The team:
Italian and international speleologists, scientists and researchers, some of them are also members of the Associations La Venta Geographical Exploration and Spélé’ice (Arctic Exploration and Research).
La Venta: http://www.laventa.it
Spélé’Ice: http://speleice.org/Site_SpeleIce/Accueil.html
Organizers:
Alessio Romeo
Italian freelance photographer based in Tuscany.
Explorer and caver from more than 30 years he is specialized in glacier-caves.
Master degree in Geology with a thesis on the Gorner glacier (CH) with a study of morphological evolution of several glacier caves.
Alessio Romeo has more than fifteen years of professional experience in adventure, cave and travel photography, formed during more than 50 expeditions all over the World.
Since 2013, he has been part of the team CAVES with different roles : Technical Assistant at the beginning, Cave-Photography teacher since 2016 and official photographer in 2019.
In 2017 he start to collaborate as photographer also in the Planetary Geology training for astronauts PANGAEA (ESA).
https://romeoalessiophotography.com
Francesco Sauro
Italian explorer and speleologist, recognized by Time Magazine as one of the ten millennial that are having an impact in the future of science and planetary exploration.
He is contracted Professor of Planetary Geology at the University of Bologna, with a peculiar interest in caves and subsurface exploration. With over twenty year of caving activity, Francesco Sauro has explored tens of kilometers of caves in any different lithology on Earth.
In 2014 he won the Rolex Award for Enterprise with an exploration project in the Guyana highlands of South America.
Since 2015 he has been selected as technical director of the course CAVES and PANGAEA organized by the European Space Agency for training astronauts (ESA, NASA, JAXA, RUSCOSMOS and CSA) for operational and human behavior purposes in difficult environments.
www.rolexawards.com/profiles/young_laureates/sauro_francesco/
Contacts:
A.Romeo: alessioromeo71@gmail.com
F.Sauro: cescosauro@gmail.com
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