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Freelance marine ecologist // restoration of temperate reefs, restorative aquaculture, citizen science

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PhD from Queen's university Belfast on restoration of mussel beds, post-doctoral experience in mussels and clam aquaculture in Netherlands and Venice, with field, lab, data analysis and dynamic modelling experience and a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship on restorative aquaculture of Ostrea edulis, which included calculations on carbon fluxes associated with aquaculture. Active member of NORA (Native Oyster Restoration Alliance) and Biodiversa+ BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub. Consulted as chief scientist for We Are Here Venice leading a project related to lagoon restoration and carbon sequestration. Consultant for Oyster2Life enactus project. Awardee of BES Outreach grant on biodiversity on port areas. Writer of children stories on oysters and ocean acidification and designer of trophic cascade game. Proficient R user and all Microsoft office. Both windows and macbook environments. Some familiarity and work with phyton (jupyter, spider), Matlab, QGis. English (second language), Italian (mother tongue), little French and Spanish.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Applied Ecology
• ☆ Ecological Restoration
• ☆ Marine Ecology
• ☆ R

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Cleaning

Work Experience

Università Ca' Foscari

July 2019 - Present

Assegnisti

Universita' CA' FOSCARI di VENEZIA

July 2019 - December 2023

Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee

August 2017 - June 2019

Education

PhD

Queen's University Belfast

August 2014 - July 2017

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Camilla Bertolini, Giulia Silan, Alessandro Buosi, Adriano Sfriso (2024). Dynamics and drivers of carbon sequestration and storage capacity in Phragmites australis-dominated wetlands . Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Silan, Giulia and Buosi, Alessandro and Bertolini, Camilla and Sfriso, Adriano(2024). Dynamics and drivers of carbon sequestration and storage capacity in Phragmites australis-dominated wetlands . ESTUARINE, COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE. 298.

Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres, Daniele Brigolin (2023). Modelling CO2 budget of mussel farms across the Mediterranean Sea . Ambio.

Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres (2023). Understanding the influence of swarming timing on the dispersal of Ostrea edulis larvae in the Northern Adriatic Sea . Open Research Europe.

C. Bertolini, D. Glaser, M. Canu, R. Pastres (2023). Coupling habitat-specific temperature scenarios with tolerance landscape to predict the impacts of climate change on farmed bivalves . Marine Environmental Research.

Milan, Massimo and Bernardini, Ilaria and Bertolini, Camilla and Dalla Rovere, Giulia and Manuzzi, Alice and Pastres, Roberto and Peruzza, Luca and Smits, Morgan and Fabrello, Jacopo and Breggion, Cristina and Sambo, Andrea and Boffo, Luciano and Gallocchio, Loretta and Carrer, Claudio and Sorrentino, Francesco and Bettiol, Cinzia and Lodigiulia, Carolina and Semenzin, Elena and Varagnolo, Maurizio and Matozzo, Valerio and Bargelloni, Luca and Patarnello, Tomaso(2023). Multidisciplinary long-term survey of Manila clam grown in farming sites subjected to different environmental conditions . SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 863.

Cecchetto, M. and Giubilato, E. and Bernardini, I. and Bettiol, C. and Asnicar, D. and Bertolini, C. and Fabrello, J. and Bonetto, A. and Peruzza, L. and Ciscato, M. and Matozzo, V. and Marin, M. G. and Bargelloni, L. and Patarnello, T. and Marcomini, A. and Milan, M. and Semenzin, E.(2023). A Weight of Evidence approach to support the assessment of the quality of Manila clam farming sites in a coastal lagoon . MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN. 197.

Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres (2022). Identifying knowledge gaps for successful restorative aquaculture of Ostrea edulis: a bibliometric analysis . Open Research Europe.

Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres(2022). Identifying knowledge gaps for successful restorative aquaculture of Ostrea edulis: a bibliometric analysis . Open Research Europe. 1. p. 103. F1000 Research Ltd

camilla bertolini, Roberto PASTRES(2022). Identifying knowledge gaps for successful restorative aquaculture of Ostrea edulis: a bibliometric analysis . Open Research Europe. 1.

Bertolini, C. and Capelle, J. and Royer, E. and Milan, M. and Witbaard, R. and Bouma, T. J. and Pastres, R.(2022). Using a clustering algorithm to identify patterns of valve-gaping behaviour in mussels reared under different environmental conditions . ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS. 69.

C Bertolini, I Bernardini, D Brigolin, V Matozzo, M Milan, R Pastres, Carrie Byron(2021). A bioenergetic model to address carbon sequestration potential of shellfish farming: example from Ruditapes philippinarum in the Venice lagoon . ICES Journal of Marine Science. 78. (6). p. 2082--2091. Oxford University Press ({OUP})

Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres(2021). Identifying knowledge gaps for successful restorative aquaculture of Ostrea edulis: a bibliometric analysis . Open Research Europe. 1. p. 103. F1000 Research Ltd

Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres(2021). Identifying knowledge gaps for successful restorative aquaculture of Ostrea edulis: a bibliometric analysis . Open Research Europe. 1. p. 103. F1000 Research Ltd

Camilla Bertolini, Jane da Mosto(2021). Restoring for the climate: a review of coastal wetland restoration research in the last 30 years . Restoration Ecology. 29. (7). Wiley

Camilla Bertolini, Edouard Royer, Roberto Pastres(2021). Multiple Evidence for Climate Patterns Influencing Ecosystem Productivity across Spatial Gradients in the Venice Lagoon . Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 9. (4). p. 363. {MDPI} {AG}

Camilla Bertolini, Daniele Brigolin, Erika M. D. Porporato, Jasmine Hattab, Roberto Pastres, Pietro Giorgio Tiscar(2021). Testing a Model of Pacific Oysters’ (Crassostrea gigas) Growth in the Adriatic Sea: Implications for Aquaculture Spatial Planning . Sustainability. 13. (6). p. 3309. {MDPI} {AG}

camilla bertolini, Edouard Royer, Roberto Pastres (2021). Multiple Evidence for Climate Patterns Influencing Ecosystem Productivity across Spatial Gradients in the Venice Lagoon . Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

camilla bertolini, Daniele Brigolin, Erika M.D. Porporato, J. Hattab, Roberto Pastres, Pietro Giorgio Tiscar (2021). Testing a Model of Pacific Oysters’ (<i>Crassostrea gigas</i>) Growth in the Adriatic Sea: Implications for Aquaculture Spatial Planning . Sustainability.

Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793) cultivation in southern Adriatic Sea (Italy): A one‐year monitoring study of the oyster health @article{ 10278_3750771, author = {Mosca, Francesco and Tiscar, Pietro G. and Hattab, Jasmine and D'Antonuo, Anna M. and D'Onofrio, Dario and Arcangeli, Giuseppe and Vetri, Alessia and Bertolini, Camilla and Pastres, Roberto}, title = {Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793) cultivation in southern Adriatic Sea (Italy): A one‐year monitoring study of the oyster health}, year = {2021}, journal = {AQUACULTURE RESEARCH}, volume = {52}, doi = {10.1111/are.15139}, pages = {2879--2890} } .

camilla bertolini, Rubinetti, S., Umgiesser, G., Witbaard, R., Bouma, T. J., Angelo Rubino, Roberto PASTRES(2021). How to cope in heterogeneous coastal environments: Spatio-temporally endogenous circadian rhythm of valve gaping by mussels . SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 768.

camilla bertolini, Roberto PASTRES(2021). Tolerance landscapes can be used to predict species-specific responses to climate change beyond the marine heatwave concept: Using tolerance landscape models for an ecologically meaningful classification of extreme climate events . ESTUARINE, COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE. 252.

Camilla Bertolini, W. I. Montgomery, Nessa E. O’Connor(2020). Edge Effects Are Not Linked to Key Ecological Processes in a Fragmented Biogenic Reef . Estuaries and Coasts. 43. (4). p. 708--721. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Camilla Bertolini, Kasper Hlebowicz, Flavia Schlichta, Jacob J. Capelle, Johan van de Koppel, Tjeerd.J. Bouma (2019). Are all patterns created equal? Cooperation is more likely in spatially simple habitats . Marine Ecology.

Camilla Bertolini, Brenda Cornelissen, Jacob Capelle, Johan van de Koppel, Tjeerd J. Bouma (2019). Putting self‐organization to the test: labyrinthine patterns as optimal solution for persistence . Oikos.

Camilla Bertolini(2019). Can secondary species maintain a primary role? Consistent inter-regional effects of understory algae on diversity . Marine Biodiversity. 49. (2). p. 841--849. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

(2019). Timing it right: Non-consumptive effects on prey recruitment magnify overtime . Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Camilla Bertolini, W. I. Montgomery, Nessa E. O’Connor(2018). Habitat with small inter-structural spaces promotes mussel survival and reef generation . Marine Biology. 165. (10). Springer Nature

Camilla Bertolini, Daniel Barrios-O&#39;Neill, Patrick Colman Collins(2017). Trophic cascades and the transient keystone concept . Biological Conservation. 212. p. 191--195. Elsevier {BV}

Geraldi, N.R., Bertolini, C., Emmerson, M.C., Roberts, D., Sigwart, J.D., O&#39;Connor, N.E.(2017). Aggregations of brittle stars can perform similar ecological roles as mussel reefs . Marine Ecology Progress Series. 563. p. 157-167.

Lombardi, C., Taylor, P.D., Cocito, S., Bertolini, C., Calosi, P.(2017). Low pH conditions impair module capacity to regenerate in a calcified colonial invertebrate, the bryozoan Cryptosula pallasiana . Marine Environmental Research. 125. p. 110-117.

Bertolini, C., Geraldi, N.R., Montgomery, W.I., O&#39;Connor, N.E.(2017). Substratum type and conspecific density as drivers of mussel patch formation . Journal of Sea Research. 121. p. 24-32.

Harvey, B.P., McKeown, N.J., Rastrick, S.P.S., Bertolini, C., Foggo, A., Graham, H., Hall-Spencer, J.M., Milazzo, M., Shaw, P.W., Small, D.P., et al.(2016). Individual and population-level responses to ocean acidification . Scientific Reports. 6.

Small, D.P., Milazzo, M., Bertolini, C., Graham, H., Hauton, C., Hall-Spencer, J.M., Rastrick, S.P.S.(2016). Temporal fluctuations in seawater pCO<inf>2</inf>may be as important as mean differences when determining physiological sensitivity in natural systems . ICES Journal of Marine Science. 73. (3). p. 604-612.

Calosi, P., Turner, L.M., Hawkins, M., Bertolini, C., Nightingale, G., Truebano, M., Spicer, J.I.(2013). Multiple physiological responses to multiple environmental challenges: An individual approach . Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53. (4). p. 660-670.

PREPRINT

Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres (2023). Parameterization of a bioenergetic model to estimate shell, somatic and reproductive tissue growth of Ostrea edulis .

CONFERENCE ABSTRACT

camilla bertolini, Capelle, Jacob J., Bouma, Tjeerd J., EDOUARD ROYER, Roberto PASTRES(2021). A MACHINE LEARNING CLUSTERING ALGORITHM TO IDENTIFY GAPING BEHAVIOUR IN MYTILUS SPP UNDER CONTRASTING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS . European Aquaculture Society