HECTOR D'ANTONI - NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER

MS 239-20 Moffett Field CA 94035
Phone:  650-604-5149     Fax:  650-604-1088     Email:  hdantoni@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for Investigation 7, "Hind-Casting Past Environments".

Related Experience Summary

Principal Investigator of over 20 research projects. Director of six dissertations and 12 theses on paleoclimate / paleoecology. Head of international teams with scientists from Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Germany.

Employment History

1973-1975 Assistant Research Scientist, Argentine National Research Council (CONICET).
1976 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson.
1976-1978 Research Associate, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson.
1980 Research Assoc, Dept of Prehistory, National Institute of Anthropology and History. Mexico D.F.
1980-1989 Full Professor of Paleobiology. National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina.
1989-1991 Senior Research Assoc, National Research Council, Earth Science Div, NASA Ames.
1991 – Present Senior Research Scientist, Earth Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center.

Education

1969 MS in Anthropology, School of Natural Sciences, University of La Plata, Argentina.
1971. Graduate Studies in Modern and Quaternary Palynology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1976 PhD in Paleoecology, University of La Plata, Argentina.
1978-1979 Post-doctoral studies in paleoecology, University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany.

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union -  American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists -  International Federation of Palynological Societies

Awards and Honors

1971 Fellow of the International Direction of Technical Assistance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1975 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York.
1978 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Bonn, Germany.
1983 Prize Coca Cola Co. in the Arts and Sciences, (for Structural Palynology). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1985 International Research Award of the Volkswagen Foundation, Hamburg, Germany.
1988 Full Professor "ad-Honorem" Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1989 Senior Research Associate of the National Research Council, Washington D.C.
1996 Full Professor "ad-Honorem" University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus.
2002 Senior Executive Service – Candidate Development Program, Washington D.C.

Selected Relevant Publications

D'Antoni, H.L. 1973. Hacia una Paleoecología en Arqueología. Etnia 18, 21-30. Olavarría.

D'Antoni, H.L. 1983. Pollen Analysis of Gruta del Indio. Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula 1,83-104. Rotterdam.

D'Antoni, H.L. 1984. Pollenanlytic Stratigraphy of Arroyo Las Brusquitas Profile. Zentralblatt f. Geologie und Paläontologie I (11/12), 1721-1729. Stuittgart.

D'Antoni, H.L. 1993. Paleotemperatures of La Malinche: A Palynological Hypothesis. Grana 32, 354-358. Stockholm.

D'Antoni, H.L., M.A. Spanner 1993. Remote Sensing and Modern Pollen Dispersal in Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): Models for Palaeoecology. Grana 32 (1), 29-39. Stockholm.

D'Antoni, H.L., R. Armstrong, J. Coughlan, J. Skiles and G.R. Daleo. 1994. Effects of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Increased Levels of Ultraviolet Radiation on Subantarctic Forests and Western Patagonian Steppe: A Research Project. In NATO ASI Series, Vol. I 18 Stratospheric Ozone Depletion / UV-B Radiation in the Biosphere. R.H Biggs and M. Joyner (eds.) Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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