Ship Arethusa, coastal hydrographic unit of the Navy, has just concluded the 2018 hydro-oceanographic campaign in the Ligurian Sea, which began last June and aimed at acquiring and measuring the chemical-physical parameters of water, with the aim of updating the documentation database national waterways and gain a better understanding of the effects of climate change.
Over the entire period, Nave Arethusa used the equipment supplied, including multi-parametric probes for measuring the chemical-physical characteristics of the water column, such as temperature, salinity and conductivity, starting from the surface layer up to a depth of about 1000 meters. The data thus collected will update and integrate the database of chemical-physical parameters of the Ligurian Sea, also allowing to monitor the warming and evolution of the internal structure of the seas of our country.
Ship Arethusa with Nave Magnaghi of the Ship Galatea is one of the Navy's oceanographic units that each year carry out hydrographic campaigns aimed at updating nautical documentation, verifying and defining the seabed and studying the chemical-physical parameters of water, often in collaboration with research institutes and institutions , providing modern instrumentation and highly specialized hydrograph personnel trained at the Hydrographic Institute of the Marina di Genova (IIM).
Nave's 2018 naval campaign Arethusa in fact, it is part of the activities that the Navy carries out for the community and is part of the broader scientific research project LOGMEC 2018 (Long-term Glider Missions for Environmental Characterization) which sees the collaboration between the armed force and the Marine Environment Research Center AENEAS.
