STEFANO GOFFEDO - ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA MARINE & FRESHWATER SCIENCE GROUP - DIPARTIMENTO DI BIOLOGIA EVOLUZIONISTICA SPERIMENTALE, via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Stefano Goffredo was born in Bologna in 1969. He has been an Assigned Research Scientist since 1997 for the Faculty of Biological Sciences (Zoology) in the Department of Evolutionary and Experimental Biology of the University of Bologna, under Prof. Francesco Zaccanti. He has been a scuba diving instructor for Scuba Schools International since 1991. He has worked in the field of recreational diving and tourism in Italy and in Egypt. He is founder and current President of the University of Bologna’s “Marine Science Group,” an association of scientists and citizens dedicated to underwater research. He is also conducting individual research studies in the Department of Evolutionary and Experimental Biology of the University of Bologna. His main fields of research are reproductive biology and population dynamics in Mediterranean and tropical marine animal life; the geographic and ecological distribution of endangered marine animal life; and marine environmental monitoring with emphasis on biodiversity, environmental education, and sustainable tourism. He is a member of the International Society for Reef Studies. He is also working with Dr. Elisabeth Chadwick-Furman (Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science of Eilat, Israel and Auburn University, Alabama, USA) on several studies. He is the Scientific Director of two research projects endorsed by the Italian Ministry of the Environment: “Mediterranean Hippocampus Mission,” and “Scuba Diving for the Environment. 2002-2005: Mediterranean Underwater Biodiversity Project”. He has co-authored more than 50 articles of both a scientific and popular nature published in national and international journals; the following are 5 of the most important ones:
Goffredo S., Chadwick-Furman N. E. 2000: Abundance and distribution of mushroom corals (Scleractinia, Fungiidae) on a coral reef at Eilat, northern Red Sea. Bulletin of Marine Science 66: 241-254.
Goffredo S., Arnone S., Zaccanti F. 2002: Sexual reproduction in the Mediterranean solitary coral Balanophyllia europaea (Scleractinia, Dendrophylliidae). Marine Ecology Progress Series 229: 83-94.
Goffredo S., Chadwick-Furman N. E. 2003: Comparative demography of mushroom corals (Scleractinia, Fungiidae) at Eilat, northern Red Sea. Marine Biology 142: 411-418.
Goffredo S., Piccinetti C., Zaccanti F. 2004: Volunteers in marine conservation monitoring: a study of the distribution of seahorses carried out in collaboration with recreational scuba divers. Conservation Biology 18 (6).
Goffredo S., Mattioli G., Zaccanti F. 2004: Growth and population dynamics model of the Mediterranean solitary coral Balanophyllia europaea (Scleractinia, Dendrophylliidae). Coral Reefs, 23: 433-443.