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Davide Anselmo L. Vignati
Research Staff
Davide Anselmo L. VignatiAddress Via del Mulino, 19
20047 Brugherio (MB)
Telephone +39 039 21694207
Fax +39 039 2004692
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Research Topics
  • Ecological and health risks of mercury contamination
  • Chromium chemistry and ecotoxicology
  • Trace element contamination in surface waters
  • Trace element partitioning between particulate, colloidal and truly dissolved phases
  • Trace element speciation
  • In situ sampling techniques
  • Laboratory-to-field extrapolation
Research Activities / Current Projects
  • Sediment contamination by mercury and other trace elements in a lake historically impacted by pollution from a chlor-alkaly factory
  • Study of mercury contamination in the Venice lagoon (in cooperation with the University of Geneva and CNR-ISMAR)
  • Preliminary evaluation of mercury health risk via hair analysis in potentially exposed groups
  • Comparative toxicity of trivalent and hexavalent chromium to freshwater algae and invertebrates
  • Evaluation of the ecological risk of chomium and mercury contamination in a small subalpine lake (Lake Pusiano)
Recent / Selected Publications
  • Vignati D.A.L., Valsecchi S., Polesello S., Patrolecco L., Dominik J. 2009. Pollutant partitioning for monitoring surface waters. Trends Anal. Chem. 28, 159-169.
  • Bettinetti R., Galassi S., Ciceri F., Neri M.F., Falandysz J., Camusso M., Vignati D.A.L. 2009. Limitations of Sediment Quality Guidelines for assessing the health of coastal marine ecosystems. Environmental Management, 43: 1313-1320.
  • Vignati D.A.L., Burdino E., Congiu A.M., Cicala F., Pardos M., Nieddu G.F., Ugazio G. 2008. Screening of sediment quality in 24 tributaries of the Po river (Italy). Water, Air, Soil Pollut. 190, 129-141.
  • Vignati D.A.L., Mamadou L.B., Dominik J., Klingemann A.O., Filella M., Bobrowski A., Ferrari B. 2008. Temporal decrease of trivalent chromium concentration in a standardized algal culture medium, experimental results and implications for toxicity evaluation. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 80, 305-310.
  • Szalińska E., Czaplicka-Kotas A., Vignati D.A.L., Ferrari B.J.D., Dominik J. 2008. Bioavailability of sedimentary chromium for chironomids in the upper Dunajec river (southern Poland). Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30, 534-536.
  • Vignati D.A.L., Ferrari B.J.D., Dominik J. 2007. Laboratory-to-field extrapolation in aquatic sciences. Environ. Sci. Technol. 41, 1067-1073.
  • Vignati D.A.L., Camusso M., Dominik J. 2005. Estimation of the truly dissolved concentrations of Cd, Cu, Ni, and Zn in contrasting aquatic environments with a simple empirical model. Ecol. Model. 184, 125-139.
  • Vignati D.A.L., Dworak T., Ferrari B., Koukal B., Loizeau J.-L., Minouflet M., Camusso M.I., Polesello S., Dominik, J. 2005. Assessment of the geochemical role of colloids and their impact on contaminant toxicity in freshwaters: an example from the Lambro-Po system (Italy). Environ. Sci. Technol. 39, 489-497.

 

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