MIT Technology Review commissioned a story about our intensifying fieldwork activities in the central lagoon in the context of the WaterLANDS project and the Vital Initiative.
In different ways, all this work is designed to reinforce the natural processes to restore the dynamic interactions between reclaimed area in the lagoon and the surrounding waters to support ecological functionality more in line with natural salt marshes.
The journalist came on-site while instrumentation was being installed in collaboration with Prof. Pietro Teatini and Ing. Claudia Zoccarato of Padua University to monitor changes in water saturation in the infills which correlates with subsurface oxygen availability and other parameters that affect biological activity and organic carbon content of the sediments.
Read the full article here.