023) and the Polar Scientific Institute of the CNR in Messina (May 2024). She has worked in the field of ecology of benthic biota, and coastal benthic ecosystems, with particular focus on the taxonomy and ecology of polychaete marine worms, and the ecology of seagrass systems, especially Posidonia oceanica. She has also worked in coastal polar environments, participating between 1989 and 2006 in 6 oceanographic expeditions to Antarctica and sub-Antarctica within the PNRA and the German and Spanish programmes, coordinating the research group of the SZN team in Ischia. For over 20 years she has been studying the effects of climate change on the benthos, in relation to both the increase in temperature (heat waves, alien species) and ocean acidification. In this later topic she is studying the ecology and eco-physiology of the benthic biota, including seagrasses, which live in particular coastal hydrothermal systems characterized by CO₂ emissions from the seabed (vents) and natural acidification of the waters both at Ischia and in the Aeolian islands. She has supervised approximately 36 master's theses, 11 PhDs and 4 post-docs. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Marine Ecology (Wiley; 2005-2013) and has published over 300 scientific papers and 4 books. Passionate about classical and popular music, she completed regular flute studies at the R. Franci music school of Siena.

Gilardoni Stefania

Gilardoni Stefania Education and previous professional experience. PhD in Chemistry from the University of Milano (2003). Degree in Chemistry from the University of Milano (2000)
Senior researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), August 2019 – present. Researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research Council of Italy (ISAC-CNR), July 2011-July 2019. Visiting scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, February 2011- March 2011. Researcher at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, October 2007-September 2010. Researcher at the University of California San Diego, July 2005-September 2007. Researcher at the University of California Davis, February 2004-July 2005. PhD in Chemistry from the University of Milano (2003) Degree in Chemistry from the University of Milano (2000)
International activities. Editor for "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics" (since 2013). Editor for "Aerosol and Air Quality Research" (since 2011). Guest Editor for "Atmosphere" special issue on Aerosol Mass Spectrometry (2017). Referee for scientific papers: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Environment, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Geophysical Research. Italian expert in the “Expert Group on Black Carbon and Methane” of the Arctic Council (since 2019). Working group leader for organic aerosol source apportionment of the COST Colossal project (2017-2021).
Area of scientific interest: Chemical and physical characterization of atmospheric aerosol with particular attention to the carbonaceous components, their chemical composition, microphysical properties, climate-relevant properties, and formation mechanisms. Cloud - aerosol interaction. Impact of air quality and climate change on fog formation.
Author of 58 publications in peer review journals and 5 chapters in books (h-index 21 – web of science)

Scopus - Author ID: 6602523027 ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7312-5571 WoS Researcher ID: P-1283-2014 Google Scholar

Giordano Patrizia

Giordano Patrizia 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).

ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5662-2659 Scopus

Gomes Ilha Joao

Gomes Ilha Joao 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.

Gregoris Elena

Gregoris Elena She mainly deals with the development of analytical methods for the determination of legacy and emerging organic pollutants, in various environmental matrices. Among the areas of interest are the air quality, the analysis of pollutants in gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, the determination of microplastics, the application of statistical techniques for the evaluation of pollution sources. She has worked on several European projects, managed collaborations for research activities also with private companies, has been a correlator of various theses. She studied in Venice, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 2005 and a master’s degree in chemistry and environmental Compatibility in 2007, both with full grades. In 2011 she obtained the double degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Sciences at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and of Biological Sciences, at the Universidade Estadual Paulista of Botucatu (San Paolo - Brasile). During her doctorate, she focused mainly on antioxidant power analysis in foods, including fruit and propolis. Between 2009 and 2010 she spent a period of 6 months at the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo, working mainly on fruits originating from the tropical zone of Brazil and poorly studied until then. From 2012 to 2017 she was a research fellow at the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes (IDPA-CNR), in 2017-2018 a research technologist of the ECOMOBILITY project at the University of Ca' Foscari Venice and from July 2019 a researcher of the III level at CNR-ISP.

Scopus - Author ID: 26649910100 ResearchGate Google Scholar

Gruvebadet - Aerosol laboratory

The Gruvebadet atmospheric laboratory is located about one kilometre south of Ny-Ålesund and is dedicated to the study of the atmospheric composition and more particularly that of the aerosol. The laboratory was opened in 2010 by the CNR in the building that once housed the Ny-Ålesund miners' showers (Gruve = mine, badet = bathroom in Norwegian).
The laboratory is equipped to house a large number of instruments dedicated to the study of aerosol. There is an accessible roof for the installation of both sampling heads and actual samplers, as well as a series of "passages" for the sampling tubes between the interior of the laboratory and the roof.
The laboratory is managed by the CNR in collaboration with numerous Italian universities: Florence, Perugia, Venice, Turin etc.
The main measurements made in the laboratory are:
   - the chemical characterization (organic component and metals) of size segregated atmospheric particulate ;
   - measurement of the size distribution of aerosols and their diffusion and radiation absorption properties ;
   - the measurement of the carbon component of particulate matter (EC / OC);
   - study of new particle formation processes and their ability to form clouds.
In recent years, atmospheric activities have been accompanied by studies of the surface snowpack. The interaction between the atmosphere and snow is one of the topics that most needs to be explored as, for example, the deposition of particulate matter on the snow can accelerate its melting.
The laboratory has attracted more and more interest from foreign researchers; to date, there are numerous active international collaborations on these topics with KOPRI, NPI, the University of Helsinki etc and others.

Gruvebadet - Aerosol laboratory on the website: artico.cnr.it

Guglielmo Letterio

Guglielmo Letterio Since 1990 he is full professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Science of the University of Messina (Italy). General Secretary in the following NATO courses coordinated by Dr Trevor Platt, Halifax, Canada: (a) Lipari Island, Italy (12-24 October 1980) on Physiological ecology of Phytoplankton, (b) Bombannes (Bordeaux, France 12-20 May 1982) on Flows of energy and materials in marine ecosyistems: theory and practice, (c) S. Miniato, Italy (1-7 October 1985) on Physiological Ecology of photosynthetic Picopl9ankton in the Ocean. From 1990 to 2002, Italian Delegate to the Scientific Commission of the CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Hobart (Tasmania, Australia). Over 60 months accumulated research experience at sea, including the following PNRA Italian Antarctic Expeditions as Principal Investigator: III Exp. (Terra Nova Bay Ecosystem,1987-88), V (South Pacific Sector,1989-90), X ROSSMIZE (Ross Sea Marginal Ice Zone Ecology,1994-95), XIII PIPEX (Pack Ice Plankton Expedition,1997-98), XV PIED (Pack Ice Ecosystem Dynamics 1999-2000), XX SEAROWS (Sea ice Ecology in the Antarctic: ROss and Weddell Seas) on the Polar Queen, Cariboo, Italica (1987-2002), Peri-Antarctic Oceanographic Expeditions in the Strait of Magellan I (1991) and II (1995), and one Arctic canadian cruise by N/R Hudson (1980). He has been Scientific Responsible of the Operative Unit Zooplankton and Micronekton in the following European projects: VECTOR, RITMARE, COCONET, MARINE STRATEGY. From 1968 to now, his research activity has been continuously addressed to issues on the zooplankton and micronekton ecology and biodiversity. Its main fields of study concern: (a) spatio-temporal distribution and daily vertical migrations (DVM) of marine zooplankton and micronekton communities in the Mediterranean and Polar ecosystems, in relation to the physical, chemical and biological water mass structure) (b) brackish environments functioning and biological response to stressor variables, (c) functioning of the coastal and pelagic food chain, with particular regard to the role of euphausiid and mesopelagic fish in the Deep Scattering Layer (DSL) (d) zooplankton role in the carbon cycle, (e) particles size spectrum (OPC) in the study of aquatic ecosystems (f) effects of climate change on the biology and ecology of Antarctic sea-ice and free water zooplankton communities. During 18 PNRA Antarctic expeditions (1987-2018) in Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea and South Pacific Sector in free water and pack-fast-ice he collected about 6000 samples which are part of the zooplankton and micronekton collection laboratory of the University of Messina. In addition to the classic mesozooplankton and micronekton such as WP2, Indian Ocean Standard Net (IOSN), Bongo 40, IKMT, PHN, advanced electronic multinet are part of its field instrumentation such as BIONESS (1 m2) with 12 nets, MININESS (0.25 m2) with 10 nets 200, 500 and 1000 um, MICRONESS with 4 100 um nets, equipped with a multiparametric probe seabird 11 plus, fluorescence sensor and Optical Plankton Counter (OPC).
Research results are documented in more than 240 papers on national and international peer journals. Editor of these books: Atlas of Marine Zooplankton Strait of Magellan I Copepods (1995) and II Amphipods, Mysids, Euphausiids, Ostracods, Chaetognaths, Springer Verlag (1996); Ross Sea Ecology, Springer Verlag 2000; Mediterranean Ecosystems Structure and Processes, Springer Verlag (2001). Editor of the Research Topic "Ecology of Marine Zooplankton and Micronekton in Polar and Sub-Polar Areas” in Frontiers in Marine Biology (2023-2024).

Headquarters (Venice)

Where we are: the Institute of Polar Sciences occupies the 2nd floor of the DELTA building in the new Scientific Campus of Ca’ Foscari University (address: via Torino, 155, Venezia-Mestre). The new Scientific Campus of Mestre is a modern building complex consisting of five new buildings, two existing buildings and a new university residence.

How to find us: GPS coordinates: Lat. 45, 477790 - Long. 12, 254480 - UTM 33N 285419-5039695 - MAP
- by train: Venezia-Mestre railway station, bus Nr. 31H, stop Torino-Università, or bus Nr. 43, stop Torino-Università. From Institute to railway station, bus Nr. 32H, or Nr. 43. Porto Marghera railway station, 10-15 min walk;
- by car: the Institute can be reached by car with the possibility of parking temporarily inside the campus. Coming from Padua, take exit Venezia, 8 min, 5.3 Km;
- by plane: the nearest airport is Venice Marco Polo Airport. From the airport, bus Nr. 15 (to railway station of Venezia-Mestre), then bus Nr. 31H, stop Torino-Università, or Nr. 43, stop Torino-Università.

Contact

ISP - Headquarters (Venice)
Director PANIERI GIULIANA
E-mail: direttore.isp AT cnr.it
c/o Scientific Campus - Ca' Foscari University Venice
Via Torino, 155
30172 Venezia Mestre (VE)
Phone:+39 041-2348659

Staff – headquarters

Director - PANIERI GIULIANA - direttore.isp AT cnr.it
Phone:+39 041-2348659

Contact as: name.surname AT cnr.it

ARGIRIADIS ELENA    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348658
BARBARO ELENA    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348504
BECHERINI FRANCESCA    -    Senior Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2346761
CAIRNS WARREN RAYMOND LEE    -    Senior Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348992
CARNIEL SANDRO    -    Director of Research
CASULA MARCO    -    Technical assistant (in temporary assignment at another facility of the Institution)
CESTER VALENTINA    -    Technical assistant - Phone:+39 041-2348547
COLUCCI RENATO R.    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 040-3756876
CORAMI FABIANA    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348658
COZZI GIULIO    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348935
DALLO FEDERICO    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348937
DE BIASIO FRANCESCO    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348938
DE BLASI FABRIZIO    -    Researcher
GABRIELI JACOPO    -    Senior Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348911
GREGORIS ELENA    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348937
SARTORATO IVAN    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348667
SCALABRIN ELISA    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348938
SPOLAOR ANDREA    -    Senior Researcher
TURETTA CLARA    -    Senior Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348947
VARDÈ MASSIMILIANO    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348938
VECCHIATO MARCO    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348504
VENIER CHIARA    -    Technologist
ZANGRANDO ROBERTA    -    Senior Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348945
ZANOTTO EMANUELA    -    Technician - Phone: +39 041-2348902
ZUCCHETTA MATTEO    -    Researcher - Phone:+39 041-2348937

Research activity

ISP - Sede di Venezia-Mestre

The main research lines concern chemistry, geochemistry (elemental and isotopic analysis) and the physics of polar environments, with the aim of reconstructing and interpreting paleoclimatic events and understanding transport and accumulation processes of pollutants. This will allow an improved understanding of climatic changes as well as local and global contamination events, that are already occurring in the Arctic and Antarctic environments, as well as their possible future developments. Part of the activity of the Venice section is aimed at the development of high sensitivity analytical methods for the determination of inorganic and organic chemical tracers using mass spectrometric techniques, and for the quantification and identification of the polymers in microplastics.
The activities carried out by the researchers at the Venice are mainly within the strategic areas of Global Changes and Earth observations.

The research themes developed concern many chemical/geochemical as well as physical aspects using a multidisciplinary approach to safeguard these extreme vulnerable environments. The scientific activities take a holistic approach to polar environments by relating them to non-polar areas that may interact with them such as mountainous and other remote areas. In this context, attention is paid to the study of different environmental matrices: air, water (marine, lake, melt waters), snow, ice, sediments, soils, and permafrost, also through the combined use of data and models. The Venice unit also deals with remote sensing of polar marine environments with saPhonelite-based instruments and the application of saPhonelite observations for the monitoring and safeguarding of coastal environments that are heavily exposed to climate change. In addition, the main atmospheric physical parameters and processes are studied so we can deepen knowledge of the energy balance of the polar climate system.

History

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 National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA)

Since its first expeditions in 1968, 1973 and 1978, the CNR has strongly supported the diplomatic action of the MAECI (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation) which led to the accession of Italy to the Antarctic Treaty. The CNR initially contributed to identifying the construction site of the Italian station Mario Zucchelli and is currently coordinating the different lines of scientific activity of the National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA). The implementation of research in Antarctica is carried out by the national scientific community, of which 51% are university research groups, 23% CNR research groups, 9% from INGV, 5% from ENEA, 4 % from OGS and INAF and the remaining 4 % is carried out by other institutions. The scientific priorities identified within the framework of the National Research Program in Antarctica, are mostly multidisciplinary, and can be traced around the following topics: dynamics of the atmosphere and climate processes, dynamics of the polar ice cap, solid earth dynamics, polar ocean dynamics, Sun-Earth relationships and space-weather, the universe above Antarctica, evolution, adaptation and biodiversity, humankind in extreme environments, environmental contamination, paleoclimate, environmental issues and risks, as well as technology: innovation and experimentation. In many of these research areas, the CNR’s activity, thanks to its research network, is at an excellent level, although it is still fragmented into numerous institutes belonging to various departments.

Arctic research of the CNR

The Italian presence in the Arctic became permanent in the mid-nineties, thanks to the opening of the CNR station in the Svalbard Islands. In recent years, the interests of the Italian scientific community have been extended to other remote areas such as Greenland, areas of the Arctic Ocean, the Tibetan plateau and the Himalayas. In addition to the CNR, OGS, ENEA, INGV, INAF, ASI and some universities carry out research activities in these areas. In addition, Italy has strong economic interests in the Arctic with numerous industries that are active in this area, including ENI, Finmeccanica, Telespazio, E-geos, and Fincantieri. Since 1997 the has CNR carried out research in Ny-Ålesund in cooperation with national and international universities and other scientific institutions. The topics include climate, manmade pollution, instability of the ozone layer, the physical properties of aerosols and clouds in their role in radiation balances, ecology, genetics, physiology, biochemistry and the molecular and cellular biology of polar organisms, the optical properties of glacial surfaces, geochemistry, environment and permafrost, oceanography aimed at studying the transfer of energy and matter in relation to glacial coverage and, finally, historical and geographical studies that evaluate the Italian contribution to polar exploration and research. Recently there has been an intensification in the study of legal issues of specific to the Arctic with advice given to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the framework of the Arctic round table.
New logo - CNR Dirigibile Italia Contrary to the National Antarctic Research Programme, research in the Arctic has not received structured funding until very recently. However, within the CNR, the Department of Earth Sciences and Technologies for the Environment (DSSTTA) has always supported part of the logistical and research activities at the station Dirigibile Italia in the Svalbard Islands. Very recently (2018) an Arctic Research Program (PRA) was established, like that for Antarctica, although it is not yet permanent.

Within this frame of reference there is an urgent need to strengthen the position of Italy in the polar regions. This must be done by developing proposal capacities, and aggregating the management of Community funds directed towards polar research. Polar activities are based on the concept of maximum effectiveness of the financing, and should provide, with a limited investment, a strong opportunity to include Italian research in European projects, while involving universities and other research institutions.

POLARNET

On December 6th, 2006, the CNR, with the decision of the Director of the then Department of Earth and Environment, constituted the Polarnet Support Organizational Unit to respond to the increasingly pressing need to have a structure that promoted, coordinated and managed the polar activities of its researchers.
Polarnet was thus a first step towards the birth of a Polar Institute, establishing a coordinated system of CNR Research Institutes strongly involved in the polar sciences and presenting themselves as a focal point and a forum for national and international scientific cooperation on polar issues.
The Polarnet Support Organizational Unit had the task of annually updating the Research Program in Polar Areas, that is, all the Antarctic and Arctic projects that the CNR coordinates or participates in with its own research units. The Research Program in Polar Areas is a programming element for the Assembly of Directors which approves the management and coordination activities of the Polarnet Network, any assistance to the Antarctica Consortium and the related budgets that make up the Annual Programme of Activities.

INSTITUTE OF POLAR SCIENCES – ISP

The idea

Italian researchers involved in research in polar areas and other remote areas of the planet are involved in highly interdisciplinary research in life sciences, Earth and climate sciences, marine sciences, atmospheric and space sciences, in addition to technological innovation. But national research in polar areas has often been very fragmented and scarcely visible in an international context, because, although carried out within highly qualified research groups, they have so far only been individually recognizable and not associated with a national structure.
The natural consequence of this situation was the strengthening of the idea, to the point of necessity, of a Polar Institute that could act as a recognized interlocutor for the international scientific community in the field of polar research. The lack of a research institute in the polar regions in Italy was an anomaly in the European and international context. The new Institute of Polar Sciences remedies this anomaly and intends to restore Italy to its rightful status among the nations that play a decisive role in research in the polar and high-altitude areas.

One of the tasks of the Institute of Polar Sciences is to enhance the indisputable scientific relevance and capabilities of the CNR in the field of polar research and to establish a research platform to catalyze, promote and implement national research programs in polar regions, within a framework of international cooperation and coordination, with particular reference to the strategies implemented by the European Community.
Polar research, as well as being an irreplaceable driver of international scientific collaboration, is a valuable tool to support the continuous commitment of the international community towards research geared to mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the major challenge of our century. In addition, polar research also plays an important strategic role for the country, allowing Italy to previously join the Antarctic Treaty, and more recently to sit as a permanent observer on the Arctic Council.

The reasons

The structure and financing of Italian research at the poles, however, presented significant structural deficiencies that could only have been overcome with some changes in organization and governance, by taking inspiration from what is implemented in other countries, such as: Britain - British Antarctic Survey (BAS), France - Institut Polaire Français Paul Emile Victor (IPEV), Denmark - Danish Polar Center (DPC), Germany - Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI), Norway - Norsk Polar Institutt (NPI), Russia - Arctic Antartic Research Institute (AARI), USA- NSF Polar Programme, Switzerland - Swiss Polar Institute (SPI).

The National Scientific Commission for Antarctica (CSNA) has repeatedly drawn the attention of political decision-makers towards a high-profile reform that established an Italian polar entity, that leads under a single strategic direction the research and logistics, of Antarctic and Arctic science. The long-term strategy should be implemented through a series of intermediate steps accompanied and followed by careful analysis and evaluation by MIUR. Within these intermediate steps lies the birth of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the CNR.

The general vision shared at a meeting held at the Accademia dei Lincei on June 10th, 2016 (attended by Massimo Inguscio, Gianluigi Benedetti, Vincenzo Di Felice, Enrico Brugnoli and Carlo Barbante) included a short/medium term project (2016-2025) with the establishment of an interdepartmental Institute created within the CNR, merging functions that were until then dispersed between different organisms. Further developments should subsequently be possible following a possible future revision of the legislation then in force. An important pillar of this was the establishment of funding for research in the Arctic and the so-called Third Pole with the creation of a National Polar Research Programme (PNRP).

The Birth

The creation of the Institute of Polar Sciences thus fills a gap in the national scientific system and corrects an anomaly at the international level. The Italian polar scientific community, in fact, has for years been carrying out research of a high international standard, although it has never had a body of scientific and cultural aggregation and promotion and technical administrative skills to provide a strategic vision of multi-annual research and to encourage and coordinate all activities.

The establishment of the Institute of Polar Sciences therefore makes it possible to implement the simplification of decision-making and operating procedures in order to encourage greater internationalization and the occupation of new cultural and scientific spaces, especially thanks to the possibility of having a long term programme that is compatible with that of the various countries that are interested in collaboration with Italy.

The Institute, established by measure n.81 on 31/05/2019 by President Inguscio, belongs to the Department of Earth System Sciences and Technologies for the Environment (DSSTTA) as of June 1st, 2019.

The mission of the Institute of Polar Sciences is to contribute to increasing the quality of scientific and technological research carried out by Italy in the polar regions.

At its establishment, June 1st, 2019 and until April 31st, 2020, ISP has had an acting director in the figure of Dr. Leonardo Langone. From May 1st, 2020 the first director of ISP was appointed following a public competition, and Prof. Carlo Barbante, took office.

Iakimov Mikhail

Iakimov Mikhail Was born in Saratov, Russia. In 1990 he received his Doctorate Degree (PhD) from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2001, as a CNR employee, he has experience in marine molecular microbiology and has studied the microbial communities thriving in extreme environments, such as deep-sea hypersaline anoxic lakes, shallow thermal vents, crystallizer ponds of solar salterns, Antarctic sea-ice and Antarctic subglacial lakes. He is an internationally renowned expert in isolation and characterization of taxonomically and physiologically new extremely halophilic anaerobes, including sulfidogenic and polysaccharide-degrading haloarchaea, methylotrophic methanogens and previously uncultured representatives of the candidate phylum Nanohaloarchaea. He was the first to isolate the psychrophilic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium, Oleispira antractica. He is the author of over 180 peer-reviewed publications (Google H index 58, almost 12,000 citation as of October 2021), including articles in Nature, Nature Biotechnology and PNAS. He has co-authored 11 patents. He is editor on board or ad hoc editor of several microbiological journals. Over the past 10 years, he has coordinated four projects and participated in many projects financed by the European Union and other international and national structures, including active Horizon 2020 Project FUTURENZYME (2021-24). He was Chief Scientist during nine Mediterranean oceanographic expeditions and participated in six Italian expeditions in Antarctica. He was co-supervisor of seven PhD Thesis.
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL VALUATION COMMITTEE:
2007-currently: Referee in Peer Review Evaluations of the European Research Council (ERC). EMM Registration Number: EX2006C118906.
2018-currently: Expert in Faculty 1000 Prime Opinions: https://facultyopinions.com/prime.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2012-currently: Italian Society of Agro-Food and Environmental Microbiology (SIMTREA).
2016-currently: Society for General Microbiology, SGM, UK.
2017-currently: The Interregional Russian Microbiological Society, IRMS.

RESEARCHER ID H-1829-2016 Scopus - Author ID: 7005111470 ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1418-363X Google Scholar

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ICE-MEMORY

Ice Memory is an international Research Project, recognized by UNESCO, which aims to preserve a testimony from current glaciers, threatened by global warming, for future generations. The project aims to collect ice cores from glaciers all over the world and to store them in a library to preserve the information that such real archives of past eras can provide. For this purpose, a site has been set up in Antarctica, where the cores will be transferred and stored to safeguard the information contained therein for future generations of scientists.

Starting in 2015 various core drilling campaigns in different parts of the planet have been performed:
  - Col du Dôme, Mt Bianco, Italy
  - Nevajo Illimani, Bolivia
  - Mt Elbrus, Georgia
  - Altai, Russia
  - Grand Combin, Switzerland

Contact person: carlo.barbante AT cnr.it
For further information visit www.ice-memory.org

Internal Advisory Board

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:

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	Giuliana Panieri M.Sclavo (until 2024/31/01) 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

International organizations

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	Mauro Mazzola, Andrea Spolaor, ad interim	National representatives
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

La Cono Violetta

La Cono Violetta She received her Master of Science in Biology, her PhD in Environmental Sciences: Marine Environment and Resources, and specialization and continuing education courses in Applied Microbiology.
She has been a researcher at CNR since 2011, specializing in marine molecular microbiology and biotechnology. Her research activities are mainly focused on the deep sea environment and marine and terrestrial extreme ecosystems in both temperate and polar climates. Her main interests have been focused in studying microbial communities inhabiting extreme environments, their role in functioning of extreme ecosystems, as well as in isolating of new microbial taxa, genes, novel bioproducts and biomolecules for biotechnological applications. She is author/co-author of over 70 international peer-reviewed publications. She has participated in fourteen scientific oceanographic expeditions in the Eastern Mediterranean (several as Chief Scientist) and in two scientific expedition to Antarctica. She has coordinated of and participated in several national research programs (FIRB, PNRA) and international programs (EC, Horizon 2020 and ESF programs).

RESEARCHER ID S-9890-2017 Scopus - Author ID: 6507507411 ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3306-4938 Research Gate: Violetta La Cono

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