IGG-CNR covers all fields of earth sciences, focusing on several items including hydrology and water resources, fluid geochemistry, subsurface investigation, numerical modelling. It is equipped with several laboratories (e.g. hydrogeology, geophysics, geochemistry, stable/radiogenic isotopes, modelling) and it has a strong expertise in data statistical analysis and modelling. It leads or participates in several international and national projects addressing issues on water cycle and present/future water availability (e.g. ASTERIS-INTERREG, MoST-INTERREG, AGUAFUTURA-MAECI, eLTER Plus, LifeWatch PLUS, H2020 EOTiST, HYDRO-ISLAND Unesco etc.). Since 2015, IGG is also carrying out the ISMOGLAC project (RIS10298) in the Kongsfjorden area-Svalbard, focusing on the dynamics of melting and meltwater transfer to the fjord, with the support of the Norwegian Water Res. Directorate (NVE). IGG is actively involved in the Terrestrial Flagship of the NySMAC and in the Workgroup “Research Activities at Svalbard” (CNR-DSSTTA). IGG coordinates ICEtoFLUX project and it leads the WP1 (Hydro-phys./geoch.) and WP3 (Modelling). In particular, it provides project, meetings and workshops coordination, hydrodynamic measurements, water sampling and chemical-isotopic analyses, geophysical surveys and data modelling.
The mission of the ISP-CNR is to contribute to increasing the quality of Italian scientific and technological research in the polar regions, and to provide knowledge on global changes in support of Italian and European environmental policies by the development of new technologies and survey methodologies. The ISP team involved in ICEtoFLUX has a long experience in studying the microbial compartment and the environmental chemistry in polar areas. By adopting classical and modern techniques, research efforts are steered to analyse microbial abundance, diversity and metabolic functions, and the occurrence, distribution, persistence and fate of organic micro-pollutants. ISP leads the WP2 (Microbial/organic) and contributes to the WP3 of ICEtoFLUX. The objectives in ICEtoFLUX will be met by taking into account the knowledge gained with MIKA (RIS10254), Arctic-DOC (RIS10522) and ICUPE (RIS11042) projects, and the participation to the Kongsfjord Flagship (NySMAC) and the international TUNU Programme (UiT-University of Tromsø). Sampling, analysis and elaboration activities performed by ISP provide data and information on microbial abundances/activities, organic matter decomposition rates, prokaryotic community diversity and metabolic potential, occurrence of legacy and emerging micro-organic contaminants distinguishing between primary (local source, long range transport) and secondary emission (i.e. release from existing stocks like melting glaciers and permafrost).
DIATI-PoliTo is an international reference point under the technical, scientific and educational point of view for the analysis and the mitigation of climate change effects, with particular focus on innovation strategies for climate change monitoring and analysis (i.e. climate_change@polito project). In the ICEtoFLUX project, the Geophysics DIATI team cooperates with IGG and DISTeGEO-UniBa in WP1 for measuring underground resistivity and electromagnetism, sharing tools and expertise on geophysical integrated methods gained in previous projects concerning glacial-periglacial areas monitoring, and aquifer characterisation.
DISTeGEO-UniBa focuses on the integration of geological, geo-mineralogical and geophysical knowledge. The geophysical expertise covers a large part of ElectroMagnetic techniques for the multiscale imaging of the subsurface in land and marine environments, and for investigating crustal structures and fluids, such as in the recent projects FLUIDS-PRIN2017, OTRIONS-INTERREG. DISTeGEO has also expertise in geophysical surveys in polar environment as a partner of the ERTAFROST project (RIS10307) aimed at gaining information on permafrost conditions around Ny-Ålesund. In the ICEtoFLUX project, DISTeGEO participates to the Task 1.2, cooperating with the other partners for the geophysical surveys with the main target of data acquisition down to below-permafrost layers.
