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Dott. Salvatore Campanella - ARPA SICILIA - UOC ST3 AREA MARE

CALYPSO FO Project Kick-Off Meeting 11th June, 2015

ARPA Sicilia partership in CALYPSO

Follow On project

CALYPSO FO Project Kick-Off Meeting 11th June, 2015

UOC ST3 Area Mare – history and activities

Calypso FO project partership

Dott. Salvatore Campanella

CALYPSO FO Project Kick-Off Meeting 11th June, 2015 Dott. Salvatore Campanella

UOC ST3 AREA MARE

Laboratory and on board activities

uos ST3.3: Laboratorio oceanografico

Coastal erosion

uos ST2.4: Suolo

Coastal water monitoring

uos ST2.1: Ambiente idrico

uos: coastal monitoring

uos: reference laboratories

Naval units management

Struttura SA3 Patrimonio e Provveditorato

ARPA’s Sicilia UOC “AREA MARE” was born in 2013 to answer

the requirements to gather together in only one organisation all

the activities regarding monitoring of Sicilian coastal

environment, that were distributed – at that time – between

many ARPA organisations.

This with the aim to make deeper and to enrich ARPA sea

services.

Diving operators training

(on going)



New approach in which sea is not only a salt water basin

in which polluttants could be searched but a super living

organism to monitoring and take care of, if necessary,

with BAT

Moving from these requirements UOC “AREA

MARE” is developing these tasks:

• Coastal oceanography

• Specific polluttants and nutrients research in water

and maryne sediments

• Benthonic and planktonic community monitoring

• Ecotoxicology

• Laboratory specialistic activities



UOC Area Mare has three organisation areas:

Reference laboratories, Coastal environment

monitoring and Naval Units management

Staff

VINCENZO RUVOLO Chemist head of UOC

BENEDETTO SIRCHIA Biologist

ELENA NASTA Biologist

GIUSEPPINA MARINO Biologist

SALVATORE CAMPANELLA Chemist

TIZIANA NICOLETTI qualified technitian

SALVATORE BADAME administrative assistant

In situ activities are worked out by means of 2 oceanographic

naval units: motorship GALATEA and motorship TETI. The first

one managed in cooperation with Coast Guard General

Headquarters, the second one is directily managed by Area

Mare personnel



On shore laboratories activities work on nutrients analysis, granulometry,

chemical phisics water parameters, planktonic biomass determination,

macrozoobenthos determination, benktonic dinoflagellate (Ostreopsis

ovata, Coolia monotis, Procentrum lima ecc.) specialistic ecotoxicological

analysis. Laboratories are located in the new via Partanna Mondello, 50/A

site.

Micro polluttant analysis in water and sediment are worked out by ARPA Ragusa

Territorial Laboratory which AREA Mare operates with.



Activities areas summary

Marine strategy

Coastal monitoring

Algae monitoring

HF Radar technology form marine currents in

Malta channel



Sicilian coastal monitoring plan, (update in

process), was realised with Regione Siciliana and,

at the moment, takes into account 1 or 2 sampling

sites per water body, for a total amount of 65

stations, as illustrated below.



WP 2.2 System Installation, Calibration and Testing:

•Installation of new HF radar site and of central processing units in Sicily;

•Civil works and site protection measures at radar stations;

•Accessories for radar station installation;

•Hardware/software upgrades of the full radar network.

WP 2.4Training and Maintenance:

•Training of new personnel and further training of previously trained

personnel in Spain and Malta/Sicily;

•Operation and maintenance support for project duration, preventive system

technical visit, antenna pattern calibrations at all radar sites (including service of

boat), automatic remote performance monitoring of the system with weekly

analysis of status based on web tools;

•Spares and supplies for maintenance;

•Exchange scientific/technical visits Malta-Sicily.

Calypso follow on project activities in which ARPA

Sicilia is directly involved


WP 3.1 Calypso web portal:

•Further development and Maintenance of project portal;

•Software/IT services/ licenses for web.

WP 3.3 project seminar:

•Preparation of a dedicated project seminar with Invited experts and open

to key stake holders behind Malta and Sicily.

WP 4.1 CALYPSO user interface:

•Upgrading of the data interface with enhanced services and links to key

users;

•Maintenance and development of interface to upgraded version;

•Software/ IT services/ licences for web interface;

•Commissioning of experts for upgrading applications of radar data and

service to users.



• Possible ARPA’s naval units cooperation in some in situ activities (System

validation con drift release);

• Sicilian partners cooperation consolidation and chance to cooperate with

Physical Oceanography Unit di UOM

• Operators training for data take over and editing; data analysis and rework in

comparison with data coming out from other coastal and marine activities

performed by area mare

• New system data diffusion

• Specific interests in Sicilian channel monitoring, looking at 2015 marine

strategy campaign (oil installations)

• Know how acquisition for the institutional ARPA Sicilia purposes

Partnership further returns for ARPA



Increasing stakeholders ARPA communication action

obout marine environmental data, publishing them on the

ARPA web site and/or between a direct link to system

data website



In the next month

Planning with Palermo University for operators training

Discuss if and how ARPA’s naval unit could partecipate to

the in situ activities

Discuss about linking calypso portal to ARPA website and

if and how to publicate calypso system data on ARPA

website

Thank you

ARPA Sicilia – UOC ST3 AREA MARE

Via Partanna Mondello 50/A

90146 Palermo

Tel +39 091 532197

[email protected]


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