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Datasets de Ciencias de la Tierra en EPOS: un caso práctico de participación en la Nube Europea de Ciencia Abierta
EPOS (European Plate Observing System), proyecto en el que participan varios investigadores de Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN – CSIC), es una de las primeras infraestructuras en sumarse a la Nube Europea de Ciencia Abierta (EOSC, en sus siglas en ing... Read more
01-09-2020 Institutional News
El nuevo libro de Valentí Rull sintetiza por primera vez todo el conocimiento paleoecológico sobre la Isla de Pascua
La Isla de Pascua, situada en la Polinesia Oriental (aunque políticamente pertenece a Chile), se ha presentado tradicionalmente como un modelo microcósmico de lo que podría ocurrir en toda la Tierra si se continúa con los niveles de consumo y explota... Read more
01-09-2020 Research News
Los sismómetros son capaces de registrar las tormentas magnéticas del Sol
El 7 de septiembre de 2017 se produjo una variación súbita del campo magnético terrestre, un fenómeno que se conoce como Sudden Storm Commencement (SSC) y que está provocado por el incremento brusco del viento solar, debido a su vez a una variación e... Read more
01-09-2020 Research News
El Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera pasa a llamarse Geociencias Barcelona
El Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera (ICTJA-CSIC) renueva su nombre y pasa a llamarse Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN – CSIC). Así lo recoge la resolución del 3 de julio de 2020 aprobada por la presidencia de la agencia estatal Consejo S... Read more
31-08-2020 Institutional News
Los investigadores Joan Martí y Adelina Geyer, en la nueva serie de Netflix ‘Superconectados’
Los investigadores de Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC) Adelina Geyer y Joan Martí aparecen en la nueva serie científica ‘Superconectados’ de Netflix. Se trata del episodio 4 titulado ‘Dígitos’ y que tiene como protagonista la ley Benford. ... Read more
28-08-2020 Institutional News
La pandemia de la Covid-19 causa un período de silencio sísmico
La pandemia por la Covid-19 ha provocado un parón de la actividad humana a nivel mundial. Ciudadanos de diferentes países han permanecido confinados en sus casas durante semanas, dejando de usar durante ese periodo los transportes y provocando el cie... Read more
23-07-2020 Research News
OPEN POSITIONS
Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN) busca a una persona para cubrir la vacante de gestor de proyectos, colaborando en la planificación y programación de las tareas y actividad de los proyectos, entre otras funciones. Buscamos candidatos que hayan finaliz... Read more
19-07-2020 Institutional News
SIT4ME held a new working meeting to get ready for the last year of the project
Representatives from all four partners of SIT4ME project met together via video-conference last 23rd June for a new working meeting to prepare the last year of the project. Ramon Carbonell (PI), Irene DeFelipe and Juan Alcalde, from ICTJA-CSIC; Alire... Read more
25-06-2020 Research News
From planet Earth to exoplanets: new life research frontiers in astrobiogeology
Is the exoplanet Kepler-452 b, located at fourteen hundred light years from Earth -potentially habitable? At what other places of the Universe can the phenomenon of life have taken place? All these questions on life research inside and outside the So... Read more
22-06-2020 Research News
How seismometers record church bells ringing
A new study has compared the different types of bell ringing to indicate the passage of time used in several European countries using recordings of seismometers installed near bell towers. The study, made by ICTJA-CSIC researcher Jordi Díaz and recen... Read more
16-06-2020 Research News
New PhD thesis sheds light on the dynamics and evolution of double subduction systems with opposite polarity
Mireia Peral defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Dynamics of subduction systems with opposite polarity in adjacent segments: application to the westernmost Mediterranean” on June On 3rd June. The main purpose of the work, which has been supervised by M... Read more
15-06-2020 Research News
Unravelling the causes of the Neotropical biodiversity
It is estimated that the Amazon forest contains more tree species diversity in per square kilometer than do all temperate forests of Europe, North America, and Asia combined. It is just an example of the wondrous biological diversity of the Neotropic... Read more
04-06-2020 Research News
Monitoring the "seismic heartbeat" of the city during the coronavirus lockdown
The lockdown to curtail the spread of the coronavirus has also been reflected in the seismometers records. ICTJA-CSIC researcher, Jordi Díaz, has been analyzing, since last March 13, when lockdown was declared, the variations of the ground vibrations... Read more
30-04-2020 Research News
SERA project comes to an end
After three years, SERA project (Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infraestucture Aliance for Europe) comes to an end. The project final meeting was virtually held on 23 and 24 of April. During the meeting, each working package presented... Read more
27-04-2020 Research News
Las plantaciones forestales han alterado el ciclo del nitrógeno de las lagunas costeras de clima mediterráneo de Chile
Los cambios de uso y cobertura del suelo, y en especial las plantaciones forestales realizadas durante la decada de los 70 del siglo XX, han alterado el ciclo del nitrógeno más que ningún otro cambio climático o las actividades humanas en los últimos... Read more
22-04-2020 Research News
EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online
This year, and due to the coronavirus outbreak, the physical edition of EGU General Assembly has been cancelled. Instead, EGU Council have come up with a more online-friendly emergency alternative for this year: EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (# ... Read more
17-04-2020 Research News
Valentí Rull analyzes the impact of Quaternary climate changes on the biosphere evolution in his new book
Quaternary is the geological period that started 2.6 million years ago, and it is defined by the glacial cycles. Valentí Rull, researcher at ICTJA-CSC, explains in his new book ‘Quaternary, ecology, evolution and biogeography’ the responses of organi... Read more
15-04-2020 Research News
Videoconference allowed ICTJA-CSIC researchers to attend SEISMIX 2020
Juan Alcalde and Ramon Carbonell attended online the XIXth edition of the Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continent and their Margins (SEISMIX 2020) international simposyum, which was held in Freemantle (Australia) between 15 and 19 March. ... Read more
27-03-2020 Research News
Desarrollan un modelo de alta resolución de velocidades sísmicas de Costa Rica a partir del ruido sísmico
Costa Rica ya tiene un modelo de alta resolución de la distribución de velocidades de ondas S de la corteza superior de todo el país realizado mediante tomografía 3D a partir del ruido sísmico. Este nuevo modelo es el principal resultado de la tesis ... Read more
26-03-2020 Research News
Investigadores del ICTJA-CSIC realizan una nueva campaña de campo para estudiar las erupciones holocenas del Teide y Pico Viejo
Investigadores del Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera del CSIC (ICTJA-CSIC) han realizado una nueva campaña de campo destinada a la adquisición de datos estratigráficos y la recogida de muestras de las erupciones holocenas de los volcane... Read more
24-03-2020 Research News
The lithospheric structure of the Gibraltar Arc System from wide‐angle seismic data
Gómez de la Peña, L., Grevemeyer, I., Kopp, H., Díaz, J., Gallart, J., Booth‐Rea, G., et al. (2020). The lithospheric structure of the Gibraltar Arc System from wide‐angle seismic data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB019854. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019854
Read moreA 2,000-year Bayesian NAO reconstruction from the Iberian Peninsula
Hernández, A., Sánchez-López, G., Pla-Rabes, S. et al. A 2,000-year Bayesian NAO reconstruction from the Iberian Peninsula. Sci Rep 10, 14961 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71372-5
Read moreA single-stage megaflood at the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis: Geophysical and modelling evidence from the eastern Mediterranean Basin
Spatola, D., del Moral-Erencia, J. D., Micallef, A., Camerlenghi, A., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Gupta, S., Bohorquez, P., Gutscher, M.-A., & Bertoni, C. (2020). A single-stage megaflood at the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis: Geophysical and modelling evidence from the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Marine Geology, 430, 106337. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106337
Read morePressure dependence of the interlayer and intralayer E2g Raman-active modes of hexagonal BN up to the wurtzite phase transition
Cuscó, R., Pellicer-Porres, J., Edgar, J. H., Li, J., Segura, A., & Artús, L. (2020). Pressure dependence of the interlayer and intralayer ${E}_{2g}$ Raman-active modes of hexagonal BN up to the wurtzite phase transition. Physical Review B, 102(7), 75206. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.075206
Read morePaleoecological Research on Easter Island: Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts
Rull, V.(2020). Paleocological Research on Easter Island: Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts. Elsevier.298p. ISBN: 9780128227275
Read moreImpact of CO2 mixing with trapped hydrocarbons on CO2 storage capacity and security: A case study from the Captain aquifer (North Sea)
Ghanbari, S., Mackay, E. J., Heinemann, N., Alcalde, J., James, A., & Allen, M. J. (2020). Impact of CO2 mixing with trapped hydrocarbons on CO2 storage capacity and security: A case study from the Captain aquifer (North Sea). Applied Energy, 278, 115634. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115634
Read moreLower Cretaceous Rodby and Palaeocene Lista Shales: Characterisation and Comparison of Top-Seal Mudstones at Two Planned CCS Sites, Offshore UK
Worden, R.H.; Allen, M.J.; Faulkner, D.R.; Utley, J.E.P.; Bond, C.E.; Alcalde, J.; Heinemann, N.; Haszeldine, R.S.; Mackay, E.; Ghanbari, S. Lower Cretaceous Rodby and Palaeocene Lista Shales: Characterisation and Comparison of Top-Seal Mudstones at Two Planned CCS Sites, Offshore UK. Minerals 2020, 10, 691. https://doi.org/10.3390/min10080691
Read moreOn the observation of magnetic events on broad-band seismometers
Díaz, J., Ruiz, M., Curto, J. J., Torta, J. M., Ledo, J., Marcuello, A., & Queralt, P. (2020). On the observation of magnetic events on broad-band seismometers. Earth, Planets and Space, 72(1), 109. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-020-01236-9
Read moreDates and rates of endo-exorheic drainage development: Insights from fluvial terraces (Duero River, Iberian Peninsula)
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., Antón, L., Rodés, Á., Pallàs, R., García-Castellanos, D., Jiménez-Munt, I., Struth, L., Leanni, L., Aumaître, G., Bourlès, D., & Keddadouche, K. (2020). Dates and rates of endo-exorheic drainage development: Insights from fluvial terraces (Duero River, Iberian Peninsula). Global and Planetary Change, 193, 103271. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103271
Read moreGeochronological and geochemical data from fracture-filling calcites from the Lower Pedraforca thrust sheet
Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., John, C. M., Vergés, J., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., & Travé, A. (2020). Geochronological and geochemical data from fracture-filling calcites from the Lower Pedraforca thrust sheet (SE Pyrenees). Data in Brief, 31, 105896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105896
Read moreGeomorphology of the post-caldera monogenetic volcanoes at Deception Island, Antarctica — Implications for landform recognition and volcanic hazard assessment
Pedrazzi, D., Kereszturi, G., Lobo, A., Geyer, A., & Calle, J. (2020). Geomorphology of the post-caldera monogenetic volcanoes at Deception Island, Antarctica — Implications for landform recognition and volcanic hazard assessment. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 402, 106986. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106986
Read moreAutomated detection of archaeological mounds using machine-learning classification of multisensor and multitemporal satellite data
Orengo, H. A., Conesa, F. C., Garcia-Molsosa, A., Lobo, A., Green, A. S., Madella, M., & Petrie, C. A. (2020). Automated detection of archaeological mounds using machine-learning classification of multisensor and multitemporal satellite data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(31), 18240 LP-18250. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005583117
Read moreModes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene
Hernández, A., Martin-Puertas, C., Moffa-Sánchez, P., Moreno-Chamarro, E., Ortega, P., Blockley, S., Cobb, K. M., Comas-Bru, L., Giralt, S., Goosse, H., Luterbacher, J., Martrat, B., Muscheler, R., Parnell, A., Pla-Rabes, S., Sjolte, J., Scaife, A. A., Swingedouw, D., Wise, E., & Xu, G. (2020). Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene. Earth-Science Reviews, 209, 103286. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103286
Read moreMagmatism in Antarctica and its relation to Zealandia
John L. Smellie, Adam P. Martin, Kurt S. Panter, Philip R. Kyle, Adelina Geyer (2020) Magmatism in Antarctica and its relation to Zealandia, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2020.1781666
Read moreFairy rings harbor distinct soil fungal communities and high fungal diversity in a montane grassland
Marí, T., Castaño, C., Rodríguez, A., Ibáñez, M., Lobo, A., & Sebastià, M.-T. (2020). Fairy rings harbor distinct soil fungal communities and high fungal diversity in a montane grassland. Fungal Ecology, 47, 100962. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100962
Read moreVolcanism and climate change as drivers in Holocene depositional dynamic of Laguna del Maule (Andes of central Chile – 36°?S)
Frugone-Álvarez, M., Latorre, C., Barreiro-Lostres, F., Giralt, S., Moreno, A., Polanco-Martínez, J., Maldonado, A., Carrevedo, M. L., Bernárdez, P., Prego, R., Delgado Huertas, A., Fuentealba, M., and Valero-Garcés, B.: Volcanism and climate change as drivers in Holocene depositional dynamic of Laguna del Maule (Andes of central Chile – 36°?S), Clim. Past, 16, 1097–1125, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1097-2020, 2020.
Read moreNew gravity data in the Central Pyrenees (NE Spain)
Ayala, C., Rubio, F. M., Rey-Moral, C., Pueyo, E. L., Clariana, P., Soto, R., Casas, A. M., Román, T., Berdiel, & Martí, Y. J. (2020). New gravity data in the Central Pyrenees (NE Spain) . Geogaceta, 67, 103–106.
Read moreBoron nitride for excitonics, nano photonics, and quantum technologies
Gil, B., Cassabois, G., Cusco, R., Fugallo, G., & Artus, L. (2020). Boron nitride for excitonics, nano photonics, and quantum technologies, Nanophotonics, 9(11), 3483-3504. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0225
Read moreStructural and Lattice-Dynamical Properties of Tb2O3 under Compression: A Comparative Study with Rare Earth and Related Sesquioxides
Ibáñez, J., Sans, J. Á., Cuenca-Gotor, V., Oliva, R., Gomis, Ó., Rodríguez-Hernández, P., Muñoz, A., Rodríguez-Mendoza, U., Velázquez, M., Veber, P., Popescu, C., & Manjón, F. J. (2020). Structural and Lattice-Dynamical Properties of Tb2O3 under Compression: A Comparative Study with Rare Earth and Related Sesquioxides. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(14), 9648–9666. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00834
Read moreThe ephemeral development of C′ shear bands: A numerical modelling approach
Finch, M. A., Bons, P. D., Steinbach, F., Griera, A., Llorens, M.-G., Gomez-Rivas, E., Ran, H., & de Riese, T. (2020). The ephemeral development of C′ shear bands: A numerical modelling approach. Journal of Structural Geology, 139, 104091. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104091
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