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The Italian National Research Council's Arctic Station Dirigibile Italia was first inaugurated in 1997 in the scientific settlement of Ny-Ålesund. The station was named after Umberto Nobile's famous airship Italia, which in 1928 was the first scientific expedition to the North Pole. The research activities carried out at Dirigibile Italia are coordinated by Polarnet, the C.N.R.'s Network of Polar Research, which manages the Arctic Strategic Project and also the activities and workgroups of C.N.R. in Antarctica. The Arctic Station Dirigibile Italia is a 330 m2 infrastructure, 170 of which are used as laboratories and offices. The station can host a maximum of 7 researchers in its facilities and more researchers can be hosted in other subsidiary accomodations of Ny-Ålesund. The station is not staffed all year round but is operative for more than six months per year and can total around 700 mandays, part of which result from international collaborations with foreign institutions and researchers. |
| Location | ||||
| Description: | The Italian Arctic Station Dirigibile Italia was officially inaugurated in Ny-Ålesund on May 15, 1997. The station is operated by the National Research Council of Italy (Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche - CNR), which is a part of the Polarnet (the CNR network of polar research). The Polarnet works as a co-ordinating system of independent Research Institute of CNR, directly and permanently involved in polar science. The Polarnet includes 16 Institutes of the CNR, about 65 scientific teams and more than 180 researchers. The Station is situated in the international station of Ny-Ålesund; it consist of 300 squared metres of labs, offices and facilities premises. The scientific activities are carried out in the framework of the CNR Arctic Strategic Project started in 1997. CNR is a member of ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions), SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research), and ESF (European Science Foundation). The main research activities focused on: -Atmospheric Chemistry: aerosol -Atmospheric Physics: trace-gases -Marine Biology: nitrogen -Astrophysics/solar terrestrial relation (auroras, cosmic rays) -Technology (marine corruption of alloys, remote-control) -Oceanography/limnology (currents, hydrology, radioactive substances) -Environmental studies (remote-sensing, environmental radioactivity, permafrost) -Human biology and medicine | |||
| Country: | Norway | |||
| State/Province/Region: | Svalbard | |||
| Latitude (Decimal, Degreesºmm'ss") : | 78.92º N 78º55'00" N | |||
| Longitude (Decimal, Degreesºmm'ss") : | 11.93º E 11º56'00" E | |||
| Environment Types Accessible at this Location | ||||
| Coastal, Glacier, Marine, Sea ice, Tundra | ||||
| Local History and Culture | ||||
| Sources: | For the story on Umberto Nobile and the voyage of the statoins namesake airship Dirigible Italia please visit: http://www.south-pole.com/aspp015.htm or http://history1900s.about.com/library/prm/bltopoftheworld1.htm | |||
| Primary Logistics Provider | ||||
| Organization: | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Dirigible Italia | |||
| Name and title of contact person: | Roberto Sparapani | |||
| Address: | 9173, Ny-Ålesund, Norway | |||
| Telephone: | +47-79-027145 | |||
| Fax: | +47-79-027151 | |||
| E-mail: | baseartico@iia.mlib.cnr.it | |||
| Contact person or agency web page: | http://www.polarnet.cnr.it/polar/ | |||
| Primary Management Agency | ||||
| Organization: | National Research Council of Italy (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR) | |||
| Contact information: | Piazzale Aldo Moro 7-00185 Roma, Italia or CNR-DCAS Segreteria Tecnico-Scientifica per il Programma Antartide Viale Marx 15 00137 Roma, Italy | |||
| Telephone: | +39-6-49931 or +39-06-9067-2692 or +3-6-860-90307-508 | |||
| Fax: | +39-06-4461954 or +39-6-9067-2660 or +39-06-9067-2728 or +39-6-860-90360 | |||
| Email: | urp@urp.cnr.it or morbidon@dcas.cnr.it | |||
| Web site: | http://www.cnr.it/sitocnr/home.html | |||
| Availability and Cost | ||||
| Availability: | The access to the CNR Arctic Project (Project in the following) will include all infrastructural, logistical, technical and scientific support that is requested from the selected programmes. Depending on the availability of funds, support is restricted to cover only travel and subsistence costs for field campaigns and shorter visits involving the installation and maintenance of automated instruments. Note: Only Italian research teams are eligible to get funds under the Project. Applications by foreign teams are admitted under cooperation with Italian teams. A field program is requested. The project must be of interest to or in co-operation with the CNR Station 'Dirigibile Italia'. Funding Sources: CNR, National Antarctic Programme, EU, Universities How to apply for access to station: Contact Roberto Azzolini, Email: polarnet@dcas.cnr.it Alternative contact: Roberto Sparapani, Email: baseartico@iia.mlib.cnr.it | |||
| Infrastructure | ||||
| Roads, Running water, Electricity, Heat | ||||
| Communications and Data Systems | ||||
| Internet access, Telephone system, Fax send/receive, Local area network (LAN) | ||||
| Buildings | ||||
| Lodging | ||||
| Buildings: | Shared infrastructures provided by Kings Bay AS: airfield, harbour Dirigible Italia owned infrastructures: housing, telephone, telefax, internet, logistic support | |||
| Laboratory Space | ||||
| Electricity in lab space, Telephone in lab space, General use computers / printers in lab space, Internet access in lab space, E-mail send/receive in lab space, Clean room | ||||
| Lab space: | Dirigibile Italia offers these research facilities: -Clean room -Brewer Ozone Spectrophotometer -All-Sky camera -Cosmic-ray detector -1 chemical and 2 multi-purposes laboratories (Note: Generally, projects takes their own equipment during field campaigns) | |||
| Current Projects and Research History | ||||
| Research sources: | Search ENVINET/AMAP Project Directory for detailed descriptions of selected projects at Dirigibile Italia, Ny-Alesund: http://pusnes.grida.no/amap/amappd/search.asp?org=2®ion=Dirigibile%20Italia%2C%20Ny%2DAlesund Link to the stations own lists: http://www.polarnet.cnr.it/polar List of active projects: http://www.polarnet.cnr.it/polar/fieldsarc.php http://www.polarnet.cnr.it/artico/indice.html Information on research projects: International Support of NICE Harald J. BEINE - Institution/department: Istituto sull Inquinamento Atmosferico (IIA) CNR - Full address: Via Salaria Km 29.300 CP 10 00016 Monterotondo Scalo (RM) - Phone: +39-6-90672962 Fax: +39-6-90672728 - Email: harry@iia.mlib.cnr.it Cloud Effects on UV Irradiance Measurements (CEUVIM) Claudio RAFANELLI - Institution/department: Istituto di Fisica dell Atmosfera (IFA) CNR - Full address: Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100 00133 Roma - Phone: +39-6-49934284 Fax: +39-6-49934291 - Email: claudio.rafanelli@ifa.rm.cnr.it Clean Arctic Snow as a Reactor for Nitrogen Species Ivo ALLEGRINI - Institution/department: Istituto sull Inquinamento Atmosferico (IIA) CNR - Full address: Via Salaria Km 29.300 CP 10 00016 Monterotondo Scalo (RM) - Phone: +39-6-90672962 Fax: +39-6-90672728 - Email: allegrini@ntserver.iia.mlib.cnr.it Stable Boundary Layer Structure and its Interaction With Horizontal Inhomogeneities Umberto GIOSTRA - Institution/department: ISIATA CNR - Full address: s.p. Lecce-Monteroni km 1.2 73100 Lecce - Phone: +39-832-320721 Fax: +39-832-320716 - Email: u.giostra@isiata.le.cnr.it The influence of orography and cloudiness on flow dynamics close to Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard Stefania ARGENTINI - Institution/department: Istituto di Fisica dell?Atmosfera (IFA) CNR - Full address : Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100 00133 Roma - Phone: +39-6-49934350 Fax: +39-6-20660291 - Email: stefania@sung3.ifsi.rm.cnr.it Thin optical depth stratospheric gases detection with ground-based off-axis DOAS methodology Giorgio GIOVANELLI - Institution/department: ISAO CNR - Full address: Via Gobetti 101 40129 Bologna - Phone: +39-51-6399591 Fax: +39-51-6399652 - Email: g.giovanelli@isao.bo.cnr.it Parameterisations of radiation balances and turbulence at the surface for intense melting and mass exchange phenomena Teodoro GEORGIADIS - Institution/department: ISAO CNR - Full address: Via Gobetti 101 40129 Bologna - Phone: +39-51-6399586 Fax: +39-51-6399652 - Email: t.georgiadis@isao.bo.cnr.it Radiometric and LIDAR observation of high cirrus at high latitude Leopoldo STEFANUTTI - Institution/department: IROE CNR - Full address:Via Panciatichi 64 50127 Firenze - Phone: +39-55-4361691 Fax: +39-55-4361691 - Email: lidar@iroe.fi.cnr.it Monitoring of environmental radiation (cosmic rays plus airborne radioactivity with E>50 keV) Giuseppe LONGO - Institution/department: VRC LAB-Physics Department Bologna University - Full address: Via Irnerio 46 40126 Bologna - Phone: +39-51-2091087 fax: +39-51-247244 - E-mail: longo@bo.infn.it Sun-Earth Interaction: Auroral Observations from Svalbard Islands with ITACA, ITalian All-sky-Camera for Auroral observations (3rd year) Stefano ORSINI - Institution/department: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI) CNR - Full address: Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100 00133 ROMA - Phone: +39-6-49934376 Fax: +39-6-49934383 - Email: orsini@ifsi.rm.cnr.it Arctic Environment: influence of a short exposure on oxidative metabolism Bruno GIARDINA - Institution/department: Institute of Chemistry and Clinical Chemistry and Centre for Receptors Chemistry CNR, - Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University Of Rome - Full address: Largo Francesco Vito 1 00168 Rome - Phone: +39-6-3058494 Fax: +39-6-3053598 - Email: b.giardina@uniserv.ccr.rm.cnr.it Arctic fish proteins encoded by multigene families (Tromso) Elio PARISI - Institution/department: Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology (IBPE) CNR - Full address: Via Marconi 10 80125 Napoli - Phone: +39-81-7257323 Fax: +39-81-2396525 - Email: parisi@dafne.ibpe.na.cnr.it Cytogenetics of Arctic Fish (Tromso) Eva PISANO - Institution/department: Department of Experimental, Environmental and Applied Biology (DBISAA) - Full address: Viale Benedetto XV V 16132 Genova - Phone: +39-10-3538050/8052 Fax: +39-10-3538047 - Email: pisano@unige.it Erythrocyte functions, ion transport and hemoglobin-membrane interaction in Arctic marine organism (Tromso) Cinzia VERDE - Institution/department: .Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology (IBPE) CNR - Full address: .Via Marconi 12 I-80125 Napoli - Phone: +39-81-7257242/234 Fax: +39-81-5936689 - Email: diprisco@area.ba.cnr.it Immunoglobulins of fish living at low temperature (Tromso) Umberto ORESTE - Institution/department: Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology (IBPE) CNR - Full address: Viale Marconi 10 80125 Napoli - Phone: +39-81-7257231 Fax: +39-81-2396525 - Email: oreste@dafne.ibpe.na.cnr.it Molecular bases of adaptive strategies to extreme environmental conditions in Arctic marine organisms (Tromso) Guido DI PRISCO - Institution/department: Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology (IBPE) CNR - Full address: Via Marconi 12 80125 Napoli - Phone: +39-81-7257242/233/234 Fax: +39-81-5936689 - Email: diprisco@dafne.ibpe.na.cnr.it Fluxes of radionuclides in the kongsfjord. Acronym: FLURAK Carlo PAPUCCI - Institution/department: Marine Environment Research Centre ENEA - Full address: P.O. Box 316 19100 La Spezia - Phone: +39-187-978267 Fax: +39-187-978213 - Email: papucci@santateresa.enea.it Hydrology and water currents in the inner part of Kongsfjord in front of Kongsbreen Glacier Roberto MELONI - Institution/department: : Istituto per lo Studio dell'Oceanografia Fisica (IOF) CNR - Full address: Forte S.Teresa I 19036 Pozzuolo di Lerici La Spezia Italia - Phone: +39-187-978314 Fax: +39-187-970585 - Email: meloni@iof.cnr.it Palaeolimnology of high latitude remote lakes: response to environmental changes Piero GUILIZZONI - Institution/Department: Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia (III) CNR - Full address: Largo V. Tonolli 50/52 28922 VERBANIA PALLANZA - Phone: +39-323-518300 Fax: +39-323-556513 - Email: p.guilizzoni@iii.to.cnr.it Radiometric Studies of Natural Surfaces at Ny-Ålesund by Means of Field Survey and Multispectral Satellite Data Rosamaria SALVATORI - Institution/department: Istituto Inquinamento Atmosferico (IIA) CNR - Full address: Viale C. Marx 15 00137 Roma - Phone: +39-6-86090522 Fax: +39-6-86090360 - Email: rosas@gioconda.polar.rm.cnr.it Determination of atmospheric fluxes of radionuclides, heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants ... Sandro DEGETTO - Institution/department: ICTIMA CNR Environm. Chem. & Radiochem. Dept. - Full address: Area della Ricerca del CNR C.so Stati Uniti 4 35127 Padova - Phone: +39-49-8295944 Fax: +39-49-8702911 - Email: degetto@ictr.pd.cnr.it Marine Corrosion of Stainless Steel in Polar Seawater Giorgio ALABISO - Institution/department: Istituto Sperimentale Talassografico A. Cerruti CNR - Full address: Via Roma 3 74100 Taranto - Phone: +39-99-4542205 Fax: +39-99-4542215 - Email: alabiso@istt.le.cnr.it The Artic explorations of Umberto Nobile: historical, political and scientific aspects (Italy) Maria Rosaria VALENSISE - Institution/department: - Full address: Viale Carlo Marx, 15 00137 Roma Italy - Phone: +39-6-86090308 Fax: +39-6-86090360 - Email: petrelli@dcas.cnr.it | |||