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The first public aquarium in Italy
Entering the historic public Aquarium of Naples, the oldest still functioning, designed to show the ecosystems and biodiversity of the Gulf of Naples and more generally of the Mediterranean and their possible evolution in relation to changes, means crossing the threshold of time and diving in the dream of its founder, the zoologist Anton Dohrn, to provide and disseminate knowledge of the underwater world.
The Aquarium, in fact, was inaugurated in 1874 only two years after the foundation of the Zoological Station itself, "the great hotel of scientists", as Benedetto Croce defined it, which took place in March 1872, to fulfill the triple function of live observation of the sea, entertainment and research funding.
Flora and fauna of the Gulf of Naples
Students, scientists and researchers from all over the world came to Naples to analyze and study animals live and in their natural environment. Just a few steps were enough to leave your rented study table, equipped with a very rich instrumentation, to find yourself face to face with the subject of your own research, living or "fixed" by the skilled hands of the conservators of the Stazione Zoologica, first of all Salvatore Lo Bianco.
Located on the ground floor, the Aquarium was connected, and still is today, directly to the sea by an underground channel. The engineering work was entrusted to the English William Alford Lloyd, who had already developed the aquariums in London and Hamburg. The exhibition rooms received natural light from the side windows and skylights and the semi-darkness thus generated made the visit even more immersive.
Today the architectural layout has remained unchanged. The restoration and necessary modernization works, have allowed the maintenance of the ancient exhibition tanks dedicated to the environments of the Gulf of Naples and the peculiarities of its marine life, equipping them with the most modern and sophisticated technological systems to ensure the well-being of the organisms that populate it. At the same time it shows a great novelty, represented by the large central tanks hosting the tropical coral reef, the vision of a possible change in the Mediterranean induced by environmental changes.
Discovering the Aquarium
The journey inside the Aquarium will then lead the visitors to discover the sea, from the coast to the open sea, between caves and ravines, along seagrass meadows, passing from the coralligenous to the abyss, from the pelagic environment, also inhabited by alien species, from Mediterranean reefs to tropical formations. Of particular interest will be the murenarium, which represents the breeding structures of moray eels (murenari) designed by the ancient Romans and well preserved in the submerged archaeological area of Gaiola in Capo Posillipo. Another novelty is the octopus tank, an extraordinary ancient organism that has a life cycle of about two years and an intelligence similar to that of mammals.
The knowledge of the richness of the sea and of the biodiversity it contains, as well as of all its wonders, must lead each of us to the awareness of its importance for our very survival. To protect it and manage it in an eco-sustainable way, we need to know it and even today our knowledge is not complete.
Dohrn's dream has never ceased, the scientific and cultural climate of his Stazione Zoologica, currently the National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, considered in an international ranking among the best 20 Scientific Research Institutes in the world, has reached us and allows us to look at life and the mysteries of the underwater world with open eyes.
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples has launched a Prize for young researchers in memory of Aldo Fasolo, Coordinator of the Scientific Council of our Institute, who died prematurely on November 27, 2014.
For further information: https://aldofasolo.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/home/
- Aldo Fasolo Award 2018
Il 22 novembre 2018 la Dott.ssa Pamela Imperadore è stata premiata, alla presenza dell'On. Ministro Sergio Costa, con una borsa di studio di 1.000€, per la pubblicazione “Cephalopod Tissue Regeneration: consolidating over a century of knowledge", Frontiers in Physiology (2018).
- Aldo Fasolo Award 2017
Il 20 dicembre 2017 è stato premiato, con una borsa di studio di 1.000€, il Dottor Domenico D'Alelio per la pubblicazione “Clonal expansion behind a marine diatom bloom" The ISME Journal (2017), 1–10.
- Aldo Fasolo Award 2016
Il Prof. Tim Hunt, Premio Nobel per la Medicina ha premiato con una borsa di studio di 1.000€, il 13 dicembre 2016, la Dott.ssa Alessandra Gallo per la pubblicazione “Spermiotoxicity of nickel nanoparticles in the marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis (ascidians)” (Nanotoxicology, 2016; 10(8): 1096–1104).
- Aldo Fasolo Award 2015
Il 17 dicembre 2015, alla presenza dell’On. Ministra Stefania Giannini, il Premio Giovane Ricercatore "Aldo Fasolo" è stato consegnato alla Dott.ssa Valeria Di Dato per la pubblicazione ‘Transcriptome sequencing of three Pseudo-nitzschia species reveals comparable gene sets and the presence of Nitric Oxide Synthase genes in diatoms’ - Scientific Reports | 5:12329 | DOI: 10.1038/srep12329.
- Aldo Fasolo Award 2014
Il 17 dicembre 2014 una borsa di studio di 1.000€ è stata vinta dalla Dott.ssa Immacolata Castellano, per la pubblicazione "Nitric Oxide Affects ERK Signaling through Down-Regulation of MAP Kinase Phosphatase Levels during Larval Development of the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis", PLOS ONE, 1 July 2014, 9 (7).
- ABBaCo - Restauro Ambientale e Balneabilità del SIN Bagnoli-Coroglio
- CIR01_00029 - Research and marine infrastructure strengthening (EMBRC-IT) – Strengthening of the Human Capital
- CRIMAC-Centro Ricerche ed Infrastrutture Marine Avanzate in Calabria (CRIMAC) - Fondo FSC 2014-2020 - Piano Stralcio «Ricerca e Innovazione 2015-2017» – Programma Nazionale Infrastrutture di Ricerca (PNIR), linea d’azione 1. Cofinanziamento Infrastrutture di Ricerca (IR)»
- Empowering an integrated platform for the study of human diseases with great impact by means of system phenotyping of model animals: mouse and zebrafish clinic (MouZeCLINIC)
- EMSO MedIT - PON R&C 2007-2013 - PAC Potenziamento infrastrutture di ricerca pubblica - Linea di intervento B. Interventi per l’adeguamento e il consolidamento di infrastrutture per il monitoraggio ambientale
- IRMA: Implementazione e connessione Remota di una piattaforma per il monitoraggio in tempo reale di microorganismi Marini
- FIRB, MIUR-Cineca - Non-Coding RNA Explosion: Novel Implications in Neurotrophin Biology
- 13/RBC/20 MoSic - Monitoraggio Sic in Calabria
- PIR01_00018 Implementazione del laboratorio naturale ECCSEL di Panarea e dell’osservatorio marino
- PIR01_00029 - PON-PRIMA Research and marine infrastructure strengthening (EMBRC-IT)
- PON01_02093 Studio di nuove tecnologie e piattaforme tecnologiche per il miglioramento di processi produttivi di principi attivi farmaceutici di interesse industriale e ricerca di nuove molecole bioattive da sorgenti naturali - Capofila: Sanofi-Aventis S.p.A.
- PON01_02782 Nuove strategie nanotecnologiche per la messa a punto di farmaci e presidi diagnostici diretti verso cellule cancerose circolanti (CTC) - Capofila: Biogem S.c.a r.l.
- PON01_00117 Antigeni e Adiuvanti per Vaccini e Immunoterapia - Capofila: Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics srl
- Progetto Nazionale di Ricerca in Antartide (PNRA) - Funzionamento degli ecosistemi costieri in un Oceano Antartico in cambiamento (CEFA)
- Reconnect - Reconciling conservation and exploitation of a keystone species through networks of Marine Protected Areas - 2022Y3TMR7 - Finanziato dal programma PRIN del MUR
- PROSHARKS - Living on the extinction edge: bridging knowledge gaps to PROtect threatened coastal SHARKS in the central Mediterranean Sea, funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) under the PRIN 2022 program, is dedicated to the conservation of demersal sharks in the Mediterranean.
- AmphioxusNOS - Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG)
- Assemble+ - Consortium of marine biological research stations
- Corbel - Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science Services
- DiaEdit - Development of genetic tools for the establishment of routine genome editing in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum
- EMBRIC - European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster to promote the Blue Bioeconomy
- ESSEM COST Action ES0906 - Seagrass productivity: from genes to ecosystem management
- EvoCell - Animal evolution from a cell type perspective: multidisciplinary training in single-cell genomics, evo-devo and in science outreach
- FishMPABlue2 PLUS - Transferring FishMPABlue2 approach to sustainably manage Small Scale Fisheries in Mediterranean MPAs
- GRASSMET - Climate change effects on seagrass secondary metabolism: ecological implications
- GreenList4MMPAs - project funded by the Interreg Euro-MED programme, which aims to promote effective and equitable management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Mediterranean Region
- HighGrass - High-CO2 effects on seagrass photosynthetic ecophysiology
- INBALANCE - INvertebrate-BActeriaL Associations as hotspots of benthic Nitrogen Cycling in Estuarine ecosystems
- LIFE TURTLENEST - Caretta caretta nesting range expansion under climate warming: urgent actions to mitigate threats at emerging nesting sites in the Western Mediterranean
- LIFE DREAM - Deep REef restoration And litter removal in the Mediterranean sea
- LIFE European Sharks - European Sharks – a project co-funded by the European Union to safeguard Mediterranean sharks and rays (www.europeansharks.eu)
- LIFE OASIS - Mitigating the negative interactions of protected species with marine litter and pelagic fisheries of the Mediterranean
- MPA Engage - Engaging Mediterranean key actors in Ecosystem Approach to manage Marine Protected Areas to face Climate Change
- NEPTUNE - Multidisciplinarity training in evo-devo and neurobiology of marine animal models
- Ocean Medicines
- PANTRAC - Gut patterning and PANcreas development in evolution and disease: a TRAnsCriptomic approach
- PALEOPARK – Seagrass palaeo-records as a tool for the evaluation, diagnosis and prognosis of the evolution of species, communities, and processes in Spanish insular National Parks
- Progetto S&T MED
- PharmaDeep
- PharmaSea
- RESIGRASS - An holistic understanding of seagrass functioning and resilience to local-scale disturbances: from molecular to biogeographical scales
Comune di Bacoli
Risanamento idraulico del bacino del Miseno e riapertura, sistemazione e protezione delle foci del lago Fusaro - Grande Progetto "Risanamento ambientale e valorizzazione dei laghi dei campi Flegrei".
Terna Rete Italia SpA
Monitoraggio ambientale relativo all’interconnessione delle isole campane alla rete di trasmissione nazionale tratta Torre annunziata - Capri.
Attuazione del piano di monitoraggio ambientale nell’area marina interessata dalla realizzazione dell’elettrodotto 15KV – Nuova Stazione Elettrica Capri-CP Torre Annunziata Centro
Responsabile Scientifico: Raffaella Casotti
Data Inizio: 06/10/2014
Data Fine: 06/10/2019
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