Francesco Pensa was born in Taranto on 16th April 1981.
The
passions for sea, nature and science melt when, at the age of 12 years old, he
start devoting himself to malacology and shells collecting.
On
1999 he creates a website for all the shells-lovers, a platform ment to gather
experiences and informations hardly found elsewhere, and trying to give a less
ludic and more scientific connotation to this hobby.
On
2000 he gets the diploma at "Galileo Ferraris" Scientific High School
in Taranto, and he enrole to the Biological Sciences Degree course at the
University of Bologna.
On
2004 he gets the Open Water Diver SSI licence, by Bologna Scuba Team.
On
2005 he joins Marine Science Group, dealing with "Sub per l'Ambiente",
the Mediterranean monitoring project in collaboration with the tourism industry,
and with the websites of the research group and the Marine & Freshwater
Science Group.
He
has a perfect knowledge, on Windows operating system, of the Office suite (Word,
Excel, Power Point, Access), Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, and HTML and
Javascript languages.
In
the spare time he keeps dealing with his other interests, including music (actually
he plays keyboards in rock band in Bologna) and cinema.
Divulgative
Publications for Sub per l'Ambiente:
Goffredo S., Orlandi A., Neri P., Scola Gagliardi M., Velardi A., Pensa F.,
Piccinetti C., Zaccanti F. 2005: Sub per l’Ambiente: 2002-2005, progetto
biodiversità subacquea del Mediterraneo. Elisir 4: 44-47.
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