Environment: New ENEA-Lampedusa Marine Area Agreement
21/7/2016
Studying climate change, monitoring water quality and protecting the marine ecosystem are the objectives of the new agreement between ENEA and the Marine Protected Area “Pelagian Islands”, managed by the Municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa.
At the center of the collaboration, started in 2005, the research activities of the ENEA Station for Climate Observation “ Roberto Sarao” on Lampedusa, the best equipped and most important station for climate observation in the Mediterranean Region, whose marine and atmospheric circulation patterns are crucial for understanding climate phenomena.
“The collaboration between ENEA and the Marine Protected Area “Pelagian Islands”- Giusi Nicolini, Mayor of Lampedusa and Linosa and President of the AMP, pointed out- will allow to strengthen and promote the studies on the Mediterranean environments, networking the Pelagian Archipelagos with a wide web of research bodies fostering environmental awareness, establishing synergies to promote the environmental sustainability of the two islands”.
The Agreement envisages environmental sustainability actions supported by scientific training and dissemination activities.
“The Lampedusa Observatory- Roberto Morabito, Head of the ENEA Territorial and Production Systems Sustainability Department, said- has been recently fitted with an off-shore buoy equipped with several tools studying sea-air interactions; thanks to the range and types of measurable marine and atmospheric parameters, Lampedusa is on its way to becoming the first integrated observatory in the Mediterranean”.
The Climate Station on Lampedusa - managed by the ENEA Laboratory for Earth and Climate Observation and Analysis - thanks to its geographical position at the southest point of Italy, far from the coast and urban agglomerates, is a unique observation point for monitoring the climate system, particularly greenhouses gases, solar radiation, ozone and atmospheric particulate. Because of its characteristics, it’s part of key research infrastructures of the European Scientific Community such as ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) for greenhouse gases monitoring and ACTRIS (Aereosols, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure) for measuring atmospheric properties and several international networks for climate observation (NASA and WMO - World Metereological Organization).
For more information please contact:
Francesco Monteleone, ENEA Laboratory for Earth and Climate Observation and Analysis – Territorial and Production Systems Sustainability
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