Curriculum vitae: Maria Rita Palombo

- 2004 Member of Scientific Committee of 2° GeoSed Congress (Rome, September 2004)
- 2005 Member of Organising Committee and Scientific committee of 2 nd International Congress "
The World of Elephants" (Hot Spring, South Dakota, USA, September 2005)
- 2005 Convener of the Symposium “Insularity and its effects” (IMC9, Sapporo, July-august 2005)
- 2006 Member of Scientific Committee of "Quaternaire: Mythe et Limites", INQUA-AFEQ,
Paris, 1-3 February 2006
- 2007 Senior convener of the Session “Across and between continents: Vertebrate communities'
changes in the Quaternary” (XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, July-august 2007)
- 2007 Senior convener of the Workshop: Palaeontology and Insularity (VII Simposio Internacional
de Zoologia, November 2007, Topes de Collantes, Cuba)
- 2008 Co-orgagnizer of the 2008 EuroMam field-trip (Sardinia, 16-21 September 2008)
- 2009 Co-orgagnizer of the AIQUA Congress “ La variabilità del clima nel Quaternario., la ricerca
italiana, Roma, 18-20 febbraio 2009”
- 2009 Senior convener of the Symposium “Evolution of Mammalian communities and climatic
changes”. 10° International Theriological Congress (10IMC), Mendoza, Argentina , August
2009
- 2009 Senior convener of the Symposium “Advances in Palaeoecology” (Internazional Congress
of Ecology, Brisane (Australia) August 2009
- 2009 Member of Scientific Committee of the 2009 SEQS international Congress”The Quaternary
of southern Spain: a bridge between Africa adn the Alpine domain”, Orce and Lucena,
September28th.October 3 rd 2009
- 2010 Co-orgagnizer of the AIQUA congress “Convegno in memoria di Alberto Malatesta (1915-
2007) Geologo e Paleontologo, Roma 4-5 febbraio 2010”.
- 2010 Co-orgagnizer of the AIQUA Congress “Le correlazioni marino-continentali nel
Quaternario”, Bari, 25-26 febbraio 2010.
- 2010 Member of Scientific Committee of the international Congress “The world of mammoths
and their relatives, Le Puy en Velay, 28 August- 3 September 2010
- 2011 Senior convener of the Session “Linked effects of climate change, orbital forcing, tectonics
and biotic interaction: Which model is required to explain faunal evolution during the
Quaternary?”. XXVIII INQUA Congress will be held in Bern, Switzerland 20th July - 27th July,
2011.
- 2011 Senior convener of the Session “Fauna, vegetation and humans: Dynamics and evolution”.
XXVIII INQUA Congress will be held in Bern, Switzerland 20th July - 27th July, 2011.
Synergistic Activities
Synergistic activies are numerous and varied, including distinguished collaborations and integrative
activies at national and international levels (summarized below).
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Area de Paleobiologia, Madrid (M.T. Alberdi, B.
Sanchez);
- CSIC, Palma de Mallorca (P. Bover);
- Università di Saragozza, Area de Paleontologia (B. Azanza);
- Università di Malaga (P. Palmqvist);
- Università di Roviri y Virgil, Tarragona, Spagna (J. Van der Made)
- ICREA, Group d’Autoecologia Humana e Institut Catala` de Paleontologia (B. Martinez-Navarro,
F. Rivals),
- ICREA e Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Dep. de Biologia Animal, Vegetal, i d’Ecologia),
(M. Kohler, S. Moya-Sola)
- Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats IMEDEA, Palma de Mallorca (J.A. Alcover),
- Università di Liverpool (A. Turner)
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