SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE
Mercedes di Pasquo
received her PhD in 1999 from the University of Buenos
Aires (UBA) in Argentina and in 2002, she became a permanent researcher of
CONICET. She was a teacher at UBA between 1988 and 2008, of the semestral courses of Paleontology and Palynostratigraphy,
Careers of Geology and Biology (up to 2008), and Micropaleontology of the
Career of Paleontology (2005_2008).
In 2009, she was a
Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Idaho. Since 2010 she has been
an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho, USA), collaborating on the study of Upper Palaeozoic palynofloral changes
in Bolivia and Argentina during the Gondwanaland glaciation.
Since 2010 Dr. Mercedes di Pasquo is working at the CICYTTP
- CONICET, Diamante,
Entre Ríos, Argentina, as Senior Researcher CONICET (Investigadora
Independiente 2010-2020, Investigadora
Principal since 2020), in charge of the Laboratory of Palynostratigraphy
and Paleobotany at the Institute CICyTTP-Diamante.
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Since her PhD (1994-1999) her work focused in Late Paleozoic units of
Argentina, Bolivia and Peru, with the goal of establishing palynological-
based ages for strata that have poor or no megafossil
content (e.g. di Pasquo, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2007; di Pasquo et al. 2014, 2015).
Inasmuch as many of these units (especially in the Carboniferous of southern
Bolivia) are siliciclastics, careful examination of
fine-grained units provides palynomorphs for correlation purposes. This is
especially important for Late Devonian units from the Pando and Manuripi (Bolivia) cores and other glacially-influenced
outcrops of Silurian to Carboniferous in Bolivia and northern Argentina.
After her stay in 2009 as Fulbright Fellow working with Dr. Peter Isaacson at
the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho,
USA), she became Affiliate Associate Professor since 2010 (not tenure-track
position). Later, he stay three months at the CICYTTP during his sabbatical
time in 2011, and Audrey Warren (Dr. Peter Isaacson´s master student) spent july 2014 to work on Late Devonian (including the Strunian with Retispora lepidophyta) and Lower Carboniferous palynofloras from Montana (USA). Currently, we are working
together in the recovery of both conodonts and palynomorphs from the D/C
boundary in Montana along with PhD (Beverly Rice, 2015-2020) and Master
students (di Pasquo et al. 2012, 2017; Isaacson et al., 2013, 2014; Warren et
al., 2014; Rice et al. 2016, 2017).
In Brazil, she participated as Victoria Valdez´s co-supervisor (2012-2015),
together with Dr. Paim (UNISINOS, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil), contributing with her
with Carboniferous palynostratigraphic data for her geological study of several
locations of the Precordillera Argentina.
During 2013 she was awarded as Special Foreign Researcher in the framework of
the Brazilian Program “Science without borders” CNPq
(2013-2014), “Carboniferous and Permian palynofloras
of the Paraná Basin and its comparison to South American basins”, and she
worked at the UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil) on the the
Serra Alta and Teresina formations (di Pasquo and Souza, 2014, in prep.). This was related to several contributions on the Permian and
Carboniferous of Bolivia and Argentine (e.g. di Pasquo et al. 2015, 2017).
Further contributions deal
with:
1- Upper Palaeozoic
(Devonian-Carboniferous) palynofloral changes in
Bolivia and Argentina during the Gondwanaland glaciation (e.g. di Pasquo and
Anderson, 2012; Noetinger and di Pasquo, 2013, 2014; di Pasquo et al. 2012,
2013, 2014; Milana et al. 2014; Valdez et al., 2014, Wood et al., 2014, see
also reference list).
2- Mid-Late Devonian Haplostigma flora deposits
bearing palynofloral and invertebrates associated and
interbedded from Bolivia and northern Argentina in collaboration with several
colleagues (di Pasquo et al., 2013; di Pasquo, 2013). She was collaborating
with W. Matsumura (PhD student at UFRGS) and R. Iannuzzi (supervisor), carrying
on the analysis of the palynoassemblages associated
to the Mid-late Devonian floras (especially with Haplostigma) from the Paraná
Basin (Brazil). This flora is correlated to the
Bolivia and northern Argentina ones (Matsumura et al., 2014, 2015).
3- Palynology and paleobotany
of the Mississippian Poti Formation of northeastern
Brazil (di Pasquo and Iannuzzi, 2014)
4- Palynofloras from the
Early Maastrichtian of Antarctica, which are associated to several
invertebrates and vertebrates from the same section at The Naze
(di Pasquo and Martin 2013).
5- the Siluro-Devonian
of La Paz area in Bolivia with Shirley Lopez from Bolivia and Udo Zimmermann
from Norway (Zimmermann et al. 2015 a, b).
6- D-C boundary of Montana region in USA (di Pasquo et
al., 2012, 2017 and many abstracts).
She is/was mentor of PhD students, who work on different
projects, such as, the Quaternary palynofloras of
Entre Ríos (Nadia Muñoz, since 2011; Noelia Nuñez Otaño, since 2013), the
Miocene-Pliocene of Peru (Francisco Navarrete, since 2013), the Cretaceous –
Paleocene from northern Río Negro and eastern Neuquén (Neuquén Basin) Argentina
(Egly Pérez Pincheira, since 2015), the evolution of megaspory
in the Devonian and Carboniferous of Bolivia and Argentina (Marcela Quetglas,
since 2016), and of Montana in USA (Beverly Rice, since 2015), the Permian of
Sierras Australes (Juan Di Nardo, since 2018), Carboniferous
of Bolivia (Heidi Anderson, since 2007), and Precordillera of
Argentina (Victoria B. Valdez, since 2012), Ordovician-Silurian Transition of Precordillera
(Jessica Gómez, since 2019), and Middle-Late Devonian of Taurides in Turkey (Tuba Aydin, since 2020).
She worked and still works
as consultant for the oil industry contributing on palynostratigraphy
and palaeoenvironment from different intervals of the
Phanerozoic in South America.
Between
2018 and 2022, M. di Pasquo developed research activities in collaboration with
colleagues from Argentina and elsewhere, which allowed the publication of
several contributions dealing with Paleozoic floras mainly from South America,
USA and India. Other contributions presented in several Congresses.
Several
works concerning Devonian palynofloras are from
Argentina and Bolivia (Noetinger et al., 2018, di Pasquo et al., 2019, Quetglas
et al., 2019), Brazil (Matsumura et al., 2022, 2023) and USA (di Pasquo et al.,
2019, 2019, 2022, Filipiak et al. 2021, Zatoń et al., 2021, Hu et al.,
2021, 2022). Others are referred to the
Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary (Streel and di Pasquo, 2022), and from Bolivia
(di Pasquo et al., 2019, 2022, di Pasquo and Streel, 2022) and Montana in USA
dealing with palynofloras and conodonts (Rice et al.,
2018, di Pasquo et al., 2018, 2021, 2022), also related with two doctoral works
finished in 2021 under my supervision (Rice, 2021, Quetglas, 2021).
Contributions dealing with Carboniferous-Permian palynofloras
in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay (di Pasquo et al., 2019; Beri et al., 2019, Milana and di Pasquo, 2019, Valdez et
al., 2020, 2021, Iannuzzi et al., 2022, 2023, di Pasquo, 2022, Cisterna et al.,
2022, Verde et al. 2022, Rischbieter et al., 2022), and India (Srikantamurthy et al., 2018; di Pasquo et al., 2019; Kavali et al., 2021) are published, whereas several are
still abstracts presented in Congresses between 2018-2022 (see listed below).
Ongoing doctoral work dealing with Late
Carboniferous-Permian palynofloras and floras of the
Sauce Grande and Tunas formations, Australes Range,
Buenos Aires province, is carried out by Juan Di Nardo (2018-2023, Universidad
Nacional del Sur, provincial de Buenos Aires, Argentina), under my supervision
and M. Martínez.
Contributions
on different projects of the Cretaceous, Cenozoic and especially Quaternary of Entre
Ríos and Corrientes are also, published in this last years since 2018.
They
are all available at her scientific websites: http://www.palino.com.ar, Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/
MercedesDiPasquo,
Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mercedes_Di_Pasquo/).
A
recent multi-author contribution dealing with the Devonian Stratigraphy of
Devonian System of Argentina, which
involves geological and paleontological updated information on the
stratigraphic and biostratigraphic units
is available at Repository of SEGEMAR and Asociación Geológica Argentina
https://repositorio.segemar.gov.ar/handle/308849217/4160 https://geologica.org.ar/devonico/
She is President of the ALPP Latin American Association of Paleobotany and Palynology / Asociación Latinoamericana
de Paleobotánica y Palinología
ALPP (2009-2024, www.ufrgs.br/alpp, alpaleobotanicapalinologia.blogspot.com),
and Editor of the ALPP journal, which can be downloaded from:
-volume 2022
(Celebration of 50 years) (2022-12-31) https://palino.com.ar/alpp/BoletinesALPP/Volumen-ALPP-boletin-2022.pdf?v=2
-volume 2021 https://www.palino.com.ar/alpp/BoletinesALPP/Volumen-ALPP-boletin-2021.pdf
-volume 2020 http://www.palino.com.ar/alpp/BoletinesALPP/DAntoni-ALPPvol2020-final.pdf
She collaborated in the organization of several congresses:
1- XVI
Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica
y Palinología 2015, held at La Plata city (Buenos
Aires Province, Argentina), in may
26th to 29th. http://www.xvisapp.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/index.html
2- IPC /
IOPC 2016 "Palaeobotany and Palynology: towards new frontiers",
as coordinator of Symposiums “New insights on associated Paleozoic to Cenozoic
floras” and “Palynofloras from Gondwana”,
and presented several contributions in November 2016.
3- XVII
Symposium of Paleobotany and Palynology 2018, held in the Paraná city, in july-august, Responsible of the Committee. http://fcyt.uader.edu.ar/web/sapp2018
4- II
SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE PALEONTOLOGÍA DEL PERÚ - LIMA 2018
SUMMARY
OF THE EVENT IN VOLUME OF PAPERS https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0WB59ICqdvAvDeQt7SvbqFv767D4cR2/view?usp=share_link
5- XVII Argentinian Paleobotany and Palynology Symposium 2022 (Simposio Argentino
de Paleobotánica y Palinología),
hosted at the National University of Jujuy in San Salvador de Jujuy (Jujuy
province, Argentina, in person, September 28th - 30th), the ALPP celebrated its
“50 years” sharing a nice dinner
with the attendants, and as always, five members were awarded for their
presentations.
For more information see at:
VIDEO of PRESENTATION SAPP 2022 in website http://www.sapp2022.com.ar/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12rpvJjnYyxyKur62XDSY8X9HgdU5Ekqy/view?usp=sharing
SUMMARY OF THE EVENT
http://alpaleobotanicapalinologia.blogspot.com/search/label/Anuncios
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FziQaG1TdQHrr8YEBN39tak2KG3ogazt/view
http://www.palino.com.ar/alpp/alpp_dipasquo/alpp_dipasquo.htm
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1huqsNlxt9w8V2IMWZaoT7ykxtQdJbS2a/view?usp=sharing
6- AASP-TPS
annual meeting 2022 for the first time co-organized
with the ALPP and held outside USA (Manizales, Colombia, hybrid format, August
7-11). The ALPP awarded Hernando Dueñas and Carlos Jaramillo for their Trajectory and Marcelo
Carvalho and Ana Luisa Bitencourt because of their best oral and poster
presentations.
http://alpaleobotanicapalinologia.blogspot.com/search/label/Anuncios
For pictures please download
this file from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FziQaG1TdQHrr8YEBN39tak2KG3ogazt/view
See more information about the AASP-TPS conference at https://palynology.org/54th-annual-meeting-of-aasp-the-palynological-society-manizales-colombia-august-7th-11th-2022-54-encuentro-anual-de-la-sociedad-palinologica-de-aasp-tps-manizales-colombia-agosto-7/
7-
The 1st Gondwana
Devonian Symposium (May 5th) 2022 focused on “Calibrating the Devonian in South America” hosted
by the 27th Brazilian Congress of
Paleontology, which was held in the city of Cuiabá, Brazil (https://www.even3.com.br/cbp2022/).
Short
contributions and lectures (some of them virtually), with different kind of fossiliferous
news from Bolivia, Brazil, South Africa and Australia in Gondwana
were compared with those from Europe. Fruitful discussions occurred at the end
in a round table between all the attendants (virtually and in person). This
symposium was partially transmitted on YouTube via the
channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCyGW_e-UGkhbhGnmOrkyG1Q. Hope you like it!
Volume of abstracts can be downloaded from
https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/paleodest/issue/view/127/72
Special Publications
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Asociación Geológica Argentina
Biostratigraphy of the Upper Palaeozoic of South America: first step to a new
chronostratigraphic proposal (Bioestratigrafia del Paleozoico
An important achievement of the Working Group on Upper Palaeozoic Chronostratigraphy of South America that would be published
soon (Azcuy et al., 2007), is the first result of the following meetings: The 1st
Meeting of the Upper Palaeozoic Chronostratigraphy Committee of South America, held within
the framework of the XI Reunião de Paleobotânicos e Palinólogos (Gramado, Brazil, 2004), included researchers from
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and was coordinated by Carlos Azcuy. The
meeting constituted the first step to discuss and establish a regional
chronostratigraphic scheme of the Upper Paleozoic of
A
summary of this work was presented in the 4º
European Meeting on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Latin American, held in
2007. Azcuy, C., Beri, A., Bernardes-deOliveira,
M.E.C., Carrizo, H.A., di Pasquo, M., Díaz-Saravia,
P., González, C., Ianuzzi, R., Lemos,
V.B., Melo, J.H.G., Pagani,
A., Rohn, R., R. Amenábar,
C., Sabattini, N., Souza, P.A., Taboada,
A., Vergel, M.M. Biostratigraphy of the Upper Palaeozoic of South America: first step to a new
chronostratigraphic proposal (Bioestratigrafia del Paleozoico Superior de América
del Sur: Primera Etapa de
Trabajo Hacia una Nueva Propuesta Cronoestratigráfica). Asociación
Geológica
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