Address:
Department of Geosciences
University of Bremen
GEO Building, Room 2580
Klagenfurter Strasse
28359 Bremen
Research Profile I have a scientific background in Earth Sciences and Geology. During my studies I gathered solid experience in different fields, such as Paleontology, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy. In my research career I have conducted studies within a series of different scientific disciplines, including Marine Ecology, Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology and Geochemistry. Within my PhD, I developed an innovative technique using coccolithophore assemblages to calculate paleotemperatures on sedimentary sequences from the Pacific Ocean. Results obtained from my work were presented in different national and international meetings where they were awarded on two separate occasions and published in relevant peer reviewed journals. During my Postdoc research I have got a vast expertise in extant coccolithophores and calcareous nannofossils at high latitudes. I also gained experience as a biostratigrapher during long research cruises, such as IODP Expedition 346: Asian Monsoon.
Ship Expeditions • 29/07/2013 to 27/09/2013: IODP Expedition 346: Asian Monsoon from Valdez (Alaska) to Busan (Korea). Calcareous nannofossil biostratigrapher. Chief scientist and co-chief: Ryuji Tada and Rick Murray.
• 14/01/2011 to 08/03/2011: SOPATRA EXPEDITION SO-213 (Leg 2) from Valparaiso (Chile) to Wellington (New Zealand). Calcareous nannofossil biostratigrapher. Chief scientist and co-chief: Ralf Tiedemann and Frank Lamy.
• 27/11/2009 to 27 /01/2010: ANT XXVI/2 Polar Expedition on board R/V Polarstern from Punta Arenas (Chile) to Wellington (New Zealand). Calcareous nannofossil biostratigrapher. Chief scientist and co-chief: Rainer Gersonde and Frank Lamy.
• Giresse, P., Bassetti, M.-A.; Chanier, F., Gaullier, V., Maillard, A., Thinon, I., Lofi, J., Lymer, G., Reynaud, J.-Y., Negri, A., Saavedra-Pellitero, M. (2015). Depositional environment and age of some key Late Pliocene to Early Quaternary deposits on the underfilled Cedrino paleovalley (Orosei): Insight into the Neogene geodynamic evolution of Sardinia. Quaternary International, 357, 220-236,
doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.022.
• Tada, R., Murray, R.W., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., and Expedition 346 Scientists (2014). Asian Monsoon: onset and evolution of millennial-scale variability of Asian monsoon and its possible relation with Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau uplift. IODP Preliminary Report, 346, doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.346.2014.
• Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Flores, J.A., Lamy, F., Sierro, F.J, Cortina, A. (2011). Coccolithophore estimates of paleotemperature and paleoproductivity changes in the Southeast Pacific over past ~27 Kyr, Paleoceanography, 26, PA1201, doi:10.1029/2009PA001824.
• Alonso, M., Ãlvarez, M, Hernández Almeida, I., Saavedra-Pellitero M. (2009). Contribuciones de alumnos asistentes al curso “La paleoclimatologÃa y el Cambio Climáticoâ€. In: Flores, J.A. (Ed.), Cambio Climático y Sociedad. Universidad Internacional de AndalucÃa, Sevilla, pp. 122-141.
• Saavedra-Pellitero M., Flores, J.A., Sierro, F.J. (2008). Comparación de las asociaciones de cocolitóforos en distintos ambientes, desde un giro oligotrófico hasta zonas de alta productividad biológica, Geo-Temas, 10, 1463-1466.
• Saavedra-Pellitero M., Flores, J.A., Sierro, F.J. (2007). Nuevas aportaciones a la biogeografÃa de cocolitóforos en el PacÃfico ecuatorial y suroriental, Geogaceta, 42, 91-94.