Descrizione
Questa sessione prevede brevi presentazioni orali da parte di ricercatori, tecnologi, tecnici e collaboratori coinvolti nel progetto ITINERIS. Tali presentazioni offriranno una panoramica concisa delle attività e dei risultati significativi realizzati nel progetto, rappresentando un'opportunità per la condivisione delle conoscenze e la promozione della discussione all'interno della comunità ITINERIS.
This study investigates the physical-chemical and biogeochemical dynamics of the Marano and Grado Lagoon (northern Italy) using a combination of observational data and simulations from the coupled SHYFEM-BFM model. A data assimilation approach is applied to integrate monitoring information into the model, improving the representation of lagoon processes. Model outputs are validated against in...
The Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) actively contributes to the overall goals of the Global Ocean Observing System Italy by participating in the Svalbard Integrated Observing System (SIOS) through the national marine infrastructure in the Arctic region. This infrastructure consists of four moorings positioned at various coastal and offshore...
Zooplankton plays a fundamental role in marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles. However, its diversity and dynamics remain challenging to assess, primarily due to the high taxonomic complexity and pronounced spatial-temporal variability of planktonic communities.
Traditional methodologies, based on plankton net sampling and stereomicroscopic identification are the standard approach for...
Italy is actively involved, through the promotion and guidance of marine research infrastructures (RIs), to contribute to the European strategy for ocean observation and the ESFRI roadmap. Each RI works autonomously and independently of the others, defining its own rules for access to data and services. This makes access to national marine data complex and fragmented. It is in this panorama...
Within Work Package 5, Activity 5.20 is dedicated to demonstrating the advantages of cross-infrastructure data integration, combining both Eulerian and Lagrangian observations to generate a comprehensive spatial and temporal overview of key ocean variables. By merging datasets such as temperature, salinity, and oxygen from multiple research infrastructures (including stand-alone moorings,...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a growing global threat with significant implications for both human and veterinary health. Among the microorganisms commonly associated with AMR, Enterococcus spp. play a relevant role. As commensals of the gastrointestinal tract in humans and animals, they are known for their ability to acquire and transfer resistance genes, thus contributing to the...
This work proposes frameworks to improve vegetation monitoring using airborne and satellite remote sensing imagery. Remote sensing enables rapid, georeferenced assessments of crops and ecosystems based on the spectral properties of canopy components. However, traditional approaches, such as vegetation indices rely on empirical methods that use few spectral bands, limiting their ability to...
The restoration of fragile Mediterranean ecosystems is crucial to maintaining biodiversity and ecological stability. Deciduous oak forests are experiencing severe decline due to climate change, oak dieback, and low natural regeneration rates. Among environmental drivers, radiation is one of the most important meteorological variables measured in terrestrial ecosystems, as it regulates...
Biostimulants are emerging as sustainable strategies to improve crop tolerance to drought. We investigated the effects of two plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strains cable of modulating plant stress hormones: Serratia odorifera, a producer of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate (ACC)-deaminase that inhibits stress-induced ethylene formation, and Pseudomonas sp., a producer of...
Within the DiSSCo infrastructure and ITINERIS project, two reference benthic foraminiferal (BF) collections from the Institute of Marine Science have been harmonized and digitized: the Linosa Sicily Channel Collection (LiCSiC) and the North Adriatic Foraminifera Collection (NAdFC). As BF are key bioindicators, these collections with their FAIR digital datasets, serve as valuable...
The ITINERIS project (WP6 6.4 activity) supported DiSSCo’s vision by prioritising digitisation of Natural History Collections to enable access to biodiversity data.
The resources were primarily allocated to infrastructural works and acquisition of equipment to carry out and support digitisation activities. Three fixed-term technicians were hired to handle the digitisation of both zoological...
The research focuses on the investigation on how climatic and socio-economic shifts drive woody species encroachment into mountain grasslands, altering carbon sequestration patterns and contributing to ecosystem changes.
In recent decades, the investigated area in the Aosta Valley region has seen the transition towards the abandonment of pastures by grazing livestock, below the forest line...
The aim of this study is to determine the temporal and spatial variation of fluxes of two greenhouse gases (GHGs), CH4 and CO2, at "Le Viote" alpine peatland (Trentino, Italy) using a closed dynamic chamber-based system consisting in a smart dark chamber (LiCor 8200-01) and gas analyser (LiCor 7800), characterizing their response to their main climatic and anthropogenic drivers. Climatic...
The main goal of the ATLAS IR (Advanced Technologies for Landslides Research Infrastructure), developed within the ITINERIS project, is to implement workflows, algorithms and a data management platform capable of integrating multiple heterogeneous datasets to support operations during emergency situations related to geo-hazards. Among the various types of landslide phenomena, this study...
The Italian scientific community can access scientific drilling and coring data mainly through the participation in two long lived international programs that are part of the Piano Nazionale Infrastructure di Ricerca (PNIR 2021-2027): The International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP3 and its precursors), through the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), and the...
The overall objective of this study is to improve the seismic risk assessment of the city of Potenza (southern Italy, selected because it is already the subject of several national and international research projects) based on a multidisciplinary approach that considers the seismic hazard of soils in the urban area, the interaction effect between soils and buildings, and the seismic capacity...
The present research activity aligns with one of the main objectives of the ATLaS research infrastructure: the development of forecasting models and quantitative risk assessment methods for geo-hydrological hazards. The work focused on the development and maintenance of a forecasting system for shallow rainfall-induced landslides that works continuously providing daily outputs in near...
Extreme events such as prolonged drought periods and high-intensity rainfall episodes intensify a cascade of hydrological problems. These range from difficulties in securing agricultural water supplies and managing water in urbanized areas, to the critical domain of hydrogeological risk, where ensuring slope stability and preventing landslides become particularly tricky challenges. Effectively...
Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems offer high-resolution imaging, rapid deployment, and operational flexibility, making them particularly suitable for time-critical applications such as environmental monitoring and emergency response. Compared to satellite-based systems, their lower flight altitudes enable improved azimuth resolution and shorter revisit times. However, accurate...
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and magnetometric technologies are widely used as they are rapid, cost-efficient, versatile and non-destructive techniques. Thanks to the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), several UAV-suitable miniaturized/lightweight GPR and magnetometers were released, opening new potentialities but also new challenges. UAV, indeed, allows fast data collection over...
The Italian geophysical test site PiTOP is part of ECCSEL, the distributed Research Infrastructure with the aim to enhance European science, technology development, innovation and education in the field of Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilisation, Transport and Storage (CCUS). PiTOP offers five wells of different depths, is equipped with seismic and geoelectric instrumentation and allows to perform...
The ITINERIS project has supported the deployment of the first operational Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) network as part of the existing Seismic Monitoring in North‑Eastern Italy (SMINO) network, which operates within the Near‑Fault Observatory (NFO) of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
Five permanent DAS interrogators, each monitoring up to 50 km of publicly owned dark fiber optics...
The Virtual Research Environment on Carbon has been one of the successful outcomes of the Itineris programme. The VRE hosts multiple datasets, code, reference documents, and communication material useful for a broad community of researchers, stakeholders, and end users interested in the carbon cycle and related research. An operative version of the VRE Carbon, focused on the Italian territory,...
As part of the ITINERIS project (2022–2025), funded by NextGenerationEU, a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) has been developed to investigate the impacts of climate and environmental change. Hosted on the D4Science infrastructure, the VRE (Assante et al., 2021) offers tools for data visualization, analysis, and sharing, with dedicated toolboxes for marine and land domains.
In the **marine...
Beech forests (Fagus sylvatica L.) are important carbon sinks due to their ability to accumulate biomass and sequester atmospheric carbon. However, their dynamics are strongly influenced by seasonal biotic and abiotic factors, particularly in Mediterranean climates, where frequent droughts and heatwaves negatively affect photosynthesis, growth, respiration rates, and tree mortality. These...
Accelerated glacier retreat trends, mainly driven by human-induced climate change, are causing important changes in mountain landscapes. In the European Alps, over a century of glacier retreat has left new vast areas open for biotic colonization (mainly driven by plants and microbes).
Increasing time since deglaciation usually involves an increase in structural diversity and provides...
Isotope Geochemistry plays a pivotal role in exploring the natural variability of isotope ratios in Earth materials. The application of stable, noble gases, non-conventional stable, and radiogenic isotopes is fundamental across a wide range of Earth System disciplines, including geology, biology, archaeology, agronomy, ecology, up to medicine, food provenance studies, and climate change
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The Virtual Research Environment (VRE) serves as a collaborative platform designed to facilitate research activities across various scientific domains. By integrating diverse data sources, analytical tools, and computational resources, the VRE aims to enhance the accessibility and usability of data generated by research infrastructures (RIs). This environment fosters collaboration among...
