SNAPSHOT

Synoptic Assessment of Human Pressures on key Mediterranean Hot Spots

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:

Giuseppe Scarcella

Senior Researcher

Ancona

SCOPRI DI PIÙ

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:

TEAM
Marco Basili

Associate with Collaboration Assignment

Ancona

Mattia Betti

Technical Collaborator

Ancona

Alessandra Campanelli

Researcher

Ancona

Ilaria Costantini

Technologist

Ancona

Andrea De Felice

Researcher

Ancona

Carmen Ferra Vega

Researcher

Ancona

Federica Grilli

Researcher

Ancona

Iole Leonori

Researcher

Ancona

Gian Marco Luna

Director of Research

Ancona

Pierluigi Penna

Researcher

Ancona

Grazia Marina Quero

Researcher

Ancona

Giuseppe Scarcella

Senior Researcher

Ancona

Anna Nora Tassetti

Researcher

Ancona

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The research activities of the Institute are carried out in the context of research, development and innovation projects, both national and international, based on regional funding programs (POR FEAMPA - Regional Operational Program of the European Maritime Affairs Fisheries Fund and Aquaculture and POR FESR - Regional Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund) or ministerial (PRIN - Projects of relevant national interest, PNRA - National Research Program in Antarctica, PO FEAMPA - National Operational Program European Maritime Affairs Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund) , programs for European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg), direct funding programs of the European Commission (Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe, Life, JPI - Joint Programming Initiatives, ERA-NET Cofund) and thematic collaboration initiatives managed by international organizations such as, for example , the FAO - GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean). The Institute also develops funded projects in the context of collaborations with private companies in the sectors of the blue economy as well as technology transfer and research results. Research projects, mainly of a collaborative nature, are developed through a wide network of partners that include major Italian and foreign research institutions and universities.

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