High North 2025 research expedition is a scientific program organized by the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) and led by the Italian Hydrographic Institute (Istituto Idrografico della Marina). It brings together scientists from multiple research centers to investigate key environmental issues in one of the most remote and sensitive regions of the planet. Osservatorio Artico will follow the High North 25 mission as its official media partner.

The Alliance is one of the few Italian ships capable of navigating permanently in Arctic waters. It is designed for oceanographic and acoustic research in deep seas and extreme environments, it combines military technology and scientific rigor. On board, it features low-noise propulsion (essential for studying the sounds of the sea), laboratories, advanced sensors, and hydrographic, atmospheric, and geophysical survey instruments.

Since 2017, it has been at the heart of the High North program, a scientific cooperation initiative led by the Navy in collaboration with the CNR (National Research Council) to study temperature, salinity, acidity, and currents of the Arctic Ocean.
Marco Volpe will communicate the scientific activities and human stories of the campaign to a wider audience through reports, visual documentation, and storytelling. 

“This experience is also key to my research which focuses on the science-policy interface within Arctic and Antarctic domains. Being on board I can observe how science is carried out and discuss with experts its potential role in the policy context”, Volpe says.

More information: 
www.osservatorioartico.it/
www.osservatorioartico.it/high-north-2/

Marco Volpe
Visiting Researcher, Arctic Centre
Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Social Science, University of Lapland
Marco.Volpe(@)ulapland.fi