by ChiLomb | Jul 31, 2023 | NEWS, PROJECTS
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...
by ChiLomb | Jan 17, 2023 | NEWS, PROJECTS
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...
by ChiLomb | Jan 5, 2023 | PROJECTS
The marine science community is engaged in the exploration and monitoring of biodiversity dynamics, with a special interest for understanding the ecosystem functioning and for tracking the growing anthropogenic impacts. The accurate monitoring of marine ecosystems...
by ChiLomb | Jul 4, 2022 | PROJECTS
Mollusk shells, such as those of mussels and oysters, are made of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), thus representing precious biomaterials that, once recycled, can bring important environmental and economical benefits. Nowadays, waste management (shells) derived from the...
by ChiLomb | Jun 14, 2022 | PROJECTS
Coastal areas need to adapt to climate change, whose effects at economic and social levels are becoming critical (e.g. sea level rise, extreme events, heat waves, O2 and pH decreases). It is necessary re-design the management of the coastal areas, integrating...
by ChiLomb | Jun 14, 2022 | PROJECTS
Coastal ecosystems, located at the interface between marine an terrestrial ecosystems, include different ecological communities providing a wide variety of services extremely important for humans such as protection from flood and waves, food provisioning, water...
