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Pacific Northwest Paleomagnetism Laboratory

Contact information for Luigi Jovane: luigijovane@gmail.com

Research Interests:

- Magnetostratigraphy and environmental magnetism in the Ross Sea, Indian Ocean and Southern Atlantic.
- Apparent polar wander path (APWP) for Antarctica.
- Secular variation and tangent cylinder in Antarctica.
- First-order Reversal Curve (FORC) analyses for determining rock magnetic properties.
- Magnetic properties and paleointensity of Chondrules.
- Astronomical tuning and cyclostratigraphy of paleoclimatic variations.
- Characterization of the Middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO) event.
- Tethys paleoceanography and paleoclimatic reconstruction during Eocene-Oligocene period.
- Environmental magnetism, magnetostratigraphy, biochronology and paleoclimatic observation of Eocene-Oligocene sections:
       *     Gubbio section,
       *     Massignano section,
       *     ODP 738B.
- Hydrogeology and groundwater discharge for Italian calcareous watershed.
- Seismology and tectonic of Italy and Mediterranean zone.

Background:

- Research Associate, Western Washington University - ANDRILL-SMS sample documentation (SD) phase, 2008-2009, Principal Investigator "Paleomagnetism and Environmental Magnetism to date the Core from the ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Drilling Project and understand climate changes in the Ross Sea, Antarctica" ($53804).
- Lecturer for Spring Quarter 2008 of GEL16-"The Ocean" and GEL17-"Earthquakes and other Earth Hazards" at the Department of Geology of UCDavis.
- ANDRILL-SMS on-ice Scientific Team (Discipline of Chronostratigraphy), 2007-2008, Principal Investigator "Paleomagnetic and Environmental Magnetic Studies of Cores from the ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Drilling Project" ($40484).
- Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Davis/ Professional assignment, 2006-2007, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV - Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology)/Progetto Nazionale Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA - Italian Project for Research in Antarctica).
- Research Assistant, 2003-2005, INGV - Roma 2 and Ph.D. in Geophysics, 2003-2005, Universita' degli Studi di Bologna - ALMA MATER STUDIORUM.
- Research Assistant, 2002-2003, INGV - CNT.
- Professional assignment, 2001-2002, INGV - Roma 1 and Universita’ degli Studi di Milano – Sezione di Geofisica.
- Laurea (M.Sc.), 2001, Universita’ degli Studi di Roma TRE.
- Military Civil Service, 2000-2001, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Dept. of Informatics, Telematics and Statistics.

Publications:
    * Jovane, L., Coccioni, R., Marsili, A., Acton, G., (2009) The late Eocene greenhouse-icehouse transition: Observations from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (GSSP), in Koeberl, C., and Montanari, A., eds., The Late Eocene Earth—Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts: Geological Society of America Special Paper 452, p. 149–168, doi: 10.1130/2009.2452(10).
    * Jovane, L., Acton, G., Florindo, F., and Verosub, K. L., (2008) Geomagnetic Field Behavior at High Latitudes from a Paleomagnetic record from Eltanin Core 27-21 in the Ross Sea Sector, Antarctica, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 263 (3-4), 435-443, doi:10.1061/j.epsl.2007.12.006 (Underlined in Nature Research Highlights, 451, 24 January 2008).
    * Jovane, L., Sprovieri, M., Florindo, F., Acton, G., Coccioni, R., Dall'Antonia, B., and Dinarès-Turell, J., (2007) Eocene-Oligocene paleoceanographic changes in the stratotype section, Massignano, Italy: clues from rock magnetism and stable isotopes, Italy, Journal Geophysical Research, 112, B11101, doi: 2007JB004963.
    * Jovane, L., Florindo, F., Coccioni, R., Dinarès-Turell, J., Marsili, A., Monechi, S., Roberts, A.P., and Sprovieri, M., (2007) Evidences of the middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) event from the Contessa Highway section, Umbrian Apennines, Italy, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119 (3/4), 413-427, doi: 10.1130/B25917.1.
    * Acton, G., Qing-Zhu, Y., Verosub, K. L., Jovane, L., Roth, A., Jacobsen, B., and Ebel, D. S., (2007) Micromagnetic Ceorcivity Distributions and Interactions in Chondrules with Implications for paleointensities of the Early Solar System, Journal Geophysical Research, 112, B03590, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004655.
    * Jovane, L., Florindo, F., Sprovieri, M. and Palike, H., (2006), Astronomic calibration of the late Eocene/early Oligocene Massignano section (Central Italy), Geochemistry, Geophysiscs and Geosystems, 7 (7), doi: 10.1029/2005GC001195.
    * Chiarabba, C., Jovane, L., and Di Stefano, R., (2005), A new view of Italian seismicity using 20 years of instrumental recordings, Tectonophysics, 395, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.09.013.
    * Jovane, L., Florindo, F., and Dinares-Turell, J., (2004), Environmental magnetic record of paleoclimate change: revisiting the Eocene-Oligocene stratotype section, Massignano, Italy, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, doi: 10.1029/2004GL020554.
    * Florindo, F., Jovane, L., Persico, D., Bohaty, S.M., Huber, B.T., Palandri, S., Roberts, A.P., Zachos, J., and Villa, G., Late Eocene Antarctic climate variability and increased flux of terrigenous material to the Kerguelen Plateau, in review.
    * Jovane, L., Coccioni, R., Florindo, F., Marsili, A., and Sprovieri, M., Astronomical calibration of the middle Eocene Contessa Highway section (Gubbio, Italy), in review.
    * Jovane, L., Florindo, F., Coccioni, R., Sprovieri, M., and Acton, G., Neo-Tethys paleoceanographic during the end of the Eocene: clues from rock magnetism and stable isotopes at Massignano, Italy, Penrose Conference, Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts: the late Eocene Earth, Monte Conero (Ancona), Italy, 3-6 October 2007.
    * Jovane, L., Verosub, K. L., Florindo, F., and Acton, G., First Evidence for Milankovitch Forcing of Antarctic Climate in the Ross Sea Sector during the Quaternary, Abstract Volume, XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, 2007.
    * Jovane, L., Verosub, K. L., Florindo, F., and Acton, G., Paleomagnetic and Environmental Magnetic Studies of Eltanin Core 27-21 from the Ross Sea Sector (Antarctica), Jt. Assem. Suppl., 88(23), GP22A-05, Acapulco, Mexico, 2007.
    * Jovane, L., Verosub, K. L., Acton, G., and Florindo, F., Magnetostratigraphy and Environmental Magnetism of Eltanin Core 27-21, Ross Sea Sector (Antarctica), EGU General Assembly, EGU2007-A-08650, Vienna, EU, 2007.
    * Jovane, L., Verosub, K. L., Acton, G., and Florindo, F., Magnetostratigraphy and Environmental Magnetism of Cores from DSDP Sites 270 and 274 (Leg 28), Ross Sea Sector (Antarctica), EGU General Assembly, EGU2007-A-08599, Vienna, EU, 2007.
    * Jovane, L., Paleoceanographic Reconstruction of the Neo-Tethys from the Eocene to the early Oligocene, EGU General Assembly, oral talk, EGU2007-A-08990, Vienna, EU, 2007.
    * Yin, Q., Acton, G., Verosub, K. L., Jovane, L., Roth, A., Jacobsen, B., and Ebel, D. S., Micromagnetic coercivity distributions and interactions in chondrules with implications for paleointensities of the early Solar System, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco, USA, GP13A-06, 2006.
    * Verosub, K. L., Jovane, L., and Acton, G., Initial magnetostratigraphic and environmental magnetic results from old cores from the Ross Sea Sector (Antarctica), Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco, USA, C41C-0344, 2006.
    * Jovane, L., Acton, G., Verosub, K. L., Florindo, F., Sagnotti, L., and Wilson, G., A new apparent polar wander path for Antarctica, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco, USA, GP11A-0053, 2006.
    * Jovane, L., and Capelli, G., Groundwater discharge of a calcareous structure in Southern-central Apennine, Italy, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., San Francisco, USA, H43E-0529, 2006.
    * Persico, D., Jovane, L., Calandri, S., Villa, G., and Florindo, F., Bio-magnetochronology and paleoenvironmental observations from a middle-upper Eocene sequence from ODP site 738, Kerguelen Plateau, FIST 2005, Spoleto, Italy, 21-23-September 2005.
    * Jovane, L., Florindo F., Dinares-Turell, J., Coccioni, R., Marsili, A., Monechi, S., and Sprovieri, M., A reappraisal of the middle Eocene succession at the Contessa Highway section, Umbrian Apennines, Italy, EGU 2005, Vienna, EU, 25-29 April, EGU05-J-07536, 2005.
    * Dinares-Turell, J., Jovane, L., and Florindo F., Astronomical forcing in the Eocene-Oligocene boundary stratotype section, Massignano, Italy, EGU 2005, Vienna, EU, 25-29 April 2005, EGU05-J-09847.
    * Florindo, F., Jovane, L., Persico, D., Bohaty, S.M., Huber, B.T., Palandri, S., Roberts, A.P. and Villa, G., Magnetobiochronology and paleoenvironmental observation from a middle-upper Eocene sequence from ODP Site 738, Kerguelen Plateau, EGU 2005, Vienna, EU, 25-29 April, EGU05-A-10780, 2005.
    * Jovane, L., Florindo, F., and Dinares-Turell, J., Environmental magnetic record of paleoclimate change: revisiting the Eocene-Oligocene stratotype section, Massignano, Italy, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2004.
    * Jeroen, W., Stickley, C., Jovane, L., Röhl, U., Brinkhuis, H., and Visscher, H., A multi proxy record of orbital forced sea level fluctuations in the middle Eocene; ODP site 1172, East Tasman Plateau, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2004.
    * Jovane, L., Florindo, F., and Dinares-Turell, J., Environmental magnetic record of paleoclimate change: revisiting the Eocene-Oligocene stratotype section, Massignano, Italy. 32° International Geological Congress, Firenze, Italy, 20-28 August, 2004.

Thesis & Dissertations:

Jovane, L., Magnetostratigraphy of marine sedimentary succession near some of the main paleoclimatic Paleogene events. Ph.D. in Geophysics, Università degli Studi di Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum”, Dipartimento di Fisica, December 2005.
Jovane, L., Relationship between structural setting and catchments areas of the Hydrological Unit of Montenero Valcocchiara (Abruzzo-Molise, southern Italy), "Laurea" (equivalent of M.Sc.) in Earth Sciences , Università degli Studi di Roma TRE, April 2001.

Scientific collaborators (in alphabetic order)
Gary Acton (UCD, USA), Steve Bohaty (NOC-Southampton, UK), Giuseppe Capelli (Univ. di Roma Tre, Italy), Claudio Chiarabba (INGV, Italy), Rodolfo Coccioni (Univ. di Urbino, Italy), Barbara Dall'Antonia (Univ. di Pisa, Italy), Raffaele Di Stefano (INGV, Italy), Fabio Florindo (INGV, Italy), Dave Harwood (Univ. Nebraska, USA), Bernie Housen (WWU, USA), Aden Meinel (Univ. Arizona, USA), Andrea Marsili (Univ. di Urbino, Italy), Isabel P. Montanez (UCD, USA), Caterina Morigi (Univ. di Ancona, Italy), Paola Montone (INGV, Italy), Ercan Ozcan (ITU, Turkey), Heiko Palike (NOC-Southampton, UK), Andy P. Roberts (NOC-Southampton, UK), Leonardo Sagnotti (INGV, Italy), Ahmed Saleh (NRIAG, Egypt), Mario Sprovieri (CNR, Italy), Ken L. Verosub (UCD, USA), Adriano R. Viana (Petrobras, Brazil), Giuliana Villa (Univ. di Parma, Italy), and Gary Wilson (Univ. of Otago, NZL).

Other interests
capoeira, travelling, biking, motorcycling, skiing, trekking, swimming, basket, diving, speleology/canyoning, geopolitics, literature/poems, all musics, dance (samba e forro), pasta/churrasco/gelato/cannoli siciliani and vivaroma.

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Mailing address in U.S.A.:

Western Washington University, Department of Geology,

516 High St., Bellingham, 98225-9080, WA

Office: Room 109 in the Environmental Science Building

Telephone: 1-360-650-2109 (Lab.-3304)

Departments Fax: 1-360-650-7302

   E-mail: jovanel@wwu.edu

Indirizzo in Italia:

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia,

Via di Vigna Murata 605, Roma, 00143,Italia

Fax: 0039-0651860397
   E-mail: jovane@ingv.it