ECORD rivolge una special call a correlatori stratigrafici, per partecipare alla IODP Ex. 378 South Pacific Paleogene Climate a bordo della Joides resolution (3 Gennaio - 4 Marzo 2020)

Ilaria Mazzini (CNR-IGAG) visited the US Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, thanks to a CNR Short Term Mobility Grant, to collaborate with Thomas M. Cronin on the research project Understanding the Corinth Active Rift Development through micropaleontology as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP expedition 381). Mazzini and Cronin are both invited shore-based participants in the IODP Leg 381 and their role is to analyse microfossils (ostracodes in particular) from the sediment cores to investigate climatic and sea level cycles during the last million years.

In core M80, ostracods are present in all examined samples, the foram-barren samples are characterised by common, freshwater stracods (glacials), the foram rich zones contain marine ostracodes (interglacials). The palaeo environmental interpretation based on species' ecology confirms alternating deep marine and large deep lake environments.

ECORD seleziona micropaleontologi specialisti in nannofossili dell'intervallo tardo Miocene-Pleistocene, per far parte come shore-based scientist del science Party della spedizione IODP 358 NanTroSEIZE: Plate Boundary Deep Riser 4Boundary Deep Riser 4  attualmente in corso a bordo della Chikyu