ABOUT US

- SILVANO FARES​

Silvano Fares, research manager at the CNR and Director of the Institute for Agricultural and Forestry Systems of the Mediterranean -specialized in surveys of forest ecophysiology with experimental measurements and modeling of greenhouse gas flows and sequestration of pollutants by of forest vegetation. It designs and uses systems to study gas exchanges at leaf and whole plant level, and applies micrometeorological techniques (Eddy Covariance) to describe flows of CO2, H2O, methane, ozone, volatile organic compounds (VOC), particulates at the entire ecosystem level using specific sensors that also include mass spectrometry. It uses models to calculate biochemical parameters related to the photosynthetic process, make up-scaling from the leaf to the entire ecosystem, distinguish between stomatic and non-stomatic flow of ozone in agro-forest ecosystems.

- alessandro alivernini

Dr. Alivernini is a remote sensing expert for the estimation of tree vegetation structural parameters and has specific experience gained in previous projects for the estimation of ecosystem services, is a researcher at the Forest and Wood Research Centre of CREA. It has specific experience gained in previous projects for the estimation of ecosystem services.

- ADRIANO CONTE​

Technologist at the Institute for the Sustainable Protection of Plants (IPSP) c/o the Joint Research Center ENI-CNR “Acqua Ipazia d’Alessandria” based in Metaponto, deals with the study of responses of agricultural and forest ecosystems to abiotic stress. He is an expert in environmental modelling aimed at estimating ecosystem services and monitoring of greenhouse gas flows between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere with Eddy Covariance technique.

- ALESSANDRO SEBASTIANI​

Ph.D. in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology at La Sapienza University in Rome, has been working since 2017 on the theme of Ecosystem Services in the urban and peri-urban environment. He specializes in remote sensing and geospatial analysis in the GIS environment applied to the evaluation of Ecosystem Services. He currently serves at the Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems of the National Research Council (CNR-IRET).

- GIOVANNI LICARI​

Giovanni Licari was born in Marsala in 1954. Introduced to family farming, he obtained the diploma of Agrotechnician self-taught. He matures his professional experiences in agricultural, woodland and urban green activities and enjoys technical and anthropological research on the use and management of ornamental trees and the restoration of historic gardens. Intrigued by the transformations of agricultural activities and the man-made landscape, he develops the interest to know the relationship between man and nature to deepen the motivational choices of individual species both in utilitarian aspects and in cultural values. To share his experiential research he sets up the site http://www.unamanoperlambiente.eu and the Tutorial method Carpus, aimed at knowing, evaluating and easily use the main biological and functional characteristics of the trees, in terms of cost/ benefits, for every where.

- ILARIA ZAPPITELLI

Ilaria Zappitelli is Environmental Chemist, Biologist and Ph.D. in Technology Sciences and Biotechnology for Sustainability. She has always dealt with the quality and health of the environment through analysis of water, soil and air. Starting from the master in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management obtained in Roma Tre, deals with urban greenery and Ecosystem Services. During the PhD project – carried out at the University of Tuscia and CREA-FL – he was part of a LIFE project and expanded this path as a visiting researcher in France, applying the methodology created on different Italian cities but also European. During the post-doc he followed several projects at the CNR-Institute for Bioeconomy (IBE), always in the field of urban greenery and the evaluation of Ecosystem Services and Disservices.

- LUCIANO BOSSO

Researcher at CNR-ISAFOM, he is an ecologist interested in understanding on a large scale the processes involved in the distribution of marine and terrestrial species through the use of software and GIS packages, webgis technologies, ecological modelling and remote sensing. His research and scientific activity is essentially divided into two parts: 1) providing advances in knowledge in the field of spatial and quantitative ecology on a large scale, making available the results of my studies to improve the management and planning of the territory and the conservation of species and habitats; and 2) trying to bring the great scientific discoveries in the biological and ecological field to the general public, through proper scientific dissemination and environmental education.
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