Visiting researcher Marco Volpe from the Arctic Centre will join the Alliance and communicate about the campaign to wider audience.

High North 2025 research expedition is a scientific
program organized by the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) and led by the Italian
Hydrographic Institute (Istituto Idrografico della Marina). It brings together
scientists from multiple research centers to investigate key environmental issues in
one of the most remote and sensitive regions of the planet. Osservatorio Artico will
follow the High North 25 mission as its official media partner.

The Alliance is one of the few Italian ships capable of navigating
permanently in Arctic waters. It is designed for oceanographic and acoustic research
in deep seas and extreme environments, it combines military technology and
scientific rigor. On board, it features low-noise propulsion (essential for studying
the sounds of the sea), laboratories, advanced sensors, and hydrographic,
atmospheric, and geophysical survey instruments.

Since 2017, it
has been at the heart of the High North program, a scientific cooperation initiative
led by the Navy in collaboration with the CNR (National Research Council) to study
temperature, salinity, acidity, and currents of the Arctic Ocean.
Marco
Volpe will communicate the scientific activities and human stories of the campaign
to a wider audience through reports, visual documentation, and
storytelling. 

“This experience is also key to my
research which focuses on the science-policy interface within Arctic and Antarctic
domains. Being on board I can observe how science is carried out and discuss with
experts its potential role in the policy context”, Volpe says.

More information: 
www.osservatorioartico.it/
www.osservatorioartico.it/high-north-2/

Marco Volpe
Visiting Researcher, Arctic Centre
Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Social Science, University of Lapland
Marco.Volpe(@)ulapland.fi