Alberto Zirino

Dr. Alberto Zirino spent some days in our Faculty in order to give some additional lectures about chemical oceanography in the Master of Oceanography. He coincided with Dr. del Giorgio and it was a pleasure to have them in our island. Dr. Zirino is Research Associate in the Marine Biological Research Division of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego (from 1996 to present). He is also Lecturer and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Marine and Environmental Science at the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA. (2000-present), Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University (1977 to present), and Oceanography Consultant to Consorzio Venezia Nuova (the quasi-governmental consortium of Venetian industries charged with safeguarding the Venice Lagoon and the city of Venice, Italy, from1998 to present).

Dr. Zirino

He is member of the Subcommittee on Environmental Analytical Chemistry, and he was member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) from October 1986 to 1994, and member of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (WG 90) of the International Council of Scientific Unions from October 1988-1991. He was the editor of “Mapping Strategies in Chemical Oceanography" (Advances in Chemistry Series) of the American Chemical Society.

From left to right: Magdalena Santana-Casiano, Paul del Giorgio, Javier Arístegui, Santiago Hernández-León, May Gómez, Ted Packard and Alberto Zirino.