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.
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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:
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Ancona
Technical Collaborator
Ancona
Researcher
Ancona
Technologist
Ancona
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Ancona
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Ancona
Researcher
Ancona
Senior Researcher
Ancona
Director of Research
Ancona
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Ancona
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Ancona
Senior Researcher
Ancona
Senior Researcher
Ancona
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Silvia Angelini
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