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Associate Scientist
Geology & Geophysics
Contact Information:
Work: 508 289 2257
lgiosan@whoi.edu
Building: Clark 257
Mailing Address:
Mailstop 22
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
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Education
Bucharest University Geology Diploma 1993
SUNY Stony Brook Marine Environmental Sciences M.S. 1995
SUNY Stony Brook Marine and Atmospheric Sciences PhD 2001
Research
Sedimentary Systems Dynamics:
Tertiary-Quaternary geology and paleoceanography
Deltas and river mouth processes
Coastal morphodynamics
Marginal seas
News
January 2009: Quaternary Science Reviews paper on the "Black Sea Flood" by Giosan et al. (http://www.whoi.edu/cms/files/Giosan_et_al-all_46963.pdf) discussed in Science - http://sciencemag.org/content/vol323/issue5913/r-samples.dtl
January 2009: R/V Pelagia cruise in the Arabian Sea completed succesfully for studying the Indus shelf sedimentary dynamics. Collaborators: Peter Clift (University of Aberdeen); Tim Henstock (Southampton) and colleagues from Pakistan, UK, USA. Check Peter's page on the cruise ( http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~wpg008/PelagiaIndusCruise.html ) and the track, photos, and diary at NIOZ: http://www.nioz.nl/nioz_nl/54eecfb14e461b50534df9b45e2ae06c.php
November 2008: Paper by Giosan and coleagues in Quaternary Science Reviews discusses the Black Sea level before a catastrophic flood proposed to have led to the migration of Neolithic farmers from around the Black Sea towards central Europe as well as the creation of flood myths. Stratigraphic and paleo-geomorphologic information from Danube delta aided by radiocarbon ages on articulated mollusks are used to constrain the level in the Black Sea before the marine reconnection to ca. 30 m below the present sea level rather than 80 m or lower. If the flood occurred at all, the sea level increase and the flooded area during the reconnection were significantly smaller than previously proposed
November 2008: Non-governmental organization "Ad Astra" initiated and co-founded by L. Giosan and dedicated to the reform of science in postcomunist Romania is featured in the journal Science
September 2008: Invited Research focus paper by J. Donnelly and L. Giosan on the sea level history controversy in the Gulf of Mexico is published in Geology.
March 2008: Invited News&Views article by John Day (LSU) and L. Giosan is published in Nature Geoscience.
January 2008: Paper linking monsoon to erosion of Himalaya by Peter Clift, L. Giosan and colleagues is published in Geology.
Upcoming
February 2009: Expedition along the lower Indus and tributaries searching for the demise of the Harrapan civilization. Collaborators: Peter Clift (University of Aberdeen); Geoff Duller and Mark Macklin (Aberystwyth University).
March 2009: Expedition in Mackenzie delta to study paleohydrology and organic carbon fluxes. Collaborators: Tim Eglinton (WHOI); Angie Dickens (Mount Holyoke); Max Holmes (Woods Hole Research Center)
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