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SIOSED Project: establishing the effects of reusing the most common lagoon sediments
Through its distributor, Consorzio Venezia Nuova (New Venice Consortium), the Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia (Venice Water Board) has commissioned Thetis to carry out an experimental study on the environmental effects of moving lagoon sediments and reusing them for morphological restoration work in Venice lagoon.
The scientific responsibility for the project has been entrusted to Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), the prestigious scientific organisation of California University in San Diego (U.S.A.). SCRIPPS will work closely with Italian researchers and technicians from Thetis SpA, CNR-Istituto di Scienze Marine (Institute of Marine Science, Venice) and the Laboratorio di Biologia Marina in Aurisina (Laboratory of Marine Biology) and SELC. Work will begin in spring 2005 and last 27 months.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (California University in San Diego, U.S.A.) is one of the oldest, largest and most important centres for research and scientific training in the world. The American National Research Council has named SCRIPPS the top organisation of its kind, owing to the educational quality of its oceanographic programmes. The range of skills the institution boasts has been expanding since it was founded in 1903, and currently comprises biological, physical, chemical, geological, geophysical and atmospheric studies, which consider the earth to be a single system. Hundreds of research programmes involving 65 countries are currently active, covering a wide range of scientific areas. The institution employs a staff of approximately 1300 and its annual expenditures total approximately 140 million dollars, financed by federal, state and private funds. SCRIPPS operates one of the most important research fleets in the United States, counting four oceanographic ships, and a platform for carrying out research all over the world (http://sio.ucsd.edu/).
The scientific responsibility for the project has been entrusted to Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), the prestigious scientific organisation of California University in San Diego (U.S.A.). SCRIPPS will work closely with Italian researchers and technicians from Thetis SpA, CNR-Istituto di Scienze Marine (Institute of Marine Science, Venice) and the Laboratorio di Biologia Marina in Aurisina (Laboratory of Marine Biology) and SELC. Work will begin in spring 2005 and last 27 months.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (California University in San Diego, U.S.A.) is one of the oldest, largest and most important centres for research and scientific training in the world. The American National Research Council has named SCRIPPS the top organisation of its kind, owing to the educational quality of its oceanographic programmes. The range of skills the institution boasts has been expanding since it was founded in 1903, and currently comprises biological, physical, chemical, geological, geophysical and atmospheric studies, which consider the earth to be a single system. Hundreds of research programmes involving 65 countries are currently active, covering a wide range of scientific areas. The institution employs a staff of approximately 1300 and its annual expenditures total approximately 140 million dollars, financed by federal, state and private funds. SCRIPPS operates one of the most important research fleets in the United States, counting four oceanographic ships, and a platform for carrying out research all over the world (http://sio.ucsd.edu/).
