I am a geologist and I achieved a MSc from the “Università La Sapienza” of Rome in 2022 with a thesis on the reconstruction of paleo-hydrological, paleo-environmental and paleo-climatic variability of the central Mediterranean, through the study of quaternary speleothems. In particular I analyzed a speleothem from Laparnica Cave (Balcans).
I am now attending a PhD course in Earth Sciences at the University of Pisa (2022-2025).
The aim of my project is to improve the knowledge of the evolution of climate and hydrological processes in the central Apennines over time through the evaluation of the climate and hydrological changes of the past. This research is being carried out through the study of continental natural archives sampled in this region and by correlating them with other proxies already analyzed in existing literature.
Additionally, the project is characterized by the monitoring of the different hydrological and hydrogeological components in the selected geographical regions.
The purpose of this research is to understand the major influencing factors of climatic variability, which can be used to produce a conceptual model of the impact of current climate change on water resources in the Apennines.
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Geochemistry paleocliamtology
- Geochronology of continental sediments
- Environmental geochemistry of karst and lake systems
- Hydrogeochemistry
- Isotope hydrology
- GIS analysis
Research project: Water resources and climate change: past data and future projections for sustainable management of the Apennines..
Supervisors:
Professor Giovanni Zanchetta (DST-UNIPI)
Dr Ilaria Isola (INGV Pisa)
Professor Luigi Dallai (DST-Sapienza)
Nicole de Santis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università di Pisa
Via Santa Maria 53
56126 Pisa
Italia