A5033548465- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
- Gut microbiota and health
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Climate change and permafrost
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
National Research Council
2019-2025
University of Palermo
2024-2025
Thales (Italy)
2023
Magna Graecia University
2023
Alenia Aermacchi
2023
Space (Italy)
2023
Water Research Institute
2019
Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research
2010-2016
Abstract. The atmospheric concentrations of gaseous HNO3, HCl and NH3 their relative salts have been measured during two field campaigns in the winter summer 2007 at Beijing (China), as part CAREBEIJING (Campaigns Air Quality Research Surrounding Region). In this study, annular denuder technique used with integration times 2 24h to collect inorganic soluble PM2.5 without interferences from gas–particle particle–particle interactions. results were discussed standpoint temporal diurnal...
Abstract. The atmospheric concentrations of gaseous ammonia have been measured during two field campaigns in the winter and summer 2007 at Beijing (China). These measurements were carried out by means diffusion annular denuders coated with phosphorous acid. results discussed from standpoint temporal diurnal variations meteorological effects. daily average NH3 range 0.20–44.38 μg/m3 showed regular higher lower winter. trends seemed to be largely affected air temperature because agricultural...
Anaerobic digestion is one of the best ways to re-use animal manure and agricultural residues, through production combustible biogas digestate. However, use antibiotics for preventing treating diseases and, consequently, their residual concentrations in manure, could introduce them into anaerobic digesters. If digestate applied as a soil fertilizer, antibiotic residues and/or corresponding resistance genes (ARGs) reach ecosystems. This work investigated three common emerging contaminants,...
In recent decades, the world has experienced detrimental effects of unchecked growth various human activities, including industrialization, transportation, agriculture, and urbanization [...]
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a waste-to-energy strategy that leverages natural microbiological processes. It increasingly used in farms to treat manure, resulting biogas for energy production and digestate as fertiliser. However, animal manure often contains antibiotic (AB) residues, raising concerns about their impact on AD efficiency potential spread through use. This multidisciplinary study evaluated the effects of an AB mixture (enrofloxacin, ciprofloxacin sulfamethoxazole) CH4...
Abstract. In September 2021, as part of the Italian Arctic research programme, a multidisciplinary cruise along 75th parallel north through Greenland Sea Gyre was conducted aboard icebreaker Laura Bassi CASSANDRA project, which also contributed to Synoptic Survey (SAS) 2020/22. The took place during period lowest summer sea ice extent ever measured. data show strong horizontal gradients with temperatures between 1.5 °C and 9.0 salinity 30 35. Warm salty Atlantic Water (AW, θ > 3.0 °C, S...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) treatment of cattle manure and slurry makes it possible to produce biogas, a renewable storable biofuel, as well digestate, residual organic matter that can be used replace chemical fertilizers. On the other hand, intense use antibiotics (e.g., sulfamethoxazole) in animal husbandry practices is showing increasing negative impacts resulting from release still metabolically active molecules into agroecosystems. In present study, collected an AD plant-feeding tank was...
Abstract The snowpack acts as a sink for atmospheric reactive nitrogen, but several postdeposition pathways have been reported to alter the concentration and isotopic composition of snow nitrate with implications boundary layer chemistry, ice core records, terrestrial ecology following melt. Careful daily sampling surface during winter (11–15 February 2010) springtime (9 April 5 May near Ny‐Ålesund, Svalbard reveals complex pattern processes within snowpack. Dry deposition was found dominate...
Abstract Purpose The present work aimed to fill some knowledge gaps on the effects non-target natural soil microbial communities of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) antibiotic potentially found in cattle manure digestate. Both prokaryotic and fungal community under different conditions were analyzed using molecular ecology methods. Methods A previous microcosm experiment with a amended digestate (3% dry mass) spiked SMX (20 mg/kg soil) was used for this in-depth study. Microbial live cell abundances...
Some livestock farms rely on anaerobic digestion (AD) technology for manure disposal, thus obtaining energy (biogas) and fertilizer (digestate). Mixtures of antibiotics used animal health often occur in organic waste their possible synergistic/antagonistic effects microorganisms involved AD are still poorly studied. This work focuses the adding ciprofloxacin, alone (5 mg L
A wide use of foaming agents as lubricants is required in mechanized tunneling. Their main component, the anionic surfactant sodium lauryl ether sulphate (SLES), can remain residual concentrations soil debris, influencing their potential reuse by-product. This study aimed at evaluating environmental fate and effects a product used for conditioning soils collected from real excavation sites, presence/absence an anti-clogging polymer, both containing SLES. Soil microcosm experiments were...