Researchers and Technicians - Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology of the National Research Council (CNR-IRBIM)

Researcher at the CNR Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology. I am principally involved in producing stock assessments for small pelagic and demersal species; the results of these assessments are presented at various international management fora such as those of the European Union and FAO-GFCM. I am also involved in the development of stock assessments of data limited stocks. I have experience in using both simple single species stock assessment models that more complex models; during my PhD I developed expertise for developing models regarding the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries. The results of these researches are objects of scientific publications.

PhD candidate at CNR-IRBIM within the doctoral programme “Innovative Technologies and Sustainable Use of Mediterranean Fishery and Biological Resources” (FishMed-PhD). My research focuses on the application of acoustic technologies to advanced marine habitat mapping, with particular emphasis on multibeam echosounder systems. The project integrates and compares seafloor bathymetry, backscatter imagery, and water-column data acquired using multibeam echosounders, side-scan sonar, and scientific echosounders. Through spatial analysis, classification techniques, and statistical modelling, the research aims to develop standardized and reproducible workflows for the three-dimensional characterization of marine habitats, seabed substrate discrimination, and the detection and analysis of biological aggregations.

Chemical Technical Collaborator at the CNR Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology. My research focuses on sampling, sample preparation and analysis of chemical contaminants. The matrices on which I worked are sea water, marine sediment, and biological material. I have participated in more than 50 national and international oceanographic sampling cruises.

Technical Operator at the CNR Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology. I deal with construction and maintenance of technical-scientific equipment and I participate in oceanographic surveys. Specifically, from 1988 to 2012 I contributed to research projects about atmospheric environment and space. Since 2013 I took part in the sampling and chemical analyses on sea water, fishing activity and benthos, both on research vessels and boats. I also collaborate to the new set-up and functionalization of the Fano Marine Center marine reef aquarium, its management and maintenance.

Researcher at the CNR for more than 30 years. My research interests include chemical processes of both organic and inorganic compounds in soil, groundwater, and sea water. Since June 1997 I deal almost exclusively with the sea, focusing on biogeochemical mechanisms occurring in the water column and in the water/sediment interface, and on interactions between pollutants and xenobiotics in marine sediments and organisms. Currently, I hold the position of Director od Research at the CNR Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology. I am author or co-author of more than 280 scientific publications.

Researcher at the CNR Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology. I am graduated in Chemical Sciences at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. My primary research interest is the anthropogenic impact assessment on the environment. I deal mainly with the determination of persistent and emerging organic contaminants in different environmental matrices, their sources and pathways toward remote and polar regions; the effects of climate change on the re-emission in the environment of pollutants and anthropogenic tracers; the past climate reconstructions through organic proxies and legacy contaminants in ice cores and other environmental archives.

Post-doc at the Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology of the National Research Council (CNR). My research investigates the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems, with an approach that starts from oceanographic aspects (variation of physicochemical parameters and the role of river runoff) to understand their consequences on calcifying organisms in the Mediterranean Sea, particularly corals and bivalves. I obtained my PhD as part of the FishMed-PhD program, during which, through the analysis of historical databases, I studied the effects of river runoff on the health status and metal accumulation in the clam Chamelea gallina, as well as the effects of ocean acidification on pollutant bioaccumulation in a Mediterranean coral.