Themes

Themes 2022 
International conference - November 17-18th 2022, Venice

Conference 
Oceanography and Climatology during the Pandemics: Threads Cut, Weaves to be Re-tied and New Horizons

The crisis response of governments around the world to the Covid-19 pandemic has involved several urgent actions resulting in near-global lockdowns during the past years. Lockdowns had well documented significant and broad impacts on individuals, societies, economies and local environments. The pandemic and the lockdowns also affected scientific research in the natural sciences, especially that based on experimental approaches. Scientific publications in the field of climatology and oceanography have remained high during the pandemics, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the search for innovative solutions to cope with the imposed limitations and to the exploitation of new opportunities created by the lockdowns.

THEMES brings together climatologists, ecologists, oceanographers, and modelers to discuss the present state of knowledge and the opportunities for progress about measuring, modelling and predicting the evolution of Earth environments. THEMES aims at paving the way towards improved cooperation between the different groups active in the climatological, atmospheric, oceanographic and ecological investigation of our Planet.

Scientific Commitee
  • Davide Zanchettin, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice
  • Angelo Rubino, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice
  • Roberta D'Agostino, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento.
  • Sara Rubinetti, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
  • Amos Winter, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indiana State University, IN, USA
Organising Committee
  • Davide Zanchettin, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice
  • Angelo Rubino, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice
  • Sara Rubinetti, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
  • Matteo Mastropierro, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice
  • Francesco De Rovere, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice
  • Malek Belgacem, CNR-ISMAR
  • Lorenzo Pasculli, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
  • Alessandro Gagliardi, University of Padova

Programme

Invited speakers

file pdfPeter Brandt, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University
"Seasonal cycle of upwelling and upward nutrient supply in the equatorial Atlantic"
97 K
file pdfTarmo Soomere, Estonian Academy of Sciences and Tallinn University of Technology
"Separation of climate change driven features from natural variability of the coastal zone"
9.38 K
file pdf2019 edition
27-29th November 2019. "Monitoring, modelling and predicting our changing ocean and atmosphere: concepts, methods, applications and opportunities"
336 K
file pdf2018 edition
28-30th November 2018. "Oceanic and atmospheric variability, from long-term trends to abrupt shifts"
655 K

Venue

The conference will be held at Ca' Foscari (2nd floor - Aula Baratto), Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice.

The city of Venice is a World Heritage Site, and does not require much presentation.

Where to stay

Many options for accomodation are available in Venice and Mestre.
"Hotel San Geremia & Alloggi Gerotto Calderan" is located near the Santa Lucia train station and it offers single rooms at 40 euros/night and double rooms at 60 euros/night. Mention you are attending THEMES 2022 when booking.

How to move around Venice

If you come by plane, there are two bus services that link the Marco Polo airport to the cities of Venice and Mestre: ACTV  and ATVO. Both services depart from the airport outside arrivals, and have the same cost.

Contributors

Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics