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OGS is a partner in the latest Mediterranean campaign funded in the framework of the European programme Eurofleets, this time in the Alboran Sea, aboard the Spanish research vessel Ramon Margalef. OGS marine geologist Silvia Ceramicola embarked on 9 August, in Malaga, together with Spanish, French

Thursday 7 June 2012, at 14.30 Room BIO – Dip. Oceanografia Biologica via Auguste Piccard, 54 34151 - S. Croce ( TS ) Mini symposium on Marine Ecology Presentations start at 14.30 (about 20 min each, abstracts attached) Serena Donadi (MARBEE): Multiple ecosystem engineers facilitate

As a follow-up of the Workshop POEM, which took place in Rome November 2011, the first draft of the White Paper on the Mediterranean was prepared. Also, encouraged by the enthusiastic response of a large number of the Workshop participants right after the event, we applied for the AGU Monograph

Workshop on Climate change in Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas: Research experiences and new scientific challenges CIIFEN Headquarters, Guayaquil, Ecuador, May 8th – 11th 2012 1. Rationale Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, though geographically different, present many interesting analogies when

Round Table 16. March at 9:00, BiO Department (via Auguste Piccard, 54 - Trieste) Ionian surface circulation reversals and impact on deep circulation and ecosystem – Modeling and experimental approach Preamble Adriatic-Ionian Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS), forced by internal dynamics, manifests

OGS is taking part in an oceanographic campaign on the southern Brazilian continental margin, to study the seabed with the help of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, or AUV (photo 1). OGS researcher Daniel Praeg has joined Brazilian colleagues aboard the vessel Rig Supporter for the NR12/CONEGAS

OGS-NODC is the scientific coordinator of EMODNET Chemistry, the European Marine Observation and Data Network for Chemistry. EMODNET aims to assemble fragmented and inaccessible marine data into interoperable, continuous and publicly available data streams for complete maritime basins. EMODNET

SeaDataNet2 will focus on the upgrade of the present SeaDataNet infrastructure. The overall objective is to develop an operationally robust and state-of-the-art Pan-European infrastructure for providing up-to-date and high quality access to ocean and marine metadata, data sets and data products

The meteo-oceanographic buoy MAMBO1 is going to be implemented with new, high-tech instruments. An innovative measurement system aimed at determining the CO2 concentration in water will soon be installed on the buoy, which belongs to OGS and is located in front of the Miramare Castle. New sensors

It is with great pleasure that we have learned that Giorgio Napolitano, the President of the Republic, gave a high recognition (Presidential medal) to the Workshop in Oceanography that will be held in Rome, at the Accademia dei Lincei, from 7 – 9 November. The workshop will be adorned by the