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Giuseppe Cortese

 

Giuseppe Cortese

Full Name: Giuseppe Cortese

Position: Quaternary Paleoclimate Scientist

Contact details

Email: G.Cortese  
Phone: +64-4-570 4553

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Qualifications

1991: MSc (110/110), Geology; 1995: PhD, Paleontology

Areas of expertise

Geology: Paleoceanography
Geology: Paleoclimatology
Geology: Quaternary research
Palaeoclimate: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Paleontology: Biogeography
Paleontology: Biostratigraphy
Paleontology: Micropaleontology
Paleontology: Neogene micropaleontology
Paleontology: Paleoceanography
Paleontology: Paleoclimatology
Paleontology: Paleoecology
Paleontology: Paleoenvironmental analysis
Paleontology: Radiolarians

Professional activities

Radfolks, radiolarian mailinglist: Administrator
InterRad (International Association of Radiolarian Workers): Secretary

Major publications

Cortese, G.; Gersonde, R. 2008 Plio/Pleistocene changes in the main biogenic silica carrier in the Southern Ocean, Atlantic sector. Marine geology, 252(3/4): 100-110; doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.03.015 [link to electronic copy]
Cortese, G.; Abelmann, A.; Gersonde, R. 2007 The last five glacial-interglacial transitions : a high-resolution 450,000-year record from the subantarctic Atlantic. Paleoceanography, 22(4): PA4203, doi:10.1029/2007PA001457
Cortese, G.; Gersonde, R. 2007 Morphometric variability in the diatom Fragilariopsis kerguelensis : implications for Southern Ocean paleoceanography. Earth and planetary science letters, 257(3/4): 526-544
Abelmann, A.; Gersonde, R.; Cortese, G.; Kuhn, G.; Smetacek, V. 2006 Extensive phytoplankton blooms in the Atlantic sector of the glacial Southern Ocean. Paleoceanography, 21(1): PA1013, doi:10.1029/2005PA001199
Hillenbrand, C.-D.; Cortese, G. 2006 Polar stratification : a critical view from the Southern Ocean. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 242(3/4): 240-252
Stepanjants, S.; Cortese, G.; Kruglikova, S.; Bjorklund, K.R. 2006 A review of bipolarity concepts : history and examples from radiolaria and Medusozoa (Cnidaria). Marine biology research, 2(3): 200-241
Cortese, G. 2005 Seawater temperature estimates in paleoceanography. chapter 4.9.28 IN: Lehr, J.; Keeley, J.; Lehr, J.; Kingery, T.B. (eds) Water encyclopedia. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
Cortese, G.; Dolven, J.K.; Bjorklund, K.R.; Malmgren, B.A. 2005 Late Pleistocene-Holocene radiolarian paleotemperatures in the Norwegian Sea based on artificial neural networks. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 224(4): 311-332
Stepanjants, S.; Bjorklund, K.R.; Kruglikova, S.; Cortese, G. 2005 The bipolar distribution of marine organisms with emphasis on radiolaria and cnidaria. Trudy Zoologicheskogo instituta, 308: 107-120
Cortese, G.; Abelmann, A.; Gersonde, R. 2004 A glacial warm water anomaly in the sub-Antarctic Atlantic Ocean, near the Agulhas retroflection. Earth and planetary science letters, 222(3/4): 767-778
Cortese, G.; Gersonde, R.; Hillenbrand, C.-D.; Kuhn, G. 2004 Opal sedimentation shifts in the world ocean over the last 15 Myr. Earth and planetary science letters, 224(3/4): 509-527
Gersonde, R.; Abelmann, A.; Cortese, G.; Becquey, S.; Bianchi, C.; Brathauer, U.; Niebler, H.-S.; Zielinski, U.; Paetzold, J. 2004 The Late Pleistocene South Atlantic and Southern Ocean surface : a summary of time-slice and time-series studies. p. 449-529 IN: Wefer, G.; Mulitza, S.; Ratmeyer, V. (eds) The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary : reconstruction of material budgets and current systems. Berlin: Springer
Cortese, G.; Bjorklund, K.R.; Dolven, J.K. 2003 Polycystine radiolarians in the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas : species and assemblage distribution. Sarsia, 88(1): 65-88
Gersonde, R.; Abelmann, A.; Brathauer, U.; Becquey, S.; Bianchi, C.; Cortese, G.; Grobe, H.; Kuhn, G.; Niebler, H.-S.; Segl, M.; Sieger, R.; Zielinski, U.; Fuetterer, D.K. 2003 Last glacial sea surface temperatures and sea-ice extent in the Southern Ocean (Atlantic-Indian sector) : a multiproxy approach. Paleoceanography, 18(3): 1061, doi:10.1029/2002PA000809
Cortese, G.; Abelmann, A. 2002 Radiolarian-based paleotemperatures during the last 160 kyr at ODP SIte 1089 (Southern Ocean, Atlantic sector). Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 182(3/4): 259-286
Dolven, J.K.; Cortese, G.; Bjorklund, K.R. 2002 A high-resolution radiolarian derived paleotemperature record for the Late Pleistocene-Holocene in the Norwegian Sea. Paleoceanography, 17(4): 1072, doi:10.1029/2002PA000780
Takahashi, K.; Cortese, G.; Frost, G.M.; Gerbaudo, S.; Goodliffe, A.M.; Ishikawa, N.; Lackschewitz, K.S.; Perembo, R.C.B.; Resig, J.M.; Siesser, W.G.; Taylor, B.; Testa, M. 2002 Summary of revised age assignments for ODP leg 180. chapter 4 IN: Huchon, P.; Taylor, B.; Klaus, A. (eds) Active continental extension in the western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea. College Station, Tex.: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. Part B, Scientific results 180.
Testa, M.; Cortese, G.; Gerbaudo, S.; Andri, E. 2002 Quaternary radiolarians in the western Woodlark Basin, southwest Pacific (ODP Leg 180). chapter 14 IN: Huchon, P.; Taylor, B.; Klaus, A. (eds) Active continental extension in the western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea. College Station, Tex.: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. Part B, Scientific results 180.
Cortese, G.; Bjorklund, K.R. 1999 Radiolarians from the cyclic Messinian diatomites of Falconara (Sicily, Italy). Geodiversitas, 21(4): 593-624
Bjorklund, K.R.; Cortese, G.; Swanberg, N.; Schrader, H.J. 1998 Radiolarian faunal provinces in surface sediments of the Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian (GIN) Seas. Marine micropaleontology, 35(1/2): 105-140
Cortese, G.; Bjorklund, K.R. 1998 The taxonomy of boreal Atlantic Ocean Actinommida (Radiolaria). Micropaleontology, 44(2): 149-160
Cortese, G.; Bjorklund, K.R. 1998 Morphometry and taxonomy of Hexacontium species from western Norwegian fjords. Micropaleontology, 44(2): 161-172
Marcucci, M.; Cortese, G.; Prela, M.; Kodra, A. 1998 Radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Jurassic cherts in the Karma and Fushe Lura areas, northern Albania. Ofioliti, 23(2): 101-105
Chiari, M.; Cortese, G.; Marcucci, M.; Nozzoli, N. 1997 New data on the radiolarian assemblages in the Jurassic cherts of western and southern Tuscany, Italy. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 90(1): 55-77
Cortese, G.; Bjorklund, K.R. 1997 The morphometric variation of Actinomma boreale (Radiolaria) in Atlantic boreal waters. Marine micropaleontology, 29(3/4): 271-282
Chiari, M.; Marcucci, M.; Cortese, G.; Ondrejickova, A.; Kodra, A. 1996 Triassic radiolarian assemblages in the Rubik area and Cukali zone, Albania. Ofioliti, 21(1:special issue): 77-84
Cortese, G. 1995 Radiolarian biostratigraphy of Tuscan cherts (Tuscan Succession) from Val di Lima (Tuscany, northern Apennines, Italy). p. 813-816 IN: Baumgartner, P.O. (et al.) (eds) Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous radiolaria of Tethys : occurrences, systematics, biochronology. Lausanne: Institut de Geologie et Paleontologie. Memoires de geologie Lausanne 23.
Chiari, M.; Cortese, G.; Marcucci, M. 1994 Radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Jurassic cherts of the Northern Apennines. Ofioliti, 19(2A): 307-312
Cortese, G. 1993 Radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Tuscan cherts (Tuscan Succession) from Val di Lima, Tuscany, northern Apennines. Palaeopelagos, 3: 169-189

 

 

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