DOCUMENTARY IN COMPETITION IN ROME DOCSCIENT 2011

An extensive investigation focused on the occurrence of legal and illicit psychotropic substances in the atmosphere was started in 2006, after cocaine was identified in Rome. Several investigations have been carried out in Italy and abroad in urban, suburban and rural areas, and an important data base has been set up. According to it, the illicit substances seem to be widespread in the environment and show time and space modulations independent of those of usual air pollutants. On the basis of ...

L'attività svolta è stata incentrata principalmente sullo studio dei processi chimici legati all'inquinamento ambientale, ed ha permesso di maturare l'esperienza necessaria a valutare, sul campo, l'affidabilità delle principali tecniche di campionamento e di analisi e lo studio di processi tecnologici e sistemi di abbattimento che consentano la riduzione degli inquinanti. a) Sviluppo di metodiche per l'identificazione ed il dosaggio di microinquinanti organici Lo sviluppo di tecniche on-line ...

In the framework of the Agreement between the Italian Ministry for the environment, land and sea - Department for Environmental Research and Development and the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution (IIA) - National Research Council, the IIA assists the Ministry to coordinate the Italian participation to the EU activities and programs and to the international negotiations (UNEP and UNECE). At regional level, the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) represents since ...

Urban pollution is a many-sided issue of main complexity, either since a major fraction of population live in large or medium- sized cities, where exposure to the urban cocktail may induce serious health effects, or due to the fact that urban areas represent an important pollution source themselves. Concerning the airborne particulate matter, a hugely composite mix of many different inorganic and organic chemical species under solid or liquid phase in the atmosphere, the urban environment ...

Nell'ambito delle attività di ricerca del dell'IAMC è stato pubblicato il volume:"Geohazard in rocky coastal areas" a cura di Crescenzo Violante incentrato su tematiche riguardanti i rischi naturali in aree costiere. Il volume è una Pubblicazione Speciale della Geological Society of London (SP 322). Il volume raccoglie nove contributi scientifici che illustrano diversi aspetti della pericolosità e del rischio naturale derivanti da eventi geologici in aree di costa rocciosa. I casi studio si ...

E' stato messo a punto presso l'ISAC, nell'ambito di un'Intesa Operativa con il Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, un sistema di previsioni mensili probabilistiche (extended range ensemble forecasting), basato sull'utilizzo del modello globale GLOBO, sviluppato presso l'Istituto. Il modello GLOBO è stato perfezionato mediante implementazione di uno schema di mixed layer oceanico e di evoluzione della copertura dei ghiacci marini, oltre che di una parametrizzazione del drag orografico. Sono ...

Il suolo riveste un ruolo fondamentale in diverse aree scientifiche: 1) idrologia di versante e bacino a diverse scale; 2) salvaguardia delle qualità delle acque di falda; 3) controllo e produzione di sedimenti; 4) magazzino dinamico di carbonio organico; 5) substrato di base per la vegetazione. Il suolo è pertanto fondamentale per la comprensione di una notevole quantità di eventi e processi che spaziano dalla prevenzione e mitigazione di rischi di frana ed esondazione al controllo del ...

The atmospheric pollution forecast is a challenging target, which is not far to be reached by the scientific tools developed in the last years. The research objective is to better understand the processes that affect the air quality and their impact on meteorology and climate; the practical objective is to produce tools for the governance and support to decisions. The growing public interest solicited new European economic resources towards such end. In particular EU finances the Integrated ...

Conventional suspended biomass reactors (e.g. activated sludge systems), widely used for treating municipal and/or industrial wastewater, have the disadvantage of large area requirement and high surplus biomass production. This explains the great effort being made worldwide to find a replacement for conventional technologies, with innovative ones aimed at lower footprint, better operational flexibility and lower sludge production. In such a contest, the Water Research Institute (IRSA) of the ...

La disponibilità di strumentazioni in grado di fornire (DTM) Modelli Digitali del Terreno di elevata precisione permette un monitoraggio areale dell'evoluzione morfologica di ampie porzioni di territorio. In tale ambito, il CNR IRPI di Torino (che coordina la Commessa: TA.P05.010 / Sviluppo e applicazione di tecnologie innovative di caratterizzazione e monitoraggio per la previsione, mitigazione e gestione dei fenomeni di instabilità geo-idrologica o relativi a grandi opere e reti ...

The Environmental Seismic Intensity scale (ESI2007) is a new earthquake intensity scale only based on the effects triggered by the earthquake in the natural environment. The coseismic effects considered more diagnostic for intensity evaluation are surface faulting and tectonic uplift/subsidence (primary effects), landslides, ground cracks, liquefactions, displaced boulders, tsunamis and hydrological anomalies (secondary effects). The ESI 2007 scale follows the same basic structure as any other ...

The WAEES Project aims at the installation of a propeller system designed to increase the flushing rate of the southernmost region of the Lake Como West Arm (the so-called First Basin) characterized by high residence time due to the absence of a natural outflow. The first phase of the project (2006-2007) saw IRSA-CNR and the Centre for Water Research (CWR) of the University of Western Australia jointly work with the Centro di Cultura Scientifica A. Volta (the project manager). WAEES developed a ...

The negative effects of climate change are mostly observed in developing Countries, with particular emphasis on Asia. As in other parts of the world, this area is under a double threat: the first one, at a larger scale, is related to global warming as a result of increasing greenhouse gas emissions to which the Asian continent contributes significantly, while the second one is connected to climate change at the regional scale, influenced by the high aerosol - black carbon in the first place - ...

A database on climate change over the last two centuries has been realized thanks to the European project ALP-IMP (Multi-centennial climate variability in the Alps based on Instrumental data, Model simulations and Proxy data), where the group of Historical Climatology of the Institute of Atmospheric and Climatic Sciences (ISAC) of the National Research Council, Bologna, headed by Teresa Nanni, participated for Italy. Research was carried out in collaboration with Maurizio Maugeri of the ...

In this focus we present the results of an electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) time lapse experiment aimed at monitoring the dynamics of the saltwater intrusion in the coastland bounding the southern Venice Lagoon, near Chioggia (Italy). The knowledge of dynamics of the saltwater intrusion in the lagoon system is important to preserve from the salination this area where a flourishing agricultural activity is present. The experiment was performed and funded in the framework of the CORILA ...

La network o rete BENTOX-NET, a cui afferiscono ricercatori con consolidata esperienza nell'affrontare le tematiche dei bloom microalgali, comprende le expertise richieste per affrontare le ricerche sugli HAB (Harmful Algal Blooms). La rete (network), che si considera attiva dal momento della formazione sulla base delle risorse disponibili, si propone di: - stabilire una comunicazione ottimale fra gruppi di ricerca già impegnati sul territorio italiano in studi sul problema delle fioriture ...

The goal is to identify functional molecular markers for the early selection of plants tolerant to biotic stress. The researches are carried out on Juglans spp. and foresee the genetic characterization of a "mixed" population of plants J.regia, J.nigrae the identification of any interspecific hybrids using dominant molecular markers (RAPD, ISSR and nuclear microsatellitism (SSR) codominati.Also we will conduct the analysis of half-sib families from free pollination of J. nigra parent plants, ...

AquaStress è un Progetto Integrato di ricerca, avviato nel Febbraio 2005 nell'ambito del VI Programma Quadro dell'Unione Europea e della durata di quattro anni, cui partecipano 35 Istituzioni (Enti di ricerca, Università, Organizzazioni non-governative) appartenenti a 17 nazioni europee e del bacino mediterraneo, Nord Africa incluso. Il progetto è coordinato dall'Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque del CNR. Il consorzio di partner è caratterizzato da un'elevata interdisciplinarità, con esperti ...

Decompression microstructures preserved in the mineral garnet from a Norwegian orogenic peridotite massif exposed on Otrøy Island revealed that this mantle fragment was exhumed from depths ≥ 350 km close to that of the Mantle Transition Zone (410 km). This peridotite massif represents one of the deepest kilometre-size mantle rock units discovered at the Earth's surface. The recognition of this extraordinary depth of origin enables the detailed study of the deep Earth now at the surface, ...

A conclusione del Progetto "Introduzione e Monitoraggio di Specie Alloctone nei mari di Taranto" (IMSAT), MIUR, D.M. 1015 4/10/2001, è stato preparato un'opuscolo, a carattere divulgativo, avente lo scopo di sensibilizzare tutti coloro che operano in contatto col mare, le autorità preposte alla tutela dell'ambiente e della salute umana e l'opinione pubblica, in generale. L'opuscolo si prefiggeva anche di individuare delle linee guida da suggerire per evitare l'introduzione di specie ...

I disastri dovuti ad episodi di oil spill in mare sono eventi accidentali che hanno un enorme impatto sugli ecosistemi marini. Tale scenario richiede interventi mirati da un lato al monitoraggio delle aree marine a rischio, che consenta la predizione di disastri ambientali, dall'altro alla implementazione di nuove tecnologie innovative finalizzate recupero delle aree contaminate. Presso la sezione di Messina , è stata incrementata l'attività di ricerca sui BIC (batteri idrocarburoclastici) ...

1 - Studio della struttura genetica dell'isopode marino Sphaeroma terebrans, perforatore del legno di mangrovia e confronto con quella di altre specie di Crostacei con diverse strategie riproduttive. 2 - Analisi dei ritmi riproduttivi e delle strategie di dispersione in Sphaeroma terebrans. L'analisi svolta fino a questo momento ha permesso di ottenere alti livelli di strutturazione genetica nell'isopode S. terebrans e valori significativi di differenziazione genetica tra le popolazioni, anche a ...

However, there are many sources of oil pollution in the ocean other than tanker and oil rig accidents. Human activity on the land and natural seeps as well as municipal and industrial waste discharge. Progress in bioremediation have allowed the discovery of a fascinating new group of marine bacteria, namely the hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (HCB), that play a critical role in the natural cleansing of marine systems and obviously have a biotechnological potential. The HCB are marine obligate ...

Every year million hectares of genetically modified (GM) crops, including varieties of soya, maize, tomatoes, potatoes, cotton, tobacco and oilseed rape, are planted for commercial purposes worldwide. It is important that any potential negative side effects of GM plants are studied in detail and research in this area has clearly expanded and advanced during recent years. The research group of the Unit of Applied Ecology and Biological Control of ISE-CNR studied the effect of transgenic maize ...

In the framework of the research group on biodiversity conservation of the CNR-ISE priority ecoregions for rodent conservation have been identified. Current emphasis on biodiversity mapping and identification of conservation priorities which are not species-specific, highlight the importance of rodents as a biodiversity indicator group. In fact Rodents occur naturally on all continent (with the exception of Antarctica) and in almost all habitat, with more than 2000 recognised species ...

Traditionally the marine atlases were based on the visual reports taken from ships. On top of the unavoidable errors, these data carry with them a basic flaw, because of the care with which the captains try to avoid as far as possible the stormy areas. Besides these data are concentrated only on the main shipping lanes. More recently, during the last 10-20 years, three new sources of data have become available: buoys, satellites and numerical models. However, notwithstanding the enormous ...

The oceanic lithosphere covers 2/3 of our Planet: understanding how it forms and evolves is a major challenge in the Earth sciences. New crust is continuously being created by partial melting of the upwelling mantle; and the melt rises towards the ocean floor, cools, solidifies and is then 'rafted' away to either side of the ridge by seafloor spreading. Mid-ocean ridge (MOR) topography, structure and composition indicate that near zero age processes of lithosphere formation vary along ridge ...

All plants emit a wide range of volatile compounds such as nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, and non-methane volatile organic compounds, the so-called biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC). BVOC emissions have received increased scientific attention in the last two decades because BVOCs are highly reactive and, thus, may profoundly influence the chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere. The global carbon emitted as BVOCs is about 1.1 Pg per year, and is believed to be of the same ...

In the recent years a tremendous increase in economic, environmental and human losses caused by weather hazards, especially floods and droughts, has raised the alarm over the possibility that the recent increases in extraordinary atmospheric events were are due to a changing climate. The analyses till now performed on daily series show a positive trend in the mean amount per wet day (i.e. precipitation intensity) for some areas and a tendency toward higher frequencies of heavy and extreme ...