Francesca Alvisi

Background

About Francesca Alvisi

MA in Geological Sciences in 1988. PhD in Earth Sciences in 1993. Research scientist at the CNR since 2004 at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Bologna. She worked for around 10 years in sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry and palinology of alluvial and lacustrine environments aimed at the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatological reconstruction of the study areas, within the framework of several multidisciplinary research projects in collaboration with national (University and CNR) and local (Emilia Romagna EPA) research institutes. In 1996, she began to collaborate with the CNR also studying coastal and shelf marine environment within the Group of Environmental Geology of ISMAR BO. Since 15 years, she is involved in the study of marine depositional phenomena at the sediment-water interface at different space and temporal scales, of biogeochemical fluxes, of recent and present marine sedimentary processes and of their interaction with the human impact and the climate during the Quaternary and in historical time. She participated in 14 research projects either regional, national or international and to 10 related oceanographic cruises, in 5 of them as chief scientist. In the last few years she particularly developed an experience on anoxic phenomena and dystrophic crisis in continental shelf environments and integrated coastal zone management issues. Specialties: sedimentology, stratigraphy of Quaternary deposits, palinology, integrated coastal zone management, environmental education and sustainable development, project management and consultancy on environmental issues