PER24 – Pollutants’ Environmental Research 2024 – Cruise Final Report

De Marco, Rocco; Annibaldi, Anna; Avanzato, Gaspare; Berto, Daniela; Calace, Nicoletta; Coci, Manuela; Cristallo, Carla; Di Cola, Alessandro; Di Mento, Rossella; Evangelista, Chiara; Falco, Pierpaolo; fanelli, matteo; Frapiccini, Emanuela; Freddi, Angela; Frontalini, Fabrizio; Giuliani, Silvia; Grilli, Federica; Illuminati, Silvia; Krauzig, Naomi; Manini, Elena; Massi, Lorenzo; Minetti, Loris Emanuele; Paris, Eleonora; Patrolecco, Luisa; Penna, Pierluigi; Prosciutti, Giulia; Rampazzo, Federico; Rebecchi, Federica; Rossi, Francesco; Tassetti, Anna Nora; Zambrano, Miller; Zangrando, Roberta; Spagnoli, Federico

doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.27877488.v1

PER24 – Pollutants’ Environmental Research 2024 – Cruise Final Report

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posted on 2024-12-01, 17:28 authored by Rocco De MarcoRocco De Marco, Anna Annibaldi, Gaspare Avanzato, Daniela Berto, Nicoletta Calace, Manuela Coci, Carla Cristallo, Alessandro Di Cola, Rossella Di Mento, Chiara Evangelista, Pierpaolo Falco, matteo fanelli, Emanuela Frapiccini, Angela Freddi, Fabrizio Frontalini, Silvia Giuliani, Federica Grilli, Silvia Illuminati, Naomi Krauzig, Elena Manini, Lorenzo Massi, Loris Emanuele Minetti, Eleonora Paris, Luisa Patrolecco, Pierluigi Penna, Giulia Prosciutti, Federico Rampazzo, Federica Rebecchi, Francesco Rossi, Anna Nora TassettiAnna Nora Tassetti, Miller ZambranoMiller Zambrano, Roberta Zangrando, Federico Spagnoli

ABSTRACT

Anthropic impact on coastal areas led to the input of contaminants from land to the deep sea, both legacy (e.g., heavy metals, PAHs, NPs), and emerging (e.g., PFASs, PPCPs, BPA).

These pollutants impact both marine and benthic ecosystems, entering the biogeochemical cycles. From the 11th to the 28th of October 2024 (departure/arrival port: Bari, Italy, Southern Adriatic Sea), the Italian National Research Council completed the PER24 expedition, on board the R/V “Gaia Blu”, expanding the area surveyed in 2016 with the PERTRE campaign.

The operations included the collection of 1784 sediment samples (ranging in depth from 0 to 44 cm) by means of a cylindrical box corer. After sampling, sediments were treated on board and stored. The PER24 campaign also conducted acoustic surveys (i.e. MBES - 394 transects, CHIRP-SBP - 37 transects, L-ACDP - 51 acquisitions) and the physico-chemical water characterization (i.e. CTD - 60 stations with 7 repetitions) to investigate geomorphology of the seafloor, transport mechanisms (e.g., currents), and water column profile variation.

Planned analyses comprise biogeochemical analysis, C and N stable isotopes measurements, organic and inorganic pollutant determination, microbiological composition, foraminiferal association, stratigraphic and geochronological analysis.