Email: giorgia.camperio@unine.ch
Project: BioMoQA (Biodiversity Monitoring via Question Answering) and BioMonI (Biodiversity Monitoring of Island Ecosystems)
Research:
My research focuses on island ecosystems and their conservation from a variety of perspectives, including biodiversity monitoring, human-wildlife interactions, and environmental change. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Conservation Biology Lab, I review island biodiversity monitoring schemes to enhance AI-powered tools (BioMoQA) and support long-term monitoring networks on islands (BioMonI). Previously, I investigated human-wildlife interactions in the Galápagos (MSc) and reconstructed environmental changes in Vanuatu using lake sediment cores (PhD). My goal is to integrate past and present ecological data to inform effective conservation strategies.
Academic Background:
2023 PhD Earth Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2015 MSc Tropical Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2013 BSc Environmental Science, University of Florence, Italy
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=iLz5UsgAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Select Publications:
Camperio, G., Ladd, N., Prebble, M., Lloren, R., Argiriadis, E., Nelson, D., Krentscher, C., & Dubois, N. (2024). Sedimentary biomarkers of human presence and taro cultivation reveal early horticulture in Remote Oceania. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 667.
Camperio, G., Castiello, M. E., Jara, I. A., van Kolfschoten, T., Marcisz, K., & Moraga, D. (2023). Challenges and opportunities of communicating interdisciplinary paleoscience: An early-career researchers’ perspective. Past Global Changes Magazine, (31), 38. https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.31.1.38
Ladd, S. N., Maloney, A. E., Nelson, D. B., Prebble, M., Camperio, G., Sear, D. A., Hassallh, J. D., Langdon, P. G, Sachs, J. P., & Dubois, N. (2021). Leaf Wax Hydrogen Isotopes as a Hydroclimate Proxy in the Tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(3) https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005891
Krentscher, C., Dubois, N., Camperio, G., Prebble, M., & Ladd, S. N. (2019). Palmitone as a potential species-specific biomarker for the crop plant taro (Colocasia esculenta Schott) on remote Pacif
Benitez-Capistros, F.*, Camperio, G.*, Hugé, J., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., & Koedam, N. (2018). Emergent conservation conflicts in the Galapagos Islands: Human-giant tortoise interactions in the rural area of Santa Cruz Island. PloS one, 13(9) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202268 *Both authors contributed equally
