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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Giorgia Camperio

Giorgia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Conservation Biology Lab in Neuchâtel, specializing in island ecosystems and their conservation. Her work focuses on long-term environmental changes, including biodiversity monitoring, human-wildlife interactions, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. For her PhD, she studied the Vanuatu archipelago, a key site in the colonization of the Pacific and an important region for past climate reconstructions due to its location at the edge of the South Pacific Convergence Zone, a major yet understudied climatic feature. Using sediment cores and sedimentary biomarkers, her research explored the legacy of human-climate interactions in the archipelago, from traces of the first settlers to the imprint of 20th-century atomic tests preserved in sediments.