Dánae Sanz Pérez

CL Climate: Past, Present & Future

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Dánae Sanz Pérez for the poster/PICO entitled:

Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological changes during the early GABI in the Argentine Pampas: a stable isotope approach (Sanz Pérez, D.; Montalvo, C. I.; Mehl, A. E.; Tomassini, R. L.; Hernández Fernández, M.; Domingo, L.)

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Dánae Sanz Pérez is a PhD. candidate at the Faculty of Geological Sciences of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Her research explores Argentina's paleoenvironmental, paleoecological and paleoclimatic conditions through stable isotope analysis. Stable isotope data from fossil mammalian bioapatite allow her to infer variables related to climate (e.g., temperature, precipitation), environment (e.g., vegetation cover), and ecology of selected taxa (e.g., resource and habitat use, trophic interactions).
The research presented at EGU 2024 is part of her thesis dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Domingo, Dr. Hernández Fernández and Dr. Tomassini. Using a combination of carbon and oxygen isotopes, this study showed the paleoenvironmental and paleoecological evolution of the Argentine Pampa during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene. The study of bioapatite samples from eight fossil localities reflects changes in herbivore diets associated with changes in aridity and/or temperature.