Fiorenza Torricella

Torricella Fiorenza

fiorenza.torricella@phd.unipi.it

I am geologist and traveller, passionate about polar areas and extreme environments. During my Bachelor, I studied Antarctic paleoenvironmental changes through the sedimentological analysis of Antarctic marine cores, and then, during my Master's, I focused on micropaleontology, in particular on polar marine diatoms. Currently, I’m investigating the Holocene environmental changes of polar areas (North and South Hemispheres) through the study of marine diatoms and radiolaria assemblages and grain size analyses of the sediment. Currently, I am involved in different international projects, one of these, allowed me to visit the Korean laboratory of KIOST, University of Pusan, and KOPRI (Republic of Korea).
I participated in an oceanographic cruise in the Adriatic Sea, and to field works to study sea-level change at Egadi Islands and in Greece. I was co-organizer of the IVPDAY congress and I worked in the scientific museums of Trieste. I have been participating in scientific divulgation since 2014.
B.Sc. In Geological Sciences at the University of Trieste, 2016. Thesis Title: ‘’ Indagini sedimentologiche su una carota prelevata nell’area di scarpata del Mare di Ross (Antartide) ‘’. M.Sc. in Geosciences at the University of Trieste, 2018. Thesis Title: ‘’Caratterizzazione di ambienti di sedimentazione di tephra nel Mare di Ross Occidentale’’. Ph.D. Student in Earth Sciences at the University of Pisa, 2018-2021. Thesis Title: “Micropaleontological and sedimentological study of marine sediment cores in the Polar regions in the last 2 ka”. From 2019 to 2021 - tutoring and teaching support activities for “Geology 1” course at the DST at the University of Pisa
RESEARCH INTEREST
  • Marine Polar Diatoms and Radiolaria
  • Marine Geology
  • Paleoenviromental reconstructions
  • Climate Change
  • Holocene

Research project: Micropaleontological and sedimentological study of marine sediment cores in the Polar regions in the last 2 ka

Supervisors:

Prof. Caterina Morigi (UniPI)
Prof. Ester Colizza (UniTS)

Fiorenza Torricella

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università di Pisa
Via Santa Maria 53
56126 Pisa
Italia

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