Dr Gianluca Marino

Honorary Senior Lecturer
Research School of Earth Sciences

I am a Distinguished Researcher at the Universidade de Vigo (UVigo, Spain) since April 2018, when I started a 5-year position within the framework of the “Programa de Captación de Talento Investigador de Excelencia”. This appointment was taken over in January 2021 by a Beatriz Galindo Fellowship, which is still based at UVigo. I also hold an Honorary Senior Lectureship at the Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES) of the Australian National University (ANU, Australia). Previously, I worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB, Spain), and at the RSES of the ANU. I have been visiting scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of the Columbia University (USA).

Research interests

Quaternary ocean and climate dynamics; mechanisms of orbital and sub-orbital climate variability, glacial-interglacial cycles, abrupt climate changes, interhemispheric bipolar seesaw, inter-ocean exchanges (e.g., Agulhas Leakage), Monsoon System. Paleoceanography of the marginal seas (e.g., Mediterranean Sea). Marine carbonate chemistry and global carbon cycle. My research is mostly based on trace element (Mg/Ca, Ba/Ca, B/Ca, Cd/Ca) and stable isotope (δ18O, δ13C, δ11B) foraminiferal geochemistry.

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My Google Scholar Profle

2017

  • Chen, L., Heslop, D., Roberts, A.P., Chang, L., Zhao, X., McGregor, H.V., Marino, G., Rodríguez-Sanz, L., Rohling, E.J., Pälike, H., 2017. Remanence acquisition efficiency in biogenic and detrital magnetite and recording of geomagnetic paleointensity. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18, 1435–1450. doi:10.1002/2016GC006753.

 

2016

  • Thirumalai, K., Quinn, T.M., Marino, G., 2016. Constraining past seawater δ18O and temperature records developed from foraminiferal geochemistry. Paleoceanography 31, 1409–1422. doi: 10.1002/2016PA002970
  • Clemens, S.C., Kuhnt, W., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 353 Scientists (including Marino, G.), 2016. Indian Monsoon Rainfall. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program 353: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). http://dx.doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.353.2016
  • Incarbona, A., Martrat, B., Mortyn, P.G., Sprovieri, M., Ziveri, P., Gogou, A., Jordà, G., Xoplaki, E., Luterbacher, J., Langone, L., Marino, G., Rodríguez-Sanz, L., Triantaphyllou, M., Di Stefano, E., Grimalt, J.O., Tranchida, G., Sprovieri, R., Mazzola, S., 2016. Mediterranean circulation perturbations over the last five centuries: Relevance to past Eastern Mediterranean Transient-type events. Scientific Reports 6, 29623, doi:10.1038/srep29623.
  • Grant, K.M., Grimm, R., Mikolajewicz, U., Marino, G., Ziegler, M., Rohling, E.J., 2016. The timing of Mediterranean sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level and African monsoon changes. Quaternary Science Reviews 140. 125–141, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.026.
  • Yu, J., Menviel, L., Jin, Z., Thornalley, D.J.R., Barker, S., Marino, G., Rohling, E.J., Cai, Y., Zhang, F., Wang, X., Dai, Y., Chen, P., and Broecker, W.S., 2016. Sequestration of carbon in the deep Atlantic during the last glaciation. Nature Geoscience 9, 319–324 doi: 10.1038/ngeo2657.

 

2015

  • Marino, G., Rohling, E.J., Rodríguez-Sanz, L., Grant, K.M., Heslop, D., Roberts, A.P., Stanford, J.D., & Yu, J., 2015. Bipolar seesaw control on last interglacial sea level. Nature 522, 197–201, doi:10.1038/nature14499.
  • Clemens, S.C., Kuhnt, W., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 353 Scientists (including Marino, G.), 2015. Expedition 353 Preliminary Report: Indian Monsoon Rainfall. International Ocean Discovery Program. http://dx.doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.353.2015
  • Rohling, E.J., Marino, G., & Grant, K.M., 2015. Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels). Earth-Science Reviews 143, 62–97, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.01.008.
  • Martínez-Botí, M.A.*, Marino, G.*, Foster, G.L., Ziveri, P., Henehan, M.J., Mortyn, P.G., & Vance, D., 2015. Boron isotope evidence for oceanic carbon dioxide leakage during the last deglaciation. Nature518, 219–222, doi:10.1038/nature14155. (*=Joint lead authors)
  • Scussolini, P., Marino, G., Brummer, G.-J., & Peeters, F.J.C., 2015. Saline Indian Ocean waters invaded the South Atlantic thermocline during glacial termination II. Geology 43(2), 139–142, doi:10.1130/G36238.1.
  • Kim, J.-H., Schouten, S., Rodrigo-Gámiz, M., Rampen, S., Marino, G., Huguet, C., Helmke, P., Buscail, R., Hopmans, E.C., Pross, J., Sangiorgi, F., Middelburg, J.J., & Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2015. Influence of deep-water derived isoprenoid tetraether lipids on the TEXH86 paleothermometer in the Mediterranean Sea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 150, 125–141, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.11.017.
  • Marino, G. & Zahn, R., 2015. Agulhas Leakage: The Missing Link in the Interhemispheric Climate Seesaw? Past Global Changes Magazine 23(1), 22–23.

 

2014

  • Mejía, L.M., Ziveri, P., Cagnetti, M., Bolton, C., Zahn, R., Marino, G., & Stoll, H., 2014. Effects of mid-latitude westerlies on the paleoproductivity at the Agulhas Bank slope during the penultimate glacial cycle: evidence from coccolith Sr/Ca ratios. Paleoceanography 29, 697–714, doi: 10.1002/2013PA002589.
  • Horigome, M.T., Ziveri, P., Grelaud, M., Baumann, K.-H., Marino, G., & Mortyn, P.G., 2014. Environmental controls on the Emiliania huxleyi calcite mass. Biogeosciences, 11(8), 2295–2308, doi:10.5194/bg-11-2295-2014.
  • Rohling, E.J., Foster, G.L., Grant, K.M., Marino, G., Roberts, A.P., Tamisiea, M., & Williams, F., 2014. Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years. Nature, 508, 477–482, doi:10.1038/nature13230.

 

2013

  • Marino, G., Zahn, R., Ziegler, M., Purcell, C., Knorr, G., Hall, I. R., Ziveri, P., & Elderfield, H., 2013. Agulhas salt-leakage oscillations during abrupt climate changes of the Late Pleistocene. Paleoceanography, 28, 599–606, doi:10.1002/palo.20038.
  • Zonneveld, K.A.F., Marret, F., Versteegh, G., Bogus, K., Bonnet, S., Bouimetarhan, I., Chen, L., Crouch, E., de Vernal, A., Elshanawany, R., Edwards, L., Esper, O., Forke, S., Grøsfjeld, K., Henry, M., Holzwarth, U., Kielt, J.-F., Kim, S.-Y., Ladouceur, S., Ledu, D., Limoges, A., Londeix, L., Lu, S.-H., Mahmoud, M. S., Marino, G., Matsouka, K., Matthiessen, J., Mildenhal, D.C., Mudie, P., Neil, H.L., Pospelova, V., Qi, Y., Radi, T., Richerol, T., Rochon, A., Sangiorgi, F., Solignac, S., Turon, J.-L., Verleye, T., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., & Young, M., 2012. Atlas of dinoflagellate cyst distribution based on 2405 datapoints. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 191, 1–197, doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.08.003.

 

2007-2012

  • Grelaud, M., Marino, G., Ziveri, P., & Rohling, E.J., 2012. Abrupt shoaling of the nutricline in response to massive freshwater flooding at the onset of the last interglacial sapropel event. Paleoceanography, 27, PA3208, doi:10.1029/ 2012PA002288.
  • Kotthoff, U., Pross, J., Schmiedl, G., Bornemann, A., Kaul, C., Koutsodendris, A., Marino, G., Peyron, O., & Schiebel, R., 2011. Impact of late glacial cold events on the Northern Aegean region reconstructed from marine and terrestrial proxy data. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26(1), 86–96, doi:10.1002/jqs.1430.
  • Osborne, A. H., Marino, G., Vance, D., & Rohling, E. J. (2010). Eastern Mediterranean surface water Nd during Eemian sapropel S5: monitoring northerly (mid-latitude) versus southerly (sub-tropical) freshwater contributions. Quaternary Science Reviews 29(19–20), 2473–2483, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.015.
  • Marino, G., Rohling, E.J., Sangiorgi, F., Hayes, A., Casford, J.L., Lotter, A.F., Kucera, M., & Brinkhuis, H. (2009). Early and middle Holocene in the Aegean Sea: interplay between high and low-latitude climate variability. Quaternary Science Reviews 28(27–28), 3246–3262, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.08.011.
  • Triantaphyllou, M.V., Ziveri, P., Gogou, A., Marino, G., Lykousis, V., Bouloubassi, I., Emeis, K.-C., Kouli, K., Dimiza, M., Rosell-Melé, A., Papanikolaou, M., Katsouras, G., & Nunez, N., 2009. Late Glacial-Holocene climate variability at the south-eastern margin of the Aegean Sea, Marine Geology 266, 182–197, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2009.08.005.
  • Marino, G., 2008. Palaeoceanography of the interglacial eastern Mediterranean Sea, LPP Contribution Series 24, 145 pp, ISBN: 978-90-393-4762-1.
  • Van der Meer, M.T.J. Baas, M., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Marino, G., Rohling, E.J., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., & Schouten, S., 2007. Hydrogen isotopic compositions of long-chain alkenones record freshwater flooding of the Eastern Mediterranean at the onset of sapropel deposition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 262(3–4), 594–600, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.014.
  • Marino, G., Rohling, E.J., Rijpstra, W. I., Sangiorgi, F., Schouten, S., & Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2007). The Aegean Sea as driver of hydrographic and ecological changes in the eastern Mediterranean. Geology 35(8), 675–678, doi:10.1130/G23831A.1.