Brandon Bell
PhD student in Earth Science (Advisor: Professor Liz Griffith)
Over the summer, Brandon had the opportunity to attend the 2022 Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology, hosted at the University of Urbino in northwestern Italy. For two weeks, he met graduate student peers from around the world, participated in lectures and workshops from well-known scientists in the field, and completed field exercises examining sedimentary successions from Cretaceous ocean anoxic events to Eocene hyperthermals. The picture below shows him standing with the famous iridium layer at the K/Pg boundary exposed at Bottaccione near Gubbio, Italy – a traditional photo op for geologists visiting the site!
The Urbino school has been hosted in Urbino, IT since 2009, and is an extended summer course that is intended to give graduate students a comprehensive background in paleoclimate proxies, modeling techniques, and their application to studying Earth’s climate evolution over the last 65 million years.