Laura Crispini

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Laura Crispini
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Crispini in Antarctica
Born (1966-05-02) 2 May 1966 (age 59)
Genova, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma mater University of Genoa
Scientific career
Fields Structural Geology
Institutions University of Genoa
Website www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura_Crispini

Laura Crispini (born 2 May 1966) is an Italian geologist and an Antarctic researcher. Her areas of expertise are for the Tectonics, Geodynamics and Geological Mapping including the Geology of Antarctica. She has been nominated among 150 International representative of female Antarctic researchers for the SCAR "Celebration of Women in Antarctic Research" wikibomb event. [1] [ circular reference ] At present she is Professor at the University of Genoa at the Department for Earth Sciences, Envinronment and life (DISTAV). [2]

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Early life and education

Laura Crispini received her master's degree in geology (1990) University of Genoa, and obtained her PhD in Earth Sciences in 1995 while spending a training period in Structural Geology at the ETH Zurich. From 1996 to 1999, she was a Post-doctoral Researcher in Geology of Antarctica, at the University of Siena and at University of Genoa were in 1999 she got a position as a Researcher.

Career and impact

Laura Crispini research is on the Tectonics and Geodynamics of Antarctica and the Paleopacific margin of Gondwana. She has travelled to Antarctica seven times for extended field research seasons, always working from remote field camps being the first Italian woman geologist, mapping for the international GIGAMAP project in 1996–97, [3] [4] [5] and describing the first occurrence of native gold in the Antarctic continent in 2005-06 (Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica). [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Crispini has been nationally and internationally recognized for her contributions to Antarctic Geoscience; [11] [12] she has been working on Antarctic Geology since 1992 first with two post PhD grants funded by PNRA and since 1996 she joined seven Scientific Expeditions in Antarctica as Field Geologist. [13] (XII (1996–97)-XIX (2003–04) - XXI (2005–06)-XXX (2014–15)-XXXI (2015–16) - XXXII (2016–17) - XXXIV (2018-2019) Italian Antarctic Expeditions and the German Antarctic North Victoria Land Expedition GANOVEX XI (2015–16) and GANOVEX XII (2016–17) [14] and GANOVEX XII [15] - REGGAE Expedition in northern Victoria Land, working in the field from remote Field Camps, [16] [17] ).

She's is Principal Investigator of the REGGAE Project, a project on the link between geophysical interpretations and field-based geological observations in Antarctica funded by PNRA in collaboration with Researchers from the CNR (Pisa Italy), BGR (Germany), University of Bremen (Germany) and BAS (British Antarctic Survey) and she has been P.I. of a PNRA funded Project on Geodynamics of Antarctica. [18]

She is an active member of the SCAR group GEOMAP to promote the capture of existing geological map data, update its spatial reliability and enable data delivery via web feature services. [19]

Laura Crispini is involved in the ABYSS ITN Training Network funded by the European Commission [20] that aims at training a new generation of researchers in Geodynamics, Mineralogy, Hydrodynamics, Thermodynamics and (Bio)geochemistry focusing on mid-ocean ridge processes and their environmental and economic impacts. [21] She worked as scientist in the ODP-IODP projects on the geology at Superfast Spreading Ridge joining scientific expeditions in the Pacific Ocean as petrologist and structural geologist (LEG 206 [22] [23] and Exp 309) on the Joides Resolution vessel.

Selected works on Antarctica

GEOLOGICAL MAP of ANTARCTICA. [4]

References

  1. ↑ SCAR Women of the Antarctic Wikibomb
  2. ↑ "Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Ambiente e della Vita" [Department of Earth Sciences, the Environment and Life]. distav.unige.it. Archived from the original on 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  3. ↑ "BGR-GIGAMAP". bgr.bund.de. Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften.
  4. 1 2 "Geological map of Antarctica". www.mna.it.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ Meccheri, M.; Crispini, L.; Capponi, G.; Pertusati, P. C. (January 12, 1998). "GIGAMAP (German-Italian Geological Antarctic Map Programme); geological-structural survey in the 1:250,000 USGS quadrangles Freyberg Mountains, Mount Joyce and Relief Inlet". Terra Antartica Reports. 2: 43–45.
  6. ↑ Fox, Douglas (January 12, 2014). "Antarctica and the Arctic: A polar primer for the new great game". www.csmonitor.com.
  7. ↑ "antárticos: Hallan oro en la Antártida". 2006.
  8. ↑ "P1010404". December 25, 2012.
  9. ↑ Mostarda, Roberto (April 2, 2016). "Antartide, prezioso forziere della vita". Wall Street International.
  10. ↑ "Un equipo italiano detectó oro en la tierra de Victoria".[ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ "Italy and New Zealand in Antarctica" (PDF).
  12. ↑ "News | Antarctic Research Centre | Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. 31 August 2023.
  13. ↑ "Enea-Il Personale in Antartide" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2019-07-07. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  14. ↑ "BGR - Projekte - Antarktisexpedition GANOVEX XI". www.bgr.bund.de.
  15. ↑ "BGR - Presse - Neue Antarktis-Expedition und Abschluss der Modernisierung der Gondwana-Station: BGR-Wissenschaftler suchen nach weiteren Hinweisen für die Entstehung des vereisten Kontinents". www.bgr.bund.de.
  16. ↑ "Helliwell Hills-Camp, Antarktis". February 3, 2016 – via Flickr.
  17. ↑ "Gruppenbild Abschied vom Camp". February 3, 2016 – via Flickr.
  18. ↑ Laura Crispini; et al. "Project: Evolution of the Lanterman-Mariner tectonic melange: evidences for the geodynamic of the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana and numerical models". ResearchGate .
  19. ↑ "SCAR GROUP GEOMAP". www.scar.org.
  20. ↑ "ABYSS". abyss-itn.eu. Archived from the original on 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  21. ↑ "ABYSS Fieldwork". Archived from the original on 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  22. ↑ "ODP Leg 206: An In Situ Section of Upper Oceanic Crust Created by Superfast Seafloor Spreading". mlp.ldeo.columbia.edu.
  23. ↑ "Ocean Drilling Program: Leg 206 Preliminary Report". www-odp.tamu.edu.
  24. ↑ Capponi, G.; Crispini, L.; Meccheri, M. (1999). "The metaconglomerates of the eastern Lanterman Range (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica): new constraints for their interpretation". Antarctic Science. 11 (2): 215–225. Bibcode:1999AntSc..11..217C. doi:10.1017/S0954102099000280. S2CID   130589749.
  25. ↑ Capponi, G.; Crispini, L.; Meccheri, M. (1999). "Structural history and tectonic evolution of the boundary between the Wilson and Bowers Terranes, Lanterman Range, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica". Tectonophysics. 312 (2–4): 249–266. Bibcode:1999Tectp.312..249C. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00174-2.
  26. ↑ Crispini, L.; Capponi, G. (2002). "Albitite and listvenite in the Lanterman Fault Zone (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica).In: Gamble, J., Skinner, D., and Henrys, S. (Eds.), Antarctica at the close of a Millennium". RSNZ Bulletin. 35: 113–119.
  27. ↑ Capponi, G.; Crispini, L.; Meccheri, M. (2002). "ectonic evolution at the boundary between the Wilson and Bowers Terranes (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica): structural evidence from the Mountaineer and Lanterman Range. In Gamble, J., Skinner, D., and Henrys, S. (Eds.), Antarctica at the close of a Millennium". RSNZ Bulletin. 35: 105–112.
  28. ↑ Federico, L.; Capponi, G.; Crispini, L. (2006). "The Ross orogeny of the Transantarctic Mountains: a northern Victoria Land perspective". International Journal of Earth Sciences. 95 (5): 759–770. Bibcode:2006IJEaS..95..759F. doi:10.1007/s00531-005-0063-5. S2CID   140666975.
  29. ↑ Federico, L.; Capponi, G.; Crispini, L. (2007). "The Cambrian Ross Orogeny in Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) and New Zealand: A Synthesis". U.S. Geological Survey and the National Academies. 063. doi:10.3133/of2007-1047.srp063 (inactive 12 July 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  30. ↑ Crispini, L.; DiVincenzo, G.; Palmeri, R. (2007). "Petrology and 40Ar-39Ar dating of shear zones in the Lanterman Range (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica): implications for metamorphic and temporal evolution at the terrane boundaries". Mineralogy and Petrology. 89 (3–4): 217–249. Bibcode:2007MinPe..89..217C. doi:10.1007/s00710-006-0164-2. S2CID   128474590.
  31. ↑ Federico, L.; Crispini, L.; Capponi, G.; Bradshaw, J.D (2009). "The Cambrian Ross Orogeny in northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) and New Zealand: A synthesis". Gondwana Research. 15 (2): 188–196. Bibcode:2009GondR..15..188F. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2008.10.004.
  32. ↑ Federico, L.; Crispini, L.; Capponi, G. (2010). "Fault-slip analysis and transpressional tectonics: a study of Paleozoic structures in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica". Journal of Structural Geology. 32 (5): 667–684. Bibcode:2010JSG....32..667F. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.04.001.
  33. ↑ Crispini, L.; Federico, L.; Capponi, G.; Talarico, F. (2011). "The Dorn gold deposit in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: structure, hydrothermal alteration, and implications for the Gondwana Pacific margin". Gondwana Research. 19 (1): 128–140. Bibcode:2011GondR..19..128C. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.03.010.
  34. ↑ Crispini, L.; Federico, L.; Capponi, G. (2014). "Structure of the Millen Schist Belt (Antarctica): Clues for the tectonics of northern Victoria Land along the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana". Tectonics. 33 (4): 420–440. Bibcode:2014Tecto..33..420C. doi: 10.1002/2013TC003414 .
  35. ↑ "GEOLOGICAL MAP of ANTARCTICA - Mt Murchison Quadrangle". www.mna.it.[ permanent dead link ]
  36. ↑ "GEOLOGICAL MAP of ANTARCTICA - Coulman Island Quadrangle". www.mna.it.[ permanent dead link ]
  37. ↑ "GEOLOGICAL MAP of ANTARCTICA - Mt Joyce Quadrangle". www.mna.it.[ permanent dead link ]
  38. ↑ "GEOLOGICAL MAP of ANTARCTICA - Relief Inlet Quadrangle". www.mna.it.[ permanent dead link ]
  39. ↑ "GEOLOGICAL MAP of ANTARCTICA - Freyberg_Mountains". www.mna.it.[ permanent dead link ]
  40. ↑ "GEOLOGICAL MAP of ANTARCTICA - Mount_Melbourne". www.mna.it.[ permanent dead link ]
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