Curriculum Vitae

Fernando J. Gomez
CICTERRA-Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra
Velez Sarsfield 1611, Piso 2, Of. 4.
Ciudad Universitaria, Zip Code X5016GCA - Córdoba (Argentina)
Phone 54-0351-5353800 (ext. 30232)
Cell Phone 54-351-5164603
fjgomez@unc.edu.ar

Academic position and employment

  • Staff Researcher at CICTERRA, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, CONICET-UNC
  • Visiting Professor in Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Biogeochemistry, 2019-2020, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Washington University, Saint Louis (Missouri, USA) (2019-2020)
  • Professor in Stratigraphy and Carbonate Sedimentology and Geochemistry, 2010-current, Geology Department, FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
  • Invited Professor Stratigraphy (2017-2018), Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, e Islas del Atlántico Sur.

Education and Professional Experience

  • Visiting Researcher at the IPGP 2018 (Geobiosphère Actuelle et Primitive, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, and CNRS - Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Minéralogie de Physique des Matériaux et Cosmochimie, L Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France).
  • Visiting Researcher at the IPGP 2014 (Geobiosphère Actuelle et Primitive, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris).
  • Fulbright Scholar 2013, Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab, Dr. David Fike, Washington University, Saint Louis, United States of America.
  • Geo-Exobiology Research Scholar 2008-2009, Carbonate Sedimentology and Geochemistry Lab, Dr. Linda C. Kah, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department - University of Tennessee, United States of America.
  • PhD Geology, 2003-2008, Facultad de Ciencias Exáctas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
  • B.S. Geology, 1997-2003, Facultad de Ciencias Exáctas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

Research interests

  • Carbonate sedimentology (microfacies, diagenesis, geochemistry)
  • Geochemical evolution of carbonate systems through time
  • Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis
  • Geomicrobiology and biogeochemistry of carbonate systems
  • Astrobiology
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning applied to Sedimentology and Biogeochemistry

Grants and Fellowships

  • Fulbright Scholar Grant 2013 (David Fike Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab, Washington University, Saint Louis (Missouri, United States of America).
  • NASA Planetary Biology Internship 2008-2009 (Earth and Planetary Sciences Department - University of Tennessee).
  • Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies grant to attend to the International Geobiology Course 2008 (June 11-July 10), University of Souther California (USA).
  • CONICET Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008 (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas).
  • CONICET PhD Fellowship 2003, (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas).

Awards

  • Award Dr. Mario Iñiguez, Outstanding work 2014, XIV Argentine Sedimentology Meeting, P. Madryn, Argentina.
  • Fulbright Occasional Lecturer, Fund Travel Award 2013. As a lecturer at the University of California, Riverside, United States of America.
  • Best Educative Contribution Award, Cordobensis 2006. Teaching in Science Program, Córdoba Science Agency.
  • Best Contribution Award 2005, Book Chapter: Exploratory Frontiers in Argentina: Precordillera Region Basins VI Exploration and Development in Hydrocarbons Meeting, Mar del PlataPages 115-145.
  • Award Dr. Mario Iñiguez, Outstanding work 2014, X Argentine Sedimentology Meeting, San Luis, Argentina.

Publications

Under review and submitted

  • Mors, R.A., Gomez, F.J., Astini, R.A., Celestian, A.J., Corsetti, F.A., Spheroidal carbonate particles within a travertine system in the border of the Puna Plateau. Sedimentology.

  • Coppa Viggliocco, A., Astini, R.A., Gomez, F.J., submitted. Ooids diversity in the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. Sedimentology.

  • Lencina, A., Soria, M.N., Gomez, F.J., Farías, M.E., submitted. Composite Microbialites: Thrombolites, Dendrolites and Stromatolites Associations in a Modern Environment, Pozo Bravo lake, Salar de Antofalla, Catamarca Puna, Argentine. Sedimentary Geology.

  • Beeler, S.R., Gomez, F.G., Bradley, A., in review. Geospatial insights into the controls of microbialite formation at Laguna Negra, Argentina, Geobiology.

  • Henderson, M, Gomez, F.J., Anna Szynkiewiczc, A., Feltes, N., Serra, F., Albanesi, G., and Linda C. Kah, L.C., in review. Sulfur cycling in the Darriwilliam (Middle Ordovician) of Argentina: Implications for ocean circulation and the redox evolution of the Ordovician ocean. Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography

  • Boidi F.J., Gomez, F.J., Flores, M.R., Mlewski, E.C., Gerard, E., Benzerara K., Farías, M.E., in review. Characterization of the Stratified Microbial Mat associated with oncoids in the hyper saline Laguna Negra (Argentinean Andes), Microbial Ecology.

In press and accepted

  • Villafañe, P.G., Lencina, A.I., Soria, M., Saona, L.A., Gomez, F.J., Alonso, G.E., Farias, M.E., in press. Las Quinoas oncoids: A new deposit of microbialites in the Salar de Antofalla (Catamarca, Argentina). Andean Geology.

  • Gomez, F.J., Boidi, F.J., Mlewski, C.E., Gerard, E., 2020. The Carbonate System in Hypersaline Lakes: The Case of Laguna Negra (in the Puna Region of Catamarca, Argentina). In: M.E. Farias (ed), Microbial Ecosystems in Central Andes Extreme Environments Biofilms, Microbial Mats, Microbialites and Endoevaporites. Chaper 13, pages 231-242, Springer.

  • Boidi, F.J., Mlewski, C.E., Gomez, F.J., Gerard, E., 2020. Characterization of Microbialites and Microbial Mats of the Laguna Negra Hypersaline Lake (Puna of Catamarca, Argentina). In: M.E. Farias (ed), Microbial Ecosystems in Central Andes Extreme Environments Biofilms, Microbial Mats, Microbialites and Endoevaporites. Chapter 16, pages 183-203, Springer.

  • Piersigilli Iturra, Mors, A.R., A., Astini, R.A., Gomez, F.J., 2020. Travertinos fósiles de la Terma Los Hornos, Puna Austral de Catamarca, Argentina. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 77:4.

  • Astini, R.A., Coppa Vigliocco, A., Gomez, F.J., 2020. Una cuña marina dominada por mareas en la base de la Fm. Lecho en el extremo Noroeste Argentino. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 77:2.

  • Beeler, S.R., Gomez, F.J., and Bradley, A.S., 2020. Controls of extreme isotopic enrichment in modern microbialites and associated abiogenic carbonates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 269:136-149.

  • Mors, A., Astini, R.A., Gomez, F.J., 2019. Coexisting active travertines and tufas in the Southeastern border of the Puna Plateau. Sedimentary Geology, 389:200-217.

  • Buongiorno, J., Kah, L.C., Gomez, F.J., 2018. Microbialites as archives of environmental evolution of a hypersaline lake basin: Laguna Negra, Catamarca Province, Argentina. Geobiology, 1-24.

  • Teixeira, B.M.N., Astini, R.A., Gomez, F.J., Morales, N., Pimentel, M.M., 2018. Source-to-sink analysis of continental rift sedimentation: Triassic Cuyo basin, Precordillera Argentina. Sedimentary Geology, 376:164-184.

  • Mlewski, E.C., Pisapia, C., Gomez, F.J., Lecourt, L., Soto Rueda, E., Benzerara, K., Mènez, B., Borensztajn, S., Jamme, F., Rèfregiers, M., Gerard, E., 2018. Characterization of the structure and mineralogy of Rivularia-rich laminations in oncoids associated to pustular mats from Laguna Negra (Argentina). Frontiers in Microbiology, Research Topic: Characterizing Modern Microbialites and the Geobiological Processes Underlying their Formation, 9:996.

  • Shalygyn, S. Petrasiak, N., Gomez, F.J., Mlewski, C., Gerard, E., Johansen, J.R., 2018. Rivularia halophila sp. Nov. Nostocales Cyanobacteria - the first species of Rivularia described in the “molecular era”. European Journal of Phycology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09670262.2018.1479887.

  • Astini, R.A., Mors, R.A., Gomez, F.J., 2018. Brechas y conglomerados epiclásticos dentro de los complejos volcánicos del sureste de la Puna y su relación con la fragmentación del antepaís. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 75(1):64-79.

  • Gomez, F.J., Mlewski, C., Boidi, F., Farías, M.E., Gerard, E., 2018. Calcium carbonate precipitation within diatom-rich microbial mats: The Laguna Negra hypersaline lake, Catamarca (Argentina). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 88, 727-742.

  • Carrera, M., Astini, R.A., and Gomez, F.J., 2017. The oldest (Lowermost Ordovician) tabulate coral, Eofavosites N.Gen. from the Precordillera of western Argentina: Implications for the tabulates early evolution development. Journal of Paleontology, 91(1):73-85.

  • Gomez, F.J., and Astini, 2015. Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of a Mixed (Carbonate-Siliciclastic) Carbonate Platform in a Rift to Passive Margin Transition: Early to Middle Cambrian Argentina Precordillera. Sedimentary Geology 316:39-61.

  • Gomez, F.J., Kah, L.C., Bartley, J., and Astini, R.A., 2014. Microbialites in High-Altitude Andean Lakes: Multiple controls in carbonate precipitation and lamina accretion. Palaios. 29:233-249.

  • Gomez, F.J., 2012. La Biósfera Primitiva, La Tierra Actual y Vida Extraterrestre. Ciencia Hoy, Argentina. 22(128):21-27.

  • Gomez, F.J., Ogle, N., Astini, R.A., and Kalin, R.M., 2007. Paleoenvironmental and Carbo-Oxygen Isotope Record of Middle Cambrian Carbonates (La Laja Formation) in the Argentine Precordillera. Journal of Sedimentary Research 77:826-842.

  • Gomez, F.J. and Astini R.A., 2006. Sedimentología y Paleoambientes de la Formación La Laja, Quebrada La Laja, Sierra Chica de Zonda, San Juan. Revista Geológica de Chile 33(1):19-46.

  • Gomez, F.J., and Astini, R., 2005. Cianobacterias Renalciformes en el Cámbrico Medio de la Precordillera Argentina: Morfología, Posición Estratigráfica y Significado Paleoambiental. Ameghiniana, 42(1):221-232.

  • Best Contribution Award: Gomez, F.J., 2006. La Tierra Primitiva y la Vida: Como la Tierra se Volvi'{o} Habitable, Evidencias del Registro Geológico (Rocas y Minerales). Published in all high-schools of Cordoba Province - Cordobensis Award 2006, Córdoba Science Agency. 32 páginas, ISBN: 978-987-1353-05-7.

  • Best Contribution Award: Astini, R., Dávila, F.M., Lopez Gamundi, O., Gomez, F.J., Collo, G., Ezpeleta, M., Martina, F., and Ortiz, A., 2005. Cuencas de la Región Precordillerana. VI Congreso de Desarrollo y Exploración de Hidrocarburos, Pages 115-145.

In preparation

  • Gomez, F.J. and Astini, R., in prep. Unusual intraclastic rudstones: biogeochemical, diagenetic and sedimentary processes controlling early cementation of traces fossils. To submit to Sedimentary Geology.

  • Gomez, F.J., Book in prep. Ecuaciones diferenciales y métodos numéricos en Geociencias: uso de Python To submit to Publicación Especial Asociación Argentina de Sedimentología.

Teaching activities

  • Visiting professor of Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Biogeochemistry, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri (USA) (2019-2020).
  • Professor of Stratigraphy and Historical Geology, FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
  • Professor in Carbonate Sedimentology and Geochemistry, FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
  • Invited Professor: Postgraduate Course Estructura, metagenomica y funciones de comunidades microbianas de ambientes poco explorados San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina.
  • Instructor Field Course 2017 for undergraduate students of the Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Industry activities

  • STAN (Servicio Técnico de Alto Nivel) CONICET-CICTERRA - Consulting activities for PETROBRAS Oil Company (Brazil) 2010-Present. Contact information: Vania campinho, Petrobras, Ríoo de Janeiro, Brazil vcampinho@petrobras.com.br.

  • Instructor for field and classroom courses for PETROBRAS employees training in Carbonate Sedimentology and Biogeochemstry. Contact information: Vania campinho, Petrobras, Río de Janeiro, Brazil vcampinho@petrobras.com.br.

Recent research funding

  • Project PIP 2015-2017. Sedimentology, geomicrobiology and biogeochemistry of continental carbonates: comparative studies of ancient and modern examples. Project leader: Dr. Fernando J. Gomez.

  • Project SECYT-UNC 2014-2016. Experimental silicification of biofilms and microbial mats from hypersaline lakes (Laguna Negra, Catamarca, Argentina): in situ and laboratory microbial taphonomy studies and its potential to understand early biosphere record. Project leader: Dr. Fernando J. Gomez.

  • International Cooperation Project CONICET-CNRS (Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris, France) (2015-2016). Microbial carbonate precipitation in hypersaline lakes: microbe-mineral interactions in extreme environments and their implication for CO2 storage in carbonates. Project leaders: Dr. Fernando J. Gomez, Dra. Cecilia Mlewski, Dr. Emmanuelle Gèrard (Gèobiosphère actuelle et primitive Research Group, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) and Dr. Karim Benzerara (Institut de Mineralogie, de Physique des Materiaux et de Cosmochimie, L’Universite Pierre et Marie Curie).

  • Project PICT Bicentenario 2010-1788. _Estromatolitos y tapetes microbianos de Lagunas Andinas: Estudios de prospección, biodiversidad, metagenómica como base de la conservación y aplicación biotecnológica de ecosistemas nacionales estratégicos}. Project leader: Dra. María Eugenia Farías (PROIMI-CONICET), Project member: Dr. Fernando J. Gomez.

Activities as editor

  • Asociate Editor, Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis

Peer reviewing

  • Geology
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences.
  • Sedimentary Geology.
  • Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography.
  • LAJSBA Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis.
  • Acta Geológica Lilloana.
  • Revista Asociación Geológica Argentina.