Chiara Lombardi

Chiara Lombardi is a researcher at ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development). An experimental marine ecologist, her research interests are adaptive responses of calcifying reef-forming marine organisms (bryozoans and algae) threatened by climate change (warming, acidification, heath waves, hypoxia) in the Mediterranean Sea and the Southern Ocean. While investigating the responses of these bioconstructional vulnerable ecosystems to climate change, she is working on their potential role in mitigation and adaptation strategies (i.e. ecosystem services provision, elements in Nature Based Solutions). As principal investigator and Unit coordinator of two Antarctic projects ended in 2020 (PNRA: ICECLIMALIZERS, GRACEFUL) she attended two diving Antarctic camps, and she is now the scientific leader of an international cooperation project (Italy-New Zealand) for bioconstructional marine ecosystem mapping and conservation in Ross Sea MPA (PNRA BIOROSS 2021-2023).

Current research projects / interests:

• Antarctic Conservation,
• Antarctic Diving,
• Bioconstructional Ecosystems,
• Climate Change.

For publications visit:

• Chiara’s ResearchGate page
• Chiara’s Google Scholar page
• Chiara’s ORCid page.