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CAREER AND APPOINTMENTS:
- 08/03/1990.
Laurea cum laude in Geological Sciences – University of Milan (Advisor:
M. Gaetani).
- 1990.
Member of the Italian State board of registered professional
geologists.
- 15/09/1994.
Doctorate in
Magnetostratigraphy – University of Milan (Advisor: M. Gaetani;
external advisor D.V. Kent, Columbia University, USA).
- 1994-1995. Post-doctoral fellow at
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of
Columbia University, USA (advisor D.V. Kent).
- 1995-1997.
Post-doctoral
fellow at the Institute of Marine Geology, C.N.R. Bologna, Italy (with
University of Milan grant) (referent E. Bonatti).
- 1997-2000.
Wissenschaft
Assistant at the Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
(referent W. Lowrie).
- 2000-2005.
Researcher at
the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.
- 2006-Present.
Associate
Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Milan,
Italy.
- 1996-2000
Adjunct
Assistant Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of
Columbia University, USA.
- 1998-2000
Adjunct
Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute of Marine Geology, C.N.R.
Bologna, Italy.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
Giovanni Muttoni
uses magnetostratigraphy and paleomagnetism to investigate the temporal
(stratigraphic) and spatial (paleogeographic) evolution of Earth’s
natural systems and life. His main research interests at present are:
- Stratigraphy
and time scales: Magnetostratigraphic
studies for the development of the geomagnetic polarity time
scale for the Triassic and Jurassic.
- Stratigraphy,
continental drift, and climate: Paleogeographic evolution
of Pangea. Response of the
natural
systems to the motion of plates across zonal climate belts. Geological causes of the
transition from greenhouse to icehouse conditions in the Cenozoic.
- Stratigraphy, tectonics,
and climate: Climatic
and tectonic
evolution of the Alpine region during the Pleistocene.
- Stratigraphy
and human evolution: Age of
the earliest human
occupation in the Italian peninsula.
TEACHING:
- 2000-2009.
University of Milan, Faculty of Sciences. Class ‘Geology’, Laboratory practicals - Baccalaureate
Degree in Natural Sciences.
- 2004-2009.
University of
Milan, Faculty of Sciences. Class “Paleomagnetism and Paleogeography” -
Master Degree in Geological Sciences.
- 2005-Present.
University
of Milan, Faculty of Sciences. Class “Geology” - Baccalaureate
Degree in Natural Sciences.
- 2009-Present.
University
of Milan, Faculty of Sciences Class “Geological evolution of a
habitable planet” - Master Degree in Natural Sciences.
- 2010-
University of
Milan, Faculty of Sciences. Class “Stratigraphy” - Master Degree
in Geological Sciences.
PhD
STUDENTS (PAST AND PRESENT)
- Giancarlo
Scardia (with E. Garzanti)
- Edoardo
Dallanave (with D. Rio)
- Eleonora Dall'Olio (with F.
Felletti)
- Anna Pellizzone
- Andrea Baucon (with F. Felletti)
A
selection of
recent papers (see complete list in
CV):
- 2009 – Muttoni G., M. Mattei, M.
Balini, A. Zanchi, M. Gaetani and F.
Berra – The drift history of Iran from the Ordovician to the Triassic.
Geological Society of London Special Publications, 312, 7–29.
- 2009 – Scardia, G., Muttoni, G.,
Paleomagnetic investigations on the
Pleistocene lacustrine sequence of Pianico-Sellere (northern Italy).
Quaternary International in press.
- 2009 – Muttoni, G., Gaetani, M.,
Kent, D. V., Sciunnach, D., Angiolini,
A., Berra., F., Garzanti, E., Mattei, M., and Zanchi, A., 2009. Opening
of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the Pangea B to Pangea A transformation
during the Permian. GeoArabia 4, 17-48.
- 2009 – Muttoni, G.,
Scardia, G., Kent, D.V.,
Swisher, C.C., Manzi, G. Pleistocene magnetochronology of early hominin
sites at Ceprano and Fontana Ranuccio, Italy, Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 286, 255–268.
- 2010 - Hounslow, M., Muttoni, G.
The geomagnetic polarity timescale for
the Triassic: linkage to stage boundary definitions. In: Lucas (Ed.)
The Triassic Time Scale. Geological Society, London Special
Publications, 334, 61–102
- 2010 - Muttoni, G., Kent, D.V.,
Jadoul,, F., Olsen, P.E., Rigo, M.,
Galli, M.T. and Nicora, A, Rhaetian magnetobiostratigraphy from the
Southern Alps (Italy): constraints on Triassic chronology.
Paleogeography, Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology, 285, 1–16.
- 2010 - Lanci, L., Muttoni, G.,
Erba, E. Astronomical tuning of the
Cenomanian Scaglia Bianca Formation at Furlo, Italy. Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, 292, 231–237.
- 2010 - Channell, J.E.T.,
Casellato, C., Muttoni, G., Erba, E.
Magnetostratigraphy, nannofossil stratigraphy and apparent polar wander
for Adria -Africa in the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary interval.
Paleogeography, Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology 293, 51–75.
- 2010 - Dallanave, E., Muttoni,
G., Tauxe, L., Rio, D. Silicate
weathering machine at work: Rock magnetic data from the late
Paleocene–early Eocene Cicogna section, Italy. Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems, 11 (7), Q07008, doi:10.1029/2010GC003142.
- 2010 - Langereis, C.G.,
Krijgsman, W., Muttoni, G., Menning, M.
(2010). Magnetostratigraphy – concepts, definitions, and applications.
Newsletter on Stratigraphy Vol. 43/3: 207–233.
- 2010 Muttoni, G., Scardia, G.,
Kent, D.V. Human migration into Europe
during the late Early Pleistocene climate transition. Paleogeography,
Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology in press
- 2010 - Scardia, G., Donegana,
M., Muttoni, G., Ravazzi, C., Vezzoli, G.
Late Matuyama climate forcing on sedimentation at the margin of the
southern Alps (Italy).
Quaternary Science Reviews, 1–15.
- 2011 – Nomade, S., Muttoni, G.,
Guillou, H., Robin, E., Scardia, G. First 40Ar/39Ar age of the Ceprano
man (central Italy). Quaternary Geochronology, accepted.
- 2011 - Giovanni Muttoni,
Giancarlo Scardia, Dennis V. Kent, Enrico Morsiani, Fabrizio Tremolada,
Mauro Cremaschi, Carlo Peretto. First dated human occupation of Italy
at ~0.85 Ma during the late Early Pleistocene climate transition. Earth
and Planetary Science Letters 307 (2011) 241–252
NEWS
Carbon
crunch
India’s smashing into
Asia around 50 million years
ago brought changes far beyond the creation of the world’s highest mountain range: the continental collision is
widely thought
to
have
altered global climate.
Dennis Kent
of Rutgers
University in Piscataway,
New Jersey, and Giovanni Muttoni
at the University of Milan in Italy offer particular mechanisms for this. The researchers’
model predicts that the carbon-rich sediments on the former ocean floor stopped being subducted and producing carbon dioxide when the landmasses touched. Meanwhile, India’s drift into more humid equatorial climes increased the uptake of
the
greenhouse
gas through
greater weathering of
silicates in the Deccan traps (pictured below). This could have lowered
atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to prompt the
cooling trend in the
Middle to Late Eocene. (Nature
Vol 455|2 October 2008 RESEARCH
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