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From <strong>27 September to 2 October<\/strong>, the Summer School will bring together 15 international students on the island of Ponza, along with lecturers and researchers from the three partner universities and the Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering of the Italian National Research Council (IGAG-CNR). Activities will take place across the island and at the <strong>Ponza Island Biological Station<\/strong> of the Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences (DEB).<\/p>\n<p>A key feature of the Summer School is its strongly multidisciplinary approach, integrating <strong>marine ecology, botany, geology, microbiology and zoology<\/strong>. The programme is designed to explore the relationships between the <strong>biotic and abiotic components<\/strong> of island ecosystems, from terrestrial and marine biodiversity to the geological substrate, soils and water resource availability.<\/p>\n<p>Following a preparatory phase of online lectures, the programme in Ponza will combine <strong>field and marine observations and sampling<\/strong> with <strong>laboratory activities and data analysis<\/strong>. The proposed activities will include, among others, the study of <strong>birdlife and migration patterns<\/strong>, <strong>marine algae<\/strong> and <strong>marine fungi<\/strong>, as well as the use of <strong>environmental DNA<\/strong> (eDNA) to study biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is coordinated by Prof. Roberta Cimmaruta and Dr Chiara Sbarbati within the ELLS Subject Area <strong>\u201cEnvironmental Science\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multidisciplinary study of marine-coastal and island ecosystems is at the core of the International Summer School \u201cPONZA-ME &#8211; Coasts and islands as models for Multidisciplinary and Ecosystem studies: welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":229178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[72],"ppma_author":[83],"class_list":["post-229180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-deb-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PONZA-ME - Coasts and islands as models for Multidisciplinary and Ecosystem studies: welcome to PONZA Island - Unitus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unitus.it\/en\/ponza-me-coasts-and-islands-as-models-for-multidisciplinary-and-ecosystem-studies-welcome-to-ponza-island\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PONZA-ME - Coasts and islands as models for Multidisciplinary and Ecosystem studies: welcome to PONZA Island - Unitus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The multidisciplinary study of marine-coastal and island ecosystems is at the core of the International Summer School \u201cPONZA-ME &#8211; 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