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ARPA stands for Agenzia Regionale per la
Prevenzione e l'Ambiente dell'Emilia-Romagna (Regional agency for
health prevention and environmental protection in the
Emilia-Romagna Region). ARPA is an instrumental organisation
of the regional government having its own administrative,
accounting and technical autonomy. By May 1st, 1996 it
was fully operational in the regional area. Its creation was made
possible by gathering all precious experiences and skilled
personnel previously working since 1970 in many different regional
bodies and offices in the field of health and environment. ARPA's
functions and activities cover all questions concerning
environmental and collective prevention. Activities and tasks of
ARPA (indicated in detail in Regional Law n. 44, April
19th, 1995) are mainly of technical and scientific
nature and concern the areas of environmental control, support and
analysis, land planning and research, like:
- laboratory analyses relevant to healthcare and
environment
- surveillance and inspection regarding the enforcement of
norms set on a national level and/or in
- accordance with European Union regulations
- preliminary investigations for the approval of
environmental projects and relevant authorisations
- applied research in the area of pollution and development
of possible mitigation and control
- environmental monitoring and detection of geological,
chemical and biological sources of noise,
- air, water or soil pollution
- technical support for environmental planning and for the
promotion of environment compatible
- products
- seawater monitoring and analyses of the Adriatic coast of
Emilia-Romagna
- meteorological observations and forecasts, including
climatology and radarmeteorology.
- management of environmental and territorial information
systems.
ARPA environmental controls and monitoring are performed
through water control monitoring networks (surface water and
groundwater), sea monitoring service (chemical and microbiological
analysis), meteorological and atmospheric pollution monitoring
networks, specific measurement surveys about environmental
radioactivity and noise pollution.
Marco
Deserti
was born
in Portomaggiore (Italy) in 1959. Laurea
degree in Physics, Bologna
University in
1985. Four
years of
cooperation at Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics
(FISBAT) of CNR in Bologna. Since 1989, he has been working for the
Regional Agency for Prevention and Environment of
Emilia-Romagna (ARPA). From 1996, he is
responsible of Environmental Meteorology Unit of ARPA-SIM. His main
activity refers to application of meteorology
to environmental issues, with
specific interest in boundary layer meteorology, air quality
modelling and monitoring and marine environment.
This activity is documented by several scientific
publications, reports and meeting presentations.
He participates to the EU FP5 FUMAPEX project
(Integrated Systems for Forecasting Urban Meteorology, Air
Pollution and Population Exposure) and to the European CityDelta
model inter-comparison exercise.
Enrico Minguzzi was born in Bologna (Italy) on May
6th, 1971. Laurea degree in Physics, Bologna
University, in 1996. From 1996 to 2001: employee in the Regional
Meteorological Services of Emilia-Romagna, Liguria and Piemonte
(all Italian regions); his activity covers meteorological
modelling, weather forecast, hydrological applications of limited
area models. From 2001 to 2004: works in the
environmental meteorology group of the Regional
Meteorological Service of Emilia Romagna;
his main activity concerns numerical modelling
for air quality assessment and
forecasting, with particular interest in the
meteorological problems.
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