Books
Edited by: Nobuhito Mori, Takuji Waseda and Amin Chabchoub
Editor: Elsevier
Publication: 2023
Page: 224
Price: distributed by Elsevier
ISBN: 978-0-323-91736-0
Chapter 4 and 9
Authors: Alvise Benetazzo, Francesco Barbariol & Filippo Bergamasco (CNR-ISMAR)
Science and Engineering of Freak Waves
The book “Science and Engineering of Freak Waves” (2023, Elsevier) provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge on extreme ocean waves and freak waves (also known as rogue waves), i.e., those waves of considerable, sometimes unexpected height that can be generated during marine storms, posing a real risk to offshore and coastal structures, and to navigation. In this volume, the authors have brought together the history of extreme wave observations, the fundamental theory, methods for their observation and prediction, and the implications these waves have on offshore and coastal structures, providing examples of the application of extreme wave research results to engineering projects.
With a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, the book will appeal to physical oceanographers who wish to better understand the physics, observational techniques, and modeling of these waves, and to engineers who want more information about their prediction and the implications these waves have for offshore structures and navigation.
The volume is edited and written by an international team of researchers with decades of knowledge of extreme ocean waves.
In particular,
chapter 4: “Measurements 2: space-time measurements of freak waves”
and
chapter 9: “Prediction 2: long-term prediction of extreme waves”
were written with contributions from CNR-ISMAR researchers Alvise Benetazzo, Francesco Barbariol e Filippo Bergamasco, who have been working for a long time in the field of observation and modeling of extreme ocean waves.
Author aa.vv., Primary schoolchildren
Editor: Conad
Publication: January 2023
Page: 192
Price: freely distributed
ISBN: 978-88-944184-6-0
Sea stories
“Sea stories – Writers in the Classroom” focuses on the theme of safeguarding the sea and oceans, placing itself in the important framework of the Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development promoted by the United Nations. The collaboration with CNR-Ismar enabled the classes that participated in the initiative to explore the themes of marine science and sustainability through innovative and multidisciplinary teaching approaches.
CNR-ISMAR reference:
Angela Pomaro
Arsenale, tesa 104, Castello 2737/F 30122 Venezia
Editors: Katrin Schroeder, Jacopo Chiggiato
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Published: Ottobre 2022
Pages: 584
Price: € 130,00 – 170,00
paperback ISBN: 9780128236925
eBook ISBN: 9780128236932
Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea
Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea: An Introductory Guide provides a comprehensive but concise introduction to the physical oceanography of one of the most fascinating marginal seas, the Mediterranean Sea. The book is primarily focused on the state-of-the-art understanding of the physical functioning of the Mediterranean Sea, while embracing the fundamentals of associated geological and chemical processes.
Written by multiple scientists active over many years in the Mediterranean marine community, the book provides a broad overview on the information needed to get a robust background on the physical oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea for students in oceanography, climate science, marine geology and chemistry or scientists unfamiliar with the region.
Authors: Magaldi M. G., Barbieri L., Mantovani C., Baratti M., Bendoni M., Berta M., Berto D., Bigongiari N., Boccacci A., Bramanti L., Brandini C., Calace N., Caliani I., Cannicci S., Casini S., Connès C., Corgnati L. P., Costanza L., Coudray S., Cristofori S., Di Mento R., Doronzo B., Dumas D., Fattorini M., Femiano R., Fratini S., Galgani F., Galli T., Gozzini B., Gramoullé A., Grassini I., Griffa A., Guizien K., Guérin C.-A., Iozzelli M., Lapucci C., Lenoble V., Maltese S., Mario S., Mazoyer C., Mengoni A., Menonna V., Molcard A., Oliva M., Ortolani A., Ourmières Y., Padrón M., Piermarini R., Pretti C., Romanelli G., Ruberti G., Scarpato A., Sciascia R., Silvestri C., Taddei S., Ugolini A., Vanneste H., Vannucchi V., Xu D.
Editor: © CNR Edizioni
Published: 2021
Page: 40
Price: distribuito gratuitamente
ISBN: 978-88-8080-435-2 (print)
978-88-8080-436-9 (electronic edition)
DOI: 10.26383/CNR-ISMAR.2021.3
Cross-border governance tools and directions. Plan of action and guidelines of the IMPACT project.
This volume returns a summary of IMPACT project activities and is divided into two parts. The first part highlights the tools completed during the duration of the project, specifically the coastal radar network for monitoring marine currents and the webGIS platform for consulting the data collected and processed by the project partners. The second part capitalizes on the aforementioned tools to provide both methodological and governance guidance. Specifically, the coastal radar network is used to create maps of potential contamination and indicate under what conditions port activities may be more sustainable. Demographic measures and retention calculations indicate the level of effectiveness of the current size of MPAs while contamination measures suggest considering more stations with a view to improving existing monitoring plans. With this in mind, the indications represent the action plan and guidelines for the project.
The further expansion of the coastal radar network envisioned in the SICOMAR plus and SINAPSI projects is evidence that the conclusion of IMPACT project activities is actually only an important starting point.
Author: Capotondi L., Ravaioli M., Acosta A., Chiarini F., Lami A., Stanisci A., Tarozzi L., Mazzocchi M. G.
Editor: © CNR Edizioni
Published: 2021
Page: 806
Price: free
ISBN (on-line): 978-88- 8080-214-3 ISBN (print): 978 -88- 8080-208
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5570272
The Italian network for long-term ecological research (ITA)
Ecology is the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment. These studies are scientifically challenging, requiring an interdisciplinary approach since ecosystems involve dynamic interactions between the variety of biotic and abiotic components of the system. To identify the full range of variability and evolutionary trends of the systems, the structures and operating processes need be analysed at different spatial and temporal scales. The data provided by these investigations are useful to understand the many traits of natural biodiversity on our planet, the dynamics of ecosystems and their responses to climatic and anthropogenic impacts, promoting assessments for protection. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) provides the scientific basis for distinguishing the natural dynamics of ecological processes, which occur over long time intervals, from the effects of global trends such as climate change or factors of local influence and disturbance. The availability of long series of ecological and biodiversity data also makes it possible to evaluate the effectiveness of the actions taken to protect and/or restore environments that have undergone adverse impacts due to anthropogenic pressure such as, for example, eutrophication, soil contamination, impact from extreme events, introduction of alien species. The LTER-Italy Network, consisting of 79 sites distributed throughout the country, is characterized by a high diversity of natural environments (comprising terrestrial, marine, inland and transitional water domains) representing a natural laboratory for interdisciplinary studies.
Moreover, the activities carried out in the network allow to bridge the gap between researchers, citizens, users and policy makers. The long time-series availability of ecological data from diversified sites, representative of the environmental variability of our Country, enables the monitoring over time of the processes linked to natural and anthropogenic variations. It is staple information to a sustainable planning for the survival of ecosystems, a strategic objective for the economic and social development of our Country. This volume offers an updated overview of the different activities carried out by the LTER-Italy network and of the results acquired during the first 15 years of its establishment in 2006. It is an overview that ranges from historical and popular aspects to political and social facets, focusing on research carried out at the countless observation sites covering a wide range of topics and approaches. The volume, result of a great collective effort, is addressed to all those who are driven by an interest in knowing the diversity and beauty of our environment, along with its many issues.
Author: Alvisi F., Carrara G., Rossetti R.
Editor: © CNR Edizioni
Published: 2021
Pagine: 89
Prezzo: free
ISBN: 978 – 012345678 – 6
DOI: 10.26383/CNR-ISMAR.2021.4
Humanity on the move between wants and needs.
Human migration between natural causes and socio-economic forcings. (ITA)
Edited by
Francesca Alvisi (1), Gabriela Carrara (2), Rebecca Rossetti (1)
(1) Istituto di Scienze Marine ISMAR-Cnr, Bologna
(2) Istituto per la Mmicroelettronica e Microsistemi IMM-CNR, Bologna
This e-book was created with the aim of analyzing as objectively as possible the causes and effects of the phenomenon of human migration in relation to what, since the dawn of time, have been the motivations behind it: the search for living space and natural resources, improved living conditions and environmental changes.
We believe it can be a useful support material for cooperators, social workers and migrants to better understand the context in which they live or in which they work, or from which they come, so that they can make use of data, reasoning and information that is as objective and scientific as possible. In addition, we hope that teachers and educators who today find themselves working in an increasingly multi-ethnic and socially complex context can also find in this e-book useful material to build or/and deepen their educational paths on the topic. Knowing the real causes of migration, we think, can help those involved in studying and/or managing the phenomenon to find more appropriate solutions and better understand the context in which they work without getting carried away by subjective factors of judgment.
Author: Bergami C., L’Astorina A., Pugnetti A.
Editor: © CNR Edizioni
Published: 2018
Page: 180
Price: free
ISBN (online): 978888080304-1
ISBN (cartaceo): 978888080312-6
DOI: 10.32018/978888080304-1
The paths of the LTER-Italy network
The tale of ecology on the way. (ITA)
Editors:
Caterina Bergami (1), Alba L’Astorina (2),Alessandra Pugnetti (3)
(1) Istituto di Scienze Marine ISMAR-Cnr, Bologna
(2) Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente IREA-Cnr, Milano
(3) Istituto di Scienze Marine ISMAR-Cnr, Venezia
The LTER Paths are itinerant events open to the public, taking place in a slow mode, on foot, by bicycle or canoe, along routes lasting several days, connecting two or more research sites of the Network each time. The main objective is to raise awareness of the research activities that the LTER-Italy Network carries out in the Italian territory and to share the importance of observing and studying ecosystems and biodiversity in a thorough and continuous way over time. But the “Paths” are also intended to enhance and strengthen the sense of belonging and responsibility shared by those who live in a territory and those who study it in their research. In the monograph, the protagonists of each of the Paths – nine in all, carried out in the three editions that took place from 2015 to 2017 – describe the routes, stages, communication and public engagement activities, and actors encountered. Outside the laboratories, researchers experience, through sharing “on the way,” new responses to the changes taking place in science and ecology, to the changing relationships between natural environments and living beings, and to the environmental and social challenges that ask everyone, including scientists, to redefine roles and responsibilities.
Author: Brizzi G., Gambini E., Gasperini L.
Editor: Lombardi
Published: giugno 2018
Page: 176
Price: € 24,00
ISBN-10: 8872602653
ISBN-13: 978-8872602652
Hannibal at the Trasimeno Lake. (ITA)
by Giovanni Brizzi, Ermanno Gambini, Luca Gasperini
This volume brings together the most significant fruits of the authors’ recent research on the famous battle fought along the northwestern shores of Lake Trasimeno in 217 B.C. between the Roman army, led by Consul Flaminius, and the Punic army, under the command of Hannibal.
The first contribution is offered by Luca Gasperini. geologist at ISMAR CNR in Bologna. His investigations on the lake bed open fascinating research prospects and finally provide scientific data on the location of the lake in Roman times.
The following essay is by ancient historian Giovanni Brizzi, who delves into several very interesting topics related to the culture and exploits of Hannibal and the Barcids. Brizzi traces the stages of the great Carthaginian general’s exploits, from Spain to the ambush at Trasimeno, which he then studies in depth with geographer-historian Ermanno Gambini. Beginning with a careful rereading of the sources and critical analysis of recent historiography on the battle, they propose a new reconstruction that on the basis of the available data stands totally by accepting in full the dictate of the ancient authors, with the comfort of the most recent geographical-historical and geo-physical investigations on Lake Trasimeno and in-depth knowledge of the territory.
Gambini is left with the concluding part of the volume devoted to the learned and popular traditions about the battle. His survey shows above all the great interest aroused by this event in recent centuries. We have an extensive dedicated cartographic production, from the second half of the 16th century to the early 19th century, and fascinating written memoirs of the cultured Grand Tour travelers.
The work as a whole proposes an exemplary multidisciplinary investigation, very rich in insights and solicitations, with an interesting and rich iconographic apparatus.
Author: Pisano Eva, Vacchi Marino
Editor: Il Piviere
Published: gennaio 2016
Page: 48
Price: € 15,00
EAN: 9788896348307
ISBN: 8896348307
Discovering Antarctic fishes. (ITA)
Presentation from: Almanacco della Scienza del CNR . n. 4 del 5 Aprile 2017:
The volume ‘Discovering Antarctic Fishes’ is written by four hands by Eva Pisano and Marino Vacchi, a biologist and ecologist, respectively, from the CNR Institute of Marine Sciences, who have been studying the ocean in Antarctica for more than 25 years with the aim of understanding how the fish that inhabit it have managed to adapt to conditions at the limit of survival. The book was produced as part of the ‘Disseminating Polar Science’ project of the National Antarctic Research Program (NPRA) and is designed for children as well as for enthusiasts and those curious about a unique and surprising environment.
In particular, the book takes the reader on a discovery of the Ross Sea, one of the most pristine oceanic regions on the Planet. In order to populate Antarctic marine waters, where the temperature is -1.9° C and the ice is constant, these unique fish have learned to produce ‘antifreeze’ proteins thanks to which the glacial environment is no longer a problem and is in fact the ideal environment in which to lay and hatch their eggs.
The book has a text in English by Marta Calosso and John Claydon, and is enriched with numerous illustrated plates by Fabrizio Boccardo, which faithfully reproduce underwater footage taken in the Ross Sea thanks to marine robotics technology made available by the Institute of Intelligent Systems Studies for Automation at the CNR in Genoa. For details, please refer to the ‘Learn more’ section.
The fishes described and illustrated belong to the group of bony fishes, the Notothenioidea, of which 130 species are currently known. Their evolutionary history spans about 40 million years.
Maria Adelaide Ranchino
Author: Carniel Sandro
Editor: Hoepli
Published: luglio 2017
Page: 142
Price: € 12,90
EAN: 9788820379858
ISBN: 8820379856
Oceans. (ITA)
Presentation from: Almanacco della Scienza del CNR n.9 del 6 Settembre 2017:
In the oceans is mirrored the trend of climate and, therefore, the fate of the Planet. The oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth, yet they are often relegated to the role of environmental Cinderella. In ‘Oceans’ (Hoepli), Sandro Carniel of the CNR Institute of Marine Sciences, through the account of several oceanographic research expeditions that have taken him to exotic places, addresses the issues of climate change and the mitigation, adaptation and countermeasure strategies aimed at preventing global warming from permanently affecting marine heritage.
The sea has always been seen as a commodity to be exploited, often as a dumping ground. Man feels detachment toward it, perhaps because of the immensity and inaccessibility it represents: “Man by nature is terrestrial, living well near the sea but not on the sea, travel has been on foot for centuries, while the first navigation of the globe dates back to the early sixteenth century.”
Carniel’s account, somewhere between fiction and scientific reporting, addresses this contradiction through the analysis of scientific data and quotations, offered in simple language and with references to his own scientific and human experience. For example, with the story of Angie, a trader of necklaces made from coral from the beaches of Majuro (Marshall Islands), unaware of how much the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is jeopardizing the coralligenous heritage and the very existence of the islands where she lives.
The author takes the reader on oceanographic ships and to distant islands, mysterious seabeds and Ismar-Cnr laboratories in the old Venice Arsenal, recounting different experiences from Hawaii to Jesolo. And it makes us think about the acts to be taken in the near future to protect the biodiversity of the oceans, which are now at the limit of their resilience. The increase of atmospheric CO2 to 0.04 percent – a value never touched in the last million years – has led to a series of effects on ocean waters: rising sea levels, increased acidity, warming of the waters with the so-called tropicalization of the seas, and impairment of the general circulation that kept the climate stable. “The air, sea and land are deeply connected, we need to better and quickly understand how they ‘talk’ to each other; only this scientific approach will allow us to predict climate trend scenarios for the coming decades, which is increasingly influenced by the health of the oceans.”
Elio Nello Meucci
Author: Ravaioli M., Bergami C., Riminucci F.
Editor: © CNR Edizioni
Published: 2017
Page: 50
Price: free
ISBN: 978-88-80802-44-0
La rete scientifica italiana di siti fissi per l’osservazione del mare – IFON. (ITA)
Editors:
M. Ravaioli, C. Bergami, F. Riminucci, S. Aracri, S.Aliani, M. Bastianini, A. Bergamasco, C. Bommarito, M. Borghini, R. Bozzano, C. Cantoni, E. Caterini, V. Cardin, C. Cesarini, R.R. Colucci, E. Crisafi, A. Crise, R. D’Adamo, C. Fanara, A. Giorgetti, F. Grilli, L. Langone, M. Lipizer, M. Marini, S. Menegon, T. Minuzzo, M. Miserocchi, E. Partescano, E. Paschini, F. Pavesi, P. Penna, S. Pensieri, A. Pugnetti, F. Raicich, A.G. di Sarra, A. Sarretta, K. Schroeder, G. Stanghellini, A. Vetrano (2017).
The Italian Fixed-point Observatory Network (IFON) integrates well-established ocean infrastructures managed by various national research institutions (CNR, OGS, and ENEA). The implementation of this network was one of the aim of the SP5-WP3 of the Flagship Project RITMARE. In the first four years of the project, the state of art of the 15 operative sites has been completed and 2 more stations are operative from 2015-2016. For each site, the technical characteristics and methods of transmission have been described, and for some sites, several upgrades were accomplished in order to develop, integrate, and consolidate the network.
Periodically, oceanographic cruises for the maintenance and implementation of the sites were carried out. After the definition of the minimum requirements, the criteria for the validation of physical and biogeochemical data were determined. They include a selection of existing rules, procedures and recommendations on automatic data Quality Control (QC), and their validation in Near Real Time (NRT). These procedures are intended to unify the validation criteria of the parameters collected daily from the network and to provide the scientific community with a homogeneous and comparable set of data of the Italian seas.
Author: Paolo Colantoni
Editor: Editrice La Mandragora
Published: 2014
Page: 176
Price: € 17,00
EAN: 9788875864446
ISBN: 88-7586-444-6
Old tales among fish, rocks and coral. (ITA)
Memories by an underwater geologist
Paolo Colantoni (1934-2015), who spent many years of his scientific career at the Laboratory then Institute of Marine Geology of the CNR, currently ISMAR-Bologna Branch, retraces in this book the stages of his adventurous life as a scientific diver. An important bequest so that through the memory of our past he can ideally reconnect with our present and future.
Autore: Ferdinando Boero
Editor: Codice Edizioni
Published: 2012
Page: 258
Price: € 21,00
ISBN: 9788875782917
Author
Economy without nature. The great swindle. (ITA)
Our world is in danger. The curve of economy goes up, but the curve of ecology goes down. Man, precariously balanced on the growth of the economy, is about to be overwhelmed by the decline of ecology. Nature will cope: for her there is no problem… Rather it is we who are in danger, because of our reckless success.
Author: Giovanni Bambace, Alessandro Lucchetti
Editor: Il Sole 24 Ore Edagricole
Published: settembre 2011
Page: 399
Price: € 36,50
ISBN-10: 8850653700
ISBN-13: 978-8850653706
Elements of fisheries biology. (ITA)
The text that is presented does not pretend to carry out the whole problematic of the aspects and knowledge underlying a comprehensive treatment of Fisheries Biology. This text is simply a synthesis of the basic knowledge (hence the expression “Elements of Fisheries Biology”) of marine population dynamics, systematics and ecology of the main commercial species and of the fishing nets and gears used, with reference mainly to the Italian seas and particularly to the Adriatic. Thus, the work has a “Mediterranean” reference, as can be seen from the citation of studies and research, developed in recent decades in Italy. Obviously, the reference to the theoretical and experimental background that has come to us from the countries of the North Sea and the North Atlantic, in prevalence, very advanced in the knowledge of the dynamics of marine populations subject to fishing pressure, has remained constant. The text is intended to help provide a foundation of knowledge, particularly for students taking courses in Fisheries Biology in the Faculties of Biological Sciences and Natural Sciences; it is also intended to provide a basis of consultation for Fisheries Administrators and people otherwise interested in knowledge of the sea and in the problems of managing biological resources. The text is aimed at defining concepts, facts and phenomena involved in fishing activity and the scientific treatment of it, and is accompanied by graphs and illustrations that help clarify some aspects of the Marine Environment-Resources-Fisheries System, the complexity of which is still far from being fully understood by Science.
This paper is not a research in which it is important to have the most up-to-date data, but rather the explanation and popularization of research carried out in different basins and over a period of several decades. In this sense, this paper is also the history of facts, scientific approaches and research carried out and the plausible understanding of the fishery system, within the “natural” ecosystem where the effects of fishing activity are evident, but not exclusive and determinant. Climate change affects the marine ecosystem and thus the organisms being fished. The work is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the dynamics of fish populations, their becoming under the impact of fishing pressure (fishing effort); the second part deals with nets and fishing gears and in particular their selectivity, while the third part presents summary and figurative fact sheets of the most important species from the point of view of the economics of Mediterranean fisheries.
Author: Baudo R., Faimali M., Onorati F., Pellegrini D.
Editor: ISPRA, Manuli e Linee Guida 67/2011
Published: 2012
Page: 141
Price: free
ISBN: 978-88-448-0498-5
Batteries of ecotoxicological assays for salt and brackish water sediments. (ITA)
The Handbook of Ecotoxicology “Batteries of ecotoxicological assays for salt and brackish water sediments” just published online and downloadable in pdf format is “temporary” version which will be updated with the suggestions of the scientific community, the Environmental Agencies and all ecotoxicology laboratories who wish to collaborate in the final version (expected by 2012) by sending any contribution to a dedicated e-mail.
The logic that drove the authors, who actually prefer to be called simply “organizers” of all the material that researchers of public and private and / or operators of the Regional Agencies for Environment have provided during these years, to undertake this unusual procedure publication is described in detail in the “Operational Premises (italian written)” of the work.
Atlas of the lagoon – Venice between land and sea. (ITA)
Thanks a cooperation between ISMAR and the City of Venice Lagoon Nature Observatory, the “Atlas of the lagoon – Venice between land and sea” was firstly published as a volume (S.Guerzoni and D.Tagliapietra, Marsilio Eds.) and then online.
Author: Stefano Guerzoni, Davide Tagliapietra
Editor: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina
Published: dicembre 2003
Page: 91
Price: € 10,00
ISBN: 88-7543-014-4
The Sick Lagoon. (ITA)
In this condensed volume, the editorial team (S.Guerzoni and S. Raccanelli) gives an accurate description of the “state of the art” of scientific research in the delicate and controversial field of environmental monitoring. In a simple manner the results of various types of research carried out both by public and private institutions are presented, all dealing with the contents of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the environment (air, water, sediments, soli, fish) and in foods in Venice and its surrounding area.
Uncontrolled release into the environment of such substances as dioxin, furans, chlorinated compounds and micro-pollutants in general are capable of causing the worst industrial disasters to which mankind has been subjected in recent decades: Seveso and Bophal above all. But it is not only the unexpected or casual leakage, explosion of fires which disturbs the sleep of local inhabitants exposed to “chemical risk”: a much higher level of anxiety is induced by the fear of being subject to the effects of a silent, imperceptible, but constant release into the atmosphere or water of toxic substances which may accumulate and have lasting effects, poisoning our bodies without our knowledge (from back cover)