Adriana Cecilia Mancuso

Returning to the basins where this story beganSome scientific questions stay with you for years.In our case, that question lives in a series of ancient lake and river deposits exposed across wester...

Field, Lab, and a Critical Moment for the ProjectOver the past weeks, our work has been advancing across multiple fronts — from the field to the lab, and through the process of sharing this journey...

We are about to open a 230-million-year-old climate archive — and you can be part of itSomewhere in western Argentina, beneath the desert sun, lie the remains of ancient lakes that existed long bef...

Reading Ancient Lakes to Understand a Global Climate Crisis 230 Million Years AgoAround 230 million years ago, during the Late Triassic, Earth experienced a dramatic climate disruption known as the...

From Landscape to Evidence: How We Reconstruct Ancient EcosystemsThis is only part of the story.Supporters get access to the full photo essay and the behind-the-scenes work that makes this research...

Meet the researcher!!!Hello, and thank you for stopping by.My name is Adriana, and I consider myself, above all, a naturalist. What drives my work is a deep curiosity about how past ecosystems func...

Before the fossils: what it takes to do field paleontology in ArgentinaBefore the first fossil is uncovered, before the long days in the field begin, there is a less visible but essential part of d...