A laboratory hi-tech ten meters below sea level in the Golfo dei Poeti (La Spezia), equipped with a digital camera, sensors for monitoring environmental parameters (temperature, salinity and speed of the currents) and special cages for studying the degradation of plastics and l absorption of pollutants in the marine environment. It is the identikit of the innovative submarine observatory installed by the Ligurian District of Marine Technologies (DLTM), in collaboration with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the National Agency for new technologies, energy and development sustainable economy (ENEA), the National Research Council (CNR), the Hydrographic Institute of the Navy, the Municipality of Lerici and the Associated Mussel Farmers Cooperative, within the LabMare project funded by the Liguria Region.
In addition to environmental monitoring, also aimed at studying the effects of climate change, the infrastructure can be used by research institutions and companies as a real experimentation laboratory to test cutting-edge technologies and innovative underwater sensors. The wired connection of the infrastructure will also allow real-time use of the images and geophysical and oceanographic data acquired.
Created thanks to the sharing of human resources, infrastructure and equipment of all the research entities involved, the laboratory is located in the bay of Santa Teresa in front of the ENEA Center of the same name and is part of the same scientific project as the deep submarine observatory installed last year about 600 meters deep off the coast of the Cinque Terre Marine Protected Area.
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