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Professeur invité à EPOC : Dr. Guiseppe Cortese (GNS Science, New Zealand)
Dr Giuseppe Cortese will be at EPOC between January and July 2017 (6 months) as part as the IDEX Visiting Scientist funding initiative.
Dr Giuseppe Cortese is a marine paleoclimate scientist, mainly working on Southern Ocean material. His main tool is multivariate statistics applied to siliceous microfossil species/assemblage data. His research is aimed at developing tools to understand and reconstruct past conditions in the surface ocean, and is thus relevant to stakeholders in the field of paleoclimate, including fellow scientists and the general public.
The project, entitled Climate and Southern Ocean siliceous productivity interactions over the last 50,000 years, will be conducted with Dr. Xavier Crosta. This projects aims to put radiolarian and diatom records from the different sectors of the Southern Ocean in a circum-Antarctic context in order (1) to reconstruct past and sub-modern environmental conditions in contrasted environments from the Sea Ice Zone to the Subtropical Zone and from coastal to open ocean areas and (2) to identify the factors responsible for Southern Ocean marine ecosystem evolution at decadal to millennial timescales. |