Course on "The General Circulation of the Oceans" of the summer school in Environmental Dynamics, 13-24 June 94, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Letter ed Arti, Venice, Italy
Summer school on "Remote Sensing of Processes Governing Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System", 1-12 May 95, Ploen, Germany
Erasmus summer school on "Impact Cratering", 19-23 May 1995, Coldigioco, Italy
Principal Investigator: NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics, Exobiology, Origins, and Mars Fundamental Research Programs, SETI Institute Grant
Invited Conference/Symposia Presentations
5/2006: Keynote speaker at the 40th ESLAB Symposium on Impact Cratering in the Solar System, Noordwick, NL: Numerical Modeling of Impact Cratering.
7/2005: Workshop on The Role of Volatiles and Atmospheres on Martian Impact Craters, Laurel, MD: Impact cratering and material models: Subsurface volatiles on Mars.
11/2004: 2nd International Shortcourse on the Role of Water, Sendai, Japan: Environmental catastrophes associated with large impacts: The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact event.
11/2004: Geological Society of America 2004, Denver, CO: Hydrocode modeling of impact events.
10/2004: 2nd Conf. Early Mars: "Geologic, Hydrologic, and Climatic Evolution and the implications for life, Jackson Hole, WY: Impact cratering and the development of life on Mars.
6/2004: Guest lecturer at the 2004 Adler Planetarium Astri-Science Workshop on "Impacts in the Solar System", Chicago, IL: Terrestrial impact structures: Observation and modeling.
1/2003: Major Terrestrial Impacts: Modelling and Visualization. Open Colloquium of the American Museum of Natural History, NY: Modeling the KT cratering event.
11/2002: Mesozoic-Cenozoic Bioevents: Possible links to impacts and other causes. International Symposium. Berlin, Germany: Modeling the Cretaceous/Tertiary impact event: The onset of an environmental catastrophe
7/2002: Bioastronomy 2002: Life among the stars, IAU Symposium 213. Great Barrier Reef, Australia: Impacts and the evolution of planetary biospheres
2/2002: Impacts and the Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of Life. A Rubey Colloquium, UCLA, Los Angeles; The Chicxulub Impact Event and Related Global Environmental Effects
1/2001: Task Group on Organic Environments in the Solar System (TGOESS), Space Studies Board, National Research Council, Tucson (AZ); Impact delivery/synthesis of organic material
5/2000: 4th ESF-IMPACT: Meteorite Impacts in Precambrian Shields Workshop, Lappajarvi (Finland); Thermal heating during formation of the Vredefort structure
5/2000: Asteroids, Meteorites, Impacts and their Consequences Meeting, Nordlingen (Germany); Hydrocode Modeling of Impacts
Recent Invited Colloquia
2005: UCLA, CA (2/05)
2004: Tohoku University (Japan; 11/04); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan, 11/04)
2003: Massachusetts Inst. Technology (10/03); Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. (5/03)
2001: Southwest Research Inst. (10/01), Planetary Sci. Inst. (10/01); Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (10/01), Univ. of Hawaii (7/01), Univ. of Chicago (6/01), U.C. Berkeley (2/01)
2000: U.C. Santa Cruz (3/00), Univ. of Washington (5/00), Natural History Museum, Berlin (Germany, 5/00)
1999: U.C. Los Angeles (4/99), Caltech (4/99), SETI Institute (4/99), U.C. Santa Cruz (4/99)
Major Media Interactions
2004: Interview for a scientific program entitle Catalyst for the Australian ABC TV channel about the Chicxulub impact event and environmental and climatic changes associated with it.
2004: Interview for the series 100 Greatest Discoveries by Discovery Science, relative to the K/T boundary impact event and its effects on the environment and life.
2001: Interview for a WAMC show associated with a seminar at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Albany, NY) entitled "Impact delivery of organic material to Earth, Mars and Europe" (available at http://www.origins.rpi.edu/WAMC_interviews.html, Segment #53)
1999: Interview for the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation NHK for a TV special on the Leonid Meteor Shower (Producer Atsushi Nishida) to discuss about work with Dr. C. Chyba on the origin of life.
1999: Interview for the Univ. of AZ radio related to the Science paper by Schnabel, Pierazzo et al. entitled "Shock melting of the Canyon Diablo impactor: Constraints from Nickel-59 measurements and numerical modeling".
Professional and Academic Experience
Fall 2005 and 2006
Instructor for NATS 102 "The Universe and Humanity: Origin and Destiny," a Tier 1 National Science Course in the general education curriculum at
the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Research Topics: The effects of the Chicxulub impact event on the
global climate of the end-Cretaceous Earth (collaboration with
Prof. L. Cirbus Sloan, Univ. of Calif. S. Cruz, H.J. Melosh,
and Dr. A. Hahmann, Univ. of Arizona); Role of impacts in the
origin/evolution of Planetary Biospheres (collaboration with Dr. C.F.
Chyba, SETI Inst.);
Study of how lithology affects impact cratering through
modeling of known and well-studied terrestrial impact structures
(collaboration with Prof. H.J. Melosh, D.A. Kring, and Dr.
E.P. Turtle, Univ. of Arizona, and Dr. N.A. Artemieva, Moscow);
Study of the evolution of water content in asteroidal regoliths,
(collaboration with Prof. E. Asphaug, Univ. Calif. S. Cruz,
Dr. A.S. Rivkin, Mass. Inst. Tech., Dr. F. Horz and M. Cintala,
NASA Johnson Space Center, and Prof. R. Brown, Univ. of Arizona);
Study of water delivery to planetary objects by large asteroidal and
cometary impacts (collaboration with Dr. R. Canup, Southwest Res.
Inst., and Prof. E. Asphaug, Univ. Calif. S. Cruz).
Research Topics: The effects of the Chicxulub impact event on the global
climate of the end-Cretaceous Earth (collaboration with Prof. L. Cirbus
Sloan, Univ. of Calif. S. Cruz, H.J. Melosh, and Dr. A. Hahmann, Univ. of
Arizona); Role of impacts in the origin/evolution of Planetary
Biospheres (collaboration with Dr. C.F. Chyba, SETI Inst.);
Modeling large impacts on the early Earth (collaboration with Prof.
D.A. Kring
and Prof. H.J. Melosh, Univ. of Arizona); Study of how lithology affects
impact cratering through modeling of known and well-studied terrestrial
impact structures (collaboration with Prof. H.J. Melosh, D.A. Kring, and Dr.
E.P. Turtle, Univ. of Arizona, and Dr. N.A. Artemieva, Moscow).
Research Topics: Modeling of the Chicxulub impact event (end-Cretaceous, 65 Ma), and its effects on the global climate of the end-Cretaceous Earth. The impact modeling is carried out using the hydrocods CSQ and CTH (latter in collaboration with Dr. D.A. Crawford of the Sandia Nat. Labs). Modeling of the Cretaceous climate carried out using the NCAR general circulation models CCM2 and CCM3.
Principal tasks: Prepare, teach and grades the laboratories; grade homeworks.
January - August 1990:
Researcher at the ISDGM (Istituto per lo Studio della Dinamica delle Grandi Masse), of the National Reserch Council of Italy (CNR), Venice, Italy.
Research Topics: Analysis of temperature, salinity, and biochemical data in conjunction with the POEM (Physical Oceanography for the Eastern Mediterranean) international program (Phase 1). Implementation of an analysis technique based on Objective Analysis of sparse data, and development of relative software (VMS/FORTRAN 77).
Supervisor: Dr. A. Bergamasco
June - December 1989:
Visiting scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory or the Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Research focused on techniques for time sequence analysis based on the Fourier Transform, in collaboration with Prof. C.P. Sonett.
February - June 1989:
Visiting scientist in the Physics Dept. of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Research focused on the use of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry technique in solar-terrestrial physics, in collaboration with the group hearded by Prof. R. Middleton.