Understanding how salt marshes grow is essential to understand how to allow their survival in a future of regulated lagoon. The professor. Andrea D’Alpaos of the Department of Geosciences and prof. Luca Carniello of the ICEA Department, both of the University of Padua explain the latest results on the study of the altimetric growth of sandbanks.
Dr. Davide Tagliapietra (CNR-ISMAR), Dr. Tamara Cibic and Dr. Rocco Auriemma (OGS – Trieste) show us the field activities to study the responses of microbial, planktonic and benthic communities to hydrodynamic changes and the reduction of water changes and hydraulic connectivity in relation to the operation of the MOSE using different methodological approaches.
Luca Baradello, an expert in seismic investigations of the subsoil, illustrates the aims of the activities aimed at the stratigraphic reconstruction of the subsoil to highlight the architectures of the late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in the Venice lagoon.
Fabio Pranovi, professor of ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Computer Science and Statistics of the Cà Foscari University of Venice, talks to us about how it is possible to identify and quantify, through the use of acoustic instruments, the flows of biomass that cross the mouths of lagoon port.