1. FABRIZIO TREMOLADA
CURRICULUM VITAE
Calcareous nannofossil specialist/Stratigrapher
Email: tremoladaf@rpsgroup.com
 2006 NOVEMBER/PRESENT – Senior Stratigrapher/Biostratigrapher at RPS
Energy, Woking, UK. Projects in West Africa (Angola, Gabon, Guinea
Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Congo, Ivory Coast,
Mauritania), South-East Africa (Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania) North
(english sector) and Mediterranean (North Africa) seas, South America
(French Guiana, Guyana, Brasil), Southern Italy (Basilicata) and Northern
Italy (Po Valley). Clients: Exxonmobil, ChevronTexaco, BP, DNO, Dana
petroleum, Perenco, CNR-Canada, Sonangol, Shell, OEGC, OGX, Addax,
Roc Oil, Anadarko, Repsol YPF (REMSA), Conoco-Philips, Statoil, Tullow
Oil, Total, ENI-Agip, Vanco Oil etc.
 2005 SEPTEMBER /2006 OCTOBER – Biostratigrapher at CNR-Geological
Survey, Regione Lombardia. Biostratigraphic analyses from the Pre-alpine
chain to the Po Valley (Pliocene to Early Cretaceous).
 2004 AUGUST /2005 SEPTEMBER – Post-doctoral fellow at Rutgers –the State
University of New Jersey with Prof. K.G. Miller (EREUPT-Biocomplexity
Project, http://marine.rutgers.edu/ebme/html_docs/project_Biocomplex.html ).
 2003 SEPTEMBER /2004 AUGUST – Post-doctoral fellow at the Pennsylvania
State University with Prof. T.J. Bralower (EREUPT-Biocomplexity Project,
http://marine.rutgers.edu/ebme/html_docs/project_Biocomplex.html ).
 2003 - PhD in Earth Sciences-Micropaleontology (advisor: E. Erba; co-
advisor: I. Premoli Silva) in the Research Group of Micropaleontology at the
University of Milan. PhD thesis title: “Extreme past climate: phytoplankton
response to Early Cretaceous and Paleocene/Eocene boundary greenhouse
conditions”.
 1999 - Fellowship (1 year) from the University of Milan (Research Group of
Micropaleontology).
 Date of degree: 02/July/1998 – Laurea (Bsc + Msc) in Geological Sciences at the
University of Milan, Department of Earth Sciences. Tutor- Prof. E. Erba, Co-tutor - Prof.
I. Premoli Silva.
Key competencies:
 Highly developed analytical and evaluative skills.
 Ability to interact with all levels of management and personnel.
 Strong practical experience in project design and evaluation.
 Excellent data collection, statistical analysis and information
organisational skills.
 Proven research ability – reporting under peer-review for internal and
external publication.

2.  Excellent public-speaking skills – presenting at national and
international conferences.
Personal attributes
 Excellent initiative and problem-solving capabilities.
 Flexible and adaptable approach to project requirements.
 Ability to work individually and as part of a team.
 Willing to accept responsibility.
 Excellent communication skills.
Courses
 Sequence Stratigraphy – Prof. Romano Gelati (University of Milan)
 Cyclostratigraphy – Dr. Luca Lanci (University of Urbino)
 Project management – Phil Williams (RPS Energy)
Grants and Fellowships
 1999 and 2000 - Grant from the University of Milano-PROGETTO GIOVANI
RICERCATORI (Young Scientist Project).
Cruise participation
 Paleontologist (calcareous nannofossil specialist) in the Shipboard Party of the
Ocean Drilling Program LEG 197-Hot Spots, July and August 2001.
Certificate(s)
 Universal Bosiet (A – OPITO approved) and OLF European Module (A) –
Offshore survival training
 BSTrefresher (CAPP-approved Canada)
 Medical certification – UKOOA-OGUK and Norwegian offshore medicals
 H2S induction and training (Falck Canada)
RESEARCHINTERESTSand SKILLS
 Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy (both Mesozoic and Cenozoic) and
integration with ammonite, calpionellid, and planktonic foraminiferal
biozonations, magnetostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and
chemostratigraphy;
 Paleoceanography and paleoecology of calcareous nannoplankton;
 Morphometric analyses of individual nannofossil species;
 Biostratigraphy applied to oil research;
 Stratigraphic characterization of oil-prone basins (reservoirs/source rocks)
TEACHING
 Introduction to Paleontology: fossilization, evolution and phylogeny,
biozonations, zonal-markers;
 Stratigraphic tools: lithostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, radiometric
techniques, biostratigraphy and stable isotope chemostratigraphy;
 Micropaleontology: the most important microfossil groups (calcareous
nannofossils, foraminifera, diatoms, dinoflagellates and radiolarians)– biology,
evolution, fossil record, their stratigraphic importance, and investigation

3. techniques;
 Sedimentary rock lab: how to recognize sedimentary rocks and their
characteristics, turbidites, non-biogenic carbonates, shallow-water and pelagic
biogenic rocks (carbonates, radiolarites, diatomites etc.).
LAB EXPERIENCE
Paleontology: smear slide and thin section preparation;
Geochemistry: Mg/Ca, C- and O-isotope preparation;
Light polarizing microscopy;
Scanning electron microscopy;
Mass Spectrometer.
IT Skill
Windows and MacIntosh softwares (Office, Adobe, Canvas, Graphs etc.) and
operating systems;
Stratabugs and Bugwin (biostratigraphic softwares for the oil industry);
REP (reserve estimate).
WELLSITE WORK (Oil Industry)
BP Angola: multi-wells in Block 31 offshore Angola
Shell Lybia: multi-wells (Sirte Basin)
ExxonMobil Lybia: multi-wells (offshore Cyrenaica)
Repsol YPF (REMSA): Barracuda Prospect, Libya offshore (Benghazi)
Repsol YPF: offshore Guyana
Tullow Oil: offshore French Guiana, offshore Gabon, offshore Mauritania
Noble Energy: multi-wells (offshore Israel)
Forest Oil: Massa Lombarda (Po Valley-Northern Italy)
BG: Monte Grosso (Basilicata-Southern Italy)
Multiple clients (OGX, Repsol, Vanco, Perenco): (Campos basin, Santos basin,
Espirito Santo basin) Brazil
Norske Shell: Offshore Norway (Ormen Lange field)
Shell Canada: offshore Nova Scotia (Shelburne Basin)
Gaz de France-Suez: North Sea (British Sector)
Apache Corp.: Offshore Suriname (Paramaribo)
PXP Morocco: Offshore Morocco (Agadir; Mazagan Basin)
FIELD WORK EXPERIENCE (Academic)
Field trips and sampling campaign:
Italy: Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Miocene
Mexico: Permian, Triassic and Jurassic
Spain: Jurassic
France: Cretaceous and Jurassic
LANGUAGES
Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent)
Spanish (very basic knowledge), Portuguese (very basic knowledge).
PUBLICATIONS
1. Channel J.E.T., Erba E., Muttoni G., Tremolada F. Early Cretaceous magnetic

4. stratigraphy in the APTICORE drill core and adjacent outcrop at Cismon (Southern Alps,
Italy), and the correlation to the proposed Barremian/Aptian boundary stratotype.
Geological Society of America Bullettin, v. 112, n. 9, p. 1430-1443 (2000).
2. Tremolada F., Erba E. Morphometric analysis of the Aptian Rucinolithus
terebrodentarius and Assipetra infracretacea nannoliths: implications for
taxonomy, biostratigraphy and paleoceanography. Marine Micropaleontology,
v. 44, 77-92 (2002).
3. Tremolada F. in Shipboard scientific party: ODP Leg 197-Hot Spots, Initial
Reports (2002). Available from World Wide Web: http://www-
odp.tamu.edu/publications/197_IR/
4. Bellanca A., Erba E., Neri R., Premoli Silva I., Sprovieri M., Tremolada F.,
Verga D. Paleoceanographic significance of the Tethyan “Livello Selli” (Early
Aptian) from the Hybla Formation, northwestern Sicily: biostratigraphy and
high-resolution chemostratigraphic records. Paleogeography,
Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 185, 175-196 (2002).
5. Tremolada F. Aptian to Campanian calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy
(Gubbio, Central Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v.
108, 441-456 (2002).
6. Tremolada F., Young J.R. Volumes calculation of Cretaceous coccoliths and
nannoliths. Journal of Nannoplankton research, v. 24, 199-202 (2002).
7. Lozar F., Tremolada F. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of Cretaceous
sediments recovered at ODP Site 1149 (Leg 185, Nadezhda Basin, Western
Pacific). ODP Leg 185, Scientific Results (2003). Available from World Wide
Web: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/185_SR/010/010.htm, (2003).
8. Duncan R., Tarduno J., Scholl D., Bonaccorsi R., Buysch A., Carvallo C.,
Cottrell R., Einaudi F., Frey F., Gudding J., Haggas S., Huang S., Keller
R., Kerr B., Lindblom S., Neal C., Regelous M., Revillon S., Siesser B.,
Steinberger B., Stoll J., Thompson P., Thordarson T., Torii M.,
Tremolada F. ODP Leg 197: a paleomagnetic test for motion of the
Hawaiian hotspot. JOIDES Journal, v. 29, 2-5 (2003).
9. Sciunnach D., Tremolada F. The Lombardian Gonfolite group in central
Brianza (Como and Milano Provinces, Italy): calcareous nannofossil
biostratigraphy and sedimentary record of Neo-Alpine tectonics. Eclogae
Geologicae Helvetiae, v. 97, 119-131 (2004).
10. Erba E., Tremolada F. Nannofossil carbonate fluxes during the Early
Cretaceous: phytoplankton response to nutrification episodes, atmospheric
CO2 and anoxia. Paleoceanography, v. 19 (10.1029/2003PA000884 - 2004).
11. Tremolada F., Bralower T.J. Nannofossil assemblage fluctuations during the Paleocene-
Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sites 213 (Indian Ocean) and 401 (North Atlantic Ocean):
paleoceanographic implications. Marine Micropaleontology, v. 52, 107-116 (2004).
12. Tremolada F., Siesser W.G. Paleocene to Miocene nannofossil
biostratigraphy from Ocean Drilling Program Holes 1203A and 1204A
(Detroit Seamount, Northwestern Pacific). ODP Leg 197, Scientific Results
(2005). Available from World Wide Web: http://www-
odp.tamu.edu/publications/197_SR/003/003.htm
13. Tremolada F., Van de Schootbrugge, B., Erba E. The Early Jurassic
Schizosphaerellid crisis: implications for calcification rates and phytoplankton
evolution across the Toarcian OAE in Cantabria, Spain. Paleoceanography, v.
20 (10.1029/2004PA001120 - 2005).
14. Tremolada F., Bornemann A., Bralower T.J., Koeberl C., Van de

5. Schootbrugge B. Paleoceanographic changes across the Jurassic/Cretaceous
boundary: the calcareous phytoplankton response. Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, v. 241, 361-171 (2006).
15. Tremolada F., Erba E., van de Schootbrugge B., Mattioli M. The calcareous
nannofossil response to the late Callovian-early Oxfordian cooling phase.
Marine Micropaleontology, v. 59, 197-209 (2006).
16. Tremolada F., Erba E., Bralower T.J. Late Barremian to Early Aptian
calcareous nannofossil paleoceanography and paleoecology from the Ocean
Drilling Program Site 641C (Galicia Margin). Cretaceous Research, v. 27,
887-897 (2006).
17. Van de Schootbrugge B., Tremolada F., Rosenthal Y., Bailey T.R., Brinkhuis
H., Kent D.V., Feist-Burkhardt S., Falkowski P.G. Calcification crisis and
blooms of organic-walled phytoplankton during the end-Triassic mass-
extinction: Consequences of rising atmospheric [CO2]. Paleogeography,
Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 244, 126-141 (2007).
18. Tremolada F., B. de Bernardi, E. Erba. Size variations of the calcareous
nannofossil taxon D. multiradiatus across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum at ODP Sites 690 and 1209. Marine Micropaleontology v. 54, 79-
91 (2008).
19. Tremolada F., Sciunnach D., Scardia G., Premoli Silva I. Maastrichtian to
Eocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy from the Tabiago section,
Bianza area, northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v.
114, 29-39 (2008).
20. Tremolada F., De Bernardi B., Erba E., Cecca F. Calcareous nannofossil
fluctuations during the Late Hauterivian in the Cismon Core (Southern Alps)
and in selected sections of the Umbria-Marche Basin (Central Italy):
paleoceanographic implications of the Faraoni Level. Cretaceous Research,
v.30, 504-514 (2009).
21. Tremolada F., Guasti E., Scardia G., Carcano C., Rogledi S., Sciunnach D.
Reassessing the biostratigraphy and the paleobathymetry of
the Gonfolite Lombarda Group in the Como area (northern Italy).
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v.116, 35-49 (2010).
22. Sciunnach D., Scardia G., Tremolada F., Premoli Silva I. The
Monte Orfano Conglomerate revisited: stratigraphic constraints on
Cenozoic tectonic uplift of the Southern Alps (Lombardy, Northern
Italy). International Journal of Earth Sciences 99, 1335-1355 (2010).
23. Muttoni G., Scardia G., Kent D.V., Morsiani E., Tremolada F.,
Cremaschi M., Peretto C. First dated human occupation of Italy
at ~0.85 Ma during the late Early Pleistocene climate transition.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 307, 241-252 (2011).
24. Scardia G., Festa A., Monegato G., Pini R., Rogledi S., Tremolada F.,
Galadini F. Evidence for late Alpine tectonics in the Lake Garda area
(northern Italy) and seismogenic implications. Geological Society of America
Bullettin, DOI:10.1130/B30990.1 (2014).

6. In preparation
1. Scardia G., Carcano C., Ghielmi M., Rogledi S., Sciunnach D., Tremolada F.,
Vezzoli G. New stratigraphic data on the Neogene Southalpine foredeep:
constraints for Neoalpine tectonics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
2. Rogledi S., Carcano C., Scardia G., Sciunnach D., Tremolada F. Stratigraphic
constraints of the Middle Eocene volcanism in selected sections of northern
Italy. International Journal of Earth Sciences.
3. Tremolada F., De Bernardi B., Erba E., Shreiben C., Schulte P., Spejer R.
Calcareous nannofossils and trace elements from the Dababiya Quarry (Egypt)
during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: paleoceanographic
implications of shallow-water environments. Paleoceanography.
4. Scardia G., Festa A., Monegato G., Pini R., Rogledi S., Tremolada F.,
Galadini F. Late Alpine tectonics in the Po Plain (northern Italy) and
seismogenic implications. Tectonophysics.
BOOK CHAPTER
1. Monechi S., Gardin S., Pozzi M., Erba E., Tremolada F. Late Cretaceous
calcareous nannofossil bioevents from the Umbria-Marche Basin: a starting
point for global stratigraphic correlations. In Sedimentology, biostratigraphy
and tectonic evolution of the Central Apennines, edited by Coccioni R. and
Montanari A., Elsevier, Amsterdam (in press).
2. Tremolada F., Bralower T.J., Erba E. The Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a and the
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: the calcareous phytoplankton response
to high CO2 levels, temperature and fertility. Geological Society of America
Bullettin Spec. Publ. (Special Paper 424): Large Ecosystem Perturbations:
Causes and Consequences, edited by Monechi S., Coccioni R., and Rampino
M, 87-97 (2007), Boulder, CO.
3. Premoli Silva I., Tremolada F., Sciunnach D., Scardia G. Aggiornamenti
biocronologici e nuove interpretazioni ambientali sul Paleocene-Eocene della
Brianza (Lombardia). In Una nuova geologia per la Lombardia, edited by
Orombelli G., Cassinis G., Gaetani M., Istituto Lombardo, Incontri di Studio
54, 141-160 (2010).
GEOLOGICAL MAPPING
Project CARG – Geological Mapping of Italy, 1:50000 scale, Sheet N°314 – Seregno
PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
A total of 35 oral presentations and 8 poster presentations for 43 published
“Abstracts”.