Ivano Walter Aiello - Associate Professor Geological Oceanography, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories - 8272 Moss Landing Road , Moss Landing, CA 95039-9647; iaiello@mlml.calstate.edu
Education
University of Florence (Italy), Earth Sciences, M.S (Laurea), 1992
University of Bologna (Italy), Earth Sciences, Ph.D., 1997
Positions
2011 – 2014 United States Advisory Committee for Scientific Ocean Drilling (USAC) of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s (IODP) Science Advisory Structure
2011 – pres. Associate Professor of Geological Oceanography, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
2010 – 2011 Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Distinguished Lecturer for the 2010-2011 Series
2009 Sedimentologist, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 323 “Bering Sea Paleoceanography”
2006 – pres. Assistant Professor of Geological Oceanography, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
2006 – 2009 Science Steering and Evaluation Panel of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s (IODP) Science Advisory Structure
2003 – 2006 Adjunct Professor of Geological Oceanography, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
2002 – pres. Visiting Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
2002 Sedimentologist, Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg201 “Deep Pacific Biosphere”
2001 – 2002 Research Associate, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University
2001 Lecturer, Department of Ocean and Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
Courses Taught at MLML
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Coastal Dynamics (MS 274) with Dr. Erika McPhee-Shaw
Geological Hazards (MS 286)
Frontiers in Geobiology (MS 285) with Dr. M. Graham
Geological Oceanography (MS 141)
Marine Sedimentation (MS 274)
Sediment and Paleoceanography of Deep Marine Environments (MS 274-1)
Habitat Mapping Techniques (MS 274-2)
Terrestrial Laser Scanning Techniques (MS 274-1)
Climate Changes in Marine Sciences (MS 285)
Marine Environmental Studies of the Gulf of California (MS 273) with Dr. Diana Steller and Dr. Jim Harvey
Marine Benthic Habitat Mapping Techniques (MS 248)
Geology of the Monterey Bay Region (MS 246)
Coastal and Nearshore Environments (MS 285)
Plate Tectonics (MS 286)
Awards
2011 San Jose State University Early Career Investigator Award for 2011
Selected Publications
Wasson, K., Watson, E.B., Van Dyke, E., Hayes, G., and Aiello I.W., 2012, A novel approach combining rapid paleoecological assessments with geospatial modeling and visualization to help coastal managers design salt marsh conservation strategies in the face of environmental change: Elkhorn Slough Technical Report Series 2012: 1. http://library.elkhornslough.org/research/bibliography/Marsh_Sustainbility_Elkhorn_Slough_Technical_Report_2012.pdf
Aiello I.W and Endris C., 2012, High resolution geomorphologic surveys of estuarine habitats at Elkhorn Slough, California. Report prepared for the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. http://www.elkhornslough.org/research/PDF/Aiello_2012_TLS_Report.pdf
Aiello I.W. and Ravelo A.C., 2012, Evolution of sedimentation in the Bering Sea since Pliocene: Geosphere (manuscript in review).
Gamage, K., Screaton, E., Bekins, B., and Aiello, I.W., 2011, Permeability-porosity relationships of subduction zone sediments: Marine Geology, 279, 19-36
Takahashi K, Ravelo, A.C., Zarikian C.A., Aiello, I.W. and the IODP Expedition 323 Scientists, 2011. IODP Expedition 323—Pliocene and Pleistocene Paleoceanographic Changes in the Bering Sea: Scientific Drilling (11), 4-13: doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.11.01.2011.
Aiello I.W. and Bekins B, 2010, Milankovitch-scale correlations between deeply-buried microbial populations and biogenic ooze lithology: Geology, 38(1), 79-82.
Paull, C.K., Ussler, W., Holbrook, W.S., Hill, T.M., Haflidason, H., Winters, W., Lorenson, T., Aiello, I.W., Johnson, J., Ludsten, E., 2010, The Tail of the Storegga Slide: insights from the geochemistry and sedimentology of the Norwegian Basin deposits: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01150.x
Reed-Sterrett, C.D., Dekens, P.S., White, L.D., and Aiello I.W., 2010, Cooling upwelling regions along the California margin during the early Pliocene: evidence for a shoaling thermocline: Stratigraphy v. 7 (2-3), pp. 141-150
Ravelo, C., Takahashi, K., Aiello I.W. and the Expedition 323 Science Party, 2010, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 323 Preliminary Report, Bering Sea Paleoceanography. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc., doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.323.2010 (http://publications.iodp.org/preliminary_report/323/)
Meister P., Bernasconi S., Aiello I.W., Vasconcelos C., and McKenzie J.A, 2009, Depth and controls of Ca-rhodochrosite precipitation in bioturbated sediments of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, ODP Leg 201, Site 1226 and DSDP Leg 68, Site 503: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.0146.x
Aiello I.W., Hagstrum J.T., and Principi G., 2008, Peri-equatorial paleolatitudes for Jurassic Radiolarian Cherts of Greece. Tectonophysics, 448. 33-48
Aiello I.W., 2007, Chapter 3: Post-Glacial Evolution of Coastal Environments. In: California Prehistory. T.L. Jones and K.A. Klar (Eds.), Altamira Press, Berkely, CA.
Aiello I.W. and Kellett K., 2006, Sedimentology of open-ocean biogenic sediments from ODP Leg 201, Eastern Equatorial Pacific (Sites 1225 and 1226): Scientific Report 101, Ocean Drilling Program, http://odp.pangaea.de/publications/201_SR/main.htm.
Aiello I.W., 2005, Fossil Seep Structures of the Monterey Bay Region and Tectonic/Structural Controls on Fluid Flow in an Active Transform Margin. In: Geobiology of Ancient and Modern Methane-Seeps. J. Peckman and J. Goedert (Eds.). Palaeoceanography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 227, 124-142.
Parkes R.J., Webster G., Barry A.C., Weightman A.J., Newberry C.J., Ferdelman T., Kallmeyer J., Jorgensen B.B., Aiello I.W., Fry J.C., 2005, Deep sub-seafloor prokaryotes stimulated at interfaces over geological time: Nature, 436, 390-394.
Steven D’Hondt, Bo Barker Jørgensen, D. Jay Miller, I. W. Aiello, and the ODP Leg 201 Scientists, 2004, Distributions of metabolic activities in deep subseafloor sediments: Science, 306, 2216-2221.
Aiello I.W., Garrison R. E., Moore J.C., Kastner M., and Stakes D.S., 2001, Anatomy and origin of carbonate structures in a Miocene cold seep field: Geology, v. 29 (11), p1111-1114.