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We bring some sea even in a meeting
room. :) |
Erik Caroselli, Stefano Goffredo, Luca
Pasquini, Paola Fantazzini, Mirko Gombia and Giuseppe Falini. |
The students: Patrizia Vergni, Filippo
Nardi, Pilar Casado de Amezua, Chiara Marchini, Marta Rocchi and Selena
Prantoni. |
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Erik Caroselli acts as secretary. |
The meeting starts with a presentation
by Stefano Goffredo outlining the main features of coral biology and
ecology related to the project aims, and explaining how the collected
samples will be distributed among the various labs of the different
Departments and Institutions. |
Erik Caroselli, Luca Pasquini, Alan
Molinari and Giuseppe Falini. |
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Filippo Nardi and Pilar Casado de
Amezua. |
Each student explains to the team the
part of the project that he is focusing on. Starting from Fiorella Prada,
who will work on the Panarea experiment. |
Selena Prantoni is working on
reproduction of Balanophyllia europaea. |
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Chiara Marchini and Marta Rocchi are
focusing on reproduction of Caryophyllia inornata. |
Pilar Casado de Amezua is working on
reproduction and population genetics of Astroides calycularis. |
Filippo Nardi is focusing on
population genetics of Balanophyllia europaea.
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Patrizia Vergni is studying the
biomineralization of the key coral species sampled for CoralWarm... |
...under the supervision of Giuseppe
Failini. |
Mirko Gombia is working on NMR studies
of the porosity of coral skeletons... |
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...in the NMR lab of Paola Fantazzini. |
Alan Molinari is performing
nanoindentation studies of the mechanical properties of the skeletons... |
...under the supervision of Luca
Pasquini, head of the Nanoindentaion lab. |
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Elettra Pignotti is developing a new
statistical method for correlating coral growth with the environmental
parameters of the various Italian study sites. |
Giuseppe Falini, the CoralWarm
Co-Investigator. |