Dr. Barbara Stenni is at the Department of Geological, Environmental, and Marine Sciences of the University of Trieste. Professor Stenni is Science Technical Coordinator in her Department. She was awarded a degree in Geological Sciences at the same University. In 1999, she obtained a Ph.D. in the Earth Sciences at the University of Milano. Her research activity has taken place at the "Stable Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory" of the University of Trieste.

Four years ago Dr. Stenni was granted the "Felice Ippolito" Award by the Accademia dei Lincei and the National Antarctic Scientific Commission. Since 2005 she is Principal Investigator of the "Stable Isotopes" working group of TALDICE. This is an international activity, which means: 'the Talos Dome Ice-Core Project'. This a collaboration involves Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The Talos Dome is in East Antarctica, located close to the Victoria Land mountain.

Her research activity addresses mainly oceanographic, paleo-climatological, and glaciological studies, with particular emphasis on the climatic interpretation of stable isotope profiles of Antarctic ice cores. She participated at the 1998-1999 field season at Dome C, Antarctica, in relation with an earlier multinational European project for deep ice-core drilling called the EPICA Project. Its main objective was to learn about the climatic and atmospheric record that is contained in Antarctic ice by drilling and analyzing two ice cores, and comparing these with their Greenland counterparts.

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From this seminar we hope to learn about the evaluation of these records and the information they provide about the natural climate variability, and mechanisms of rapid climatic changes during the last glacial epoch.