20 June 2023

On June 20 th and 21 st 2023, an UNESCO team consisting of Jonathan Baker, Jing Fang and Megumi Watanabe, was hosted at the Base Ricerca Pianosa of the CNR (BRP-CNR) during the visit on the Pianosa Island made for evaluating the work carried out during the HYDRO-ISLAND project. During the first...

01 June 2023

On 24th April 2023, the project HYDRO-ISLAND (UNESCO Project) and its preliminary results have been presented at the International Meeting EGU (European Geoscience Union) held in Wien from 23rd to 29th April 2023. During the presentation the ongoing research activities and the main results about...

29 May 2023

On 6th and 7th March 2023, some educational meetings were held with the students of the State Comprehensive Institute of “Giuseppe Giusti” (Secondary School in Marina di Campo - 2°B, 3°A e 3°B), of the Comprehensive Institute of Portoferraio “Giovanni Pascoli” (Secondary School - 3°A, 3°B and...

29 May 2023

On March 22nd and 24th and on May 5th 2023, field trips on Pianosa Island were held with the students of the Comprehensive Institute of Portoferraio “Giovanni Pascoli” (Secondary School - 3°A, 3°B and Monoennio), of the State Institute of Higher Education "Raffaello Foresi" (High School in...

09 May 2023

In the framework of five-year project PianosaLAB2 - Soil ecosystem hub, the Pianosa Island Research Base of the National Research Council of Italy, which is part of eLTER Italy ed eLTER Europe, hosted a mission of the Institute for Bioeconomy(IBE) of CNR, from May 9th to 17th 2023. The mission was...

06 May 2023

REPORT ON THE ERIS eLTER MISSION ON PIANOSA Project: Factors influencing biodiversity in underground habitats from Pianosa Island (CAVERNBIODIV) May the 6 th to the 18 th , 2023 Institution: Emil Racoviţă Institute of Speleology (ERIS), Bucharest (Romania), Romanian Academy - Partner: Group for...

06 February 2023

The HYDRO-ISLAND project (Pianosa Island; UNESCO program) and the related preliminary results will be presented in the context of a cycle of online thematic meetings organized for the candidacy process of the Euganean Hills as a Biosphere Reserve according to the UNESCO MAB program. The specific...

27 July 2022

The project HYDRO-ISLAND (Pianosa Island: hydrological processes and water resources sustainability in a climate-changing Mediterranean - P.I.: Marco Doveri, IGG-CNR, marco.doveri@igg.cnr.it) has been funded by UNESCO among many proposals from Europe, in the frame of the program “Promoting...

05 April 2022

During the first couple of weeks in April 2022, a new multiparametric weather station and a new precision lysimeter have been installed on the Pianosa Island as well as the completion and the activation of the hydrological and hydrogeological monitoring network. The new network includes 8 wells,...

18 March 2022

The exploratory survey of the Pianosa island subsoil have started. Researchers from the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of the National Research Council (IGG-CNR) are engaged at the Base Ricerca Pianosa of the National Research Council (BRP-CNR) to support, from a technical-scientific...

29 November 2021

Geophysical studies of the Pianosa island have started in late November 2021 Researchers of the CNR-IGG, hosted in the BRP, carried out measurements of the subsoil electrical resistivity applying electrical and electromagnetic geophysical methods. These studies are aimed at increasing knowledge...

20 September 2021

Preliminary tests for the implementation and modernization of the hydrological and hydrogeological monitoring network began in the second half of September 2021. The new monitoring network will interest various sites on the Pianosa island and will make use of remote controlled data transmission...