Cnr-Istituto di Scienze Marine

L’Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche svolge attività di ricerca fondamentale e applicata in oceanografia fisica, chimica e biologica e in geologia marina.

L’obiettivo è contribuire allo studio dei processi oceanici e della variabilità climatica, allo sviluppo di sistemi/servizi per l’osservazione, la protezione e la gestione sostenibile dell’ambiente marino e delle coste.

                               L’Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISMAR) svolge attività di

Ricerca Fondamentale e Applicata

in oceanografia fisica, chimica e biologica e in geologia marina con l’obiettivo di contribuire sia allo studio dei processi oceanici e della variabilità climatica che allo sviluppo di sistemi/servizi per l’osservazione, la protezione e la gestione sostenibile dell’ambiente marino e delle coste

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Al via il progetto EU H2020 MAELSTROM per affrontare la problematica dei rifiuti marini che impattano gli ecosistemi costieri

Finalmente si parte! Dal 3 al 5 febbraio 2021 si terrà il Kick-off meeting del progetto MAELSTROM finanziato nell’ambito del programma dell’Unione Europea Horizon 2020 e dedicato alla mitigazione dell’impatto dei rifiuti marini negli ecosistemi costieri

MAELSTROM – Smart technology for Marine Litter SusTainable RemOval and Management, è un progetto quadriennale iniziato ufficialmente il 01 gennaio 2021, e coordinato dall’Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISMAR). Il team di progetto è rappresentato da un Partenariato multidisciplinare che riunisce esperti di vari settori che vanno dalla robotica alla biologia marina, dal riciclo dei materiali e al coinvolgimento di cittadini e stakeholder.

L’obiettivo principale di MAELSTROM è quello di trovare soluzioni per ridurre l’impatto dei rifiuti marini negli ecosistemi costieri, identificando i luoghi di accumulo, intercettando i rifiuti fluviali galleggianti e rimuovendo quelli depositati sui fondali marini, soprattutto costituiti da materiali plastici, in modo da evitare la loro degradazione in microplastiche. Le attività riguarderanno la progettazione e la sperimentazione di tecnologie innovative, co-alimentate da energia rinnovabile e da un carburante di seconda generazione, in grado di rimuovere i rifiuti presenti in due vaste aree costiere nel Golfo di Venezia (IT) e nell’estuario del Douro a Porto (PT). Un’attenta valutazione ambientale sarà fatta prima e dopo le operazioni di rimozione per valutare l’efficacia e l’impatto ambientale di tali attività.

Con la visione di promuovere un’economia circolare, i materiali raccolti verranno trattati combinando processi e tecnologie innovative ed utilizzando metodi di trattamento fisico-chimico al fine di trasformarli in altri prodotti. In questo modo, i rifiuti marini diventeranno una nuova risorsa. I risultati ottenuti costituiranno un passo importante verso la neutralità climatica entro il 2050 e il disaccoppiamento della crescita economica dall’uso delle risorse, come previsto dal Green Deal Europeo.

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Ocean sciences essenziali nella lotta contro il cambiamento climatico

On October 25, Ifremer, the CNRS and the IRD, with support from the Ocean & Climate Platform, Thomas Pesquet and ESA, are launching a digital world tour of ocean and climate sciences, christened OneOceanScience. Scientists from the entire world are participating. Together, they will explain why ocean sciences are essential for better understanding and protecting the ocean. “Why does ocean science matter?” They’re sounding the alarm: the ocean’s well-being affects all of us and it should be a central part of the climate negotiations.

SHARING OCEAN KNOWLEDGE FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Brought together by OneOceanScience, 37 scientists from 33 countries will speak up through a series of short videos on the immersive platform oneoceanscience.com. They’ll talk about why ocean science is essential. (“Why does ocean science matter?”) They’ll explain how the ocean and climate are linked and what solutions they’re working on to preserve ocean ecosystems and society in the face of climate change.

ISS Commander in chief, Thomas Pesquet, will share his vision of the ocean and lend support to scientists.

Thanks to support from the Ocean & Climate Platform, the OneOceanScience campaign will also be present at COP26 in Glasgow to represent ocean sciences ahead of the international negotiations.

OCEAN AND CLIMATE ARE INTIMATELY INTERCONNECTED

Recognition of the ocean’s true value is well overdue. As it covers more than 70% of our planet, it connects us, feeds us, gives us energy, heals us, and inspires our dreams.

“Coastal areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of extreme events and need to manage climate change risks. Venice is considered a hot spot due to its fragility and risk exposure, but also a precious natural laboratory” Debora Bellafiore, an oceanographer at CNR-ISMAR who deals with hydrodynamic modelling.

Today, the message from the scientific community is clear and the facts are beyond a doubt: our future depends on a healthy ocean and we need knowledge from scientific activity to better protect it.

OneOceanScience, REPRESENTING OCEAN SCIENCES AT COP26

Financed by the Ocean & Climate priority research program and categorized as a UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development action, OneOceanScience will kick off COP26’s day on oceans—Ocean Action Day—on November 5 in Glasgow.

“To understand the role of the ocean in the climate system it is crucial for climate change mitigation. This requires to study ocean processes and climate variability and to develop and maintain a multi-platform ocean observing system. CNR-ISMAR is strongly committed to this global challenge, mainly focusing on the Mediterranean Sea that currently warms at a rate of 20% faster than the rest of the globe. COP26 and the Ocean Decade are the best opportunity for the world to recognize the role ocean in climate mitigation and move finance decisively in the direction of strengthening the ocean research” Rosalia Santoleri, Director of CNR-ISMAR.

The aim of the OneOceanScience campaign is to reach over seven million people around the world.

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Next seminar

Giovedì 8 maggio ore 14:30    –    ON LINE LINK

Gian Marco Palamara, CNR-ISMAR-Roma
“Integrated Modelling for Integrative Ecology”

ABSTRACT: Ecology is a discipline with flexible boundaries, where characterizing species interactions and ecosystem responses often requires accounting for the complexity, nonlinearity, and stochastic nature of biological and environmental processes.
In this talk, I will present different ecological case studies combining experimental and theoretical approaches to explore population and community dynamics under environmental stress and spatial heterogeneity. In the first part of the talk, we analyse long-term experiments on Daphnia galeata exposed to sublethal pesticide concentrations using a stochastic, age-structured population model. Bayesian inference reveals significant treatment effects — particularly for the insecticide Diazinon — on mortality and fertility, with clone-specific responses reflecting potential adaptation. The model also accounts for strong demographic stochasticity, supporting more reliable interpretation of ecotoxicological data. In a second case study, we develop stochastic models for multi-species systems, including food webs and metacommunities. Using continuous-time Markov processes, we revisit functional response theory, predator prey equations, and finally explore biodiversity dynamics in dynamic landscapes modelled as time-varying random geometric graphs with neutral dynamics. Among other things, our findings show that fluctuating connectivity can enhance both local and regional species richness, offering new theoretical insights into spatiotemporal drivers of biodiversity.
Together, these studies demonstrate how stochastic models can reveal hidden mechanisms in ecological systems — from controlled experiments to complex landscapes.

Gian Marco Palamara was born in Rome and trained as a physicist. For over a decade, he has worked internationally at the intersection of theoretical ecology and ecological modelling, collaborating closely with empiricists to develop robust theoretical frameworks for understanding the drivers of biological diversity. More recently, Gian Marco has been exploring integrative approaches to ecology that bridge disciplinary boundaries, drawing together insights from the mathematical, natural, and social sciences.

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