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Objectivies Basic knowledge of microfossils and their applications in paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic fields. Identification of the most significant ecological groups of foraminifers. Knowledge of the most common methods on the microfossils studies. Analysis for the stratigraphical, paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstructions. Learning outcomes: Skills and Attributes: Successful students will be able to apply benthic and planktic foraminifers as proxies for paleoclimatic and paleoecological reconstructions. At the end of the course the average student will be able to do a micropaleontological analyses on incoherent e coherent materials by mean of the most common ecological foraminiferal groups, and to reconstruct a paleoclimatic curve. They will be able to do a n environmental characterization and to apply the biomonitoring methods.