GRANATA Antonia

Antonia Granata, born in Piraino (Messina) the 20 March 1962, since February 2001 is Universitary Researcher in Ecology. She has produced 37 papers on reviews with these main topics: a) Zooplankton and micronekton ecology; b) Pelagic food web; c) Ichthyoplankton role in polar and periantarctic environments; d) Taxonomy and biology of fish larvae. She is scientific responsible of the Operative Unit “ Distribution of zooplankton e ichthyoplankton in relation to the environmental parameters” in the Research Project “ ECOFISH: Ecology and biological cycle of coastal fish species in the Ross sea” in Antarctic (Responsible Dr Marino Vacchi), from 2004 to 2007

She is involved in the following scientific projects, supported by:
a) University of Messina
- Interdiscipline Research Project (Year 2005) “Sustainable development of marine transports in the Mediterranean (Scientific responsible Prof Francesca Pellegrino)
- Research project “Ordinario” (Year 2005) “Spatio-temporal distribution of zooplankton in the Southern Adriatic Sea (Gulf of Manfredonia) (Scientific responsible Prof Letterio Guglielmo)
b) National Research Project in Antarctic (PNRA)
- SEAROWS Project (Sea Ice Ecology in the Antarctic Ross and Weddell Seas), (Scientific Coordinator Prof. Letterio Guglielmo from 2004 to 2007)
c) National Project
- VECTOR Project (Vulnerability of coasts and Italian marine ecosystems to climatic changes and their role in mediterranean carbon cycles). Research line CARPEL (Carbon cycle in the pelagic mediterranean area) (Scientific coordinator Prof Letterio Guglielmo from 2006 to 2009.