DELLA PORTA GIOVANNA PAOLA

Giovanna Della Porta
POSITION: Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio”, via Mangiagalli 34, 20133, Milan, Italy giovanna.dellaporta@unimi.it
WORK EXPERIENCE
From 01/02/2015 to present: Associate Professor, Milan University, Department of Earth Sciences “A. Desio”, via Mangiagalli 34, 20133 Milano, Italy
Teaching activity:
- Modules taught: "Sedimentology" Master Degree in Earth Sciences; "Petrography of Sedimentary Rocks" Bachelor Degree in Geology; Sedimentary Rock Diagenesis and Geochemistry Master Degree in Earth Sciences. Fieldwork: "Geological mapping II year students".
- Undergraduate student supervision: various master and bachelor thesis projects on carbonate facies, diagenesis and geochemistry (Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic, Miocene) and sandstone differential cementation.
- PhD student supervision: two projects on Triassic and Jurassic carbonate platforms and hydrothermal travertines.
- Responsible of the Laboratory of Stable Isotope Geochemistry.
- Main research topics:
- Depositional fabrics and environments, diagenesis and geochemistry of non-marine carbonate microbial bioherms and travertines.
- Carboniferous carbonate platforms, microbial margins and adjacent organic matter rich basinal facies in North Spain, Asturias.
- Carboniferous carbonate depositional systems and microbial mounds in UK and subsurface Russia.
- Triassic carbonate depositional systems in the Southern Alps (Northern Italy) and Austroalpine (Austria) in terms of facies evolution, diagenesis and geochemistry.
- Jurassic carbonate platform and microbial coral reef margins (in Morocco and Sardinia, Italy).
- Miocene heterozoan carbonates in the Mediterranean area.
- Diagenesis of sandstone and differential calcite cementation.
- Administrative portfolio: member of the PhD council, member of the Student-Teacher equal committee.
From 01/07/2009 to 31/01/2015 Researcher at Milan University, Department of Earth Sciences “A. Desio”, via Mangiagalli 34, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Teaching activity:
- Modules taught: "Sedimentology" Master Degree in Earth Sciences; "Petrography of Sedimentary Rocks" Bachelor Degree in Geology. Fieldwork: "Geological mapping II year student".
- Undergraduate student supervision: bachelor and master thesis project on various topics related to carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis in Carboniferous to Miocene marine carbonates and Quaternary travertine and lacustrine carbonates.
- PhD student supervision: two projects on the character (petrography, diagenesis and depositional environment) and spatial distribution of Holocene to Miocene microbial lacustrine carbonates, tufa and travertines".
- Administrative portfolio: English student tests; organization Department conference days (Giornate Assereto).
From 01/08/2005 to 30/06/2009 Lecturer in Basin Analysis at Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Park Place, Main Building, CF10 3YE, Cardiff, UK
- Teaching activity: BSc Geology and BSc Exploration Geology
- Modules taught: "Sedimentary Petrogenesis and Stratigraphy"; "Petroleum Geology and Basin Analysis"; Advanced Sedimentology.
- Fieldwork courses: "Dorset and Devon (Southern England) Wessex Basin Stratigraphy" (5 days); Geological excursion and lithostratigraphic mapping in the Cantabrian Mountains, N Spain" (12 days).
- Personal tutorials: weekly appointments of 1 hour with student groups (5-7 students) of 1st, 2nd and 3rd BSc years.
- Undergraduate student supervision: MESci Project on Carbonate succession of Pliocene age overlying an oceanic core complex, Atlantis bank, South Indian Ocean.
- Postgraduate students: Co-supervisor with Prof. V. Paul Wright of 3 MPhil and 1 PhD students.
- Main research topics:
- A GIS-based digital outcrop model integrating depositional anatomy and lithofacies of a continuously exposed Lower Jurassic carbonate platform: Djebel Bou Dahar (High Atlas, Morocco)" associated to a post-doctoral research assistant funded by Chevron ETC; February 2006-August 2007.
- Carboniferous carbonate platforms and microbial margins in North Spain, Asturias.
- Administrative portfolio: ERASMUS student coordinator.
From 15/02/2004 to 31/07/2005 Research associate/post-doctoral research and teaching assistant (Wissenchaftliche mitarbeiterin) at Universität Potsdam, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Potsdam, Germany
- Teaching activity: teaching assistant for the courses of Sedimentology I (Principle of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology); Sedimentology II (Stratigraphy and rock correlation); Sedimentology III (Carbonate sedimentology). Course leader of Microscopy of Sedimentary Rocks and Carbonate Microfacies.

From 01/09/2003 to 31/12/2003 Teaching position at Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Teaching activity: Sedimentary Systems in time and space for the Degree in Geology, 2nd year; fieldtrip and geological mapping in the Ardennes, Belgium, 1st year student, 26/09/03-3/10/03.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
From 01/09/2007 to 31/07/2007 Postgraduate Certificate for University Learning and Teaching (PCUTL Module 1) as training for teaching to undergraduate students. Cardiff University, Park Place, Main Building, CF10 3YE, Cardiff, UK
From 01/05/1999 to 20/11/2003 PhD Degree in Earth Sciences. Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. PhD Thesis: “Depositional anatomy of a Carboniferous high-rising carbonate platform (Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain). Supervisor: Prof. W. Schlager. Co-supervisor: Dr. J.A.M. Kenter.
From 05/11/1991 to 23/10/1998 Honours Master Degree in Geological Sciences- Università degli Studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy. Final mark: 110/110 cum laude. Degree thesis. “Stratigraphic evolution of the north-western Maiella (Abruzzo) from the upper Maastrichtian to lower Messinian.” Supervisors: Prof. Etta Patacca and Paolo Scandone.
From 15/09/1986 to 31/07/1991 High School Diploma. Liceo Scientifico “U.Dini”, via Benedetto Croce 36, 56125 Pisa, Italy. Final mark: 58/0

Communication skills ▪ Good communication skills gained through several years of experience as a lecturer, conference presentations and geological field trip leader.
Job-related skills Sedimentary rock geologist focussing the research investigation on the following themes:
- Depositional facies and environments, diagenesis and geochemistry of non-marine carbonate microbial bioherms and travertines.
- Depositional facies, geometry, diagenesis and geochemistry of marine carbonates of different time periods and settings (Carboniferous in N Spain, Russia, UK, Jurassic in Morocco and Sardinia, Triassic in the Southern Alps of Italy and Austroalpine of Austria)
- Diagenesis of sandstone and differential calcite cementation.
- Stable isotope oxygen and carbon and trace element analyses of carbonate and water samples as proxy for diagenesis, palaeoceanography and palaeoclimatology.

PUBLICATION RECORD
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-3479-0592
Number of publications 75
Scopus ID 57217538307, Citations 2011, H index 24
Web of Science G-9732-2012, Citations 1798, H index 22
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=nL20hJsAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao Citations 2733, H index 27
ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giovanna-Della-Porta?ev=hdr_xprf Citation 2467, H index 24
Selected publications Giovanna Della Porta
Piepoli, L., Della Porta, G. P., Grieco, G., Fociro, A., Karriqi, A., Prela, M., & Sinojmeri, A. (2026). Jurassic uranium-bearing phosphorites of the Ionian Zone, Albania. ITALIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES, 145(2), 1-18. https://dx.doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2026.10
Angiolini, L., Azmy, K., Cannaò, E., Crippa, G., Doyle, E., Della Porta, G., Murray, J., O'Connell, M., Viaretti, M. & Harper, D. A. (2026). Brachiopod giants from the Mississippian (Asbian) of western Ireland: Fossil bioarchives of seasonality and symbiosis and far-field harbingers of climate change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 683, 113418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113418
Pimentel de Sousa, M. A., do Nascimento Junior, D. R., Bahniuk, A. M., & Della Porta, G. (2025). Pilot Study on Fingerprinting the Isotopic Signatures of Fossiliferous Limestones as a Tool for Forensic Investigation of Fossil Trafficking (Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil). Geosciences, 15(10), 403. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15100403
Sanità, E., Di Rosa, M., Della Porta, G., Catanzariti, R., Pandolfi, L., & Marroni, M. (2025). Trench sediment heterogeneity controls accretion mechanisms in subduction zone. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 34793. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18508-7
Coccia N., Della Porta G., Berra F., Moroni M., Tiepolo M. 2025. Petrographic and trace element characterisation of diagenetic carbonates associated with Pb-Zn sulfide and fluorite mineralisation (Upper Triassic, Lombardy Basin, Northern Italy). Mineralogical Magazine, DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2025.10124
Stefanović, J., Della Porta, G., I Bucur, I., & Radivojević, D. (2025). Late Berriasian–Early Valanginian evolution and drowning of the Getic Carbonate platform (SE Serbia). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 131(2), 353-381. https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/27969
Petrash, D. A., Roeser, P., Kříbek, B., Staudigel, P. T., Bernecker, M., Jačková, I., Čejková, B., Kochergina, Y.V.E., Koubová, M., Křížová, Š., Knésl, I., Laufek, F., Böttcher, M.E., Della Porta, G., Fiebig, J. (2025). Drivers of episodic carbonate cementation during the miocene climatic optimum in a paleolake of the Eger Rift (Czech Republic). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 407, 47-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.08.025
Randazzo, V., Berra, F., & Della Porta, G. (2025). Carbonate facies changes and Carbon isotope excursions across the Triassic-Jurassic transition (Lombardy Basin, Italy): Local effects or global changes?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 113061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113061
Mkadmi, S., Della Porta, G., Kefi, H., Ahmed, W. B., & Henchiri, M. (2025). Travertine fissure ridges of Hammam Bou Hadjar, Ain Temouchent, Northwest Algeria: a North African example of a tectonically controlled travertine deposit. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 114(3), 573-575. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-025-02498-y
Mancini, A. M., Nallino, E., Pierre, F. D., Gennari, R., Natalicchio, M., Carnevale, G., Della Porta, G.. Negri, A.& Lozar, F. (2025). Surface and bottom water dynamics across the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Piedmont Basin (NW Italy): Integrating micropaleontological and stable isotope evidence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 664, 112811. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112811
Muttoni, G., Dallanave, E., Della Porta, G. 2025. European arid anomaly explained with southward drift of Eurasia during the Late Jurassic Polar Shift. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26(2), e2024GC011730. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011730
Diamanti, R., Awais, M., Camanni, G., D'Antonio, M., Della Porta, G., Di Renzo, V., Graziano, S.F., Iannace, A., Kylander-Clark, A., Vitale, E, Vitale, S. (2025). Fault-controlled saddle dolomitization during the late Triassic Pangea breakup in the southern Adria domain (Southern Italy). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 173, 107216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107216
Viaretti, M., Crippa, G., Brombin, V., Della Porta, G., Griesshaber, E., Jurikova, H., Posenato, R., Bottini, C., Angiolini, L. (2025). Duration and intensity of the Late Permian (early Wuchiapingian) cool climate episode: Sclerochemical evidence from brachiopod assemblages in Iran. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 659, 112654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112654
Díaz-García, I., Merino-Tomé, Ó., Quijada, I.E., Bahamonde, J.R., Fernández, L.P., Della Porta, G., Samankassou, E., Kulagina, E.I., Borrego, Á.G., Martín-Llaneza, J., Del Pozo, J.F. (2024). Intrasediment gypsum in subtidal offshore carbonates as a witness of basin-wide evaporitic precipitation. The case of the southern Variscan foreland basin (mid-Carboniferous). Sedimentary Geology, 464, 106605.
Mancini, A. M., Gennari, R., Lozar, F., Natalicchio, M., Della Porta, G., Bernasconi, D., Pellegrino, L., Dela Pierre, F., Martire, L. Negri, A. (2024). Sensitivity of the thermohaline circulation during the Messinian: Toward constraining the dynamics of Mediterranean deoxygenation. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 203, 104217.
Della Porta, G., Mancini, A., Berra, F. (2023). Facies character and evolution of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic shelf: Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic succession in the eastern Northern Calcareous Alps (Stumpfmauer, Austria). Facies, 69:11
Carniti, A.P., Della Porta, G., Banks, V.J., Stephenson, M.H., Angiolini, L. (2023). Revisiting the upper Visean mud mounds from Derbyshire (UK): the role of brachiopods in their growth. Facies, 69(2), 1-39.
Carniti, A.P., Della Porta, G., Banks, V.J., Stephenson, M.H., Angiolini, L. (2022). Brachiopod fauna from uppermost Visean (Mississippian) mud mounds in Derbyshire, UK. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 67(4).
Della Porta, G., Nembrini, M., Berra, F., & Vertino, A. (2022). Facies character and skeletal composition of heterozoan carbonates in a high-energy confined embayment (Miocene, Finale Ligure Limestone, NW Italy). Sedimentary Geology, 438, 106209.
Della Porta, G., Hoppert, M., Hallmann, C., Schneider, D., Reitner, J. (2022). The influence of microbial mats on travertine precipitation in active hydrothermal systems (Central Italy). The Depositional Record, 8(1), 165-209.
Baskin, R. L., Della Porta, G., Wright, V. P. (2022). Characteristics and controls on the distribution of sublittoral microbial bioherms in Great Salt Lake, Utah: Implications for understanding microbialite development. The Depositional Record, 8(1), 39-66.
Luan, G., Azmy, K., Berra, F., Della Porta, G., Nembrini, M. (2022). Origin of dolomites in oolitic carbonates of the Middle Jurassic Dorgali Formation, eastern Sardinia, Italy: Petrographic and geochemical constraints. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 135, 105395.
Della Porta, G., Bahamonde, J.R., Kenter, J.A.M., Verwer, K. (2021). Pennsylvanian high-relief microbial boundstone-dominated carbonate platform margins (Sierra del Cuera, Asturias, Spain). In: Wright, V.P., Della Porta, G. (Eds.). Field Guides to Exceptionally Exposed Carbonate Outcrops. IAS (2021) International Association of Sedimentologists. pp. 71-127. ISBN 978-1-7398845-0-5.
Merino-Tomé, Ó., Della Porta, G., Pierre, A., Kenter, J.A.M., Durlet, C., Verwer, K. (2021). Lower and middle Jurassic platforms and ramps from the High Atlas of Morocco. In: Wright, V.P., Della Porta, G. (Eds.). Field Guides to Exceptionally Exposed Carbonate Outcrops. IAS (2021) International Association of Sedimentologists. pp. 311-393. ISBN 978-1-7398845-0-5.
Mancini, A., Della Porta, G., Swennen, R., Capezzuoli, E. (2021). 3D reconstruction of the Lapis Tiburtinus (Tivoli, Central Italy): The control of climatic and sea‐level changes on travertine deposition. Basin Research, 33(5), 2605-2635.
Montano, D., Gasparrini, M., Gerdes, A., Della Porta, G., Albert, R. (2021). In-situ U-Pb dating of Ries Crater lacustrine carbonates (Miocene, South-West Germany): Implications for continental carbonate chronostratigraphy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 568, 117011.
Ge, Y., Della Porta, G., Pederson, C. L., Lokier, S. W., Hoffmann, R., Immenhauser, A. (2021). Botryoidal and spherulitic aragonite in carbonates associated with microbial mats: precipitation or diagenetic replacement product?. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 488.
Nembrini, M., Della Porta, G., Berra, F. (2021). Development of coral–sponge–microbialite reefs in a coated grain-dominated carbonate ramp (Upper Jurassic, eastern Sardinia, Italy). Facies, 67(1), 1-32.
Berra, F., Azmy, K., Della Porta, G. (2020). Stable-isotope and fluid inclusion constraints on the timing of diagenetic events in the dolomitized Dolomia Principale inner platform (Norian, Southern Alps of Italy). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 121, 104615.
Angiolini, L., Crippa, G., Azmy, K., Capitani, G., Confalonieri, G., Della Porta, G., Griesshaber, E., Harper, D.A., Leng, M.J., Nolan, L., Orlandi, M., 2019. The giants of the phylum Brachiopoda: a matter of diet?. Palaeontology, 62(6), 889-917.
Nutz, A., Kwiecien, O., Breitenbach, S.F., Cai, Y., Della Porta, G., Danisch, J., Kabiri, L., Bodin, S., 2019. Fluvio‐lacustrine sedimentation in the Agadir‐Tissint Feija (Anti‐Atlas, Morocco): A promising palaeoclimate archive for the last glacial cycle in northwest Africa. The Depositional Record, 5(2), pp. 362-387.
Eberli, G. P., Bernoulli, D., Vecsei, A., Anselmetti, F.S., Mutti, M., Della Porta, G., Lüdmann, T., Grasmueck, M., Sekti, R. (2019). A Cretaceous carbonate delta drift in the Montagna della Maiella, Italy. Sedimentology. 66, 1266-1301.
Marini, M., Della Porta, G., Felletti, F., Grasso, B.M., Franzini, M., Casella, V. (2019). Insight into heterogeneous calcite cementation of turbidite channel-fills from UAV photogrammetry. Geosciences, 9(5), 236.
Ricci, C., Rusciadelli, G., Della Porta, G., Lanfranchi, A., Jadoul, F., Lathuilière, B. (2018). Sedimentary evolution of a coral-, microbialites- and debris-rich Upper Jurassic reef (upper Tithonian, eastern Sardinia, Italy). Sedimentary Geology, 376, 113-135.
Vola, G., Sarandrea, L., Della Porta, G., Cavallo, A., Jadoul, F., Cruciani, G. (2018). The influence of petrography, mineralogy and chemistry on burnability and reactivity of quicklime produced in Twin Shaft Regenerative (TSR) kilns from Neoarchean limestone (Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa). Mineralogy and Petrology 112 (4), 555-576.
Della Porta, G., Croci, A., Marini, M., Kele, S. (2017). Depositional architecture, facies character and geochemical signature of the Tivoli travertines (Pleistocene, Acque Albule Basin, Central Italy). RIPS Rivista Italiana Paleontologia e Stratratigrafia, 123 (3): 487-540.
Alçiçek, M.C., Alçiçek, H., Altunel, E., Arenas, C., Bons, P., Brogi, A., Capezzuoli, E., de Riese, T., Della Porta, G., Gandin, A., Guo, L., Jones, B., Karabacak, V., Kershaw, S., Liotta, D., Mindszenty, A., Pedley, M., Ronchi, P., Swennen, R., Temiz, U. (2017). Comment on “First records of syn-diagenetic non-tectonic folding in Quaternary thermogene travertines caused by hydrothermal incremental veining” by Billi et al. Tectonophysics 700–701 (2017) 60–79. Tectonophysics, 721, 491-500.
Nolan, L.S.P., Angiolini, L., Jadoul, F., Della Porta, G., Davies, S.J., Banks, V.J., Stephenson, M.H., Leng, M.J. (2017). Sedimentary context and palaeoecology of Gigantoproductus shell beds in the Mississippian Eyam Limestone Formation, Derbyshire carbonate platform, central England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 61(4), 239-257.
Bahamonde, J.R., Della Porta, G., Merino-Tomé, O. (2017). Lateral variability of shallow-water facies and high-frequency cycles in foreland basin carbonate platforms (Pennsylvanian, NW Spain). Facies 63 (2), 6-45.
Della Porta, G., Capezzuoli, E., De Bernardo, A. (2017). Facies character and depositional architecture of hydrothermal travertine slope aprons (Pleistocene, Acquasanta Terme, Central Italy), Marine and Petroleum Geology, 87, 171-187.
Merino-Tomé, Ó., Della Porta, G., Pierre, A., Kenter, J.A.M., Durlet, C., Verwer, K. (2017). Intact seismic-scale platforms and ramps in the Lower to Middle Jurassic of Morocco: Implications for stratal anatomy and lithofacies partitioning. AAPG Bulletin 101 (4), 505-513.
Della Porta, G., Bahamonde, J.R., Kenter, J.A.M., Verwer, K. (2017). The Sierra del Cuera (Pennsylvanian microbial platform margin) in Asturias, North Spain. AAPG Bulletin 101 (4), 543-551.
Croci, A., Della Porta, G., Capezzuoli, E. (2016). Depositional architecture of a mixed travertine-terrigenous system in a fault-controlled continental extensional basin (Messinian, Southern Tuscany, Central Italy). Sedimentary Geology, 332, 13-39.
Della Porta G., Webb G.E., McDonald, I. (2015). REE patterns of microbial carbonate and cements from Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) siliceous sponge mounds (Djebel Bou Dahar, HighAtlas, Morocco). Chemical Geology 400, 65–86.
Della Porta, G. (2015). Carbonate build-ups in lacustrine, hydrothermal and fluvial settings: comparing depositional geometry, fabric types and geochemical signature In: Bosence, D. W. J., Gibbons, K. A., Le Heron, D. P., Morgan, W. A., Pritchard, T., Vining, B. A. (eds), Microbial Carbonates in Space and Time: Implications for Global Exploration and Production. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 418, 17-68.
Bahamonde, J.R., Merino-Tomé, O., Della Porta, G., Villa, E. (2015). Pennsylvanian carbonate platforms adjacent to deltaic systems in an active marine foreland basin (Escalada Fm., Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain). Basin Research. 27, 208–229.
Della Porta, G., Merino-Tomé, O., Kenter, J.A.M., Verwer, K., (2014). Lower Jurassic microbial and skeletal carbonate factories and platform geometry (Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco). In Verwer K, Playton Te, Harris Pm (Editors). Deposits, architecture, and controls of carbonate margin, slope, and basinal settings, SEPM (Society For Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 105, 237-263, Tulsa, Ok.
Merino-Tomé, O., Della Porta, G., Kenter, J.A.M., Verwer, K., Harris, P.M., Adams, E., Playton, T. Corrochano, D. (2012). Sequence Development in an Isolated Carbonate Platform (Lower Jurassic, Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco): Influence of Tectonics, Eustacy and Carbonate Production. Sedimentology, 59, 118-155.
Marangon, A. Gattolin, G., Della Porta, G., Preto, N. (2011). The Latemar: A flat-topped, steep fronted platform dominated by microbialites and synsedimentary cements. Sedimentary Geology. 240, 97-114.
Williams, H.D, Burgess, P.M., Wright, V.P., Della Porta, G., Granjeon, D. (2011). Investigating carbonate platform types: multiple controls and a continuum of geometries. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 81, 18-37.
Verwer, K., Della Porta, G., Merino-Tome’ O., Kenter, J.A.M. (2009). Controls and predictability of carbonate facies architecture in a Lower Jurassic three-dimensional barrier-shoal complex (Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco). Sedimentology, 56, 1801-1831.
Verwer, K., Merino-Tome’ O., Kenter, J.A.M., Della Porta, G. (2009). Evolution of a high-relief carbonate platform slope using 3D digital outcrop models: lower Jurassic Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 79, 416-439.
Bahamonde, J.R., Kenter, J.A.M., Della Porta, G., Hoeflaken, F. (2008). Facies belt of a Carboniferous carbonate platform (San Antolin-La Huelga section, NE Cantabrian Zone). Trabajos de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo, 28: 69-86.
Della Porta, G., Mamet, B., Préat, A. (2007). Bacterial mediation in the formation of red limestones, Upper Carboniferous, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 10-16 August 2003. Wong, Th.E. (ed.) Royal Netherlands Academy of Art and Sciences, (KNAW, Amsterdam), 243-250.
Della Porta, G., Villa, E., Kenter, J.A.M. (2005). Facies distribution of Fusulinina in a Bashkirian-Moscovian carbonate-platform top (Cantabrian Mts., NW Spain). Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 35: 1-24. Scopus Citations: 23
Kenter, J.A.M., Harris, P.M., Della Porta, G. (2005). Steep microbial boundstone-dominated platform margins – examples and implications. Sedimentary Geology, 178: 5-30.
Bahamonde, J.R., Kenter, J.A.M., Della Porta, G., Keim, L., Immenhauser, A., Reijmer, J.J.G. (2004). Lithofacies and depositional processes on a high, steep-margined Carboniferous (Bashkirian-Moscovian) carbonate platform slope, Sierra del Cuera, NW Spain. Sedimentary Geology, 166: 145-156.
Della Porta, G., Kenter, J.A.M., Bahamonde, J.R. (2004). Depositional facies and stratal geometry of an Upper Carboniferous prograding and aggrading high-relief carbonate platform (Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain). Sedimentology, 51: 267-295.
Verwer, K., Kenter, J.A.M., Maathuis, B., Della Porta, G. (2004). Stratal patterns and lithofacies of an intact seismic-scale Carboniferous carbonate platform (Asturias, NW Spain): A virtual outcrop model. In: A. Curtis and R. Wood (Editors), Geological Prior Information: Informing Science and Engineering. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 239, 29-41.
Della Porta, G., Kenter, J.A.M., Bahamonde, J.R., Immenhauser, A., Villa, E. (2003). Microbial boundstone dominated carbonate slope (Upper Carboniferous, N Spain): microfacies, lithofacies distribution and stratal geometry. Facies, 49: 175-208.
Immenhauser, A., Della Porta, G., Kenter, J.A.M., Bahamonde, J.R. (2003). An alternative model for positive shifts in shallow marine carbonate δ13C and δ18O. Sedimentology, 50: 953-960.
Della Porta, G., Kenter, J.A.M., Bahamonde, J.R. (2002). Microfacies and paleoenvironment of Donezella accumulations across an Upper Carboniferous high-rising carbonate platform (Asturias, NW Spain). Facies, 46: 159-168.
Della Porta, G., Kenter, J.A.M., Immenhauser, A., Bahamonde, J.R. (2002). Lithofacies character and architecture across a Pennsylvanian inner-platform transect (Sierra de Cuera, Asturias, Spain). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72: 898-916.

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Sedimentologika https://oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk/
From 11/2022 to present Executive Editor.
Reviewer of scientific journals: Geology (best reviewer for Geology in 2017), Sedimentology, The Depositional Record, Basin Research, Sedimentary Geology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Rivista Italiana di Stratigrafia e Paleontologia, Quaternary International, AAPG Bulletin, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Italian Journal of Geosciences, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Scientific Report.
Reviewer of project FIRB, international project for NSF (National Science Foundation, USA), Swiss SF Science Foundation, Slovenian Science Foundation, Copernicus.
Developer and designer of http//www.carbonateworld.com
A web-based Atlas for petrographic analysis of carbonate rocks https://carbonateworld.com/

CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE
From 2000 to present, over 100 abstracts for oral and poster presentations at international conferences and over 40 conference attendances (10 of which session conveners and member of the scientific committee).
MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) from 2002 to 2016
American Association of Petroleum Geology (AAPG) from 2002 to 2017
Geological Society of America (GSA) from 2002 to 2010
International Association of Sedimentology (IAS) from 2002 to present
Italian Geological Society (SGI) from 2007 to present
GeoSed (Italian Association of Sedimentary Geologists) from 2010 to present
From August 2014 to December 2018: Vice-president of IAS International Association of Sedimentologists

FUNDING
2025 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service) research grant “Research Stays and Study Visits for University Academics and Scientists” of 3 months for a research stay at the University of Goettingen, Department of Geobiology, Goettingen, Germany for developing the project: Processes of carbonate precipitation in hydrothermal travertine from Central Italy: abiotic vs. microbially mediated and organomineralic carbonate precipitation in extreme environments under the supervision of Prof. Joachim Reitner and Jan-Peter Duda.
2018 Principal investigator of research contract of Euro 109,000 funded by OMV (Austria) to investigate the Upper Triassic carbonate platform succession in the Northern Calcareous Alps of Austria.
2013-2016 Participation to research project supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government (MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA E INNOVACIÓN DEL GOBIERNO DE ESPAÑA), with reference MINECO-13-CGL2013-44458-P (Euro 75.020), focused on the Oceanographic and climatic changes during the onset of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age (Mississippian-Early Pennsylvanian): the pelagic record of the N Spain. Project principal investigator: Dr. Oscar Merino Tome' (Oviedo University, Asturias, Spain).
2013-2016 Participation to Italian Ministery PRIN project PRIN 2010-2011: Scientific coordinator Prof. Eugenio Carminati (Universita' Roma La Sapienza). Local unit principle investigator: Prof. Fabrizio Berra (Universita' degli Studi di Milano). Project Title: “Crises and recovery of carbonate systems and potential for reservoir formation: the controls of climate, tectonics and magmatism”.
2013-2014 Principal investigator of research project "Fabric types, diagenesis and permeability in hydrothermal travertine deposits from Tivoli, Central Italy" funded (Euro 10.000 + donation of 6 borehole cores) and required by Statoil ASA (Norway) to study 6 borehole cores drilled in the travertines of the Acquae Albule Basin (Tivoli) and donated to Giovanna Della Porta (Milan University).
2013 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service) research grant “Research Stays and Study Visits for University Academics and Scientists” of 3 months for a research stay at the University of Goettingen, Department of Geobiology, Goettingen, Germany for developing the project: Processes of carbonate precipitation in hydrothermal travertine from Central Italy: abiotic vs. microbially mediated and organomineralic carbonate precipitation in extreme environments under the supervision of Prof. Joachim Reitner.
2012 Contract for training course of Euro 32,784 required by Statoil (Norway) relative to carbonate sedimentology and carbonate platforms in Northern Spain.
2011 Free donation of Euro 5,000 by Maersk Oil (Denmark) in support of the website carbonateworld.com (an atlas for the petrographic analysis of carbonate rocks) developed by Giovanna Della Porta.
2011 Research contract of Euro 5,000 funded by Chevron ETC (San Ramon CA) for a study about carbonate platform slopes and escarpments.
2010-2012 Italian Ministery PRIN project (cofunded MIUR 2008):
"Modello deposizionale dei carbonati di piattaforma marginale della Tetide settentrionale (Giurassico Superiore) Sardegna Orientale, Italia: un approccio quantitativo".
Depositional model of carbonate platform margin of the Northern Tethys (Upper Jurassic), Eastern Sardinia, Italy: a quantitative approach. Project principal investigator: Prof. Flavio Jadoul (Unimi) in collaboration with Prof. Giovanni Rusciadelli (Chieti University).
2010-2013 Research contract of Euro 161,000 funded by BG Group (UK), Repsol (Brasil), Statoil (Norway) for PhD studentship about “Porosity characterization and development in non-marine carbonates”