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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Swim surveys of the Mediterranean rocky coasts: The Geoswim programme

The Geoswim programme is an expedition-type project which is aiming to monitor, measure and survey rocky coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. The project officially started in 2012 with the first one-man survey of about 200 km by snorkelling along the NE Adriatic coasts, and is ongoing. Now far, 559.5 km of rocky coasts have been surveyed, over 98 days of survey, and several hundred thousand time-lapse images, continuous videos and outline images have been collected, above and below the waterline around 21 sites in the Mediterranean. Bathymetric data and physical/chemical parameters, such as temperature and electrical conductivity have also been collected during the snorkel surveys. Instruments are hosted on an Instrumental-Supported Raft (ISR). The Geoswim database represents a significant archive that provides 1) images and videos as a baseline for future comparisons, 2) large amount of images to build 3D models of the studied coasts, 3) data for statistics, and 4) a valuable approach of possible discoveries of unknown coastal objects, such as sea caves, etc at unexpected sites, ecological observations, etc.

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Il gruppo seminari CNR-ISMAR, Alessandra Conversi (Lerici), Filomena Loreto (Bologna), Gianluigi Liberti (Roma) e Camilla Palmiotto (Bologna).

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Dr Helena I. Gomes, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham, in visita a Ismar

ISMAR CNR Bologna will host Dr Helena I. Gomes, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham (UoN), from the 26th March to the 9th April!

This mobility is in the context of a bilateral International Exchange IEC\R2\222015 named “Biomining precious metals” between Faculty of Engineering of UoN and ISMAR-CNR.

Project’s lay summary

Metals are essential in our daily lives and have a finite supply. For example, smartphones are pocket-sized vaults of precious metals. An iPhone contains 0.034 g gold, 0.34 g silver, and less than one-thousandth of a gram platinum. The current CO2 emissions and environmental impact of mining those metals are untenable. We pursue reclaiming mineral resources from waste to meet the present needs of raw materials and metals without compromising future generations to meet their own needs. Platinum-group elements (PGE), in particular platinum, palladium, and rhodium, are precious metals we need to secure supply, as they are essential for catalysts, electronics, and medical therapies/diagnostics. One of the primary uses of PGE is in cars to reduce the harmful substances in exhaust fumes from gasoline burning. Recycling car catalysts has huge environmental benefits, enabling the recovery of up to 95% of platinum and saving high amounts of energy compared to mining the primary ores. Current recycling technologies are expensive, energy-intensive, and can generate pollution. In this project, we will study nature-inspired processes for recovering PGE from waste materials to counteract traditional mining of natural resources, which is often inefficient under the new circularity requirements. Acid-producing bacteria and bacteria that grow in contaminated land and under extreme conditions will be tested. Collaborating with Italy will enable us to compare different microbes and whether they can be used to upcycle critical metals. The goal is to develop a new and cleaner method to recover precious metals from wastes, avoiding overmining and its pollution.

Helena will give a seminar on the 4th April at ISMAR-CNR terzo piano sala riunioni (more info will follow, also a remote link will be available). If you are curious or want to chat and network, please feel free to email us (Helena.Gomes1@nottingham.ac.uk; valerio.funari@cnr.it).

Next seminar

Giovedì 15 maggio ore 11:00    –    ON LINE LINK

Prof. Andrea Fildani (Università Federico II, Napoli – DiSTAR)
“The building blocks of submarine fans: insights for high-resolution imagery of modern systems”

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Il Prof. Andrea Fildani è docente di geologia stratigrafica e sedimentologia, presso il Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e Risorse dell’Università Federico II di Napoli

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