Smart Bay Santa Teresa
Smart Bay Santa Teresa
A natural laboratory of research, technology, sustainable tourism and mussel farming. ENEA, CNR and INGV, Municipality of Lerici, Scuola di Mare S. Teresa and Cooperativa Mitilicoltori Associati, with the contribution of all users of the Bay, collaborate to make the Bay of S. Teresa an ecosystem model to contrast the effects of climate change
Research
Mollusc farming
Technology
Local authority
Sustainable tourism
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Observe and ask to the researchers or Scuola di Mare about the on-going projects. Do not touch or remove any marine and terrestrial organisms or experimental systems, but help us to control that ecosystems and technological items are kept in places
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What is going on in the bay?
Seawater data from the bay and the mussel farm
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Ellisolandia elongata: a coralline alga to contrast the climate change
Ellisolandia elongata is a red alga (Rhodophyta) that, as all plants, terrestrial and marine, do photosynthesis, that is, produces oxygen by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the sea. Being a coral alga, it is also able to deposit calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in its...
PLACALA Project- Plastic and Climate Change
Plastic pollution and climate change are seriously treating aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity but the how these two anthropogenic stressors jointly affect the Ocean and its ecosystems is still poorly understood. The plastic contributes to GHGs global emissions...
S&R4Seas- Sailing and Research for Monitoring the Ocean
Observing, measuring and quantifying the change occurring in the ocean is one of the global challenge with the highest priority (UNESCO Agenda 2030). The extension, diversity and depths characterizing the ocean and its ecosystems, most of them still unexplored, as...
