Gilli, Adrian, Dr.

ETH Zürich
Dr. Adrian Gilli
Geologisches Institut
NO G 53.1
Sonneggstrasse 5
8092 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 632 36 94
Fax: +41 44 632 10 80
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Scientific Interests

• Limnogeology
• Sedimentology and Geochemistry
• Paleoclimatology
• Paleomagnetism
• Geoarchaeology

Education

2003 - PhD ETH Zurich - Tracking late Quaternary environmental change in southernmost South America using lake sediments of Lago Cardiel (49ºS), Patagonia, Argentina. Diss ETH No. 15307
1999 – Msc ETH Zurich – The sediments of the Lower and Upper Lake Schwendi (Wildhaus, Toggenburg, NE Switzerland) – Reconstruction of past environmental changes

Professional Experience

From 08/2007 - Research Assistant, Climate Geology, ETH Zurich
10/2005-05/2007 - Research Associate, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
06/2004-09/2005 – SNF post-doctoral fellow, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Teaching

• Limnogeology (Spring semester 2009)
• SENETH excursion Zürichsee
• Molasse excursion D-ERDW

Selected Publications

• Gilli, A., Hodell, D.A, Kamenov, G.D., and Brenner, M., 2009, Geological and archaeological implications of strontium isotope analysis of exposed bedrock in the Chicxulub crater basin, northwestern Yucatán, Mexico: Geology, v. 37, p. 723-726. (pdf, 484KB)
• Beres, M., Gilli, A., Ariztegui, D. and Anselmetti, F.S., 2008, The Lago Cardiel basin, Argentina (49°S): Origin and evolution revealed by high-resolution multi-channel seismic reflection studies: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 25, p. 74-85. (pdf, 2.8MB)
• Hodell, D.A., Anselmetti, F.S., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D.A., Guilderson, T.J., Muller. A.D., Bush, M.B., Correa-Metrio, A., Escobar, J., and Kutterolf, S., 2008, An 85-ka record of climate change in lowland Central America: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27, p. 1152-1165, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.008. (pdf, 2.3MB)
• Gilli A., Markgraf V., Anselmetti F.S., Ariztegui D., 2007, Comment on: Wenzens, G., Glacier advances east of the Southern Andes between the Last Glacial Maximum and 5000 BP compared with lake terraces of the endorrheic Lago Cardiel (49S, Patagonia, Argentina). Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie. N.F. 51(1), 135-137.
• Anselmetti, F.S., Ariztegui, D., Hodell, D.A., Hillesheim, M.B., Brenner, M., Gilli, A., McKenzie, J.A., and Mueller, A.D., 2006, Late Quaternary climate-induced lake level variations in Lake Petén-Itzá, Guatemala, inferred from seismic stratigraphic analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 230 (1-2), 52-69.
• Gilli A., Ariztegui D., Anselmetti F.S., McKenzie J.A, Markgraf V., Hajdas, I., and McCulloch, B., 2005. Mid-Holocene strengthening of the Southern Westerlies in South America – Sedimentological evidences from Lago Cardiel, Argentina (49ºS). Global and Planetary Change, 49 (1-2), 75-93.
• Gilli A., Anselmetti F.S., Ariztegui D., Beres M., McKenzie J.A, and Markgraf V., Seismic stratigraphy, buried beach ridges and contourite drifts: the Late Quaternary history of the closed Lago Cardiel basin, Argentina (49ºS), Sedimentology, 52 (1), 1-23.
• Markgraf, V., Bradbury, J.P., Schwalb, A., Burns, S., Stern, C., Ariztegui, D., Gilli, A., Anselmetti, F.S., Stine, S., and Maidana, N., 2002, Holocene paleoclimate of Southern Patagonia: Limnological and environmental history of Lago Cardiel, Argentina: Holocene 13, (3), 597-607.
• Gilli, A., Anselmetti, F.S., Ariztegui, D., and McKenzie, J.A., 2002, A 600-year sedimentary record of flood events from two sub-alpine lakes (Schwendiseen, Northeastern Switzerland). Eclogae Geol. Helv. 96, (S1), S49-S58.
• Gilli A., Anselmetti F.S., Ariztegui D., Bradbury J.P., Kelts K., Markgraf V. and McKenzie J.A., 2002, Tracking abrupt climate change in the Southern Hemisphere: a seismic stratigraphic study of Lago Cardiel, Argentina (49°S). Terra Nova 13 (6), 443-448.