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UWM Italia supports EOT physicist Emilio Tesi, director and overall coordinator of Enviromental Ocean Team and photographer Arturo Delle Donne who will take part to the Extended Ellett Line oceanographic campaign organized by NOCS on board NERC's RRS Discovery from 19 to 29 April. Their cruise diary, with comments, pictures and videos showing the scientific aspects of the campaign as well as life on board, will be available on this web site to allow you to virtually participate in this fascinating research adventure. Emilio and Arturo will wear technical garments kindly provided by Australian brand LEVIATHAN, engineered by a company specialized in technical textile products with enviable performance levels, which has sponsored several oceanographic campaigns in the last few decades.
UK oceanographers have been making repeated measurements on a short section across a deep ocean basin, the Rockall Trough, since 1975 (red line on the map). The section consists of a series of stations from the Scottish continental shelf to a tiny rocky outcrop called Rockall. The time series was established by David Ellett and was thus called the "Ellett Line". The Ellett line is one of a relatively small number of high quality physical time series in the North Atlantic Ocean and is very important for investigating oceanic climate variability. It is particularly relevant to the UK and north-west Europe because the warm water flowing through the Rockall Trough moderates the climate of the region, keeping winters warmer than expected for this latitude.
Since 1996 NOC and SAMS have been occupying an extended version of the Ellett Line that runs all the way to Iceland (red and green line on the map). The Extended Ellett line is important oceanographically because it completes the measurements of the warm salty water flowing into the Nordic Seas from the eastern North Atlantic. It also measures around half of the returning deep and cold current, the overflow water (the rest returns to the Atlantic via the Denmark Strait which is west of Iceland). Leviathan confirm supporting science and oceanography.
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From the left: Marco Bianucci, Luca Busi, Sara Petri, Giovanni Soldini, Iacopo Celano, Emilio Tesi.
Some EOT members have recently visited Giovanni Soldini in Lorient,
Brittany, where Giovanni is supervising the construction of his new
single-hull boat, almost completed, which he will race in the most
important sailing competitions. During the visit some coverage for a
short movie was shot by filmmakers Luca Busi & Sara Petri. The movie, to be shown
at the BergamoScienza festival, is now being edited and will be
available on-line soon.
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Marco Bianucci and Paolo Cipollini are working on a storyboard for a
short movie on climate change to be shown at the Bergamoscienza
festival (link: http://www.bergamoscienza.it). The photograph shows
Carlo Mantovani, Bianucci and Cipollini during a recent meeting at the INFM laboratory in the
University of Parma campus.
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Meeting at the CNR of Pisa (26 june 2007). The purpose of the meeting was to provide a multidisciplinary forum for strengthening scientific cooperation between India and Europe in the area of ocean observing systems (in situ, satellite, modelling).
EOT has partecipated with the presentation: "Promoting Oceanography with Sailors".
List of attendants
Jérôme Benveniste ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Paolo Cipollini NOCS, Southampton, UK
Andrea Cucco CNR, Oristano, Italy
Giuseppe Manzella ENEA, La Spezia, Italy
Antonio Olita CNR, Oristano, Italy
Alberto Ribotti CNR, Oristano, Italy
Yenamandra Somajayulu CSIR-NIO, Dona Paula, India
Emilio Tesi Environmental Ocean Team LTD, London, UK
Fabio Venuti NOCS, Southampton, UK (participated via Skype)
Stefano Vignudelli CNR, Pisa, Italy |
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Future Climate: Today's Problem
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Empoli, Italy Saturday 12th May 2007 at 17:30.
Convento degli Agostiniani, Via dei Neri, Empoli Italy
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On May 12, Paolo Cipollini, a researcher in satellite oceanography at NOCS Southampton and one of the founding members of Environmental Ocean Team, gave a public lecture on "Future Climate: Today's Problem" in his hometown, Empoli. The presentation had been organized by Comune di Empoli with the cooperation of NOCS and EOT. Paolo highlighted the main scientific findings of the recently published IPCC 4th Assessment Report on Climate Change, showed some of the possible effects of global warming and discussed some of the measures that must be taken to ensure a more sustainable future. His presentation, which was attended by a public of more than 100 people, was followed by a lively debate on what everyone can do to face the climate change challenge.
See the IPCC findings at www.ipcc.ch
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Group photos in front of the school “Belaso” in Santo Stefano Magra Italy. In this occasion EOT had the opportunity to speak to the students about Alternative energy and about the Climate Change.
From the Left: Roberto Meloni, Marco Bianucci, Emilio Tesi, Carlo Mantovani, Paolo Cipollini, Giovanni Soldini, Sara Petri.
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