Michele Rebesco

About

Education:
1989: Laurea (M.Sc.) in Geological Sciences, University of Parma, Italy
1996: Dottorato di Ricerca (PhD) in Earth Sciences, University of Parma, Italy

Experience:
September 1989 - November 1990 Professional collaboration for report editing (lakes of northern Appennines), Biology institute, University of Parma, Italy
November 1990 - November1992. EC GEOSCIENCE Program fellowship (Exploration Oriented Seismic modeling and inversion) at OGS
December 1992 - January 1993. Professional collaboration for seismic interpretation for preparation of ODP proposal n°330. Geology Deparment, University of Milano, Italy
October 1993 - November 1993. Guest researcher for the interpretation of seismic reflection data on the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula. British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, U.K).
August 1996 - August 2001. Temporary Scientist at OGS
August 2001 - December 2008. Permanent Scientist at OGS
January 2009 - January 2020. Senior scientist at OGS
January 2020 - date Director of Research at OGS

Interests:
Geological/geophysical exploration of polar margins, aimed at depositional processes and glacial history reconstruction.
Interacting downslope and alongslope deep sea sedimentary processes.
Integrated Solid Earth System research to:
Contribute to the study of Global Change and paleoclimate in particular, expecially at high (polar) latitudes, either north and south.
Contribute to the study of Geo-Hazards, in particular deep-sea landslisdes and instabilities.

Employment

• Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale Researcher
  1996 - Present

Education

• Università degli Studi di Parma Laurea
  1983 - 1989

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (145)

• Ice sheet instability and meltwater events along the Svalbard–Barents Sea margin during the last 60,000 years
  Global and Planetary Change 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.105261
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• The role of submarine landslides in the initiation and evolution of moat–drift contourite systems
  Sedimentology 2026 DOI: 10.1111/sed.70079
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• Sea-level variations influence weak layer formation and submarine landslides on a low-latitude continental margin
  Communications Earth & Environment 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02949-z
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• Changes in iceberg discharge and bottom current activity during the last Glacial to Holocene along the Ross Sea continental margin, Antarctica
  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113353
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• Gravity currents and wall behavior modeling at high Reynolds numbers
  Advances in Water Resources 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2025.105101
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• Tectono-sedimentary processes shaping the West Sardinian margin and adjacent oceanic basin during the Plio-Quaternary (Western Mediterranean Sea)
  Marine Geology 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107450
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• Footprint of sustained poleward warm water flow within East Antarctic submarine canyons
  Nature Communications 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50160-z
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• Direct in situ evidence of tidal roles in the formation of contourite depositional systems
  Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119100
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• Origin, evolution and significance of giant buried sediment mounds near the Sahara Slide Complex, North-west African margin
  Sedimentology 2024 DOI: 10.1111/sed.13182
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• Seismic cyclostratigraphy: Hypothesis testing for orbital cyclicity using seismic reflection data
  Earth Science Reviews 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104962
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