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January 2021 - present
CNR ISMAR
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- Research Associate
January 2020 - present
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- Research Associate
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- Actually he is involved in research related to resilience and mitigation the volcanic risk in the Neapoletan area and innovation of insurance services in catastrophe risk management.
February 2003 - March 2003
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- Visiting Scientist
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- Geochemistry of gases and fluids
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We consider here the effect of extensional tectonics
onthedynamicsoflargecalderas.Activecalderasaregenerally
characterised by different periods of uplift and subsidence, in
some cases spaced out by eruptions. Understanding of mecha-
nisms which produces caldera uplift/subsidence is one of the
main topics of volcanological research but is still a ma...
This study focuses on assessing the contamination of surficial sediments in the Shadegan International Wetland, southwest of the Persian Gulf, identifying heavy metal concentrations, evaluating pollution levels using multi-element indices, and determining pollution sources through statistical analyses. Sediment samples were collected from fifteen s...
La sostenibilità ambientale nel turismo crocieristico e lo studio di
alcuni casi applicativi è derivato da un’approfondita analisi di numerosi
articoli scientifici, diversi report e una corposa normativa. Solo dopo
aver effettuato un'approfondita review, costantemente aggiornata, si è
deciso di soffermarsi su questo topic. Infatti, se da un lato il...
The development of economy and society makes the heavy metal(loid)s pollution more serious and contamination of rice grains by heavy metal(loid)s is a worldwide problem. In order to appraise the health risks associated with heavy metal(loid)s (As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) in rice grains, we performed a meta-analysis based on the d...
In light of significant climate changes (i.e., temperature rise, rainfall decreases, desertification) and heavy land
use (i.e., heavy anthropization, widespread agricultural livestock farms, the need for precise water resource
management has never been more pressing. However, effective water resource management requires
continuous monitoring and...
This research focused on investigating the contamination levels, sources, and potential ecological and human health risks associated with 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) present in surficial sediments of the Abadan freshwater resources in the northwest of the Persian Gulf. The concentrations of ∑16PAHs varied between 67.8 and 57,748 ng/g...
The global pandemic has had a significant impact on the tourism industry, and the cruise industry is no exception. This article explores future scenarios and trends in Italian cruise tourism in the aftermath of the global pandemic, focusing on the case of MSC Cruises. The cruise industry faced unprecedented challenges during the pandemic, with wide...
The global pandemic has had a significant impact on the tourism industry, and the cruise industry is no exception. This article explores future scenarios and trends in Italian cruise tourism in the aftermath of the global pandemic, focusing on the case of MSC Cruises. The cruise industry faced unprecedented challenges during the pandemic, with wide...
“Di fronte ai disastri causati dalle alluvioni nel Centro-Nord ci troviamo per l’ennesima volta a discutere del nostro territorio fragile: sono circa 8 milioni gli italiani esposti ad alto rischio di frane o alluvioni mentre oltre il 93% dei Comuni è esposto a rischio frane, alluvioni e/o erosione costiera. Circa 21 milioni di italiani sono, inoltr...
H2S is not only a toxic gas but is also recognized as an endogenously produced metabolite in humans with key roles. We identified trimethylsulfonium, possibly a methylation product of hydrogen sulfide but the stability in the production of trimethylsulfonium has not been investigated. The intra- and inter-individual variability in the excretion of...
Energy transition focuses on the increase of the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, reducing the use of fossil fuels and their related gas emissions. Geothermal resources constitute a suitable option to achieve this goal because they have multiple uses, from the heating and cooling of buildings to district heating, greenhouses and...
On 21 August 2017, a shallow earthquake of Md 4.0 struck the Casamicciola Terme village in the north of Ischia volcanic island (Italy). It caused two fatalities and heavy damage in a restricted area of a few square kilometers. The damaging earthquakes at Ischia Island are no exception. The earthquakes repeat with similar characteristics over the hi...
Introduction
Continental hydrothermal systems (CHSs) are geochemically complex, and they support microbial communities that vary across substrates. However, our understanding of these variations across the complete range of substrates in CHS is limited because many previous studies have focused predominantly on aqueous settings.
Methods
Here we us...
Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic gas but also established as a naturally occurring gaseous signaling molecule in humans, playing key physiological roles with particular involvement in lung disease including COVID-19. Thiosulfate is the conventional biomarker of hydrogen sulfide and is excreted in human urine at low micromolar levels. Thiosulfate is amen...
Due to the increasing need for energy in emerging countries, as well as energy transition requirements, geothermal resources’ characterization and use is generating more and more interest, in both low/intermediate and high temperature fields. However, their characterization and use can be challenging. Deep geothermal resources can be hosted in high...
La caratterizzazione dei rischi catastrofali legati a fenomeni naturali quali eruzioni vulcaniche, terremoti, alluvioni, movimenti gravitativi e degli eventi atmosferici estremi. Il libro analizza i processi di innesco e sviluppo dei feno- meni naturali potenzialmente pericolosi, come base per lo sviluppo delle strategie di mitigazione per la preve...
Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic gas but is naturally produced in human tissues and is referred to as the “third gaseous signaling molecule”. Little is known about the metabolic pathways of hydrogen sulfide and its endogenous natural production in humans. Thiosulfate is the currently used biomarker for hydrogen sulfide but its utility has been shown to...
Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic gas but is naturally produced in human tissues and is referred to as the “third gaseoussignaling molecule”. Little is known about the metabolic pathways of hydrogen sulfide and its endogenous naturalproduction in humans. Thiosulfate is the currently used biomarker for hydrogen sulfide but its utility has been shownto be...
Research is carried out in the Public Research Institutes and Research needs flexibility and organisational specificity with respect to a prevalently administrative Public Administration. This article represented the possible critical issues of a rough application of Smart Working in Public Research Institutions. We showed how the Researchers and T...
Almost 140 years of industrial exploitation have severely degraded the environment of Bagnoli Coroglio (BC), the westernmost neighborhood of the city of Naples (Italy). In this peculiar area, however, geogenic processes overlap with the impact of human activities, making it difficult to distinguish between anthropogenic and geogenic pollution sourc...
Medical geology is defined as the science that deals with the relationship between geology and health in humans, animals, and plants (Skinner and Berger, 2003; Selinus et al., 2005, 2010; Florinsky 2010; Centeno et al., 2016). While medical geology can be recognized as having distinct links to geomedicine, an emerging field that focuses on geograph...
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Medical geology is defined as the science that deals with the relationship between geology and health in humans, animals, and plants (Skinner and Berger, 2003; Selinus et al., 2005, 2010; Florinsky 2010; Centeno et al., 2016). While medical geology can be recognized as having distinct links to geomedicine, an emerging field that focuses on geograph...
Ischia is a volcanic island located NW of the Gulf of Naples (South Italy). The island of Ischia is a structurally complex hydrothermal active system that hosts a fractured aquifer system whose geometry and hydraulic properties are still partly unknown. The aquifer system of Ischia, composed mainly of Quaternary volcanic deposits and marine sedimen...
The coastline of the Gulf of Naples, Italy, is characterized by a series of infrastructures of strategic importance, including touristic and commercial ports between Pozzuoli to Sorrento, main roads, railways, and urban areas. Furthermore, the Gulf of Naples hosts an intense traffic of touristic and commercial maritime routes. The risk associated w...
La penisola Italiana è costituita da un territorio particolarmente fragile, perché geologicamente giovane ed attivo. Questa circostanza, unita all'alta densità di popolazione, per di più distribuita specialmente nelle aree costiere, la rende particolarmente vulnerabile agli eventi naturali estremi, come terremoti, eruzioni vulcaniche, frane, alluvi...
The continuous evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus genome and the consequent substitutions observed in the amino acid sequences, can induce significant changes in parameters such as diffusivity and pathogenicity, and causes constant concern regarding the efficacy of vaccines against the new variants in circulation. In recent months there has been an...
Il Parco Regionale dei Monti Picentini rappresenta un’area di interesse strategico per quanto concerne l’approvvigionamento delle risorse idriche del meridione d’Italia. Le cospicue sorgenti di Caposele, Cassano Irpino e Serino alimentano i più importanti acquedotti delle regioni Campania, Basilicata e Puglia. Sulla base dell’attuale assetto infras...
Pozzuoli Bay is a part of Campi Flegrei caldera (Fig. 1), an active volcano with intensive hydrothermal activity. Due to co-existence of natural processes and anthropogenic activities across the area, a debate about source of some elements has been ongoing. We applied compositional data analysis (CoDA) to uncover the statistically meaningful relati...
In the last decades, investigating geochemistry of sea sediments has been challenging in the eastern sector of Pozzuoli Bay, source of the metal(loid)s has been a matter of debate and the proposed origin of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) has been occasionally inconsistent. In this study, compositional data analysis (CoDA) was used because the re...
Home / News / Uno studio su tre progetti internazionali di perforazione profonda pubblicato sulla rivista Energies Schema del setup sperimentale. I gas rilasciati durante la perforazione sono trasportati in super?cie insieme al fango di perforazione. Un degassatore estrae i gas dal fango di perforazione. I gas vengono pompati in un laboratorio mobi...
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Unconventional geothermal resource development can contribute to increase power generation from renewable energy sources in countries without conventional hydrothermal reservoirs, which are usually associated with magmatic activity and extensional faulting, as well as to expand the generation in those regions where conventional resources are alread...
Smart working and Research: the point of view of INGV Researchers and Technologists
Purpose: the aims of this article are to underline the specificities of the Research compared to the administration and management. Methodology: a legal-regulatory qualitative analysis and a quantitative online survey to 585 INGV researchers and technologists about...
1. INTRODUZIONE Il Piano Strategico del Turismo 2017-2022, approvato dal Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, ha delineato le temati-che principali del settore per rilanciare la leadership italiana nel mer-cato turistico mondiale. Particolare attenzione è stata posta alla diversificazione delle mete turistiche per indirizzar...
The health emergency due to Covid-19 has projected the employees of the Italian public administration into targeted and, essentially, forced smart working for everyone. This, together with the immediate benefit of mitigating the effects of the pandemic, has brought out the advantages and disadvantages of its application to the world of Research. Th...
Bagnoli Coroglio is an urban district of the City of Naples (South Italy), which fronts the Tyrrhenian Sea for nearly 3Km. It is part of the Campi Flegrei caldera, one of the most explosive volcanic areas in Europe. The need for redeveloping the site after the intense industrial activities of the twentieth century has prompted a remarkable research...
During the past decade, strong efforts have been made to unravel the links between volcanic and non volcanic areas throughout the world and their geothermal energy resources. This effort, in volcanic areas, has provided the basis for converting volcanic risk into a potential clean energy resource, especially in densely inhabited areas. Due to the i...
The underground aquifers present in the carbonate massifs of the Monti Picentini Regional Park, captured for various uses (drinking, irrigation and industrial) constitute a fundamental resource to which the Campania, Puglia and Basilicata regions owe a large part of their development. The importance of these deep aquifers is even more evident if we...
The archaeological site of Villa Arianna-located on Varano Hill, south of Vesuvius-offer tantalizing information regarding first-century AD resilience to hydrogeological risk. Additionally, the site provides an important test case for mitigation efforts of current and future geo-hazard. Villa Arianna, notable in particular for its wall frescoes, is...
The utility of new imaging technologies to better understand hazardous geological environments cannot be overstated. The combined use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and digital photogrammetry (DP) represents a rapidly evolving technique that permits geoscientists to obtain detailed spatial data. This can aid in rapid mapping and analyses of dyna...
Dott. Fabrizio MORANA e Dott.Gerardo COVIELLO Direttore Generale/Ricercatore Centro Studi e Ricerche AssicuraEconomia Dott. Francesco PAPARELLA, Broker Assicurativo/già Presidente AIBA Dott. Renato SOMMA, Associato CNR-IRISS e Ricercatore INGV Dott. Gianluca VALENSISE, Dirigente di Ricerca INGV Dott. Alfredo VESPAZIANI, Dirigente CONSAP La partecip...
Uno studio pubblicato sull'International Journal of Environmental research and Public Health a cura, tra gli altri, dell'Istituto di ricerca su innovazione e servizi per lo sviluppo del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, ha analizzato in maniera sistematica e quantitativa, da aprile ad agosto 2020, il rapporto tra terapie intensive e casi attivi e...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was particularly invasive in Italy during the period between March and late April 2020, then decreased in both the number of infections and in the seriousness of the illness throughout the summer of 2020. In this work, we measure the severity of the disease by the ratio of Intensive Care Units (ICU) spaces occupi...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was particularly invasive in Italy during the period
between March and late April 2020 then decreased in both in the number of infections and in the seriousness of the illness throughout the summer of 2020. In this discussion, we measure the severity of the disease by the ratio of Intensive Care Units (ICU) space...
The Bagnoli Bay (Napoli, Southern Italy) has been long subjected to environmental contamination, due to a large steel plant, which occupied a significant part of its territory for nearly one century. However, it is also part of a wide volcanic area, where an active caldera exists. An environmental survey of nearshore and offshore marine sediments c...
Abstract
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was particularly invasive in Italy during the period of March to the end of April 2020 then displayed a significant decrease both in the number of infections and in the seriousness of illness throughout the summer of 2020. In this discussion, we measure the seriousness of the disease by the ratio of Inte...
![Location of natural sources inside the Bagnoli bay [12,18].](publication/343397185/figure/fig4/AS:11431281411662011@1745908785916/Location-of-natural-sources-inside-the-Bagnoli-bay-12-18_Q320.jpg)
The area of Bagnoli (Gulf of Naples, central Tyrrhenian Sea) has been heavily exposed to pollution for over a century due to the presence of industrial sites along its coastline. The aim of this study is to analyze contaminant concentrations (i.e., heavy metals and hydrocarbons) in seabed sediments through a statistical multivariate approach. Multi...
The Naples (southern Italy) area has the highest volcanic risk in the world due to the coexistence of three highly explosive volcanoes (Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ischia) with extremely dense urbanisation. More than 3 million people live to within 20 kilometres from a possible eruptive vent. Mitigating such an extreme risk is made difficult becaus...
We statistically investigate the Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, which became particularly invasive in Italy in March 2020. We show that the high apparent mortality or Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) observed in Italy, as compared with other countries, is likely biased by a strong underestimation of the number of infection cases. To give a mo...
We statistically investigate the Coronavirus Disease 19 (hereinafter Covid-19) epidemics, which is particularly invasive in Italy. We show that the high apparent mortality (or Case Fatality Ratio, CFR) observed in Italy, as compared with other countries, is likely biased by a strong underestimation of infected cases. To give a more realistic estima...
We statistically investigate the COVID-19 epidemics, which is particularly invasive in Italy. We show that the high apparent mortality (or Case Fatality Ratio, CFR) observed in Italy, as compared with other countries, is likely biased by a strong underestimation of infected cases. To give a more realistic estimate of the mortality of Covid-19, we u...
Abstract. The Naples (Southern Italy) area has the highest volcanic risk in the World, due to the coexistence of three highly explosive volcanoes (Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ischia) with extremely dense urbanisation. More than three millions people live to within twenty kilometres from a possible eruptive vent. Mitigating such an extreme risk is m...
In this study, the sustainability of low-temperature geothermal field exploitation in a carbonate reservoir near Mondragone (CE), Southern Italy, is analyzed. The Mondragone geothermal field has been extensively studied through the research project VIGOR (Valutazione del potenzIale Geotermico delle RegiOni della convergenza). From seismic, geo-elec...
The combined use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and digital photogrammetry (DP) represent a rapidly evolving field of technological application allowing geoscientists to obtain very detailed spatial data products that are suitable for rapid mapping and analysis of dynamic landscape processes. Our research is committed to active volcanic areas an...
Active calderas are the major volcanic features of the Earth's. They are associated with large magma reservoirs and are characterized by elevated geothermal gradients. Unrest episodes, often documented through historical times, are not always followed by an eruption; however, every eruption is preceded by unrest. Explosive caldera-forming eruptions...
The Piperno eutaxitic tuff, 20 m thick, interfingered with loose
lithic-rich breccia, that outcrops at the base of Camaldoli hill
(Campi Flegrei) (De Lorenzo, 1904) was interpreted by Rittmann
(1950) to be a local air fall tuff. This welded tuff was reinterpreted
by Rosi et al. (1996) as a pyroclastic flow and was considered as the
proximal facies...
Ischia island, in the province of Naples, is a densely populated volcanic island, in which small to moderate magnitude earthquakes occur. Due to the very shallow depth of such events (less than 2 km), they can generate serious damage and casualties, up to the complete destruction of urban centers located within short epicentral distance. Almost all...
Monitoring volcanic phenomena is a key question, for both volcanological research and for civil protection purposes. This is particularly true in densely populated volcanic areas, like the Campi Flegrei caldera, which includes part of the large city of Naples (Italy). Borehole monitoring of volcanoes is the most promising way to improve classical m...
The Campi Flegrei caldera in Southern Italy is one of the most populated active volcanoes on Earth. It has an unprecedented record of historical unrest and eruption that dates back to 2.2 ka BP and provides key insights for understanding the dynamic evolution of large calderas. Since 1950, it has undergone four episodes of caldera-wide uplift and s...
In this study, we present the results of an analysis of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) datasets, referred to multi-temporal (2013-2015) acquisition, aimed at evaluating volumetric changes and average retreat rates of the Coroglio tuff cliff, located in the western area of Naples (Italy) in the Campi Flegrei caldera. The multi-temporal analysis wa...
Monitoring of geomorphic changes affecting sea cliffs poses a difficult challenge from a logistical point of view. Nevertheless, this activity is fundamental for the evaluation of cliff recession rates and the assessment of risk conditions affecting coastal settlements. Innovative geomatics techniques provide a valid contribution to detect cliff to...
The recent investigation carried out on the west bound of the Naples metropolitan area and inside the Campi Flegrei caldera as part of the Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project provided new insight in order to reconstruct the volcano-tectonic evolution of this extremely populated area. Campi Flegrei represents the highest risk volcanic areas in the w...
This study investigates fumarolic CO2 emissions at Campi Flegrei (Southern Italy) and their dispersion in the lowest atmospheric boundary layer. We innovatively utilize a Lagrangian Stochastic dispersion model (WindTrax) combined with an Eulerian model (DISGAS) to diagnose the dispersion of diluted gas plumes over large and complex topographic doma...
MENU Home > News > Dall'INGV nuove tecnologie per la previsione delle eruzioni Dall'INGV nuove tecnologie per la previsione delle eruzioni Un gruppo di ricercatori dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) , Università della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli' e Geo Forschung Zenter di Postdam ha sviluppato un nuovo metodo per monitorare i...
Naples and its hinterland in Southern Italy are one of the most urbanized areas in the world under threat from volcanic activity. The region lies within range of three active volcanic centers: Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei, and Ischia. The Campi Flegrei caldera, in particular, has been in unrest for six decades. The unrest followed four centuries of quie...
Interrogare il vulcano in real time Tweet Un nuovo metodo di analisi di gas, in tempo reale, indica lo stato di evoluzione dei Campi Flegrei. A idearlo un team di esperti INGV, Università della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli' e Geo Forschung Zenter di Postdam Il monitoraggio in tempo reale dei gas vulcanici, uno dei più importanti indicatori di eruzion...
Naples and its hinterland in Southern Italy are one of the most urbanized areas in the world under threat from volcanic activity. The region lies within range of three active volcanic centers: Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei, and Ischia. The Campi Flegrei caldera, in particular, has been in unrest for six decades. The unrest followed four centuries of quie...
Volcanic gas sampling and post-collection chemical determination in a laboratory may preclude any real-time continuous monitoring of volcanic activity. We describe the development, and show the advantages, of a system used for the continuous monitoring of fumarolic gases discharged from the Pisciarelli site (Campi Flegrei, Southern Italy) based on...
Categoria principale: Comunicazione (/index.php/news) Categoria: Comunicati Stampa (/index.php/comunicati-e-note-stampa-2) Creato: 22 Febbraio 2017 Visite: 585 DISGAS simula le concentrazioni di inquinanti Tweet Roma, 22 febbraio 2017 L'applicazione di un codice numerico, validato da misure sul terreno, ha permesso di simulare la dispersione in atm...
Volcanic gas sampling and post-collection chemical determination in a laboratory may preclude any real-time continuous monitoring of volcanic activity. We describe the development, and show the advantages, of a system used for the continuous monitoring of fumarolic gases discharged from the Pisciarelli site (Campi Flegrei, Southern Italy) based on...
We applied the Eulerian code DISGAS (DISpersion of GAS) to investigate the dispersion of the hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) from 32 geothermal power plants (out of 35 active) belonging to the geothermal districts of Larderello, Travale-Radicondoli and Monte Amiata, in Tuscany (Italy). An updated geographic database, for use in a GIS environment , was rea...
Volcanic gas sampling and post-collection chemical determination in a laboratory may preclude any real-time continuous monitoring of volcanic activity. We describe the development, and show the advantages , of a system used for the continuous monitoring of fumarolic gases discharged from the Pisciarelli site (Campi Flegrei, Southern Italy) based on...
The 501 m deep hole of the Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project, located west of the Naples metropolitan area and inside the Campi Flegrei caldera, gives new insight to reconstruct the volcano-tectonic evolution of this highly populated volcano. It is one of the highest risk volcanic areas in the world, but its tectonic structure, eruptive history,...
Vesuvius's big daddy: The supervolcano that threatens all life in Europe
