Fabio Brunetti

Electronic engineer with mre than 30 years of experience in the data acquisition systems. Technologist at OGS since 2000, he is responsible for the remote marine monitoring platforms. His field of interest is the development, management and maintenance of instrumented buoys, moorings and lagrangian systems. Since 2005 he coordinates the marine technology activities to support oceanographic research in the Department of Oceanography at OGS. He has been involved in the installation and maintenance of three coastal radar stations (WERA) for monitoring surface currents in the northern Adriatic Sea during the DOLCEVITA project. He contributed to the design of the coastal monitoring network of Friuli Venezia Giulia Civil Protection and he is still responsible for the implementation and maintenance. In the past he designed a telemetry and control board on costal drifters to be used in the sea surface circulation study and dispersion processes. These instruments have been successfully tested and implied in various international projects such as: MREA_07, MREA_08, TOSCA. He contributed as designer to the realization and installation of the Southern Adriatic Observatory E2M3A and is still involved in the development and maintenance. He was involved in the design and development of low-cost oceanographic sensors in the OpenMODS Project. He is currently the technical contact for the Gulf of Trieste Observatory Platform, a system consisting of oceanographic and wavemeter buoys as well as HF-radar, for coastal marine monitoring. In the Danubius - RI, he is responsible for the implementation of the Lagoon Environmental Monitoring Network (MALO). This network consists of four buoy-mounted multiparameter probes and six ADCPs, for monitoring physical and biogeochemical parameters of the Grado - Marano lagoon.