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abio Massimo Petti. 1) MUSE - Museo delle Scienze di Trento, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38122 Trento, Italy; fabio.petti@muse.it and PaleoFactory, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
Ph.D. in Palaeontology he works on Paleozoic and Mesozoic tetrapod tracks and their bearings on the palaeogeographical and palaeoecological reconstructions. He is currently employed as senior paleontologist at the MUSE, Science Museum of Trento where is working on the EUREGIO project: The end-Permian mass extinction in the Southern and Eastern Alps: extinction rates vs taphonomic biases in different depositional environments.
Marco Petruzzelli. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy. marco.petruzzelli@uniba.it
Ph.D. in Carbonate Stratigraphy, competence in vertebrate ichnology and Mesozoic vertebrate paleontology. Certified for fossil restoring, paleontological excavations and geological survey in Europe and USA. Curator of contents and texts for science expositions and museums. Expert in procedures of Italian national cultural heritage catalog (SIGEC and ICCD), 3D laser scanning, 3D modeling, photogrammetry and certified for tracking caves and underground artificial structures.
Jacopo Conti. PaleoFactory, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy and Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy. jacopo.conti@uniroma1.it
Ph.D. student at the Department of Earth Sciences of Sapienza, University of Rome, on the evolution and distribution of brown bears in Europe. He develops a growing interest in 3D modeling, virtual restoration and geometric morphometry as an analysis tool for paleontological and archaeological findings. He is a member of the "PaleoFactory" virtual paleontology laboratory of the Department of Earth Sciences of Sapienza, University of Rome.
Luigi Spalluto. Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy and Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy. luigi.spalluto@adb.puglia.it
Ph.D. in Sedimentary Geology, he works on stratigraphy and sedimentology of Mesozoic carbonate rocks. He is currently employed as senior geologist at the Basin Authority of the Apulia Region where he is working on the hydrogeological hazard of Apulia.
Alexander Wagensommer. GRID (Gruppo di Ricerca sulle Impronte di Dinosauro), San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy. wagensommer@tiscali.it
He studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Münster (Germany), specializing on Neogene forams. However, his interest switched to dinosaur ichnology by the early 2000s. Since then, he has performed research in that field as an independent researcher, mainly in Italy, Madagascar and Namibia.
Massimiliano Lamendola. Autorità di Bacino Della Puglia - Distretto dell’Appennino Meridionale c/o INNOVAPUGLIA (Ex Tecnopolis CSATA) Str. Prov. per Casamassima, Km 3 - 70010 Valenzano (Bari), Italy. massimiliano.lamendola@adb.puglia.it
Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences and second-level Master in Ecological Sustainability and Energetic Efficiency. He is currently employed as technician surveyor at the Basin Authority of Apulia Region where he is working on monitoring the erosion of sandy beaches in Apulia.
Roberto Francioso. Autorità di Bacino Della Puglia - Distretto dell’Appennino Meridionale c/o INNOVAPUGLIA (Ex Tecnopolis CSATA) Str. Prov. per Casamassima, Km 3 - 70010 Valenzano (Bari), Italy. roberto.francioso@adb.puglia.it
Master’s degree in Geological Sciences and second-level Professional Master's Program in Remote Sensing for geo-environmental planning. He is currently employed as senior geologist at the Basin Authority of the Apulia Region where he is working on monitoring the erosion of sandy beaches in Apulia.
Giovanni Montrone. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy. giovanni.montrone@uniba.it
Expert in geophysical surveys and drone pilot with ENAC, he is currently employed as a technician and safety officer of Department of Earth Sciences and Geo-environmental Sciences of the University of Bari.
Luisa Sabato. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy, and Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy. luisa.sabato@uniba.it
Associate Professor of stratigraphy and sedimentology at the University of Bari, her main interests concern facies analysis of continental and shallow-marine successions, and the study of geological heritage.
Marcello Tropeano. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy. marcello.tropeano@uniba.it
Associate Professor of stratigraphy and sedimentology at the University of Bari, his prevailing interests concern facies- to basin-analysis and sequence stratigraphy of carbonate and shallow-marine successions.
