Francesco Iacoviello

I gained a Ph.D from the Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences of University of Siena. I recently defended my doctoral thesis. During my Master?s degree I acquired a good knowledge of geochemistry and laboratory techniques. In the following months I have started my research activity joining a Ph.D program in the field of mineralogy, paleoclimate and ice sheet dynamics. Doctoral thesis title is ?Mineralogy of sediments from AND-2A drill core (McMurdo Sound, Antarctica). The research project dealt with a combined clay-heavy mineral analysis of marine sediments recovered in 2007 in the McMurdo Sound region (Ross Sea, Antarctica) during the ANtarctic DRILLing Program (ANDRILL) - Southern McMurdo Sound Project. The main objectives were to 1) study how clay minerals reflect paleoclimatic conditions, in particular the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum, 2) investigate how heavy mineral assemblages reflect different source rocks and hence different provenance areas and 3) study the ice sheet development in East-Antarctica in the last 20 Ma. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)