Director

Mario Sprovieri received a Ph.D. in Geochemistry (1997) from the University of Palermo. He was Contract Researcher at various Locations of the IAMC-CNR Institute, Adjunct Professor of “Laboratory of Oceanography” at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Palermo, and Adjunct Professor of “Chemical Oceanography” at the ‘Parthenope’ University of Naples. He has been a visiting scientist at the Southampton Oceanography Center and the University of Barcelona to explore analytical techniques and numerical models for managing environmental and paleoceanographic datasets.He was acting Director and senior researcher at the Institute of Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the marine environment (IAS-CNR). From June 2009 to June 2017 he was Head of the Secondary Headquarters in Capo Granitola (IAMC-CNR).
His research is mainly focused on: i) understanding the distribution and pathways of inorganic and organic pollutants in highly contaminated worldwide distributed marine coastal zones and open sea of the Mediterranean basin, ii) investigation of the dynamics of chemical tracers in the present Mediterranean basin and their interaction with lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere, iii) understanding of natural variability and evolution of paleoclimate and paleoceanography during the Cretaceous and late Neogene (by multi-proxy analysis of stable isotopes, trace metals, faunal assemblage distribution, etc).
He was involved as Principal Investigator in the EUROCEANS, EARTHTIME, JERICO, PERSEUS and SESAME, GTSnext ITN EU, BLUEMED H2020, CIRCLES H2020 and as coordinator and principal researcher in several national and international programs focused on distribution of micro-pollutants in different coastal areas. He has been coordinator of the project CISAS (FISR-MIUR), SOS Piattaforme & Impatti Offshre (MATTM), MARINE HAZARD (PON03) and other national reserach projects (PRIN2018, PNRA2019, etc.). He has served on many international science panels, on Committees of the CNR. He is co-author of several international science plans and co-author of over 200 papers in peer-review journals in paleoceanography, stratigraphy and environmental science. He is responsible for the National Program “Biogeochemistry of the marine environment” for the CNR.
He is currently Director of ISMAR-CNR since March 2023