Project description
Environment and ecosystem study and research
Studying different environments and ecosystems is vital for protecting our natural environment and addressing climate change. However, collecting and transporting samples to laboratories can alter their functionality and hinder our understanding of their interactions within ecosystems. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the EXPLORER project will develop and validate revolutionary, robust, portable, and user-friendly photonic technologies for investigating and researching in or remote natural environments in situ. The project will create tools that are less time-consuming and invasive, allowing for critical new insights into environments and ecosystems, as well as novel data that can support sustainability and conservation efforts.
Objective
The ambitious objective of the EXPLORER project is to develop, validate and use pioneering portable, robust and user-friendly
photonic technologies for investigating in situ harsh natural environments, characterized by extreme temperatures, and remote or
inaccessible natural locations. These cutting-edge solutions aim to enhance our understanding of natural and fragile ecosystems,
contributing crucial insights into topics such as climate change and ecology which constitute a priority at a European and global level.
Conventional practices foresee sample collection and transportation for subsequent laboratory analysis, which introduces
unavoidable alterations to specimen functionality and prevent the study of its interactions with original ecosystems, limiting current
investigation capabilities. Here we will develop new tools that, for the first time, will be usable both in situ and by non-expert endusers, which, overcoming current time-consuming and invasive procedures, will enable new discoveries and fundamental
investigations. To tackle this multi-disciplinary endeavor, the EXPLORER consortium will leverage different and complementary
expertise in micro-nano fabrication, photonics, electronics, data analysis, and biology. We will demonstrate the versatility of the
proposed technologies applying them to highly different environments, including hot springs in volcanic regions, glaciers as well as
deep lake beds and contaminated settings. Improving our knowledge on these environments offer an incredibly wide range of
applications, which span from climate change monitoring through fragile ecosystem analysis to environmental poisoning evaluation
and ambitiously even volcanic eruption prediction.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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20133 Milano
Italy
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