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ITINERIS-Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System (ITINERIS)
Call year: 2024
Status: active
IADC_id: 797
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Within the ITINERIS project (https://itineris.cnr.ithttps://itineris.cnr.it), the Institute of Polar Sciences-CNR of Messina is involved in the activity concerning "Expand capability of biological and EOVs observations in polar regions ". This Activity aims to recover and fill the gaps in EOVs, biological and habitat observations at Italian key sites in the Svalbard Islands (Kongsfjorden/Krossfjorden area; offshore Spitzbergen), including coastal and off-shore permanent observatory platforms (n. 3 moorings, surface buoy, shore station), for a more comprehensive vision of the current and future Arctic ecosystem, key components of the global climate system. The UO will work to reinforce the data flow in polar regions, their disposability/usability by ITINERIS. Digital technologies will help to have a continuous understanding of the pressures on the natural environment and biodiversity. The use and integration of both advanced acquisition systems and automatic sensors will be adopted to improve real time and near real time data. This approach will include the exploitation of in situ multi-omics technologies for the characterization and quantification of pools of biological molecules that translate into the biodiversity, function, and dynamics of biological communities. Such improvement will allow us to obtain a picture at ecosystem level, integrating near real time biological and ecosystem variables with EOVs, including automatic procedure for data validation and will permit FAIR data compliance. The UO will work on strengthening and creating new marine infrastructure within the SIOS. In this regard, a coastal thalassographic buoy will be installed in the port of Ny-Ålesund for the continuous monitoring of the chemical-physical and biological parameters of surface waters and which will be possible for use by the international community as a technological platform for testing new sensors and biosensors. The structure of the buoy would be realized in the shape of a small catamaran which could be implemented in the future with autonomous mobility as an AUV and which can make periodic autonomous measurements in the fjord.
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In the framework of the SIOS Research Infrastructure CNR- INM - Institute of Marine Engineering - Genova CNR- ISMAR – Institute of Marine Sciences - Napoli
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