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Dra. Renata Giulia LucchiInvestigadora contractada (Research contract) |
Perfil individual
Marine sedimentologist. Academic achievements: - 1997: PhD in marine geosciences at Cardiff University of Wales (UK) (RU) - 1990: Degree and MSc equivalent in Earth Sciences at the University of Milan (Italy) Research experience - 2007-present: contracted at the Univ. of Barcelona within the Spanish-IPY projects SVAIS and NICE-STREAMS in the Barrents Sea, north polar margins (P.I. A. Camerlenghi, ICREA-Univ. of Barcelona). - 2006-2007: scientific collaborator within the Spanish project PROSEDANT (Sedimentary Processes and products on three Antarctic continental margins: Paleoenvironmental, palaeoceanographic and paleoclimatic significance, P.I.: C. Escutia, CSIC Granada). - 2005: contracted by the GRC Geociènces Marines, Univ. of Barcelona, within the Spanish project PRODELTA (P.I.: M. Canals, Univ. Barcelona) - 2003-2004: research fellowship at the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale-OGS, Trieste (Italy) to work within the PNRA projects MOGAM and WEGA (east and west Antarctica) - 1998-2001: post-doc fellowship at the Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Ambientali e Marine, Univ. of Trieste (Italy), for the PNRA Project SEDANO (west Antarctica) - 1992-1993: graduate research assistant of Prof. M.B. Cita at the Dep. of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Milan (Italy) for the EC Project MAST 1-MARFLUX (Mediterranean Sea), and an Italian project on Mega-turbidites of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. - Sediment transport and deposition (a source to sink approach) in the two main geographic oceanic environments: low and high latitude ocean margins. Although the basic formation is in marine sedimentology, my research lines include skill and knowledge in geochemistry, biostratigraphy, geophysics, and geomagnetism Research interests: I)Reconstruction of marine sedimentary processes and paleo-environmental conditions of Polar margins (Antarctic and Arctic) in response to last Quaternary climatic changes. II)Ocean basin evolution: sedimentological characterization of gravity mass deposits including turbidites, mega-turbidites, and debris flows: facies analysis, sediment characteristics, and deposits geometry. III)Sedimentary and geological processes associated to convergent plates (mud volcanoes, accretionary prisms). 1999-2000: Co-advisor for a Msc-equivalent thesis at the University of Trieste (Italy) related to Antarctic margins studies. Student: A. Caburlotto, other co-advisors: Dr. E. Colizza, and Dr. M. Rebesco. Co-convener, at the OGS (Trieste-Italy), for a workshop on Antarctic studies (II-WEGA workshop, April 2004). |
Latest publications and/or most relevant publications |
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Caburlotto A., Lucchi R.G., De Santis L., Macrì P., Tolotti R., on line. Sedimentary proceses on the Wilkes Land continental rise reflect changes in glacial dynamics and bottom water flow. International Journal of Earth Sciences. Liquete C., Lucchi R.G., Garcia-Orellana J., Canals M., Masque P., Pasqual C., Lavoie C., 2010. Modern sedimentation patterns and human impacts on the Barcelona continental shelf (NE Spain). Geologica Acta, 8(2):1-19. Escutia C. Bárcena M.A., Lucchi R.G., Romero O., Ballegeer A.M., Gonzalez J.J., Harwood D., 2009. Circum-Antarctic warming events between 3.4 and 3.7 Ma recorded in sediments from Prydz Bay (ODP Leg 188) and the Antarctic Peninsula (ODP Leg 178). Global and Planetary Change, 69:170-184 Hillenbrand C.-D., Camerlenghi A., Cowan E.A., Hernández-Molina F.J., Lucchi R.G., Rebesco M., and Uenzelmann-Neben G., 2008. The present and past bottom-current flow regime around the sediment drifts on the continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Geology, 255, 55-63. Hillenbrand C.-D., Moreton S.G., Pudsey C.J., Caburlotto A., Lucchi R.G., Smellie J.L., Grobe H., Larter R., Rebesco M., and Benetti S., 2008. Volcanic time-markers for marine isotopic stages 6 and 5 in sediments from the Southern Ocean and Antarctic ice cores: Implications for tephra-correlation between palaeoclimatic records. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27(5-6), 518-540. Lucchi R.G. and Rebesco M., 2007. Glacial contourites on the Antarctic Peninsula margins: insight for palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic conditions. In: Economic and Palaeosignificance of Contourite Deposits. Viana, A.R. and Rebesco, M (eds), Geological Society of London special publication 276, 111-127. Macrí P., Sagnotti L., Lucchi R.G., and Rebesco M., 2006. A stacked record of relative geomagnetic paleointensity for the past 270 kyr from the westerns continental rise of the Antarctic Peninsula. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 253, 162-179. Villa G., Persico D., Bonci M.C., Lucchi R.G., Morigi C., Rebesco M., 2003. Biostratigraphic Characterization and Quaternary Microfossil Palaeoecology in Sediment Drifts West of the Antarctic Peninsula-Implications for Cyclic Glacial-Interglacial Deposition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 198, 237-263. Busetti M., Caburlotto A., Armand L., Damiani D., Giorgetti G., Lucchi R.G., Quilty P.G., Villa G., 2003. Plio-Quaternary sedimentation on the Wilkes Land continental rise. Preliminary results. In: Harris P.T., Brancolini G., Bindoff N., and De Santis L. (Eds.), Recent Investigations of the Mertz Polynya and George Vth Land Continental Margin, East Antarctica. Deep Sea Research II, 50, 1529-1562. Lucchi R.G., Rebesco M., Camerlenghi A., Busetti M., Tomadin L., Villa G., Persico D., Morigi C., Bonci M.C., and Giorgetti G., 2002. Glacimarine Sedimentary Processes of a high-latitude, deep-sea sediment drift (Antarctic Peninsula Pacific margin). Marine Geology 189, 343-370. |
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IPY-España NICE-STREAMS: Corrientes de hielo del Neogene y processos sedimentarios (I.P. A. Camerlenghi, ICREA-Univ. de Barcelona, España). GLACIBAR: Glaciación del Mare de Barents (I.P. K. Andreassen, Univ. de Tromsø, Noruega). Proyecto Italiano OGS-EGLACOM: Evolución del margine continental Artico: el sistema sedimentario del margen meridional de las Islas Svalbard (I.P. M. Rebesco, OGS, Trieste-Italia). IPY-España SVAIS: Desarrollo de un sistema sedimentario dominado por corrientes de hielo: el margen continental meridional de las Islas Svalbard (océano Ártico). (P.I. A Camerlenghi, ICREA-Univ. of Barcelona, Spain). MOGAM: La morfología y la geología de los márgenes de la Antártida: Tierra de Wilkes y la Península Antártica (I.P. L. De Santis, OGS, Trieste-Italia) CALAMARE: Estudio geofisico marino del arco Calabro: estudio de la deformación activa y la evaluación de riesgo sísmico (P.I. A. Polonia, CNR-ISMAR, Bologna-Italy) |
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