Paleoclimate Summer Program in Italy

Danielle Schimmenti just returned from the 16th annual Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology, which focuses on past global change reconstruction and modelling techniques.

The summer program varies from year to year, and is an opportunity for graduate students in paleoclimate to learn from early career and also senior experts from around the world. This year's program, from July 10-26, focused on a wide range of paleoclimatic topics from cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology, to isotope and organic geochemistry, as well as micro and nanno-paleontology and paleoclimate modeling. Danielle highly recommends it as a fantastic learning, professional development, and networking experience.

Danielle is advised by Dr. Franco Marcantonio in the Deaprtment of Geology and Geophysics, with CSL's Dr. Brendan Roark on her PhD committee. Her doctoral research focuses on millennial scale variability in the ocean and atmosphere over the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean for the past 100-300 kyr using radiogenic isotope and trace element proxies in marine sediment. The specific project she presented at the summer school—and will present at the centennial American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December—assesses export production on millennial timescales in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Danielle at the Bonarelli Level (in Furlo, Italy), a famous sedimentary sequence representing Ocean Anoxic Event 2 at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary ~92 Ma.

The participants of the 16th Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology at the final celebration on the last night in Urbino, Italy.