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Stefano Covelli

Stefano Covelli

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Earth Science

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35
Citations
5115
World Ranking
7558
National Ranking
268

Overview

Stefano Covelli is affiliated with the University of Trieste in Italy and focuses research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans related subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research addresses several key topics, with a particular emphasis on mercury impact and mitigation studies, heavy metals in the environment, and toxic organic pollutants. Other notable areas of focus include heavy metal exposure and toxicity, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and studies involving marine and coastal ecosystems.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Stefano Covelli include:

  • Elena Pavoni
  • Elisa Petranich
  • Federico Floreani
  • Nicolò Barago
  • Matteo Crosera

Several scientific journals serve as common publication venues for their work, reflecting diverse interests in environmental studies. These include:

  • Applied Sciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Atmosphere

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stefano Covelli cover various aspects of environmental contamination, trace elements, and sediments. Notable publications include:

  • "Occurrence and speciation of arsenic and mercury in alluvial and coastal sediments," 2021, Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health
  • "Anthropocene footprint in the Nalón estuarine sediments (northern Spain)," 2020, Marine Geology
  • "Distribution, Mobility and Fate of Trace Elements in an Estuarine System Under Anthropogenic Pressure: the Case of the Karstic Timavo River (Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy)," 2021, Estuaries and Coasts
  • "Partitioning and mixing behaviour of trace elements at the Isonzo/Soča River mouth (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic Sea)," 2020, Marine Chemistry
  • "Can Sediments Contaminated by Mining be a Source of Mercury in the Coastal Environment Due to Dredging? Evidence from Thermo-Desorption and Chemical Speciation," 2021, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Best Publications

  • Application of a normalization procedure in determining regional geochemical baselines

    S. Covelli;G. Fontolan

  • Mercury contamination of coastal sediments as the result of long-term cinnabar mining activity (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic sea)

    Stefano Covelli;Jadran Faganeli;Milena Horvat;Antonio Brambati

  • Mercury in contaminated coastal environments; a case study: the Gulf of Trieste.

    Milena Horvat;Stefano Covelli;Jadran Faganeli;Martina Logar

  • Carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions of organic matter in coastal marine sediments (the Gulf of Trieste, N Adriatic Sea): indicators of sources and preservation

    Nives Ogrinc;Giorgio Fontolan;Jadran Faganeli;Stefano Covelli

  • Porewater Distribution and Benthic Flux Measurements of Mercury and Methylmercury in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea)

    Stefano Covelli;J. Faganeli;M. Horvat;Antonio Brambati

  • Mercury speciation in sediments affected by dumped mining residues in the drainage area of the Idrija mercury mine, Slovenia.

    Harald Biester;Mateja Gosar;Stefano Covelli

  • Mercury and methylmercury in the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea).

    J. Faganeli;M. Horvat;Stefano Covelli;V. Fajon

  • Benthic fluxes of mercury species in a lagoon environment (Grado Lagoon, Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy)

    Stefano Covelli;Jadran Faganeli;Cinzia De Vittor;Sergio Predonzani

  • Anthropogenic markers in the Holocene stratigraphic sequence of the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea)

    Stefano Covelli;Giorgio Fontolan;Jadran Faganeli;Nives Ogrinc

  • Organotins (TBT and DBT) in water, sediments, and gastropods of the southern Venice lagoon (Italy).

    D. Berto;M. Giani;R. Boscolo;S. Covelli

  • Recent contamination of mercury in an estuarine environment (Marano lagoon, Northern Adriatic, Italy)

    Stefano Covelli;Alessandro Acquavita;Raffaella Piani;Sergio Predonzani

  • Microphytobenthos in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea) : Relationship with labile sedimentary organic matter and nutrients

    C. Welker;E. Sdrigotti;S. Covelli;J. Faganeli

  • Transport and dispersion of particulate Hg associated with a river plume in coastal Northern Adriatic environments

    Stefano Covelli;Raffaella Piani;Alessandro Acquavita;Sergio Predonzani

  • Mercury in the sediments of the Marano and Grado Lagoon (northern Adriatic Sea): Sources, distribution and speciation

    Alessandro Acquavita;Alessandro Acquavita;Stefano Covelli;Andrea Emili;Daniela Berto

  • Mercury methylation and demethylation in Hg-contaminated lagoon sediments (Marano and Grado Lagoon, Italy)

    Mark E. Hines;Erin N. Poitras;Stefano Covelli;Jadran Faganeli

  • Mercury contamination in Marano Lagoon (Northern Adriatic sea, Italy): Source identification by analyses of Hg phases

    Raffaella Piani;Stefano Covelli;Harald Biester

  • Spatial variation, speciation and sedimentary records of mercury in the Guanabara Bay (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

    Stefano Covelli;Ioanna Protopsalti;Alessandro Acquavita;Alessandro Acquavita;Marcelo Sperle

  • Historical flux of mercury associated with mining and industrial sources in the Marano and Grado Lagoon (northern Adriatic Sea)

    Stefano Covelli;Leonardo Langone;Alessandro Acquavita;Alessandro Acquavita;Raffaella Piani

  • Benthic fluxes of oxygen, carbon and nutrients in the Marano and Grado Lagoon (northern Adriatic Sea, Italy)

    C. De Vittor;J. Faganeli;A. Emili;S. Covelli

  • Occurrence and speciation of arsenic and mercury in estuarine sediments affected by mining activities (Asturias, northern Spain).

    Efrén Garcia-Ordiales;Stefano Covelli;Jose Manuel Rico;Nieves Roqueñí

  • Application of a normalization procedure in determining regional geochemical baselines, Gulf of Trieste, Italy.

    Stefano Covelli;Giorgio Fontolan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jadran Faganeli
Jadran Faganeli University of Ljubljana
Milena Horvat
Milena Horvat Jožef Stefan Institute
Nives Ogrinc
Nives Ogrinc Jožef Stefan Institute
Enrico Dinelli
Enrico Dinelli University of Bologna
Mark E. Hines
Mark E. Hines University of Massachusetts Lowell
Leonardo Langone
Leonardo Langone National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Luis Carrasco
Luis Carrasco Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa
João Canário
João Canário Instituto Superior Técnico
Harald Biester
Harald Biester Technische Universität Braunschweig
Matteo Massironi
Matteo Massironi University of Padua

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