Elisa Malinverno


                       Post-Doc

                                          
                                                                       

Versione italiana                                                                                                         elisa.malinverno@unimib.it
 

Curriculum

Current position: Post-Doc at the University of Milano-Bicocca

2006-2007: position the University of Athens, Department of Historical Geology-Paleontology

2004: PhD in Geological Sciences and Geotechnologies for Environment and Territory
Thesis: Biogeochemical Fluxes in the Eastern Mediterranean.

2000: Master in Geological Sciences
Thesis: Ecologia, produttività e distribuzione verticale dei Coccolitoforidi nel Mar Ionio (Mediterraneo orientale).

Research interests

- Present-day coccolithophore assemblage composition in different oceanographic settings

- Biogeochemical (coccolithophore related) fluxes

- Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic reconstruction through coccolithophore-based proxies

- Exploration of the deep-sea environment through geophysical and direct methods

Research Areas: Mediterranean Sea, Southern Ocean, Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California)

Teaching activity

Course of Paleoclimatology - 5 cfu
Collaboration in EU and National Research Projects

SAP - Sapropels and Paleoceanography (EU, 1998-2001)

SINAPSI – Seasonal, INterannual and decAdal variability of the atmosPhere, oceanS and related marIne ecosystems (MIUR, 2000-2003)

BIODEEP - Biotechnologies from the DEEP (EU, 2001-2003)

APLABES - White coral bioconstructions in the northern Ionian Sea - Apulian Plateau Bank (MIUR, 2003-2006)

ABIOCLEAR - Biogeochemical cycles in Antarctica: climatic and palcoclimatic reconstructions (PNRA, 2004-2006)

VECTOR - VulnErability of the Italian coastal area and marine Ecosystems to Climatic changes and Their rOle in the Mediterranean caRbon cycles (FISR 2001)

MERF - Quaternary Mediterranean Ecosystem Response to Fertilization: Mediterranean sapropel events and implications for marine carbon uptake (ESF Euroclimate)
Publications

  • Malinverno E., Dimiza M.D., Triantaphyllou M.V., Dermitzakis, M.D., Corselli C., 2008. Τα  κοκκολιθοφόρα της ανατολικηής μεσόγειο: μια ματιά στο θαλάσσιο μικρόκοσμο / Coccolithophores of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: a look into the marine microworld / I coccolitoforidi del Mar Mediterraneo orientale: uno sguardo nel microcosmo marino. ION Publications, Athens.

  • Malinverno E., Prahl F.G, Popp B.N., and Ziveri P., 2008. Alkenone abundance and its relationship to the coccolithophore assemblage in Gulf of California surface waters. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2008.04.007

  • Malinverno E., Triantaphyllou M.V., Dimiza M., Young J.R., 2008. New possible hetero-holococcolithophore combinations within the genus Syracosphaera. Journal of Nannoplankton Research, 30 (1): 1-8.

  • Tessarolo C., Malinverno E., Agate M., Di Grigoli G., Corselli C., 2008. Preliminary data concerning the morphology of a Calabrian Ionian margin area: Caulonia and Marina di Gioiosa canyons. Chemistry and Ecology, 24 (1): 225-242.

  • Daffonchio D., Borin S., Brusa T., Brusetti L., van der Wielen P. W. J. J., Bolhuis H., Yakimov M.M., D’Auria G., Giuliano L., Marty D., Tamburini C., McGenity T.J., Hallsworth J.E., Sass A.M., Timmis K.N., Tselepides A., de Lange G.J., Hübner A., Thomson J., Varnavas S.P., Gasparoni F., Gerber H.W., Malinverno E., Corselli C. & Biodeep Scientific Party*, 2006. Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic–anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline. Nature, March 9, 2006.

  • Malinverno E., Gasparoni F., Gerber H.W. and Corselli C., 2006. The exploration of eastern Mediterranean deep hypersaline anoxic basins with MODUS: a significant example of technology spin-off of Geostar Program. Annals of Geophysics, 49 (2/3): 729-737.
  • Malinverno E., 2005. Morphological variability within the genus Calciosolenia (coccolithophorids) from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Micropaleontology, vol.50, Suppl. 1: 81-91.
  • Taviani M., Corselli C., Freiwald A., Malinverno E., Mastrototaro F., Remia A., Savini A., Tursi A. and the CORAL Shipboard Staff, 2004. First geo-marine survey of living cold-water Lophelia reefs in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean basin). Facies, 50: 409-417.
  • Malinverno E. , Ziveri P., and Corselli C., 2003. Coccolithophorid distribution in the Ionian Sea and its relationship to eastern Mediterranean circulation during late fall to early winter 1997. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108 (C9), No. C9, 8115, doi:10.1029/2002JC001346.

Abstracts (see list)
Oceanographic cruises

Working at sea

Images from the Cruises
Photographs

Just for fun...