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Contact Information

Forename: Caterina
Surname: Morigi
Address: Øster Voldgade 10 1350 Copenhagen
Institution: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Country: Denmark
Telephone: ++45 3814 2727
Fax:
Email: cmor@geus.dk
URL: http://www.geus.dk

Field of Expertise

Distribution (Database, GIS, Mapping, Modelling:
Ecology / Biology:
Taxonomy / Systematics:

Experts Taxonomic Groups

Foraminifera: Allogromiids and globigerinida

Geographical Area

Countries: Italy
Terrestrial Area: Aquatic Area: Mediterranean and Black Sea
Pacific,Antarctic
Atlantic,Eastern Central

Research Activity

Principal contractor of ASSEMBLAGES (ASSEssMent of the BLAck Sea sedimentary system since the last Glacial Extreme). 5th EC Framework programme. Energy, Environment and Sustainable development. n. EVK3 - CT - 2002 - 00090. Project leader of the programme” Foraminiferal multispecies isotopic studies on an Eastern Mediterranean transect of Late Pliocene sapropels”. ARI grant (Access to Research Infrastructures Programme), in the framework of PALEOSTUDIES, (Contract n. HPRI-CT-2001-00124). Active collaboration since the 2000 with the Institute of Marine Science – CNR Bologna for the project BIOSESO (BIOsiliceous SEdimentation in the SOuthern Ocean. Late Quaternary fluctuations in the accumulation rates of major biogenic components and paleogeographic inferences) and ABIOCLEAR (Antarctic BIOgeochemical CycLEs in: climatic and pAleoclimatic Reconstructions) in the framework of PRNA (National Project Antarctic Research). Organizer of Allo’ 2003: Second International Workshop on Allogromids: biodiversity, phylogeny, ecology. Hold at the Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, 24-28 June 2003.