Download curriculum in terrestrial and marine environmental sciences

CURRICULUM IN TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
The specific objective of the curriculum in Environmental Sciences is the
development of the capability to operate within multidisciplinary groups,
hopefully at international level, and to interact with expertise typical for different
scientific disciplines (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences)
also including management issues, such as regulatory and economic topics. The
research activities, always developed into the frame of sustainability principles,
may be divided into three main groups:
Analysis and characterization of the terrestrial and marine environment
and landscape
- Remote sensing techniques applied to environmental analysis and
monitoring;
- Ecosystem services;
- Noise pollution;
- Geopedological analysis and characterization;
- Hydrogeological analysis of ground and surface water;
- Marine habitat mapping and geomorphological analysis;
- Geographic Information Systems;
- Aerosols and atmospheric chemistry and physics;
- Insular biogeography;
- Role of oceans in the climate system.
Risks and impact assessment for human health, environment, and
ecosystems
- Impact of climatic variability on the alteration of natural habitats and on
terrestrial and marine ecosystems;
- Chemometric approaches and development of QSAR models for
predicting the effects of contaminants on human health and non-target
species;
- Ecotoxicology: risk assessment at different levels of the ecological
hierarchical scale due to the environmental exposure to contaminants;
- Effects of nanoparticles, endocrine disruptors, air particulate and physical
stress on biological processes both in vivo and in vitro;
- Impacts of eutrophication, climate change and other anthropogenic
stressors on water quality, composition, abundance and phenology of
plankton, benthos and fish;
- Climate change and its impact on cryosphere;
- Impact of mineral aerosols on the atmospheric radiative budget;
- Biological invasion;
- Natural and anthropogenic mechanisms affecting marine bioconstructions;
- Marine bio-mineralization as environmental marker;
- Role of ocean transport and mixing on marine organisms.
Management, recovery of environment and landscape
- Hydrogeological risk management;
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Sustainable management of productive processes, and life cycle analysis
Sewage management, treatment and disposal;
Landscape management and ecological networks (terrestrial and aquatic);
Recovery of contaminated sites and ecological restoration;
Waste disposal, treatment and recycling;
Analysis and preservation of biodiversity;
Sustainable development: education and communication.