Outdoor aerobiological monitoring:
o pollen and fungal spores, according to Hirst and real-time
Indoor aerobiological monitoring in living and working environments, with special reference to health care and cultural heritage conservation environments:
o active and passive air microbiology
o surface microbiology
Monitoring in contamination-controlled environments:
o particulate air
o classification and reclassification
o active and passive air microbiology
o surface microbiology
o air flow rate, pressure, and velocity
Microclimate:
o temperature and relative humidity
o CO2 concentration
Scotch test:
o morphological recognition by light microscopy of fungal spores
Main lines of research:
- Biological quality of indoor and outdoor air.
- Standardization of air and surface microbiological sampling methods.
- Concentrations of airborne pollen and fungal spores.
- Pollen load, pollen seasonality, and climate change.
- Analysis of allergenic pollen spread from non-native weeds.
- Real-time sampling of pollen and fungal spores (artificial intelligence and machine learning).
Third mission
Pollen bulletins and pollen calendars - https://www.bollettinopolliniallergenici.unipr.en
Main equipment provided:
Real-time sampler
- Poleno Jupiter - Swisens
Hirst-type volumetric samplers (pollen and fungal spores)
- VPPS 2020 outdoor (7 days) - Lanzoni
- VPPS2000 outdoor (7 days) - Lanzoni
- VPPS100 indoor (1 day) - Lanzoni
- Pollen trap outdoor (7 days)- Burkard
- Pollen trap indoor (7 days)- Burkard
Personal sampler
- Aircheck 2000 personal sampler - SKC
Filtration samplers
- Chemvol (two-stage on solid substrate) with high volume pump -Digitek
- Airflow 300 T - AMS Analytical
Cyclonic sampler
- C90M - Burkard
Particle counter
- 754 - Climet
- Lasair III 5100 - Particle Measuring Systems
Microbiological Samplers
- DUOSAS - PBI
- SASS 2300 - Research International
- Andersen three stages - Lanzoni
Microclimate
- AMI 310 with multiparameter probes for Temperature, Relative Humidity, Air Velocity and CO2 concentration- KIMO
- DBM 620 (Balometer, temperature, relative humidity, flow rate, pressure, atmospheric pressure-air velocity) - Sauermann
Other Instrumentation
- BBSB-4 Biosafety Hood- Gelaire
- Refrigerated IMP 180 Incubator - Heratherm
- Incubator IMH-S - Heratherm
- Microscope BX43 - Olympus
- Freezer -80° horizontal - Angelantoni
Keywords: Aerobiological monitoring, microbiological monitoring, particle monitoring, microclimate
