MSc. Marine Sciences Bicocca

Faces of former students attending in Napoli, the European Coral Reef Symposium 🪸!
A lot of interesting presentations and posters from everyone to study, learn, share, protect and restore our ocean 🌊!
Congratulations and good luck for your careers!

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Through the screening of film excerpts and documentaries, the event “That’s Hot! Oceani in rivolta” promotes new reflections on the connection with the marine ecosystem, now in an emergency phase. It will explore the importance of the ocean for life and the planet, encouraging an interdisciplinary dialogue to address the theme of marine sustainability.
❕The event will be held in Italian
Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/4jfp7u99

🇮🇹 L’evento “That’s Hot! Oceani in rivolta” promuove nuove riflessione sul legame con l’ecosistema marino, ora in una fase emergenziale, attraverso la visione di estratti cinematografici e documentari. Si esplorerà l’importanza dell’oceano per la vita e il pianeta, incoraggiando un dialogo interdisciplinare per affrontare il tema della sostenibilità marina.

Iscrizioni qui: https://tinyurl.com/4jfp7u99

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Just photographed in Faafu Atoll,
A mutated whale shark or a new species of shark?

The Maldives National University and the University of Milano-Bicocca discussing new strategies and opportunities for MSc. Marine Sciences Bicocca students, researchers and PhD students!

The Maldives National University (MNU) met with representatives from the University of Bicocca. Discussions focused on collaboration between the two universities especially in marine sciences and internationalisation.

Our student Alice Agrestini, thanks to an agreement between Marhe, Marine Research and Higher Education Center and Coco Collection, is now completing her first months of internship at Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu where she is collecting data for her master thesis whilst also contributing to outreach activities with Resident Marine Biologist Rosalie Ruby Bailie and Sustainability Consultant Chiara Fumagalli

University of Milano-Bicocca extends its heartfelt gratitude to the Chief of Staff, Admiral Enrico Credendino, and the entire Italian Navy, for the prestigious appointment of our Professor Ilaria Tani as “Scientific Advisor to the Italian Navy” for the field of the International Law of the Sea.

The collaboration will focus, among other issues, on the new legal challenges entailed by the human presence in the underwater dimension - a topic explored by Milano-Bicocca in collaboration with the Italian Navy and Fondazione Leonardo.

The honorary ceremony took place on 19 December in the beautiful setting of Palazzo Marina, in Rome.

Viva la Marina Militare!

🌟 We are proud to share that our just graduated student Lorenzo Massimo Toniolo was honoured by and Società Italiana di Biologia Evoluzionistica - SIBE - ISEB with the “Frontiers Award” for the best talk as a Junior Scientist in Conference.

🎤 Lorenzo presented his thesis project named “The effects of extreme low-light stress on the coral Pachyseris speciosa from Singapore’s turbid reef: a photo-physiological approach”.
This research was conducted jointly with , .nus and .

👏🏼 We wish him all the best for a flourishing future!

Thesis Award “Sustainable fishing and aquaculture: from governance to the supply chain”- II Edition. Ambiente Futuro- Youth4Future promoted by Legacoop agroalimentare in collaboration with Randstad.

Nicolò Bacchet is among the 10 winners of the award, with the thesis entitled “Evidence from life history traits of the Lesser-spotted Dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula across a gradient of fishing disturbance off the coast of the Portopalo di Capo Passero (Central Mediterranean Sea) fishing ground” (MSc Marine Sciences 110/110 cm laude) carried out under the supervision of Dr. M. Cristina Mangano (professor of Marine Resources Management at , and researcher at the ) and the co-supervision of Prof. G. Sara (University of Palermo).

Nicolò's study has made it possible to reconstruct information on the biological and ecological responses of the Lesser-spotted Dogfish to varying habitats and growth phases, in an area among the most trafficked, vulnerable and economically important in the central Mediterranean.
Among the speakers: Elena Ghezzi Head of Fisheries and Aquaculture Legacoop Agroalimentare; Cristian Maretti President of Legacoop Agroalimentare; Andrea Castellett Head of Institutional Relations Randstad Group Italy; Eleonora Iacovoni Director of PEMAC IV National policy planning and implementation of European structural policies of Masaf.

The Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests Hon. Francesco Lollobrigida praised experiences such as the one conducted by Nicolò who was able to carry out his thesis thanks to the collaboration with fishermen operating on board trawlers.

(Nicolo's internship was supported by the European Territorial Cooperation Project Interreg Italy Malta “SenHAR”).



Legacoop Agroalimentare Cri Mangano GIanluca Sara'

Restoring our Ocean and Waters by 2030 🌊

An event organised on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the University of Milan Bicocca together with the Vittorio Veneto Liceo Scientifico - also in cooperation with the European Commission.

This event aims at promoting a dialogue and debate with our future ocean and water stewards and leaders around new scientific advances, innovation activities and solutions in support of implementing the European Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030. It will showcase how the different related Mission Lighthouses offer many new and inspiring blue jobs and professional opportunities.

The Blue Economy covers all sectors related to the ocean, seas and coasts, and is a large and rapidly changing segment of the economy, which has taken significant steps to modernise and diversify over the last decade.

See the events highlight section to sign up!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefK5Tjj9Ta41ZMpzh3fc5zfxv6u9B55MbmurgSh8dDSASxVw/viewform

GEOBIOLOGY

Did you know about the existence of the geobiology field?

Geobiology is a multidisciplinary study for the understanding and the coevolution of biosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere.

With this discipline is possible to study the principles of biomineralization, bioconstruction and habitat engineers in the contest of the natural archives.

You can learn this and much more in our course on Geobiology, part of the master course MSc Marine Sciences!



For more information:
https://www.unimib.it/graduate/marine-sciences