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Rita is a scientist holding a M.Sc. degree in “Marine Environmental Sciences and Oceanography” from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, and a Ph.D. degree in “Science and management of climate change” from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice.
She works on the development of services for operational products uptake from different communities, from coast guards to private companies.
Currently serving as the Service Manager of the CMEMS Mediterranean and Black Sea Monitoring and Forecasting Centers, she has assumed roles as Scientific Responsible in numerous national and international projects.
She has actively participated in various oceanographic research cruises, gathering and analyzing marine observational data.
Previously, from 2020 to 2023, Rita held the position of deputy director of the Ocean Predictions and Applications (OPA) Division. Presently, she leads the Services and Operations group within the Regional Ocean Forecasting Systems (ROFS) Division.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
- Habitat suitability modeling of loggerhead sea turtles in the Central-Eastern Mediterranean Sea: a machine learning approach using satellite tracking data
- Environmental variables and machine learning models to predict cetacean abundance in the Central-eastern Mediterranean Sea
- Machine Learning to predict cetacean behaviour using social and environmental features
- Generalized additive models for Risso's dolphin group size estimation in the Gulf of Taranto (Northern Ionian Sea, Central-eastern Mediterranean Sea)
- Preliminary study on monitoring the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) using satellite tracking in the Adriatic and Ionian Seas
- The Black Sea Physics Analysis and Forecasting System within the Framework of the Copernicus Marine Service
- A High Resolution Reanalysis for the Mediterranean Sea
- The Copernicus Marine Service from 2015 to 2021: six years of achievements
- Climate Signals in the Black Sea From a Multidecadal Eddy-Resolving Reanalysis
- Monitoring and Forecasting the Ocean State and Biogeochemical Processes in the Black Sea: Recent Developments in the Copernicus Marine Service