Marco Basili
Research Fellow
Ancona
On March 9, 2020, Italy enters the lockdown phase to prevent the spread of the Covid 19 coronavirus infection: all economic and production activities defined as “non essential” are stopped and the population is asked to stay at home. With this radical choice, an unprecedented experiment since the postwar period of drastically reducing anthropogenic pressure on the environment is initiated. It mainly benefits the areas of significant input represented by large urban and industrial agglomerations, including the marine coastal system. What human activities have really been reduced? What anthropogenic pressures have changed? What are the effects of this exceptional situation on water quality, the marine ecosystem, and pollution? What happened with the re-opening of operations: has everything returned – and in how much time – to how it was before the lockdown? Is it possible to imagine a recovery in which respect for the environment and its limits can be reconciled with respect for human beings?
The SNAPSHOT project intends to contribute to the public debate on these questions by conducting an extraordinary observational campaign involving scientists and citizens in the common endeavor to produce a series of snapshots from the sea during the lockdown, without interrupting the planned social distancing measures.
Referent:
Web Site: http://snapshot.cnr.it/
Duration: March 1, 2020 - February 28, 2022
Budget: 349.582,26 €
Budget IRBIM: 34.000,00 €
Areas of Research:
Research Fellow
Ancona
Technical Collaborator
Ancona
Researcher
Ancona
Technologist
Ancona
Researcher
Ancona
Researcher
Ancona
Researcher
Ancona
Senior Researcher
Ancona
Director of Research
Ancona
Researcher
Ancona
Researcher
Ancona
Senior Researcher
Ancona
Senior Researcher
Ancona
Referent:
Michela Martinelli
NAUTILOS was created with the goal of complementing and expanding existing observational instruments and services in the EU, and enabling the collection of marine data with greater spatial resolution, temporal regularity, and length than currently available.
Referent:
Emanuela Frapiccini
Studying the early diagenesis processes that occur in the first centimetres of sediments at the bottom of the Southern Ocean.
Referent:
Gian Marco Luna
Understanding the transmission pathways and fate of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and other pathogenic microorganisms in aquaculture, including contamination from the environment.
Referent:
Lucrezia Cilenti
To protect and maintain/restore the biodiversity and ecosystems of the Lesina Lagoon through management, maintenance/restoration and integrative monitoring of the NATURA 2000 site affected by fishing activities and through a participatory approach among stakeholders (policy makers, researchers, fishermen) who share responsibilities and interests on the lagoon ecosystem.
Referent:
Stefano Guicciardi o Guizzardi
Collect, validate and provide access to and generate marine chemistry data relevant to the implementation of the MSFD