Marco Chiari

EDUCATION

• Current: Researcher, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Geoscienze e Georisorse.
• 2002: CNR grant (CNR/FNS 2001).
• 2002: D. in Earth Sciences (University of Parma).
• 1994-1997: CNR grants at the Centre for the Study of the Geology of the Apennines and the Peri- Mediterranean Chains.
• 1992: Laurea (MsC equivalent) in Geological Sciences (University of Florence).

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

• Integrated stratigraphic researches on the Jurassic sequences in Southern Alps, Northern Apennines, Sicily and on the Cretaceous anoxic levels in the Umbro-Marche Apennines.
• Radiolarian biostratigraphy of the sedimentary cover of the ophiolites in Alps, Northern Apennines, Central America and Carribean area.
• Biostratigraphic studies of the Triassic and Jurassic oceanic and continental sequences in the Dinaric-Hellenic chain (Albania and Greece).
• Taxonomic researches on Middle-Late Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous radiolarians

 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• Responsible for the CNR of the Radiolarians Laboratory of the Department of Earth Science of Florence.
• Secretary of the INTERRAD association (International Association of Radiolarists).
• Secretary of the Società Paleontologica Italiana.
• Secretary of the Silicofossil Group of "The Micropaleontology Society".
• Editor in Chief (with V. Bortolotti) for the proceedings of the “76° Riunione Estiva della Società Geologica Italiana”. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 1994 (48, 1-2).
• Guest Editor of “Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae - Swiss Journal of Geoscience” for the proceedings of the 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy. Swiss Journal of Geoscience, 2007 (100); 2008 (101).
• Member of the Editorial board of the International journal Ofioliti.
• Editor of the RADIOLARIA newsletter
• CNR grant (Short Term Mobility 2005).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Chiari M., Cobianchi M. and Picotti V. (2007). Integrated stratigraphy (radiolarians and calcareous nannofossils) of the Middle to Upper Jurassic Alpine radiolarites (Lombardian Basin, Italy): Constraints to their genetic interpretation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 249: 233-270.
• Chiari M., Di Stefano P. and Parisi G. (2008). New stratigraphic data on the Middle-Late Jurassic biosiliceous sediments from the Sicanian basin, Western Sicily (Italy). Swiss J. Geosci., 101: 415-429.
• Chiari M., Bortolotti M., Marcucci M., Photiades A., Principi G. and Saccani E. (2012). Radiolarian biostratigraphy and geochemistry of the Koziakas Massif ophiolites (Greece). Soc. géol. Fr., 183 (4): 287-306.
• Bortolotti V., Chiari M., Göncüoglu M.C, Marcucci M., Principi G., Tekin U.K., Saccani E and Tassinari R. (2013) Age and Geochemistry of basalt-chert associations in the Ophiolites of the Izmir-Ankara Mélange east of Ankara, Turkey: preliminary data. Ofioliti, 38 (2): 157-173.
• Chiari M., Baumgartner P.O., Bernoulli D., Bortolotti V., Marcucci M., Photiades A. and Principi G. (2013). Late Triassic, Early and Middle Jurassic Radiolaria from ferromanganese-chert ‘nodules’ (Angelokastron, Argolis, Greece): evidence for prolonged radiolarite sedimentation in the Maliac-Vardar Ocean. Facies, 59: 391-424.