Ivano Aiello

Ivano Aiello

Faculty Member - Department Chair

Department: Geological Oceanography
Website: https://mlml.sjsu.edu/geooce/

Contact:

email: ivano.aiello@sjsu.edu
phone: (831) 771-4480
office: 511 MLML Main Lab

Biography: 

Ivano teaches several graduate courses on different topics and methodologies concerning Marine Geology and cross-disciplinary fields in marine sciences. Ivano's teaching phyilosophy and the research conducted in the Geology Lab are multidisciplinary is the sense that students combine to different degrees geology with a variety of other disciplines in marine sciences (e.g. marine ecology, biology).

Ivano's research has also a general interdisciplinary approach:

Sedimentology/paleoceanography of upwelling biogenic sediments in Europe and the Pacific Rim (e.g. Monterey Fmt.), eastern equatorial Pacific and Peru Margin (ODP Leg 201), the sub-Arctic (IODP Expedition 323 in the Bering Sea).

Relationships between geology and microbial activity in deeply buried marine sediments and other extreme environments. Past evidence of microbial activity preserved by authigenic precipitates in sediments (cold seeps).

Geologic/geomorphology of central California rapidly changing costal environments including Elkhorn Slough, beaches and sea cliffs of Monterey Bay. Use of terrestrial laser scanning and 3D data analysis to asses small-scale geomorphologic change.

Research Interests: 
  • Sedimentology
  • Stratigraphy
  • Paleomagnetism
  • Field Geology
  • Structural Geology
Curriculum Vitae:

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