The new Ionospheric Observatory in Bahia Blanca, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina has been inaugurated. The Observatory is equipped with an AIS-INGV ionoprobe, developed in the laboratories of the Roma2 Section of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INVG).<\/p>\n
The opening will kick off the experimental research of Argentina\u2019s new Ionospheric Observatory thanks to the cooperation between the University of Bahia Blanca, INGV and its spin-off SpacEarth. INGV has been cooperating with the Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica Nacional Facultad Regional in Tucum\u00e1n (UTN-FRT) since 2006, having installed a first AIS-INGV ionoprobe in Tucum\u00e1n already in 2007. From 2013, the cooperation was also extended to the Facultad Regional de Bahia Blanca (UTN-FRBB), and their successful cooperative efforts has produced the latest success story. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by the mayor of Bahia, the director of the National Technological University and other eminent local authorities. In representation of Italy was the Italian Consul General Riccardo Smimmo, the new science attach\u00e9 at the Italian Embassy, Jose M. Kenny and his predecessor Gabriele Paparo.\u00a0Bruno Zolesi, associated editor at INGV said: \u201cThe contribution of INGV and in particular of the ionospheric group of the Roma2 Section in achieving this important result was greatly appreciated and emphasised by all the participants in the event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Ionospheric Observatory in Bahia Blanca, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina has been inaugurated. The Observatory is equipped with an AIS-INGV ionoprobe, developed in the laboratories of the Roma2 Section of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INVG). The opening will kick off the experimental research of Argentina\u2019s new Ionospheric Observatory thanks to […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[398,35],"class_list":["post-52314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-america-latina-e-caraibi","tag-diplomazia-scientifica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}