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Leonardo Tamborrino
My name is Leonardo Tamborrino. I’m a young geologist from Italy and my PhD project title is “Spatio-temporal distribution of cold-water corals in the SE Atlantic”. Cold-water corals (CWC) are the engineers of large deep-sea ecosystems and form unique biodiversity hotspots along most of the world’s continental margins. Over the recent years it has become obvious that CWC often construct significant sea floor elevations known as cold-water coral mounds. These mounds can also serve as paleo-archives with respect to the paleoenvironmental setting as well as to the coral development. Using material newly collected from the Namibian and Angolan continental margins during the M122 expedition in early 2016, my project aims to reconstruct the development of cold-water corals in this region in response to changing environmental conditions through the last glacial-interglacial cycle.
Since I started my academic career, my first goal has been to talk about my passion for geology and explain it to people and friends of different cultural background. I consider that the research and the study, mainly when the topic has a world-wide importance, are sterile without an efficient communication. "Once Upon a Time" is a good chance to inform more people and to get them interested in our fascinating and interesting world - to get them interested in to the blue.
Here you can listen to an excerpt of my story "Lophelina".