Monica Duque Castaño

Position

PhD Student

Academic Degree

Mestrado

Group

Coordinator(s)

Thesis title

Millenial-scale climate variability in the mid-latitudinal North Atlantic during MIS 36-50: a multiproxy approach

Institution Awarding Degree

Universidade do Algarve

Based at

Lisboa, IPMA Campus

Office Nr

Algés

Phone Nr

+351 931391659

a81373@ualg.pt

Keywords

planktonic foraminifera, stable isotopes, paleotemperature, Iberian margin, early Pleistocene

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Main Info

Education

Scholarships

From February 2023 to January 2027. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Individual Ph.D. Fellowship.
From March 2017 to March 2019. Organization of the American States and the Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities-(OAS-CGBU). Individual M.Sc. Fellowship.

Awards-Honors

2023. Joseph A. Cushman Award for Student Travel to attend FORAMS 2023 (International Symposium on Foraminifera).
2023. ECORD Scholarship 2023. I obtained this scholarship to attend the ECORD Summer School in Bremen.
2023. ECORD Summer School Best Presentation Award. I received the award for the presentation, "Millennial-scale climate variability in the mid-latitudinal North Atlantic during MIS 36-50: a multiproxy approach."
2023. Winning image for the August cover of the Micropaleontological Society's 2024 calendar.

Other accomplishments

2021. Co-author in the MicroStratiRange (MSR) program (2.0 version). https://microstratirange-iies.site/.
2022. Bachelor thesis supervisor. Bioecozonamiento del núcleo PC-029 a partir del estudio de foraminíferos planctónicos Cuaternarios del Caribe Colombiano: Implicaciones paleoecológicas y paleoceanográficas. Laura Leal Posada. University of Caldas-Colombia- B.Sc. in Geology.
2023-present. Member of the Neogene and Quaternary Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group.

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