International ECR diatomists: Luca Pellegrino - From Italy to Japan
Luca Pellegrino – Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra (Università degli Studi di Torino) I am an Italian PhD student in the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Torino (Italy). You can find more information of how I got into diatoms here: http://youngisdr.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-i-got-into-diatoms-luca-pellegrino.html I spent three months, from December 2018 to the end of February 2019, doing intensive research in Japan, at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Yamagata University, supervised by Professor Richard Jordan (hereafter Ric J ) and flanked by his fantastic students, in order to improve my knowledge about the late Miocene diatom assemblages of the Mediterranean region. I worked in a perfectly equipped micropaleontological lab, surrounded by enthusiastic students and researchers, such as the silicoflagellate-expert Hideto Tsutsui. I was free to consult Ric’s huge library, full of useful references for diatom identification. Man...