Maria Serena Poli

Assistant Professor of Oceanography

Department of Geography and Geology
219 Strong Hall
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Phone: (734) 487 …..
Fax: (734) 487 6979
Email: spoli@online.emich.edu

Education

Ph.D. Earth Sciences, 1995, University of Padova, Italy. Thesis subject: Benthic Foraminifera and Cyclicity in Pleistocene Shelf Sediments (Crotone Basin, Southern Italy).

"Laurea" Geological Sciences, 1991, University of Padova, Italy. Thesis subject: Benthic Foraminifera of the Marna Euganea Formation.

Research Interests

The broad goal in my research is the evaluation of how different components of the marine system responded to long and short term global climatic changes. I combine my observations in paleoenvironments with data from geochemical, stratigraphic and sedimentological investigations, in order to develop a detailed picture of depositional environments, climate changes and evolution of sedimentary basins.
At present, I am working on material collected during Leg 172 of the Ocean Drilling Program. The research is focused on the reconstruction of deep and intermediate water mass properties and circulation patterns in the western North Atlantic during Marine Isotope Stages 11-12 (~360-470 kyr): a critical interval in the evolution of late Pleistocene climates.