Silvia DANISE

Ruolo attuale:: Professore Associato
SSD:: GEOS-02/A - Paleontologia e paleoecologia
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra

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Silvia DANISE

Orario di ricevimento (aggiornato al 05/09/2022)

giovedì ore 10.00-12.00

Silvia DANISE

Biografia

Silvia Danise si laurea in Scienze Geologiche presso l’Università di Firenze nel 2005 con una tesi sulla geologia e sedimentologia del Bacino del Valdarno Superiore. Appena laureata lavora per tre anni come geologo presso la Regione Toscana, ma dopo questa esperienza decide di tornare in università, e nel 2011 consegue il titolo di Dottorato in Scienze della Terra, con una tesi in paleontologia intitolata “Modern and fossil whale fall communities”. Dal 2011 al 2014 è ricercatrice post-doc presso la University of Plymouth, Regno Unito, dove è parte di un progetto che indaga le estinzioni di massa mesozoiche e i relativi cambiamenti climatici. Nel 2015 vince una “Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship” e trascorre due anni negli Stati Uniti (University of Georgia) e uno nel Regno Unito (University of Plymouth). Ad ottobre 2018 grazie al “Programma Rita Levi Montalcini”, dedicato ai ricercatori italiani che hanno svolto ricerca all’estero, ha l’opportunità di tornare in Italia come ricercatore a tempo determinato. A dicembre 2019 ottiene l"Hodson Award", un premio alla carriera della Società' Paleontologica inglese per ricercatori con meno di 10 anni di attività di ricerca. Da ottobre 2021 è professore associato in Paleontologia e Paleoecologia.

Silvia DANISE

Curriculum

POSIZIONE ACCADEMICA ATTUALE

• Dal 10.201 PROFESSORE ASSOCIATO in Paleontologia e Paleoecologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze.

EDUCAZIONE

• 03.2011 DOTTORATO IN SCIENZE DELLA TERRA. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze.

• 04.2005 LAUREA (5 anni) IN SCIENZE GEOLOGICHE. Indirizzo geologico-paleontologico. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze. Votazione 110/110.

CARRIERA ACCADEMICA POST-DOTTORATO

• 10.2018-10.201 RICERCATORE A TEMPO DETERMINATO (rtdb) “RITA LEVI MONTALCINI” Università degli Studi di Firenze.

• 01.2017-12.2017 POSTODOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences [SoGEES], Plymouth University, UK. Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development (return phase).

• 01.2015/12.2016 POSTODOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW. Department of Geology, University of Georgia, USA. Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development (outgoing phase).

• 06.2014/12.2014 RESEARCH ASSOCIATE. SoGEES, Plymouth University, UK.

• 04.2011/05.2014 RESEARCH FELLOW IN PALAEONTOLOGY. SoGEES, Plymouth University, UK.

ESPERIENZE LAVORATIVE POST-LAUREA

03.2007–02.2008 Personale cat. D1, “Funzionario per il territorio”, Settore Servizio Sismico, Regione Toscana.
07.2005–02.2007 Borsista. Settore Servizio Sismico, Regione Toscana.

PRINCIPALI AREE DI RICERCA

• Paleoecologia delle comunità bentoniche

• Stratigraphic Palaeobiology

• Estinzioni di Massa del Mesozoico (Toarciano inferiore; Permo-Trias)

• Tafonomia dei vertebrati marini

PRINCIPALI COMPETENZE

• Analsisi statistica multivariata applicata alla palaeoecologia [Programmi: R-language, Primer-Permanova, Past].

• Sedimentologia, Stratigrafia Sequenziale, Rilevamento Geologico

• Microscopia Ottica ed Elettronica (SEM) su rocce sedimentarie e fossili. Catodoluminescenza.

• Geochimica degli isotopi stabili (ossigeno e carbonio) su macroinvertebrati (bivalvi, brachiopodi, belemniti).

FINANZIAMENTI

2022 Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN 2022). Co-PI; project “Ecological effects of species range-expansions driven by climate: insights from the Last Interglacial (MIS5e, Pleistocene) of the Mediterranean Sea”. Project code: 2022P3425X. Total budget: €205,224. PI: P. Albano, Stazione Zoologica "Anton Dohrn" di Napoli

2018 “Rita Levi Montalcini Programme for young researchers”. PI; project “Marine benthic community response to climate change: the Mid Pliocene Climatic Optimum” (PI: €152,933)

2017 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Grant; California State University – Fullerton. (Co-PI: $15,000)

2014 Palaeontological Association Grant-in-aid’ (PI: £2,000)

2013 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development. (PI: €282,109.20)

2013 Palaeontological Association Research Grant. (PI: £6,665)

2013 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant. (PI: £2,000)

2012 EU SYNTHESYS Grant

2012 Marine Institute Education Fund, Plymouth University. (PI: £300)

2007 Borsa di Studio “Jacopo Ficai Award” per tesi di dottorato, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Italy. (PI: €24,000; rifiutato).

PREMI

2019 "Hodson Award", The Palaeontological Association, UK.

2014 Premio “Decio De Lorentiis” per la tesi di Dottorato, Museo di Maglie, Italia.

2008 Premio di laurea “Aldo Anselmi”. Accademia Valdarnese del Poggio, Italia.

ORGANIZZAZIONE DI CONVEGNI

2023 “Conservation paleobiology: late Neogene to Quaternary records as a baseline for conservation of modern ecosystems”. Co-chair ù. XXI INQUA Congress, Rome.

2023 Scientific Committee member, 4th Palaeontological Virtual Congress. Online

2021 Scientific Committee member, 18th Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP). Online

2020 “Palaeontology, Palaeoecology and Evolution of Life”. Co-chair. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. 06.05.2020. Virtual online session due to COVID-19 emergency.

2019 “Stratigraphic controls on the geochemical and fossil record”. Main-chair. 34^th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome, Italy.

2017 “Carbonate systems: paleoceanography, palaeoecology and stratigraphy”. Co-chair. European Geoscience Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

2015 “Conservation & Stratigraphic Palaeobiology: Deep-time to Recent”. Co-chair. European Geoscience Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

2014 “Comparative palaeoecology of Phanerozoic extinction events”. Co-chair. 4th International Paleontological Congress, Argentina.

2014 “Deep sea chemosynthetic ecosystems: from modern exploration to the geological and fossil record.” Lyell Meeting of the Geological Society of London. Principale organizzatore.

SEMINARI AD INVITO

2024 Giornata di studio sul cambiamento climatico. Università degli Studi di Firenze. “Eventi di riscaldamento globale ed estinzioni: cosa ci insegna il record fossile?”.

2024 PhD Seminar Series, Università di Genova, Italy. “Conservation Paleobiology: the fossil record at work for future biodiversity”.

2024 Caffè di Geologicamente, Società Geologica Italiana. “Riscaldamento globale ed estinzioni: lezioni dal Giurassico Inferiore”.

2024 Scienze Clima e Umanità al Bivio, Università degli Studi di Firenze. “Riscaldamento globale ed estinzioni: lezioni dal record fossile”.

2022 Palaeontology for a more sustainable future, Palaeontologist in Progress, Asti, Italy. “Marine Conservation Paleobiology: challenges and case-studies”.

2021 Mass Extinctions & Climate Change webinar series, Universität Hamburg, Germany. “The early Toarcian extinction event”.

2020 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Gli incontri del Giovedì. “Conchiglie fossil: dalla paleoecologia al clima”.

2020 Invited talk. GSA 2020 Connect Online. “Land-sea connectivity during a Jurassic global warming event”.

2017 Geoscience Seminars, University of Leeds, UK. “Stratigraphic Palaeobiology of the Jurassic Sundance Seaway: faunal response to sea-level and climate change”.

2017 Keynote lecture. 8th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization. Vienna, Austria. “Taphonomy of large marine vertebrates: from modern whale falls to the fossil record”.

2017 Earth Science Research Seminar Series, Plymouth University. “Faunal response to sea-level and climate change in the Jurassic Sundance Seaway”.

2016 UT Paleo Seminar Series, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. “New insights on the fossil record of Mesozoic marine reptile dead falls”.

2015 Geoscience Colloquium Series, University of Georgia, USA. “New insights on the fossil record of Mesozoic marine reptile dead falls”.

2014 Earth Science Research Seminar Series, Plymouth University. “Faunal changes, global warming and anoxia in the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic)”.

2014 National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK. “Faunal changes, global warming and anoxia in the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic)”.

2013 School of Natural System, Kanazawa University, Japan. “Modern and fossil shallow water whale fall communities”.

2013 Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. “Palaeocommunity changes across the early Toarcian extinction event: a case study from the Cleveland Basin, UK”.

2013 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. “Modern and fossil whale falls: did Mesozoic analogues exist?”.

2011 CRESS Research Conference, Plymouth University, UK. “Modern and fossil shallow-water whale falls. Plymouth University.

2010 Georg–August-Universität Göttingen, Geobiologie group, Germany. “Detecting biotic activity from fossil whale-falls: from benthic invertebrates to micro-organisms“.

SUPERVISIONE DI STUDENTI

2024 Laurea Triennale Scienze Naturali. Tutor “Paleoecologia a molluschi e stratigrafia nel Pliocene dei dintorni di Siena”. Studente Francesco Arrighetti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2024 Laurea Triennale Scienze della Terra. Tutor “Chi muore si rivede: confronto tra biocenosi e tanatocenosi a molluschi nel Mar Tirreno settentrionale”. Studente Ginevra Rizzo, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2024 Laurea Triennale Scienze Naturali. Tutor “Sclerocronologia di scafopodi pliocenici, per potenziale utilizzo per ricostruzioni paleoambientali.” Studente Filippo Ammazzini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2024 Laurea Triennale Scienze Naturali. Tutor “Confronto Death e Living assemblages presso la Sea Line del rigassificatore di Livorno.” Studente Benedetta Troni, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2023 Laurea Triennale Scienze Naturali. Tutor “Analisi delle tracce di bioerosione di Osedax su ossa di cetaceo del Miocene dell'Appennino settentrionale.” Studente Elisa Furlanetto, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2022 Laurea Triennale Scienze Naturali. Tutor “Comparison between death and living mollusc assemblages in the northern Tyrrhenian Sea”. Studente Bianca Carnemolla, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2021 Laurea Triennale Scienze della Terra. Tutor “Sclerocronologia dei bivalvi Pecten latissimus e Pecten jacobeus: archivi paleoclimatici per il Pliocene?”. Studente Giada Giachetti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy. Vincitore del premio “Giovanni Merla” 2022, per la miglior tesi del Dipartimento di Scienza della Terra, Unifi.

2021 Laurea Triennale Scienze Naturali. Tutor "Studio paleoecolologico di una collezione museale: i molluschi pliocenici raccolti nell'800 presso Castel San Gimignano (SI) conservati al museo di Firenze". Student Filippo Garosi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2020-2021 MS project, co-advisor. “Dinosaur trackways in the Sundance and Gypsum Spring Formation, Wyoming, USA”. Studente Elliot Blake, University of Georgia, USA

2020 MSc in Taxonomy, Biodiversity and Evolution. Project, co-advisor. “Ecological Responses of the Marine Benthos to the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Global Warming and Ocean Anoxic Event”. Studente Lauren James, Imperial college, London, UK

2015-2016 co-tutor, tesi di laurea “Carbonates of the Gypsum Springs and Sundance Formations, Western Interior Seaway”. University of Georgia,USA. Studente A. Poncelet.

2013-2015 co-tutor, tesi di dottorato "Palaeoecology of the Late Permian extinction and subsequent recovery." Plymouth University. Studente W. J. Foster.

2013-2014 co-tutor, tesi di master. “Marine benthic community dynamics through the Rhaetian to Sinemurian interval”. Plymouth University. Studente J. Brown.

2012-2013 co-tutor, tesi di master “Taphonomy and palaeoecology of a Jurassic Ichthyosaur”. Plymouth University. Studente K. T. Matts.

2013 co-tutor, progetto “Palaeoecology of the Blue Lias Formation, Lyme Regis, UK” finanziato dalla Ussher Society, UK. Studente A. Pugh, University of Leeds.

PRINCIPALI ESPERIENZE DI RICERCA

2024 Alicante (Spagna), Cipro, Ultimo Interglaciale stratigrafia sequenziale e paleoecologia (PI, 2 sett.)

2020-2022 Bacino di Crotone, Italia, Pliocene-Pleistocene stratigrafia sequenziale e paleoecologia (PI, 2 sett.)

2017 Fieldwork: Nevada, USA, Giurassico medio-superiore, stratigrafia sequenziale e paleoecologia (co-PI, 2 sett.)

2014-2016 Fieldwork: Wyoming, Montana, USA. Giurassico, stratigrafia sequenziale e paleoecologia (12 sett.)

2014 Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, UK. Visita alla collezione di vertebrati marini (1 sett.)

2015 Smithsonian Institution – Department of Paleobiology. Visita alle collezioni di invertebrati marini (1 sett.)

2014 Natural History Museum, London, UK. Visita alla collezione di vertebrati marini (1 sett.)

2013 Fieldwork: Giappone (Toyora Area), Giurassico Inferiore, stratigrafia e paleoecologia (1 sett.)

2013 Museo Geominero & Dpto. De Paleontología, Universidad Computense de Madrid, Spagna. Visita alle collezioni di invertebrati marini (2 sett.)

2012 Fieldwork: Spagna (Iberian Range), Giurassico Inferiore, stratigrafia e paleoecologia (3 sett.)

2011-2012 Fieldwork: North Yorkshire, Dorset e Somerset (UK), Giurassico Inferiore, stratigrafia e paleoecologia (6 sett.)

2010 Fieldwork: Appennino Settentrionale, Pliocene, stratigrafia e paleoecologia (3 sett.)

2009 Ospite al Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire CNRS, Orleans, Francia (1 sett.)

2008-2009 Ospite al Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences, Tjärnö, Svezia. (2 sett.)

2007 Sito di Drimolen, South Africa, scavo paleoantropologico (4 sett.)

2007 Orciano Pisano,Toscana, scavo di una balena Pliocenica (1 sett.)

2004 Bacino del Valarno Superiore, Toscana, Plio-Pleistocene, rilevamento geologico e sedimentologia (tesi di laurea)

2000 Meride (Svizzera), Calcare di Meride, Triassico, scavo di vertebrati marini (1 sett)

MEMBRO DI: Palaeontological Association; Paleontological Society;

Societa’ Paleontologica Italiana; PaleoBiology Database; Euroepan Geosciences Union; International Association of Sedimentologists.

LINGUE: Italiano. Inglese (avanzato). Spagnolo (principiante)

Silvia DANISE

Interessi

Paleoecologia dei macroinvertebrati marini

Geochimica degli isotopi stabili e sclerocronologia

Tafonomia dei vertebrati marini

Stratigrafia sequenziale e sedimentologia

Silvia DANISE

Pubblicazioni

Legenda

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Articolo su libro |

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Tesi di Dottorato

SERAFINI, GIOVANNI; DANISE, SILVIA; E. MAXWELL, ERIN; MARTIRE, LUCA; AMALFITANO, JACOPO; COBIANCHI, MIRIAM ,; THUN HOHENSTEIN, URSULA; GIUSBERTI, LUCA (2024). OF HIS BONES ARE CRINOID MADE: TAPHONOMY AND DEADFALL ECOLOGY OF MARINE REPTILES FROM A PELAGIC SETTING (MIDDLE-UPPER JURASSIC OF NORTHEASTERN ITALY). RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA, vol. 130, pp. 97-128, ISSN:2039-4942 DOI

Danise, Silvia; Giachetti, Giada; Baneschi, Ilaria; Casalini, Martina; Miniati, Francesco; Dominici, Stefano; Boschi, Chiara (2024). Sclerochronology of the large scallops Gigantopecten latissimus and Pecten jacobaeus in a Pliocene warmer Mediterranean Sea. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, vol. 654, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0031-0182 DOI

Dominici, Stefano; Danise, Silvia; Tintori, Andrea (2024). A Middle Triassic Cassian‐type fauna (Pelsa‐Vazzoler Lagerstätte) and the adaptive radiation of the Modern evolutionary fauna. PAPERS IN PALAEONTOLOGY, vol. 10, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2056-2802 DOI

Albano, Paolo G; Schultz, Lotta; Wessely, Johannes; Taviani, Marco; Dullinger, Stefan; Danise, Silvia (2024). The dawn of the tropical Atlantic invasion into the Mediterranean Sea. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, vol. 121, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1091-6490 DOI

Mondanaro, Alessandro; Dominici, Stefano; Danise, Silvia (2024). Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes. PALAEONTOLOGY, vol. 67, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0031-0239 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Silvia Danise; Stefano Dominici (2023). Biodiversity change and extinction risk in Plio-Pleistocene Mediterranean bivalves: the families Veneridae, Pectinidae and Lucinidae. In: Nawrot, R., Dominici, S., Tomašových, A. and Zuschin, M. (eds). Conservation Palaeobiology of Marine Ecosystems, pp. 0-0 Geological Socie, London. DOI

SERAFINI, GIOVANNI; AMALFITANO, JACOPO; DANISE, SILVIA; MAXWELL, ERIN E.; RONDELLI, RICCARDO; PAPAZZONI, CESARE A. (2023). NOT ENTIRELY ICHTHYOSAUR: A MYSTERIOUS LAMNIFORM AND ICHTHYOPTERYGIAN-FALL ASSOCIATION FROM THE ABYSSAL UPPER CRETACEOUS OF THE NORTHERN APENNINES (ITALY). PALAIOS, vol. 38, pp. 331-344, ISSN:0883-1351 DOI

Dominici, Stefano; Danise, Silvia (2022). Mediterranean onshore–offshore gradient in the composition and temporal turnover of benthic molluscs across the middle Piacenzian Warm Period. In: Nawrot, R., Dominici, S., Tomašových, A. and Zuschin, M. (eds). Conservation Palaeobiology of Marine Ecosystems, pp. 0-0 Geological Society, London. DOI

Sam M. Slater; Paul Bown; Richard J. Twitchett; Silvia Danise; Vivi Vajda (2022). Global record of “ghost” nannofossils reveals plankton resilience to high CO 2 and warming. SCIENCE, vol. 376, pp. 853-856, ISSN:1095-9203 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise S.; Slater S.M.; Vajda V.; Twitchett R.J. (2022). Land-sea ecological connectivity during a Jurassic warming event. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, pp. 117290-117290, ISSN:0012-821X DOI

Matthias Alberti; Horacio Parent; Alberto C. Garrido; Nils Andersen; Dieter Garbe-Schönberg; Silvia Danise (2020). Stable isotopes (δ 13 C, δ 18 O) and element ratios (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of Jurassic belemnites, bivalves and brachiopods from the Neuquén Basin (Argentina): challenges and opportunities for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, pp. jgs2020-163-jgs2020-163, ISSN:0016-7649 DOI

Danise, Silvia; Price, Gregory D.; Alberti, Matthias; Holland, Steven M. (2020). Isotopic evidence for partial geochemical decoupling between a Jurassic epicontinental sea and the open ocean. GONDWANA RESEARCH, vol. 82, pp. 97-107, ISSN:1342-937X DOI

Dominici S.; Danise S.; Cau S.; Freschi A. (2020). The awkward record of fossil whales. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, vol. 205, pp. 103057-103057, ISSN:0012-8252 DOI

Slater, Sam M.; Twitchett, Richard J.; Danise, Silvia; Vajda, Vivi (2019). Substantial vegetation response to Early Jurassic global warming with impacts on oceanic anoxia. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, pp. 1-7, ISSN:1752-0908 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia; Clémence, Marie-Emilie; Price, Gregory D.; Murphy, Daniel P.; Gómez, Juan J.; Twitchett, Richard J. (2019). Stratigraphic and environmental control on marine benthic community change through the early Toarcian extinction event (Iberian Range, Spain). PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, vol. 524, pp. 183-200, ISSN:0031-0182 DOI

Foster, William J.; Danise, Silvia; Price, Gregory D.; Twitchett, Richard J. (2018). Paleoecological analysis of benthic recovery after the late Permian mass extinction event in Eastern Lombardy, Italy. PALAIOS, vol. 33, pp. 266-281, ISSN:0883-1351 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Dominici, Stefano; Danise, Silvia; Benvenuti, Marco (2018). Pliocene stratigraphic paleobiology in Tuscany and the fossil record of marine megafauna. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, vol. 176, pp. 277-310, ISSN:0012-8252 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia; Holland, Steven M. (2018). A sequence stratigraphic framework for the middle to late jurassic of the sundance seaway, wyoming: Implications for correlation, basin evolution, and climate change. THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, vol. 126, pp. 371-405, ISSN:0022-1376 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Foster, William J.; Danise, Silvia; Twitchett, Richard J. (2017). A silicified Early Triassic marine assemblage from Svalbard. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY, vol. 15, pp. 851-877, ISSN:1477-2019 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Foster, William J.; Danise, Silvia; Price, Gregory D.; Twitchett, Richard J. (2017). Subsequent biotic crises delayed marine recovery following the late Permian mass extinction event in northern Italy. PLOS ONE, vol. 12, pp. e0172321-e0172321, ISSN:1932-6203 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia; Holland, Steven M. (2017). Faunal response to sea-level and climate change in a short-lived seaway: Jurassic of the Western Interior, USA. PALAEONTOLOGY, vol. 60, pp. 213-232, ISSN:0031-0239 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia; Bertolaso, Luca; Dominici, Stefano (2016). Whale fall Italiana dominata da bivalvi della sottofamiglia Bathymodiolinae. BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA, vol. 55, pp. 47-53, ISSN:0375-7633 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia; Higgs, Nicholas D. (2015). Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls. BIOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 11, pp. 20150072-20150072, ISSN:1744-9561 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia*; Twitchett, Richard J.; Little, Crispin T.S. (2015). Environmental controls on Jurassic marine ecosystems during global warming. GEOLOGY, vol. 43, pp. 263-266, ISSN:0091-7613 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Foster, William J.; Danise, Silvia; Sedlacek, Alexa; Price, Gregory D.; Hips, Kinga; Twitchett, Richard J. (2015). Environmental controls on the post-Permian recovery of benthic, tropical marine ecosystems in western Palaeotethys (Aggtelek Karst, Hungary). PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, vol. 440, pp. 374-394, ISSN:0031-0182 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia; Dominici, Stefano (2014). A record of fossil shallow-water whale falls from Italy. LETHAIA, vol. 47, pp. 229-243, ISSN:0024-1164 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia*; Twitchett, Richard J.; Matts, Katie (2014). Ecological succession of a Jurassic shallow-water ichthyosaur fall. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 5, pp. 4789-4789, ISSN:2041-1723 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Anderung, Cecilia; Danise, Silvia; Glover, Adrian G.; Higgs, Nicholas D.; Jonsson, Leif; Sabin, Richard; Dahlgren, Thomas G. (2014). A Swedish subfossil find of a bowhead whale from the late Pleistocene: Shore displacement, paleoecology in south-west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (Balaena swedenborgii Liljeborg, 1867). HISTORICAL BIOLOGY, vol. 26, pp. 58-68, ISSN:0891-2963 DOI

Pugh, A.C.; Danise, S.; Brown, J.R.; Twitchett, R.J. (2014). Benthic ecosystem dynamics following the Late Triassic mass extinction event: Palaeoecology of the blue llas formation, Lyme Regis, UK. Geoscience in South-West England, vol. 13, pp. 255-266

Danise, Silvia; Dominici, Stefano; Glover, Adrian G.; Dahlgren, Thomas G. (2013). Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast. MARINE BIOLOGY RESEARCH, vol. 10, pp. 3-16, ISSN:1745-1000 DOI

Danise, Silvia*; Twitchett, Richard J.; Little, Crispin T. S.; Clémence, Marie-Emilie (2013). The Impact of Global Warming and Anoxia on Marine Benthic Community Dynamics: An Example from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic). PLOS ONE, vol. 8, pp. e56255-e56255, ISSN:1932-6203 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

S. Danise; B. Cavalazzi; S. Dominici; F. Westall; S. Monechi; S. Guioli (2012). Evidence of microbial activity form a Miocene shallow water whale fall (Voghera, northern Italy). PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, vol. 317-318, pp. 13-26, ISSN:0031-0182 DOI

S. Danise (2010). Modern and fossil shallow water whale fall communities. (Tutor: S. Monechi)

Danise, Silvia*; Dominici, Stefano; Betocchi, Ubaldo (2010). Mollusk species at a Pliocene shelf whale fall (Orciano Pisano, Tuscany). PALAIOS, vol. 25, pp. 449-456, ISSN:0883-1351 DOI

Dominici S.; Cioppi E.; Danise S.; Betocchi U.; Gallai G.; Tangocci F.; Valleri G.; Monechi S. (2009). Mediterranean fossil whale falls and the adaptation of mollusks to extreme habitats. GEOLOGY, vol. 37, pp. 815-818, ISSN:0091-7613

Silvia DANISE

Biography

Silvia Danise graduated in Geological Sciences at the University of Florence in 2005 with a thesis on the geology and sedimentology of the Upper Valdarno Basin. After graduating, she worked for three years as a geologist, but after this experience she decided to return to university, and in 2011 she obtained a PhD in Earth Sciences, with a thesis in paleontology entitled “Modern and fossil whale fall communities”. From 2011 to 2014 she was a post-doc researcher at the University of Plymouth, UK, where she was part of a project investigating Mesozoic mass extinctions and related climate changes. In 2015 she won a “Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship” and spent two years in the United States (University of Georgia) and one in the United Kingdom (University of Plymouth). In October 2018, thanks to the “Rita Levi Montalcini Program”, dedicated to Italian researchers who have carried out research abroad, she had the opportunity to return to Italy as a fixed-term researcher. In December 2019, she received the "Hodson Award", a career award from the UK Paleontological Society for researchers with less than 10 years of research activity. Since October 2021, she has been an associate professor in Paleontology and Paleoecology.

Silvia DANISE

Curriculum

Present position

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR in Palaeontology and Palaeoecology

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra

Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

Previous Academic Appointment

2018-2021 RESEARCHER

“Programma per Giovani Ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini”

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra

Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2017 POSTODOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development – return phase

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Plymouth University, UK

EU project “MAREST, MARine Ecosystem Stability and Turnover”

Advisors: Prof Gregory Price, Prof Steven Holland

2015-2016 POSTODOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development – outgoing phase

Department of Geology

University of Georgia, USA

EU project “MAREST, MARine Ecosystem Stability and Turnover”

Advisors: Prof Steven Holland, Prof Gregory Price

2011-2014 RESEARCH FELLOW IN PALAEONTOLOGY

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Plymouth University, UK

NERC project “Evolution of modern marine ecosystems: controls on their structure and function”

Advisor: Prof Richard Twitchett

Education

PhD in EARTH SCIENCE

Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

Dissertation: Modern and fossil whale fall communities

Advisors: Prof Simonetta Monechi, Dr Stefano Dominici, Dr Barbara Cavalazzi

INTEGRATED MASTER in EARTH SCIENCE

Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

Thesis: Geological mapping and sedimentological study of an Intermontane Neogene Basin, central Tuscany

Final grade 110/110

Research interests

Paleoecology of marine macro-invertebrates; Sequence Stratigraphy & Sedimentology; Stable Isotope Geochemistry; Taphonomy of marine vertebrates

Funding

€108,867 Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN 2022). Co-PI; project “Ecological effects of species range-expansions driven by climate: insights from the Last Interglacial (MIS5e, Pleistocene) of the Mediterranean Sea”. Project code: 2022P3425X. Total budget: €205,224. PI: P. Albano, Stazione Zoologica "Anton Dohrn" di Napoli

€152,933 Programma per Giovani Ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini. PI; project “Marine benthic community response to climate change: the Mid Pliocene Climatic Optimum” (2018-2021)

$15,000 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Grant; California State University - Fullerton.Co-PI; project: “Documenting Reef Recovery After Mass Extinction” (2017)

£2,000 Palaeontological Association Grant-in-aid’ (2014). Key-note speaker funds for the symposium “Conservation & Stratigraphic Palaeobiology: Deep-time to Recent”. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

€282,000 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development (2015-2017). PI; project “MAREST, MARine Ecosystem Stability and Turnover”. Call identifier: FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF

£6,670 Palaeontological Association Research Grant (2013). PI; Project “Mesozoic marine reptile dead-falls: analogues of whale fall communities?”

£2,000 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant (2013). PI; Fieldwork for the study of Early Jurassic sections in Japan

Awards

2019 "Hodson Award", The Palaeontological Association, UK.

2014 PhD thesis award, Premio Decio De Lorentiis, Museo di Maglie, Italy.

2008 Master thesis award, Aldo Anselmi. Accademia Valdarnese del Poggio, Italy.

Organization of Symposia

2023 - Co-chair “Conservation paleobiology: late Neogene to Quaternary records as a baseline for conservation of modern ecosystems”. XXI INQUA Congress, Rome.

2023 - Scientific Committee member, 4th Palaeontological Virtual Congress. Online

2021 - Scientific Committee member, 18th Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP). Online

2020 - Co-chair “Palaeontology, Palaeoecology and Evolution of Life”. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. 06.05.2020. Virtual online session due to COVID-19 emergency.

2019 - Main-chair. “Stratigraphic controls on the geochemical and fossil record”. 34^th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome, Italy.

2017 - Co-chair. 8th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization. 14-17 September 2017 Vienna, Austria.

2017 - Co-chair. “Carbonate systems: paleoceanography, palaeoecology and stratigraphy”. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. 26.04.2017

2015 - Co-chair. “Conservation & Stratigraphic Palaeobiology: Deep-time to Recent”. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. 13.04.2015

2014 - Main organiser. Lyell Meeting of the Geological Society of London. Title “Deep sea chemosynthetic ecosystems: from modern exploration to the geological and fossil record.” 12.03.2014

2014 - Co-organiser. Symposium “Comparative palaeoecology of Phanerozoic extinction events”. 4^th International Paleontological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina. 03.10 2014

Invited Presentations & Seminars

2024 - Seminar. Giornata di studio sul cambiamento climatico. Università degli Studi di Firenze. “Eventi di riscaldamento globale ed estinzioni: cosa ci insegna il record fossile?”.

2024 - Seminar. PhD Seminar Series, Università di Genova, Italy. “Conservation Paleobiology: the fossil record at work for future biodiversity”.

2024 - Seminar. Caffè di Geologicamente, Società Geologica Italiana. “Riscaldamento globale ed estinzioni: lezioni dal Giurassico Inferiore”.

2024 - Seminar. Scienze Clima e Umanità al Bivio, Università degli Studi di Firenze. “Riscaldamento globale ed estinzioni: lezioni dal record fossile”.

2022 - Seminar. Palaeontology for a more sustainable future, Palaeontologist in Progress, Asti, Italy. “Marine Conservation Paleobiology: challenges and case-studies”.

2021 - Seminar. Mass Extinctions & Climate Change webinar series, Universität Hamburg, Germany. “The early Toarcian extinction event”.

2020 - Seminar. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Gli incontri del Giovedì. “Conchiglie fossil: dalla paleoecologia al clima”.

2020 - Invited talk. GSA 2020 Connect Online. “Land-sea connectivity during a Jurassic global warming event”.

2017 - Geoscience Seminars, University of Leeds, UK. “Stratigraphic Palaeobiology of the Jurassic Sundance Seaway: faunal response to sea-level and climate change”. 01.12.2017

2017 - Keynote lecture. 8th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization. Vienna, Austria. “Taphonomy of large marine vertebrates: from modern whale falls to the fossil record”. 15.09.2017

2017 - Earth Science Research Seminar Series, Plymouth University, UK. “Faunal response to sea-level and climate change in the Jurassic Sundance Seaway”. 22.02.2017

2016 - UT Paleo Brown Bag Seminar Series, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. “New insights on the fossil record of Mesozoic marine reptile dead falls”. 25.02.2016

2015 - Geoscience Colloquium Series, University of Georgia, USA. “New insights on the fossil record of Mesozoic marine reptile dead falls”. 23.01.2015

2014 - Earth Science Research Seminar Series, Plymouth University, UK. “Faunal changes, global warming and anoxia in the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic)”. 07.05.2014

2014 - National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK. “Faunal changes, global warming and anoxia in the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic)”. 30.04.2014

2013 - School of Natural System, Kanazawa Univesity, Japan. “Modern and fossil shallow water whale fall communities” 14.11.2013

2013 - Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. “Palaeocommunity changes across the early Toarcian extinction event: a case study from the Cleveland Basin, UK”. 12.11.2013

2013 - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. “Modern and fossil whale falls: did Mesozoic analogues exist?” 21.03.2013

2011 - CRESS Research Conference, Plymouth University, UK. “Modern and fossil shallow-water whale fall communities”. 16.11.2011

2010 - Georg–August-Universität Göttingen, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum, Germany. “Detecting biotic activity from fossil whale-falls: from benthic invertebrates to micro-organisms“. Geobiologie group. 23.11.2010

Mentoring Activity

2020-2024 - PhD project, co-advisor. “Deadfalls of Mesozoic marine reptiles: a taphonomical approach.” Student Giovanni Serafini, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

2012-2015 - PhD project, co-advisor. “Palaeoecology of the late Permian mass extinction event and subsequent recovery”. Student William J. Foster, Plymouth University, UK

2024 - Bachelor project, main advisor. “Paleoecologia a molluschi e stratigrafia nel Pliocene dei dintorni di Siena”. Student Francesco Arrighetti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2024 - Bachelor project, main advisor. “Chi muore si rivede: confronto tra biocenosi e tanatocenosi a molluschi nel Mar Tirreno settentrionale”. Student Ginevra Rizzo, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2024 - Bachelor project, main advisor. “Sclerocronologia di scafopodi pliocenici, per potenziale utilizzo per ricostruzioni paleoambientali.” Student Filippo Ammazzini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2024 - Bachelor project, main advisor. “Confronto Death e Living assemblages presso la Sea Line del rigassificatore di Livorno.” Student Benedetta Troni, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2023 - Bachelor project, main advisor. “Analisi delle tracce di bioerosione di Osedax su ossa di cetaceo del Miocene dell'Appennino settentrionale.” Student Elisa Furlanetto, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2022 - Bachelor project, main advisor. “Comparison between death and living mollusc assemblages in the northern Tyrrhenian Sea”. Student Bianca Carnemolla, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2021 -Bachelor project, main advisor. “Sclerocronologia dei bivalvi Pecten latissimus e Pecten jacobeus: archivi paleoclimatici per il Pliocene?”. Student Giada Giachetti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy. Winner of the award “Giovanni Merla” 2022, for the best undergraduate thesis of the Dipartimento di Scienza della Terra, UniFI.

2021 - Bachelor project, main advisor. "Studio paleoecolologico di una collezione museale: i molluschi pliocenici raccolti nell'800 presso Castel San Gimignano (SI) conservati al museo di Firenze". Student Filippo Garosi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

2020-2021 - MS project, co-advisor. “Dinosaur trackways in the Sundance and Gypsum Spring Formation, Wyoming, USA”. Student Elliot Blake, University of Georgia, USA

2020 - MSc in Taxonomy, Biodiversity and Evolution. Project, co-advisor. “Ecological Responses of the Marine Benthos to the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Global Warming and Ocean Anoxic Event”. Student Lauren James, Imperial college, London, UK

2016 - Undergraduate project, co-advisor. “Carbonates of the Gypsum Springs and Sundance Formations, Western Interior Seaway: Implications for changes in salinity and temperature in the Middle to Late Jurassic”. University of Georgia. Student Austin Poncelet

2015 - PhD project, co-advisor. “Palaeoecology of the late Permian mass extinction event and subsequent recovery”. Plymouth University. Student William J. Foster

2013-2014 - MGeol project, co-advisor. “Marine benthic community dynamics through the Rhaetianto Sinemurian interval”.Plymouth University. Student James Brown

2012-2013 - MGeol project, co-advisor. “Taphonomy and palaeoecology of a Jurassic Ichthyosaur”. Plymouth University. Student Katie T. Matts

2013 - co-advisor of the undergraduate project “Palaeoecology of the Blue Lias Formation, Lyme Regis, UK” funded by the Ussher Society. Student Autumn Pugh, University of Leeds

Teaching Experience

2024 - “Paleobiologia della Conservazione” (co-leader, master level, first year, 2 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2024 - “Paleobiologia Ambientale” (leader, master level, first year, 6 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2024 - “Paleontologia” (leader, undergraduate level, third year, 4 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2023 - “Sostenibilità e Crisi Biologiche” (co-leader, undergraduate level, third year, 1 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2023 - “Paleontologia” (leader, undergraduate level, third year, 6 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2023 - “Paleobiologia Ambientale” (leader, master level, first year, 6 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2022 - “Paleontologia” (leader, undergraduate level, third year, 6 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2022 - “Paleobiologia Ambientale” (leader, master level, first year, 6 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2021 - “Paleobiologia Ambientale” (leader, master level, first year, 6 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2020 - “Paleontologia e laboratorio” (co-leader, undergraduates-second year, 1 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2020 - “Paleobiologia Ambientale” (leader, master level, first year, 6 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2019 - " Paleontologia e laboratorio” (co-leader, undergraduates-second year, 1 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2019 - Seminar for PhD students “Deep sea ecosystems, ecology, evolution and economic importance” (2 days, 2 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2019 - Seminar for PhD students “Stratigraphic Palaeobiology: understanding the structure of the fossil record” (4 days, 4 CFU). Università di Firenze, Italy

2018 - Invertebrate Palaeontology Lab: classes on Mollusca, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cnidaria and Artropoda. Paleontology module (undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy

2017 - Guest lecture: Palaeoecology (1 hour theory; 2 hours practical). Sedimentology and Palaeontology module (undergraduates-second year). Plymouth University, UK

2017 - Co-leader of the Pembrokeshire field-trip, Wales, UK (1 week; undergraduates-second year). Plymouth University, UK

2016 - Guest lecture: Sedimentary Basins (1 hour). Sedimentary Geology module (undergraduates). University of Georgia, USA

2016 - Guest lecture: The fossil record (1 hour). Primate Ecology and Evolution module (graduate & undergraduates). University of Georgia, USA

2013 - Guest lecture: Vertebrate Palaeontology (6 hours; theory and lab). Stratigraphy and the Fossil Record module (undergraduates-first year). Plymouth University, UK

2012 - Guest lecture: Vertebrate Palaeontology (6 hours; theory and lab). Stratigraphy and the Fossil Record module (undergraduates-first year). Plymouth University, UK

2012 - Co-leader of field-trip to Lyme Regis, Dorset (1 day). Stratigraphy and the Fossil Record module (undergraduates-first year). Plymouth University, UK

2011 - Guest lecture: Vertebrate Palaeontology. (6 hours; theory and lab). Stratigraphy and the Fossil Record module (undergraduates-first year). Plymouth University, UK

2011 - Co-leader of the Eastern Sicily Field Excursion (12 days; undergraduates-third year). Plymouth University, UK

2010 - Co-leader of the field-trip to the K-T Boundary, Gola del Bottaccione, Gubbio, Italy(1 day; undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy

2009 - Guest lecture: Invertebrate Palaeontology (12 hours; theory and lab): classes on Mollusca, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cnidaria and Artropoda. Paleontology module (undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy

2009 - Guest lecturer: Invertebrate Paleontology. Theory and laboratory (12 hours; theory and lab): classes on Mollusca, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cnidaria and Artropoda. Paleontology module (undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy

2008 - Guest lecturer: Invertebrate Paleontology. Theory and laboratory (12 hours; theory and lab): classes on Mollusca, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cnidaria and Artropoda. Paleontology module (undergraduates-second year). Università di Firenze, Italy

Principal Field Experience

2024 - Alicante area (Spain) and Cyprus. Last Interglacial, sedimentology/ stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 3 weeks)

2021 - Crotone Basin, Southern Italy, Pliocene-Pleistocene sedimentology/sequence stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 1 week)

2020 - Crotone Basin, Southern Italy, Pliocene-Pleistocene sedimentology/sequence stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 1 week)

2018 - Nevada, USA, Middle Triassic sequence stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (2 weeks; in collaboration with Prof Nicole Bonuso, California State University Fullerton, USA)

2016 - Wyoming & Montana, USA, Middle-Upper Jurassic sedimentology/sequence stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 5 weeks)

2015 - Wyoming & South Dakota, USA, Middle-Upper Jurassic sedimentology/sequence stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 6 weeks)

2014 - Wyoming, USA, Middle-Upper Jurassic sedimentology/sequence stratigraphy (1 week). Collaboration with Prof Steven Holland, University of Georgia, USA

2013 - West Japan (Toyora area), Early Jurassic, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (1 week). Collaboration with ProfKazushige Tanabe, University of Tokyo

2012 - Spain (Iberian Range), Early Jurassic, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 3 weeks)

2012 - United Kingdom (North Yorkshire), Early Jurassic, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 2 weeks)

2011 - United Kingdom (North Yorkshire), Early Jurassic, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 2 weeks)

2011 - Dorset and Somerset, Triassic-Jurassic e stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 3 weeks)

2010 - Northern Apennine, Tuscany and Emilia, Pliocene, stratigraphy and macro-invertebrate palaeoecology (principal investigator, 2 weeks)

2007 - Drimolen, South Africa, paleo-anthropological excavation. Supervisor C. Menter University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) (4 weeks)

2007 - Val di Fine Basin, Tuscany, Italy, excavation of a Pliocene fossil whale. Supervisor Elisabetta Cioppi, Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Firenze (1 week)

2004 - Tuscany, Intermontane Valdarno Basin, Plio-Pleistocene, geological mapping and sedimentology (Master Thesis fieldwork, 4 months)

2000 - Meride, Switzerland, Kalkschieferzone (Meride’s limestone, Triassic), excavation of marine vertebrates. Supervisor Prof Andrea Tintori, Università di Milano (Italy) (1 week)

Additional Research Experience

2022 & 2024 - Visiting at the Natural History Museum, London, UK for La-ICP-MS analysis on Pliocene bivalves (2 weeks).

2022 - EU SYNTHESYS: visiting at the Natural History Museum of Stockholm, Sweden.

Project “Faunal change across the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary in the Limhamn Quarry, southern Sweden” (2 weeks)

2020 - Visiting at the Natural History Museum, London, UK for the workshop “Whole Ecosystem Response to the Early Jurassic Hyperthermal” (2 days)

2018 - Visiting at the Natural History Museum of Stockholm, Sweden. Collaborative workshop with Prof Vivi Vaija, Dr Sam Slater and Prof. Richard Twitchett (3 days)

2015 - Visiting at the Smithsonian Institution – Department of Paleobiology for the study of Middle-Upper Jurassic macro-invertebrate collection (1 week)

2014 - Visiting at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, UK for the study of the Mesozoic marine vertebrate collection (1 week)

2014 - Visiting at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, for the study of the Mesozoic marine vertebrate collection (2 weeks)

2013 - Visiting at the Museo Geominero, Madrid, and at the Dpto. de Paleontología, Universidad Computense de Madrid, Spain to study Early Jurassic bivalve and brachiopod collections (2 weeks)

2013 - Visiting at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Jurassic-Cretaceous marine vertebrate collections (1 week)

2009 - Visiting at the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire CNRS, Orleans, France. Lab. of F. Westall. SEM-EDX and Raman analyses on fossil whale bones (1 week)

2009 - Visiting at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences (Tjärnö) at Göteborg University, Sweden). ROV survey and macro-invertebrates sampling at a modern whale whale-fall (1 week)

2008 - Visiting at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences (Tjärnö) at Göteborg University, Sweden). ROV survey and macro-invertebrates sampling at a modern whale whale-fall (1 week)

Silvia DANISE

Interest

Paleoecology of marine macro-invertebrates

Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Sclerochronology

Taphonomy of marine vertebrates

Sequence Stratigraphy & Sedimentology