(ANSA) – NAPOLI, 11 SET – A privileged observatory to study climate change and look at future strategies to counter it: this is the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station in Naples, 150 years strong in research in the field of oceanography. “I think the has the longest series of environmental observations, particularly on the Gulf of Naples, available in the world,” its president Roberto Bassi said at the conference of scientific and space attachés and agricultural experts organized in Naples by the Foreign Ministry.
“Scientific diplomacy in the service of growth” is the theme of the meeting, which runs through tomorrow. “For 150 years that the Stazione Zoologica has been studying everything that has happened in the flora, fauna and algae of the Gulf of Naples,” Bassi said. Ischia, for example, “is an important center in terms of studying climate change because a lot of volcanic CO2 is produced on the seafloor, and so by looking at what is happening around Ischia, we can understand what will happen in the future.” For Bassi, this “is very important” because “only by comparing trends, that is, what happens year by year, can we analyze the differences and understand in which direction we are going, distinguish local aspects from general aspects. We have many fields in which researchers at the Zoological Station can express themselves, from the study of species moving from tropical seas to the Mediterranean, from changes in water acidity to biodiversity, that is, the composition of species and their interrelationships that depend on climate change. Right now we have a lot of research in this field, conducted very robustly, both in Naples and in collaboration with many countries around the world.”
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“Scientific diplomacy in the service of growth” is the theme of the meeting, which runs through tomorrow. “For 150 years that the Stazione Zoologica has been studying everything that has happened in the flora, fauna and algae of the Gulf of Naples,” Bassi said. Ischia, for example, “is an important center in terms of studying climate change because a lot of volcanic CO2 is produced on the seafloor, and so by looking at what is happening around Ischia, we can understand what will happen in the future.” For Bassi, this “is very important” because “only by comparing trends, that is, what happens year by year, can we analyze the differences and understand in which direction we are going, distinguish local aspects from general aspects. We have many fields in which researchers at the Zoological Station can express themselves, from the study of species moving from tropical seas to the Mediterranean, from changes in water acidity to biodiversity, that is, the composition of species and their interrelationships that depend on climate change. Right now we have a lot of research in this field, conducted very robustly, both in Naples and in collaboration with many countries around the world.”
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