Vigliotti Luigi

Luigi Vigliotti works on paleomagnetism and rock-magnetism since his university studies. His main field of interest was classical paleomagnetism, he acquainted and improved his experience through fellowships at the University of Columbia and Berkeley. Research subjects include geodynamic, structural geology and magnetostratigraphy applied to plates and microplates rotation with key target on the rotation of the Sardo-Corso block. In 1989 he partecipated as paleomagnetist to the leg 127 of the ODP in the Japan Sea and in 1994 to the Xth italian expedition to Antarctica.

After his met with Frank Oldfield he moved his interests on “environmental magnetism” with application on paleoclimatic reconstruction and diagenetic effects in sub-oxic/anoxic environments. Presently he is involved in studies on the secular variation of the Earth magnetic field and on the magnetic properties of marine and lacustrine sediments, and of volcanoclastic deposits aimed to: (a) datings of sedimentary sequences deposited during the Late Pleistocene/Holocene;  (b) magnetic characterization of marine sediments in relation to changing depositional environments, transportation modes and provenance sources; (c) paleoclimatic reconstructions of late Quaternary glacial/interglacial cycles; (d) environmental monitoring and anthropic impact.

• Responsible of the Paleomagnetic Laboratory at ISMAR since 1985.
• Involved in several european (Paliclas, Bigsets, Eurodelta, Promess, Nearest) and national projects (Sinapsi, MURST, MIUR, GNV).
• Co-conveners of the Symposium: ”Magnetic signature in sedimentary environments”,  XXV EGS, Nice, 25-29 Aprile 2000.
• Evaluator for the european community in the framework of the VII° PQ (Climate dynamics and abrupt changes – analysis of the palaeo-record)
• Membership (2001-2002) of the international committee of the project “Calypso” in the framework of the europen project “Improving the human potential; transnational access to research infrastructures”.
• National vice-delegate and member of the National Committee for the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) and coordinator of the Division I (Internal Magnetic Field) of IAGA-Italy.

Authors of 30 scientific publications on journals and international books (JRC), 15 on national journals. He has presented 25 researches in international meetings and partecipated to several international workshops (ODP, ELDP, ICDP). Reviewer of scientific articles for fron-line journals. Author of divulgative articles  published in magazines and newspapers. He has supervised two PhD thesis and six graduating thesis in Geological Sciences.

Google Scholar Profile

• Vigliotti L. & Kent D.V. 1990. Paleomagnetic results of Tertiary sediments from Corsica: Evidence of post-Eocene rotation. Physic Earth Planet. Int. 62, 97-108.
• Vigliotti L., Alvarez. W. & McWilliams M. 1990. No relative rotation detected between Corsica and Sardinia. Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 98, 313-318.
• Vigliotti L. and Langenheim V.E. 1995. When did Sardinia stop rotating? New paleomagnetic results. Terranova. 7; 724-735.
• Vigliotti L. 1997. Magnetic properties of light and dark sediment layers from the Japan sea: Diagenetic and paleoclimatic implications. Quaternary Science Review, Vol. 16. 1093-1114.
• Vigliotti L., Capotondi L. & Torii M. 1999. Magnetic properties of sediments deposited in suboxic-anoxic environments: relationships with biological and geochemical proxies. In: Tarling & Turner (Eds): Paleomagnetism and Diagenesis. Special Publication GSL. 71-83.
• Vigliotti L., Roveri M., Capotondi L., 2003. Etruscan Archeometallurgy Record in the Marine Sediments from the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea. J. Archeological Science, 30, 809-815.
• Rolph T.C., Vigliotti L., Oldfield F., 2004.  Mineral magnetism and geomagnetic secular variation of marine and lacustrine sediments from central Italy: timing and nature of local and regional Holocene environmental change. Quaternary Science Review, 23, 1699-1722.
• Vigliotti L. 2006. Secular Variation Record of the Earth Magnetic Field in Italy during the Holocene: constraints for the construction of a Master Curve. Geophys. J. Int. 165; Vol.2;  414-429.
• Speranza F., S. Branca, M. Coltelli, F. D’Ajello Caracciolo, and L. Vigliotti. 2006. How accurate is “paleomagnetic dating”? New evidence from historical lavas from Mount Etna. Jour. Geophys. Res., V. 111, B12S33, Doi: 10.1029/2006/B004496.
• Vigliotti L., K.L. Verosub, A. Cattaneo, F. Trincardi, A. Asioli and A. Piva. 2008. Palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic analysis of Holocene deposits from the Adriatic Sea: detecting and dating short term fluctuations in sediment supply. The Holocene 18, 1, 141-152.
• Vigliotti L., D. Ariztegui, P. Guilizzoni and A. Lami. 2010. Reconstructing natural and human-induced environmental change in central Italy since the late Pleistocene – The multi-proxy records from maar lakes Albano and Nemi. In: Funiciello & Giordano (Eds): The Colli Albani Volcano. Special Publication GSL. In press.