A5032442351- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and fisheries research
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Optical Systems and Laser Technology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Anatomy and Medical Technology
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
2009-2025
Abstract During late summer 1999 and 2003 two mass mortality events affected the population of slow growing, long‐lived Mediterranean gorgonian Paramuricea clavata living in Gulf La Spezia (Italy). The was monitored for three years after events. Availability pre‐event data (1998) allowed comparison density size structure healthy with those recorded following In 1998, before events, mean colony 33.3 ± 3.7 colonies m −2 had fallen to 6.7 1.9 2004. post‐event period changed modal class shifted...
In 2024,the year with the warmest global temperature since 1850 (Copernicus Climate Change Service), very high temperatures were observed at regional scale.In Mediterranean Sea,the measured sea locally displayed values that never recorded before. Satellite and in situ observationsindicate during 2024 the Sea has experienced a sequence of strong marine heat waves, occurring months February, April, June,  August.  Thesurface anomalies respect to...
Abstract The rapid changes in the climate of Antarctica are likely to pose challenges living communities, which makes monitoring Antarctic fauna an urgent necessity. Benthos is particularly difficult monitor, and sensitive local environmental changes. At same time, long‐term complicated by logistical factors. It therefore develop advanced instruments set up autonomous programmes obtain lacking biological knowledge needed understand this complex remote marine environment. We present a pilot...
In the last decades, blooms of Ostreopsis ovata are increasingly frequent in several Mediterranean coastal areas, sometimes causing problems to public health. The quantification O. abundances is generally performed by quantifying number cells per gram macroalga, often preventing comparison from different sites if cell quantifications on algal species. this paper we propose a sampling method based use modified plastic syringe designed quantify benthic independently type substratum. was tested...
Accurate measurement of temperature and salinity is a fundamental task with heavy implications in all the possible applications currently available datasets, for example, study climate changes modeling ocean dynamics. In this work, reliability measurements obtained by oceanographic devices (eXpendable BathyThermographs, Argo floats Conductivity-Temperature-Depth sensors) analyzed means an intercomparison exercise. As first step, profiles from XBT probes, deployed commercial ships crossing...
Among Antarctic bryozoans, some species are able to develop calcitic bioconstructions promoting habitat complexity, but the processes leading biomineral formation mostly unknown. The present work investigated three from morphological skeletal features, including organic matrix associated with skeleton (SOM). Cellarinella nutti Rogick, 1956 and Reteporella frigida Waters, 1904 were collected in November 2018 a shallow site (25 m) njegovanae deep (110 at Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica)....
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Abstract Antarctica is a remote place, the continent covered by ice and its surrounding coastal areas are frozen for majority of year. Due to peculiarity observation underwater organisms particularly difficult, complicated logistic factors. We present long-term dataset consisting 755 images acquired using non-invasive, autonomous imaging device encompassing both Antarctic daylight dark periods, including corresponding transition phases. All have same field view showing benthic fauna part...
Abstract One-year time-lapse images acquired via an autonomous photo imaging device positioned at a depth of 20 m in Tethys Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica) on rocky bottom colonized by the sponge Mycale ( Oxymycale ) acerata were analysed. Monthly changes abundance and activity sea star Odontaster validus urchin Sterechinus neumayeri nearby compared with respect to environmental variables such as pack-ice presence/absence, temperature, salinity photosynthetically active radiation. Sea urchins...
Current measurements in the open sea are generally acquired by Acoustic Doppler Profilers (ADCPs). In case of ADCPs mounted on spar buoy, current profiles require to be post-processed, properly take into account buoy influence: fact, ADCP compass may reflect alterations induced metal structure and apparent currents can occur due large displacement platform. Uncertainty analysis is finally required consider both these effects compute robust velocity estimates. A new methodology tested for a...
Different laser induced diagnostics, originally developed for different purposes including material characterization and environmental monitoring, have been applied in the field of Cultural Inheritance preservation with aim to facilitate successive conservation restoration actions. In this paper results relevant three techniques are reviewed. The use topologic 3D sensor checking small artifacts large surfaces is discussed, application Speckle interferometry defect analysis ceramic artwork...
An amplitude modulated laser radar has been developed by ENEA (Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment) periodic in-vessel inspection in large fusion machines. Its overall optical design taking into account the extremely high radiation levels operating temperatures foreseen European machines such as JET (Joint Torus) ITER (International Thermo- nuclear Experimental Reactor). The viewing system is based on a transceiving using RF single mode 840 nm wavelength beam....
Underwater acoustic measurements have been recently carried out in Tethys Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica) during the XXIX Italian Antarctic Expedition to support propagation studies area and investigate environmental noise. is a small deep cove close base Mario Zucchelli Station (Baia Terra Nova -74°42' S e 164°07' E) covered with sea-ice for most of year. During period experiment (November 2013) pack-ice had an almost constant thickness about 2.2 m, so that were performed deploying instruments...
Abstract. A 2-year dataset of a stand-alone mooring, deployed in November 2020 down the Levante Canyon eastern Ligurian Sea, is presented. The Mooring (LCM) deep submarine multidisciplinary observatory positioned at 608 m depth key ecosystem area. hosts valuable and vulnerable deep-living cold-water corals (CWCs), studied monitored since 2013 through integrated mapping seabed water column. dataset, acquired on mooring presented here (data from to October 2022), includes measurements...
The Southern Ocean is an important atmospheric carbon sink, and potential changes in the flux this region will affect ocean as a whole. Thus, to monitor variability of its physico-chemical parameters becoming priority. This study provides first high-resolution all-year-round record observed computed data from shallow coastal site Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea). From November 2018 2019, underwater observatory deployed at 25 m depth under ice pack recorded pressure (p), temperature (t), electrical...