The 2024 edition of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly is just around the corner, scheduled to take place both on-site in Vienna and virtually from 14 to 21 April. Among presenters at this year's EGU General Assembly are researche... Read more
25-03-2024 News
El Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) acogió el pasado 14 de marzo el kick off de la nueva conexión Geociencias para un planeta sostenible. Esta nueva propuesta, coordinada por Blas Valero Garcés, del Instituto Pirenaico de Ecolog... Read more
18-03-2024 News
A study presents the first complete archaeomagnetic data of the magnetic field vector for Central Asia, a vast region that has been largely unexplored from an archaeomagnetic perspective for a long time. Bet Beamud, head of the Paleomagnetism laborat... Read more
11-03-2024 News
El investigador de Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), Ramon Carbonell, ha sido nombrado nuevo vicepresidente de la Comisión para la coordinación y Racionalización de Infraestructuras Científicas y Técnicas Singulares (ICTS) y participación en Infr... Read more
06-03-2024 News
A new international study indicates that the Northwest Greenland Ice Stream may be much younger than previously believed. The article, published in the journal Nature Communications and led by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), helps to better under... Read more
22-02-2024 News
Una nova publicació de Nature analitza els llindars potencials que podrien empènyer la selva amazònica a un punt de no retorn. L’estudi, amb participació del Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CSIC), estima que per al 2050 entre el 10% i... Read more
14-02-2024 News
L'alumnat del centre educatiu Front Marítim va visitar al gener els laboratoris de microscòpia i de paleomagnetisme de Geociències Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC). L'activitat, realitzada en el marc de la iniciativa Ciència al Barri, va ser dirigida pels re... Read more
30-01-2024 News
El programa CSIC COCREA cofinancia cinco proyectos para acelerar la transición energética a partir de la producción, conversión, almacenamiento y gestión de energías limpias y sostenible. Para promover esta transición energética, los proyectos selecc... Read more
18-01-2024 News
Dos imágenes de Stephanie Barde-Cabusson obtienen el primer y tercer puesto del Concurso de Fotografía 2023 organizado por Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC). Los resultados fueron presentados en la tradicional jornada de invierno del instituto, ce... Read more
21-12-2023 News
L’investigador de Geociències Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), Dario Pedrazzi, és el guanyador de la Beca Oriol de Bolòs de Ciències Naturals 2023 per un estudi que porta per títol ‘Edat absoluta i caracterització vulcanològica de dos dels possibles volcans... Read more
14-12-2023 News
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Read moreFlores, B. M., Montoya, E., Sakschewski, B., Nascimento, N., Staal, A., Betts, R. A., Levis, C., Lapola, D. M., Esquível-Muelbert, A., Jakovac, C., Nobre, C. A., Oliveira, R. S., Borma, L. S., Nian, D., Boers, N., Hecht, S. B., ter Steege, H., Arieira, J., Lucas, I. L., … Hirota, M. (2024). Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system. Nature, 626(7999), 555–564. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0
Read moreJansen, D., Franke, S., Bauer, C. C., Binder, T., Dahl-Jensen, D., Eichler, J., Eisen, O., Hu, Y., Kerch, J., Llorens, M.-G., Miller, H., Neckel, N., Paden, J., de Riese, T., Sachau, T., Stoll, N., Weikusat, I., Wilhelms, F., Zhang, Y., & Bons, P. D. (2024). Shear margins in upper half of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream were established two millennia ago. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45021-8
Read moreSayedi, S. S., Abbott, B. W., Vannière, B., Leys, B., Colombaroli, D., Romera, G. G., Słowiński, M., Aleman, J. C., Blarquez, O., Feurdean, A., Brown, K., Aakala, T., Alenius, T., Allen, K., Andric, M., Bergeron, Y., Biagioni, S., Bradshaw, R., Bremond, L., …, Montoya, E., Daniau, A.-L. (2024). Assessing changes in global fire regimes. Fire Ecology, 20(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9
Read moreAbbasi, M., Ghods, A., Najafi, M., Abbasy, S., Amiri, M., Shabanian, E., Kheradmandi, M., & Asgari, J. (2023). Why does western Makran have a low seismicity rate? Tectonophysics, 869, 230134. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TECTO.2023.230134
Read moreSantamaría-Pérez, D., Chuliá-Jordán, R., Gonzalez-Platas, J., Otero-de-la-Roza, A., Ruiz-Fuertes, J., Pellicer-Porres, J., Oliva, R., & Popescu, C. (2024). Polymorphism and Phase Stability of Hydrated Magnesium Carbonate Nesquehonite MgCO3·3H2O: Negative Axial Compressibility and Thermal Expansion in a Cementitious Material. Crystal Growth & Design. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01171
Read moreHassan, W., Su, F., Liu, W., Hassan, J., Hassan, M., Bazai, N. A., Wang, H., Yang, Z., Ali, M., & Castellanos, D. G. (2023). Impact of glacier changes and permafrost distribution on debris flows in Badswat and Shishkat catchments, Northern Pakistan. Journal of Mountain Science, 20(12), 3687–3702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-023-7894-5
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Bernárdez, P., R. Prego, S. Giralt, J. Esteve, M. Caetano, S. Parra, and G. Francés (2012), Geochemical and mineralogical characterization of surficial sediments from the Northern Rias: Implications for sediment provenance and impact of the source rocks, Marine Geology, 291-294, 63-72, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.11.003.
Cañellas-Boltà, N., V. Rull, A. Sáez, O. Margalef, S. Giralt, J. J. Pueyo, H. H. Birks, H. J. B. Birks, and S. Pla-Rabes (2012), Macrofossils in Raraku Lake (Easter Island) integrated with sedimentary and geochemical records: Towards a palaeoecological synthesis for the last 34,000 years, Quaternary Science Reviews, 34, 113-126, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.013.
Gómez-Paccard, M., J. C. Larrasoaa, S. Giralt, and A. P. Roberts (2012), First paleomagnetic results of mid-to late Holocene sediments from Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan): Implications for paleosecular variation in central Asia, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(1), doi: 10.1029/2011GC004015.
Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., J. Sigró, and S. Giralt (2012), Connection between El Niño-Southern Oscillation events and river nitrate concentrations in a Mediterranean river, Science of the Total Environment, 426, 446-453, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.03.079.
Ballesteros, D., M. Jiménez-Sánchez, J. García-Sansegundo, and S. Giralt (2011), Geological methods applied to speleogenetical research in vertical caves: The example of Torca Teyera shaft (Picos de Europa, northern Spain), Carbonates and Evaporites, 26(1), 29-40, doi: 10.1007/s13146-011-0052-7.
Colonese, A. C., E. Camarós, E. Verdún, J. Estévez, S. Giralt, and M. Rejas (2011), Integrated archaeozoological research of shell middens: New insights into hunter-gatherer-fisher coastal exploitation in Tierra del Fuego, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 6(2), 235-254, doi: 10.1080/15564894.2011.586088.
Corella, J. P., A. Moreno, M. Morellón, V. Rull, S. Giralt, M. T. Rico, A. Pérez-Sanz, and B. L. Valero-Garcés (2011), Climate and human impact on a meromictic lake during the last 6,000 years (Montcortès Lake, Central Pyrenees, Spain), Journal of Paleolimnology, 46(3), 351-367, doi: 10.1007/s10933-010-9443-3.
Giralt, S., M. T. Rico-Herrero, J. C. Vega, and B. L. Valero-Garcés (2011), Quantitative climate reconstruction linking meteorological, limnological and XRF core scanner datasets: The Lake Sanabria case study, NW Spain, Journal of Paleolimnology, 46(3), 487-502, doi: 10.1007/s10933-011-9509-x.
Hernández, A., R. Bao, S. Giralt, P. A. Barker, M. J. Leng, H. J. Sloane, and A. Sáez (2011), Biogeochemical processes controlling oxygen and carbon isotopes of diatom silica in Late Glacial to Holocene lacustrine rhythmites, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299(3-4), 413-425, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.11.020.
Larrasoaña, J. C., M. Gómez-Paccard, S. Giralt, and A. P. Roberts (2011), Rapid locking of tectonic magnetic fabrics in weakly deformed mudrocks, Tectonophysics, 507(1-4), 16-25, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.05.003.
Martín-Puertas, C., B. L. Valero-Garcés, M. P. Mata, A. Moreno, S. Giralt, F. Martínez-Ruiz, and F. Jiménez-Espejo (2011), Geochemical processes in a Mediterranean Lake: A high-resolution study of the last 4,000 years in Zoñar Lake, southern Spain, Journal of Paleolimnology, 46(3), 405-421, doi: 10.1007/s10933-009-9373-0.
Nieto-Moreno, V., F. Martínez-Ruiz, S. Giralt, F. Jiménez-Espejo, D. Gallego-Torres, M. Rodrigo-Gámiz, J. García-Orellana, M. Ortega-Huertas, and G. J. De Lange (2011), Tracking climate variability in the western Mediterranean during the Late Holocene: A multiproxy approach, Climate of the Past, 7(4), 1395-1414, doi: 10.5194/cp-7-1395-2011.
Rull, V., P. González-Sampériz, J. P. Corella, M. Morellón, and S. Giralt (2011), Vegetation changes in the southern Pyrenean flank during the last millennium in relation to climate and human activities: The Montcortès lacustrine record, Journal of Paleolimnology, 46(3), 387-404, doi: 10.1007/s10933-010-9444-2.
Giralt, S., L. Cabrera, and E. H. Gierlowski-Kordesch (2010), Paleolimnology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 294(1-2), 1-3, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.030.
Giralt, S., and B. L. Valero-Garcés (2010), Paleolimnology, Journal of Quaternary Science, 25(7), 1049-1050, doi: 10.1002/jqs.1446.
Hernández, A., S. Giralt, R. Bao, A. Sáez, M. J. Leng, and P. A. Barker (2010), ENSO and solar activity signals from oxygen isotopes in diatom silica during late glacial-Holocene transition in central Andes (18°S), Journal of Paleolimnology, 44(2), 413-429, doi: 10.1007/s10933-010-9412-x.
Rull, V., N. Cañellas-Boltà, A. Sáez, S. Giralt, S. Pla, and O. Margalef (2010), Paleoecology of Easter Island: Evidence and uncertainties, Earth-Science Reviews, 99(1-2), 50-60, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.02.003.
Sáez, A., B. L. Valero-Garcés, S. Giralt, A. Moreno, R. Bao, J. J. Pueyo, A. Hernández, and D. Casas (2009), Glacial to Holocene climate changes in the SE Pacific. The Raraku Lake sedimentary record (Easter Island, 27°S), Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(25-26), 2743-2759, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.018.