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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

❄️ Data collected during the mission highlight how rapidly high-altitude glaciers are responding to rising temperatures. #IceMemory #Glaciology #ClimateChange #Cryosphere #MountainResearch #CNR

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🏔️ At 4,200 m on the #GranCombin glacier, researchers from #ISPCNR and partner institutions carried out field measurements, weather station maintenance, and GPR, LiDAR, and photogrammetric surveys to monitor glacier change.

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Stazione Artica Dirigibile Italia CNR @dirigibile-italia.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Automated #eDNA seawater sampler is now active in Ny-Ålesund. This smart buoy system enables real-time monitoring of polar #ecosystems, thanks to automated decontamination and onboard computing. By CNR-INM and @cnr-isp.bsky.social, it's part of the #ITINERIS project (Next Generation EU).

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Work Package 2 Earth Observation: 7 partners, 4 tasks, 1 year: → ML + camera data for high-res snow monitoring → ICESat-2 SWE reference data over Svalbard → Albedo records for Greenland & Svalbard extended back to 1986 → Glacier & ice-sheet mass balance time series reaching into the 20th century

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The International Day of Women and Girls in science is an important opportunity to raise public awareness about the persistent gender disparities in the world of research and to reaffirm the right of women and girls to free and equal access to scientific disciplines.

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

✨ International Day of Women and Girls in Science ✨🔬 Since 2016, February marks this UN-proclaimed day promoting participation of women in STEM. At LIQUIDICE, 34% of our staff are women (25 in total) contributing across research, and innovation. 🎓 To mark the day, we hosted an online lesson!

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We're very happy to be part of this important project.

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

One year of LIQUIDICE Diss&Comm 💧 From social media and online lessons to public events and a children’s opera 🎭 Watch our short video summarizing our outreach activities. #Anniversary

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📌 What we found, in brief: Different contamination profiles between the two Poles: PAHs prevail in the North, while chlorinated compounds (e.g., PCBs and chlorobenzenes) are relatively more important in Antarctica. Metals (like Mn) help define additional environmental gradients.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

So, what did they find? Even the most remote environments are not isolated from our human footprint. ❄️🌍 In our new study, we compared sediments from 12 lakes across the Arctic (Svalbard) and Antarctica (South Shetland/Deception Island), combining environmental chemistry and microbiology.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

New article in Frontiers in Microbiology. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... Maria and Carmen went to two different Spanish stations on the Antarctic Peninsula and collected samples during the pandemic.

Dr Maria Papale sampling an Antarctic lake system

Maria and Carmen on the walk back from sampling

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The new Italian strategy is being presented today by Ministers Tajani, Crosetto, and Bernini. More information can be found at this link www.difesa.it/primopiano/a... and the strategy can be downloaded from here: www.difesa.it/assets/alleg...

Minister Bernini presenting the Italian Arctic Strategy

Minister Tajani presenting the Italian Arctic Strategy

Minister Crosetto presenting the Italian Arctic Strategy

presentation slide, Italian strategy for the Arctic

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Our colleague Nicoletta studying the supra glacial lakes on the Nansen ice shelf for the Holistic PNRA project led by our colleagues in the CNR IIA.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Great photos. Thanks James.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We are pleased to share this new paper written by Early Career Researchers including our Fiorenza Toricella. The review gives comprehensive, multidisciplinary synthesis of silicon cycling in the ocean and the Earth system. 🔗 Read the full article here: os.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Seasons greetings from all of the Institute of Polar Sciences. See you next year.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The snow to the eye appears “pure,” but the SPREAD project is investigating how it may actually retain signals of human presence and what this means for microbial communities and for the antibiotic resistome.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

With an accumulation of about 7–8 cm of snow per year, a 50 cm snow pit can take us back roughly 6 years; by sampling the different layers, you can estimate seasonal and annual variations.

Our researcher in sterile clothing above her cold weather gear collecting snow samples.

Our researcher collecting samples from a snow pit

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

News from our other project in Antarctica at Concordia Station. Andrea and Elena from the University of Pisa have arrived to sample snow for the study of microplastics, micropollutants and the microbiological communities present and their resistome to antibiotics and other compounds.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Our final newsletter of the year is now online, covering a year of activity at both poles. With news of new working groups and how we are going to start moving towards the 5th International Polar Year in 2032. It can be downloaded in English and Italian here: www.isp.cnr.it/index.php/it...

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Iscriviti  -  Cancella l'iscrizione   Subscribe  -  Unsubscribe   • ISP-Newsletter n.18 Dicembre/December 2025 - (Ita - Eng) In questo numero: In primo pian...

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

To avoid contamination, Andrei installed a small laminar flowhood in one of the logistics tents, ensuring that we're measuring contamination of the snow and not just the air inside the tent. A crucial job for undertanding the impact of these contaminants on our planet.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Filtering and preconcentration of the analytes of solid phase extraction cartridges means we can send less weight and volume back to Italy. When the samples arrive in our labs they'll be analysed for the analytes listed above and the bacterial communities associated with them.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The experimental phase of the project "PASSPORT" is still on going. Two weeks ago we showed Andrei sampling in the field. Now he's filtering and preconcentrating samples for the analysis of PFAS, PBDE, Bisphenols plastic additives and microplastics.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The operation is summarised in this water colour by Marion Lahuec illustrating what needs to be done!

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

To access this ancient ice without ruining the existing borehole, we're using a delicate piece of engineering developed by our Danish colleagues. To essentially taking a side-road off the main highway—starting at 2350 m to obtain replicate samples of this precious ice.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

News from the Beyond Epica Little Dome C ice core drilling site. The team is currently engaged in the difficult task of deviating the drill to create a replicate borehole along side the main bore shaft. Our target is to do this at a depth of approximately 2350 meters within the main borehole.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The recovery of the mooring, is scheduled for late January, and will be carried out by researchers from the University of Naples “Parthenope” using the R/V Laura Bassi.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

On the 25th of November, for the first time, an oceanographic mooring was deployed through a hole cut in the pack ice. Deploying a mooring is a routine procedure from an oceanographic vessel, but it has never been done before from Antarctic pack ice.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

the original article in nature communications is here: www.nature.com/articles/s43... you can find out more in Italian here: www.primapagina.sif.it/article/2089...

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Lo straordinario effetto specchio del Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Il Salar de Uyuni, in Bolivia, è il più grande deserto salato del pianeta, e si estende ...

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the largest salt desert in the world: an immense white expanse at an altitude of 3,600 meters that changes its appearance with the seasons. In the rainy season, however, a very thin layer of water turns it into one of the most perfect natural mirrors on the planet.

someone walking across a salt lake with a thin layer of water reflecting the image.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In the photo we can see Andrei, our PhD student sampling snow at Concordia station to study microplastics and organic pollutants at this remote location. To make sure he doesn't contaminate the sample he's wearing extra large clean room robes over his cold weather gear.

our PhD student Andrei sampling snow with a steel scoop at Concordia Station in Antarctica

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

find out more here: www.beyondepica.eu/en/news-even...

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The fifth and final drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project has just begun in Antarctica, at the remote field site of Little Dome C, 3,200 metres above sea level. An international team of 15 will drill the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet and take duplicate ice samples.

the drilling team on the ice at Mario Zucchelli station

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The expedition includes anthropologists and artists who, with the support of UArctic, explore the relationships between human beings and polar regions and develop new forms of scientific storytelling.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Environments such as hydrothermal or methane emissions are being sampled , and analyzed for the presence of methane hydrates in the Barents Sea. The expedition, is led by PI G. Panieri (CNR-ISP and UiT) together with co-PI Claudio Argentino (UiT), and will conclude on November 26 in Tromsø (Norway).

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A multidisciplinary team of researchers is on board the research vessel Kronprins Haakon to take part in the EXTREME25 expedition, led by the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). The objective is to explore extreme deep-sea environments.

biofilm sampling of carbonates in the wet lab

direct gas and liquid sampling from a Niskin bottle

collection of hydrothermal liquid using a niskin bottle guided by a ROV

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Meanwhile, a second CNR–ISP team arrived at Mario Zucchelli Station (MZS) before setting off again towards Concordia Station, and the Little Dome C Field Camp.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A big novelty is the first-ever deployment of a mooring directly through a hole drilled in the sea ice. It will continuously collect data for studying changes in water masses and planktonic communities at the start of the productive season.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Activities of the PNRA PACE project (Plankton Production and Carbon Flux in Antarctic Coastal Ecosystems) have officially begun in the extraordinary Terra Nova Bay (TNB) during the XLI Antarctic Expedition. Researchers begun ice-core and water- sampling.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The snow of Svalbard tells a climate story and is a true natural laboratory for studying how climate influences the seasonal chemistry of snow. A new article acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/... describes these changes. @dirigibile-italia.bsky.social @awi.de

someone sampling a snow pit in the Svalbard Islands

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Two new studies by our colleagues have demonstrated that emerging pollutants — such as pharmaceuticals, personal-care products, and endocrine disruptors, reach the Arctic cryosphere via medium- to long-range atmospheric transport. doi.org/10.1016/j.en... doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Manuel is from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences – Institute of Animal Diversity and Ecology, Buenos Aires, Argentina. This research will be carried out in Italy at ISP in Ancona, under the supervision of Dr. Mario La Mesa.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We are delighted to announce that for 2025 IAATO has awarded the fellowship fund to Dr Manuel Novillo for his project titled, ‘Frozen Clues: validating age and growth of an overexploited Antarctic fish through otolith microchemistry’.

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) have announced the 2025 Antarctic Fellowship.

Dott. Manuel Novillo piloting a zodiac type boat in a safety suit

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

In the field, from left to right: Dr. Claudio Iorio (SZN); Dr. P. Giordano (CNR–ISP); Dr. E. Serino (University of Naples Federico II); Dr. M. Esposito (University of Naples Parthenope)

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The first group of researchers arrived ready to begin the PNRA–PACE project — a multidisciplinary research effort that studies how microbial, phytoplanktonic, and zooplanktonic communities interact with physical and biogeochemical processes in the coastal waters of Terra Nova Bay (TNB).

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CNR ISP @cnr-isp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The 41st Italian Expedition to Antarctica Has Departed The CNR–ISP (Institute of Polar Sciences) returns to the South Pole with a team of researchers working between the Mario Zucchelli Station and the Concordia Base.

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