places of knowledge Travel through Italy for scientific research and experimentation. A story that highlights the close relationship between science and the territory and leads us to discover the places where researchers work and the natural environments that are the subject of their research.
The story is entrusted to its presenter Claire Buratti who explores the sites of Italian science and reveals its cultural and natural horizon, but also the passion for science of the protagonists of the most important research projects.
In this episode dedicated to alpine science, we go to Val d’Aosta to see what has been studied at the Angelo Musso Scientific Institute, at 2901 meters of altitude in the heart of Monte Rosa. The Alpine Snow and Soil Laboratory of the University of Turin is located there and is dedicated to soil projects in mountain environments. Pediatrician and pediatrician Michael Freebase and climate scientist Elise Pallasboth from the University of Turin, with a mountain guide Arnold Wolf from the Alpine Guides of the Aosta Valley, tell us about the research that is being done there. Even higher, at an altitude of 3480 meters, on the Plateau de la Rosa, on the Italian-Swiss border in front of the Matterhorn, is the Testa Grigia research station of the Department of Earth System Sciences and Environmental Technologies of the National Research Council and a meteorological centre. Air Force station. Unique and distinctive places to do science, with many active research projects. They tell us about them Paolo Bonasson Scientific Director of the Testa Gregia Station (ISAC-CNR), Eros Mariani Technical Director of the Testa Gregia Station (CNR), Francis Apadola Scientific Director of RSE (Research in Energy System), Stephanie GilardoniAtmospheric Chemistry (ISP -CNR), Silvia Vernettofísica from the National Institute of Astrophysics and Massimiliano Di Ruvo, head of the Plateau Rosa meteorological station of the Italian Air Force.
broadcast on December 3, 2022 at 21.00 on mi Rai School (Channel 57). the second episode
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