Author: pietro.bazzicalupo@unimib.it

Teachers and students of the International Master’s Degree in Marine Sciences collaborate with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission – UNESCO, for the design and public presentation of the Ocean and Climate Village space at PreCOP26 at the Milano Triennale https://all4climate2021.org/.

The PreCOP is the preparatory ministerial meeting that precedes the COP (Conference of the Parties), the United Nations climate summit. This year PreCOP26 will be hosted in Milan and COP26 will be held in Glasgow.

The Ocean and Climate Village is an educational space where children and families can learn about the message and objectives of the Decade of the Sea, with a focus on climate change and the Mediterranean Sea. The village is designed as a cluster of educational activities for different age groups, from the youngest to the adults.

For more information and book your entrance https://decenniodelmare.it/oceanclimate-village/

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A second phase of the CBR3 campaign. The researchers of the University of Milano-Bicocca (you can see in the picture, Alessandra Savini and Luca Fallati in scuba gear!) are doing the photogrammetry. They are taking a series of continuous pictures of the seafloor at 30 m depth with the high-definition camera.

Once again Suttakkua diving aided the CBR3 campaign.

This dim-light environment fosters the ideal conditions for the coralligenous to thrive, but there are still many unknown to the understanding of this amazing ecosystem. The photogrammetry will create a 3D model that is going to be integrated with the sea bottom profile (acquired during the CBR1 campaign), allowing us to shed more light on the geology and geomorphology of the seafloor.

Follow us on Instagram @cresciblureef #CBR to see other amazing video of the CBR3 campaign.

Here we are, the CBR3 has started and with it the first attempt to photogrammetry on the coralligenous. In the picture you can see Alessandra Savini and Luca Fallati (of the University of Milano-Bicocca) working at ca. 10 m depth, with the indispensable help of the Suttakkua diving.

They are swiping the sea floor testing the high-definition camera. After the test they will go to higher depths searching for the coralligenous and use the camera there. The objective is to integrate the acquired images with the sea bottom profile, thus creating a reliable 3D model for the analyses. We will use this 3D model, with the samples acquired during the CBR2, to better understand the geological and geomorphological conditions under which the coralligenous grows.

Follow us on Instagram @cresciblureef #CBR to see other amazing video of the CBR3 campaign.