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Romina Passaro Current position: PhD student
Date of Birth: 14 November 1975
Corresponding address: Scienze Ambientali - Università di Bologna Via S. Alberto 163 I-48123 Ravenna (Italy)
Phone: +39 0544 937 314 Laboratory: +39 0544 937 398 Fax: +39 0544 937 303 e.mail: rpassaro@ambra.unibo.it |
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Research interests: |
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Academic qualifications: |
2002 |
M.Sc.
equivalent in Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna |
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Research
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ecology of macrobenthic communities ·
quantitative descriptions of soft-bottom
benthos assemblages ·
description of spatial scale patterns of
benthos biodiversity ·
analysis of effects of coastal defence
structures (breakwaters) on composition, structure and functional
organization of soft-bottom assemblages
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Collaboration
and Employment |
2003-2005 |
Doctoral research fellow on the BIOMARE project (AGIP
funded research programme) |
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2002-2004 |
assistance
to field and laboratory activities carried on by the Experimental
Ecology Laboratory of the Interdept. Centre for Environmental Sciences
in Ravenna (University of Bologna) |
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2004 |
supervisor of master degree thesis in Environmental
Science at the University of Bologna |
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Awards
and other qualifications: |
1°level CMAS (Confédération Mondiale des Activités
Subaquatiques). |
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2003 |
DAMES
(Design and Analysis of Monitoring and Experiments for environmental
Scientists). Post-graduate course of the University of Bologna (Italy)
held by M.J. Anderson and L. Benedetti-Cecchi |
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Affiliations |
Italian
Ecological Society (S.It.E) |
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Publications: |
Passaro R.
(2002). Effetti delle barriere artificiali sulle comunità
macrobenthoniche di Lido di Dante.(Effects of artificial breakwaters on
surrounding macrofaunal community at Lido di Dante) MSc thesis,
University of Bologna, pp. 98. Bertasi F., Passaro
R., Colangelo M.A., Ceccherelli V.U. (2002) Effetti delle barriere
semisommerse sulla comunità macrobenthonica di Lido di Dante(Ravenna). (Effects
of submerged breackwaters on macrobenthonic community of Lido di Dante
(Ravenna)) Abstract, X Congresso S.It.E., Urbino, 37-38. Passaro R.
(2003) Distribuzione del macrobenthos in Alto Adriatico in relazione
alla presenza di strutture offshore: impostazione di un modello di
indagine a larga scala. (Macrobenthos
distribution in North Adriatic Sea accounting for the presence of
offshore structures: a large spatial scale model.) Ricerca
Ecologica e Ambientale: Paradigmi, Teorie e Applicazioni. Abstract, 1°
Meeting tra Dottorandi e Docenti dei Dottorati di Ricerca in Ecologia e
Scienze Ambientali delle Università Italiane, Padova (PD), 10-11 aprile
2003. Poster
abstract, 20. Willis,
T.J., Passaro R., Anderson, M.J., Abbiati, M., Buscaroli, A.,
Airoldi, L., Gregorio, G. Santin, S. Gray, J.S. (2003) Objectives,
survey design, and sampling protocol. Biomare, 2nd Report. Passaro
R.,
T.J. Willis, S. Santin, S. Tisselli, M. Ferraro, M. Abbiati (2004)
Spatial variability in soft-bottom macrobenthos in the Adriatic Sea. A
multi-scale approach. Biologia Marina Mediterranea. Summaries
of 39th EMBS . Vol. 11 (3), 67 Willis,
T.J., Passaro R., Santin, S., Tisselli, S., Abbiati, M. (2004)
Progress report-field work and sample analysis. Biomare 3rd Report. Willis,
T.J., Passaro R., Borsini C., Tisselli, S., Santin, S., Abbiati,
M. (2004) Progress report-preliminary analysis of spatial pattern in
Adriatic benthos. Biomare 4th Report. Willis,
T.J., Borsini C., Passaro R., Tisselli, S., Abbiati, M. (2005)
Progress report-further analysis of spatial pattern in Adriatic benthos
in relation to environmental variability. Biomare 5th
Report. |
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Last update 21/04/2009
