Metrological Traceability of Oceanic Parameters
ORGANIZED BY
Francesca Rolle
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Italy
Alberto Giuliano Albo
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Italy
ABSTRACT
The characterization of the status of the oceans has a particular significance from the environmental point of view, particularly in relation to climate change. Many physical and chemical parameters (Essential Climate Variables) are monitored worldwide and their long term determination is of outmost importance to support climate change modeling. The reliability of such measurement results is an essential feature to discriminate between natural variations or systematic trends. In this framework, there is a growing need to build a strong metrological infrastructure for marine measurements to support the marine observing and data management worlds. The strengthening of the cooperation among different communities (metrological, oceanographic, instrument producers) is the key starting point.
ABOUT THE CONVENERS
Dr. Francesca Rolle is a chemist and holds a PhD in “Metrology: Measuring Science and Technique”, from Politecnico of Torino, Italy. She is a post-doc researcher at the Italian Metrology Institute “Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica – INRiM. She carries out research activities in the field of metrology in chemistry, in particular concerning environmental pollution, within the research programme “Energy and Environment” of INRiM Quality of Life Division. Her main interests are related to the development of analytical methods for the quantification of gaseous atmospheric pollutants and organic micropollutants in real matrices, the establishment of correct traceability chains and uncertainty evaluation.
She had a research secondment on organic analysis at the Chemistry Department of the Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (LNE, France) in 2013.
She is co-author of about 20 publications on international journals and conference proceedings.
P. Alberto Giuliano Albo is a researcher at the Italian National Institute of Metrological Research (INRiM) in Turin. He has experience in developing innovative sensors for the determination of the thermophysical properties of fluids in extreme conditions mainly by means of speed of sound measurements. He collaborated to the new determination of the Boltzmann constant for the redefinition of kelvin using primary acoustic thermometers and is co-author of more than 40 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.
