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Alessandra Asioli

Alessandra Asioli

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Overview

Alessandra Asioli is a researcher affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their work primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific focus on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry within that domain.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of subjects including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Alessandra Asioli has contributed to multiple scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Recent papers include:

  • "Fate of terrigenous organic carbon in muddy clinothems on continental shelves revealed by stratal geometries: Insight from the Adriatic sedimentary archive" (2021), published in Global and Planetary Change
  • "Post-LGM multi-proxy sedimentary record of bottom-current variability and downslope sedimentary processes in a contourite drift of the Gela Basin (Strait of Sicily)" (2021), published in Marine Geology
  • "Sea-ice, primary productivity and ocean temperatures at the Antarctic marginal zone during late Pleistocene" (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Middle Pleistocene to Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the south-eastern Alpine foreland basin from multi-proxy analysis" (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Abrupt and persistent shutdown of the thermohaline forcing during MIS5e in the Adriatic Sea: Insights from shallow-water sapropel sediments" (2023), published in Quaternary Science Advances

The researcher frequently publishes in several scientific venues, with notable regular contributions to:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Marine Geology
  • Quaternary Science Advances
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

Collaboration plays a role in Asioli's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Fabio Trincardi
  • Tommaso Tesi
  • Marzia Rovere
  • Claudio Pellegrini
  • Alessio Nogarotto

This body of work reflects ongoing contributions to understanding Earth-surface processes and paleoclimatic conditions, particularly during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. The integration of multi-proxy analysis and sedimentary record interpretation is a consistent methodological theme in Asioli's publications.

Best Publications

  • Palaeoclimate and the Formation of Sapropel S1: Inferences from Late Quaternary Lacustrine and Marine Sequences in the Central Mediterranean Region

    D. Ariztegui;A. Asioli;J.J. Lowe;F. Trincardi

  • Holocene earthquake record offshore Portugal (SW Iberia): testing turbidite paleoseismology in a slow-convergence margin

    Eulalia Gracia;Alexis Vizcaino;Carlota Escutia;Alessandra Asioli

  • A high resolution late Holocene palaeo environmental record from the central Adriatic Sea

    F Oldfield;A Asioli;C A Accorsi;A M Mercuri

  • The Western Adriatic shelf clinoform: energy-limited bottomset

    Antonio Cattaneo;Fabio Trincardi;Alessandra Asioli;Annamaria Correggiari

  • Late Quaternary central Mediterranean biochronology

    F.J. Jorissen;A. Asioli;A.M. Borsetti;L. Capotondi

  • Sub-millennial scale climatic oscillations in the central Adriatic during the Lateglacial: palaeoceanographic implications

    A. Asioli;F. Trincardi;J.J. Lowe;D. Ariztegui

  • Distal tephra record for the last ca 105,000 years from core PRAD 1-2 in the central Adriatic Sea: implications for marine tephrostratigraphy

    A.J. Bourne;J.J. Lowe;F. Trincardi;A. Asioli

  • The impact of cascading currents on the Bari Canyon System, SW-Adriatic Margin (Central Mediterranean)

    F. Trincardi;F. Foglini;G. Verdicchio;A. Asioli

  • Age modelling of late Quaternary marine sequences in the Adriatic: Towards improved precision and accuracy using volcanic event stratigraphy

    John J. Lowe;Simon Blockley;Fabio Trincardi;Alessandra Asioli

  • Late-Holocene climate variability in the Adriatic sea (Central Mediterranean)

    Andrea Piva;Alessandra Asioli;Fabio Trincardi;Ralph R. Schneider

  • The environment of Venice area in the past two million years

    F Massari;D Rio;R Serandrei Barbero;A Asioli

  • Thecamoebians as a tool for reconstruction of paleoenvironments in some Italian lakes in the foothills of the southern Alps (Orta, Varese and Candia)

    Alessandra Asioli;Franco S. Medioli;R. Timothy Patterson

  • POLLUTION MONITORING IN TWO NORTH AMERICAN ESTUARIES: HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS USING BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA

    David B. Scott;Richard Tobin;Michelle Williamson;Franco S. Medioli

  • Interplay between tectonics and glacio-eustasy: Pleistocene succession of the Crotone basin, Calabria (southern Italy)

    F. Massari;D. Rio;M. Sgavetti;G. Prosser

  • Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon chronologies: examples from the European Late-glacial

    S. P. E. Blockley;J. J. Lowe;M. J. C. Walker;A. Asioli

  • Short‐term climate changes during the Last Glacial–Holocene transition: comparison between Mediterranean records and the GRIP event stratigraphy

    A. Asioli;F. Trincardi;J. J. Lowe;F. Oldfield

  • Organisms' response in a chronically polluted lake supports hypothesized link between stress and size

    Antonella Cattaneo;Alessandra Asioli;Patrizia Comoli;Marina Manca

  • How to make a 350-m-thick lowstand systems tract in 17,000 years: The Late Pleistocene Po River (Italy) lowstand wedge

    Claudio Pellegrini;Vittorio Maselli;Fabiano Gamberi;Alessandra Asioli

  • Climatic patterns revealed by pollen and oxygen isotope records across the Matuyama–Brunhes Boundary in the central Mediterranean (southern Italy)

    L. Capraro;A. Asioli;J. Backman;R. Bertoldi

  • The Late Pleistocene Po River lowstand wedge in the Adriatic Sea: Controls on architecture variability and sediment partitioning

    Claudio Pellegrini;Alessandra Asioli;Kevin M. Bohacs;Tina M. Drexler

  • A high resolution late Holocene palaeo environmental record from the central Adriatic Sea | NOVA. The University of Newcastle's Digital Repository

    F. Oldfield;A. Asioli;L. Vogliotti;M. Frignani

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Trincardi
Fabio Trincardi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Leonardo Langone
Leonardo Langone National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Antonio Cattaneo
Antonio Cattaneo French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Tommaso Tesi
Tommaso Tesi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Andreas Klügel
Andreas Klügel University of Bremen
P. Montagna
P. Montagna National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Eelco J. Rohling
Eelco J. Rohling Utrecht University
J. John Lowe
J. John Lowe Royal Holloway University of London
Willem-Jan Zachariasse
Willem-Jan Zachariasse Utrecht University
Frans Jorissen
Frans Jorissen University of Angers

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