#vEGU21 - Press Conference 2: Scientific sleuthing: Geoforensics and fingerprinting
Channel: European Geosciences Union
Date: 2021-04-27

Geoscientists working to reconstruct a snippet of Earth’s history or increase our understanding of modern-day processes must often think like detectives, assembling together bits and pieces of evidence from multiple sources to develop, and then test, a ‘whodunnit’ hypothesis.

In this press conference, journalists will hear about new ‘geofingerprinting’ techniques that research teams have developed to trace the origin of one of cooking’s most important commodities and to detect the timing and climatic impacts of the colossal Toba volcanic eruption, one of the largest in the past ~2.6 million years. Another team will trace the source of cobblestones dropped by icebergs in the Amundsen Sea—and explain how these clues offer new information regarding the previous extent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Speakers:
- Chiara Telloli: Researcher, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Italy
- Christine Siddoway: Professor, Colorado College, United States
- Laura Crick: Doctoral candidate, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Moderated by: Erin Martin-Jones, Communications Coordinator at the Department of Earth Sciences and the Sedgwick Museum.


For more information visit the vEGU21 webpage: https://www.egu21.eu or email: egu21@copernicus.org


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