Implementation and application of new technologies for marine environmental research
Author(s)
Piermattei, Viviana
Date Issued
June 15, 2017
Type
Doctoral Thesis
Abstract
Oceans play a fundamental role in the climate balance and change both physically, through heat
transport and water masses exchanges, and chemically, interacting in the carbon cycle through the
photosynthesis and the biological pump. Knowledge and understanding are the keys to sustainable
development and good ocean governance, as required by international organizations and european
maritime policy. Everyday new technologies emerges in all marine science sectors to facilitate the
understanding of marine life, to promote traditional maritime sectors and to provide solutions to
prevent and forecast climate change and marine pollution. Unfortunately there is a structural lack of
observational networks for open oceans and coastal seas and a limit to physical domain. The
knowledge of the oceans is stringly limited by the observational capacity, consequently the
development of new sensors and platforms contributes to the extension of measuring capacity of
marine phenomena. My research work shows new low-cost sensors and probes developed to
measure marine temperature, conductivity, chlorophyll a and CDOM fluorescences, turbidity,
focusing both on sensing strategies, general architecture and laboratory trials and on the different
application during several oceanographic surveys in the Mediterranean Sea. These technological
solutions were designed for the implementation of oceanographic monitoring networks to contribute
to the understanding of physical and biological marine processes.
Additional information
Dottorato di ricerca in Ecologia e gestione sostenibile delle risorse ambientali
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