Facultat de Ciències de la Terra

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Delivering insights into diversity and ecology of marine chytrids 

Fernández Valero, Alan Denís (Date of defense: 2024-04-04)

[eng] Current knowledge of marine fungi is limited, marked by gaps in the understanding of their diversity, spatio-temporal patterns, and ecological roles within marine ecosystems. The underexplored nature of specific ...

The potential of carboxylesterase activity in the biomonitoring of marine pollution 

Nos Francisco, David (Date of defense: 2024-02-06)

[eng] Understanding and monitoring the impacts of pollution on marine ecosystems leads the list of challenges of the United Nations Ocean Decade as crucial steps towards achieving a healthy ocean. The marine environment ...

The importance of seasonality at different levels of ecological organization in the marine ecosystem of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea 

Lloret Lloret, Elena (Date of defense: 2023-05-17)

[eng] From an oceanographic perspective, seasonality has been widely studied, and abundant research exists about low trophic level organisms such as phytoplankton and zooplankton. Nevertheless, at a regional scale, this ...

Transformations and pathways of Southern Ocean waters into the South Atlantic Ocean 

Olivé Abelló, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)

[eng] The returning limb of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is partly supplied by the cold-fresh waters that enter through the Drake Passage. Up to the isoneutral 28.0 kg m−3, the mean water inflow through ...

Experimental and numerical study of chemo-hydro-mechanical effects of CO2 injection on permeable limestone 

Vafaie, Atefeh (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)

[eng] Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in saline aquifers is a proven technology aimed at reducing atmospheric CO2 emissions and mitigating the climate change crisis. CO2 injection acidifies the formation water inducing ...

Volcanic risk assessment at Irazú volcano, Costa Rica 

Campos Durán, Daniela (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)

[eng] Irazu is the highest volcano in Costa Rica (3427 m.a.s.l.); it constitutes an andesitic shield, with two main craters at the top and several pyroclastic cones cuspidal, and adventitial on the South Flank. The first ...

No-take fishery reserves for restoring overexploited deep-sea habitats: the case of the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea 

Vigo Fernandez, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-10-30)

[eng] In September 2017, a no-take fishery reserve was established in the deep waters of the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, specifically focused on recovering the Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) population. The main ...

Mid-Late Pleistocene glacial dynamics in the Valira valleys (Principality of Andorra). Asymmetries within the Pyrenees and correlation across the westernmost European mountain ranges 

Turu, Valentín (Date of defense: 2023-04-24)

[eng] Many sediment-covered mountain areas affected by the growth of Pleistocene glaciers are over-consolidated. Palaeoglacial conditions are deduced from glacial consolidation and site investigations. Geomorphological evidence ...

Transformations and pathways of Southern Ocean waters into the South Atlantic Ocean 

Olivé Abelló, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)

[eng] The returning limb of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is partly supplied by the cold-fresh waters that enter through the Drake Passage. Up to the isoneutral 28.0 kg m−3, the mean water inflow through ...

Reactivity and composition of phytoplankton-derived organic matter: implications for the marine Carbon cycle 

Cabrera Brufau, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-02-17)

[eng] Marine phytoplankton are responsible for approximately half of the photosynthetic production of organic matter (OM) and oxygen in Earth. The composition and reactivity of phytoplankton- derived OM influences two of ...

Shear Waves Characterization of the Sub-surface: Imaging Active Fault and Critical Zone along the Eastern Betic Shear Zone, SE Iberian Peninsula 

Handoyo (Date of defense: 2023-02-16)

[eng] The Earth System is formed by four components that sustain life: the atmosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere and the geosphere. The complex region in which these elements interact is known as the ‘Critical Zone’. ...

Estructura del Massís del Gaià: relacions estructurals amb les fosses del Penedès i del Camp de Tarragona 

Amigó i Mitjana, Jordi (Date of defense: 1986-01-01)

[cat] L'estudi previ d'una part del contacte entre el Massís del Gaià i la fossa del Penedès (AMIGÓ, 1983) va donar com a resultat l'aportació d'una sèrie de dades referents a l'estructura i evolució cinemàtica de les ...

Reconstructing the topography and water level of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis 

Heida, Hanneke (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)

[eng] During the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC, 5.97 – 5.33 Ma), an environmental crisis unparalleled in recent geological history, thick evaporites were deposited in the Mediterranean Basin associated with major erosion ...

A biogeochemical study of an abandoned Pb-Zn mine in the Aran Valley, Spain; applications of natural attenuation of heavy metals via secondary hydrozincite precipitation 

Greene Giannetta, Max (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)

The Aran Valley in Catalonia (Spain), was the site of large-scale Zn, Pb, Cu, Fe, and Ag mining from the late 19th century until approximately 1950. Although mining activities ceased over 70 years ago, some of the abandoned ...

The biology of blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) in the NW Mediterranean: a species under siege by overfishing and climatic constraints 

Mir Argimbau, Joan (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)

Blue whiting, Micromesistius poutassou (Risso, 1827), is a mesopelagic gadoid widely distributed in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, inhabiting waters over the shelf edge and continental slope. The species ...

Pore pressure build-up in mixed contourite-turbidite systems: the SW Iberian margin 

Mencaroni, Davide (Date of defense: 2022-02-25)

Contourite drifts are the depositional expression of bottom currents, which are capable of shaping the morphology of the seafloor by transporting, eroding and reworking marine sediments, and are distributed on continental ...

Development of GasChromatographic/Mass Spectrometric procedures and Synchroton Radiation based techniques for the study of painting materials in works of art 

Lluveras Tenorio, Anna (Date of defense: 2009-06-30)

El estudio de muestras de pintura persigue diferentes objetivos. Por un lado, identificar los materiales y técnica de la pintura de una época y por lo tanto el know-how de un período histórico. Por otra parte, estudiar la ...

Geophysical constraints on the nature of geological domains of continental rifted margins: examples from the West Iberia margin and Ligurian Basin 

Merino Perez, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)

In this PhD work, we carry out a geophysical and geological study of two classical examples of rifted continental margins: the Gulf of Lions (GoL), located in the Western Mediterranean, and the Tagus Abyssal Plain (TAP), ...

Tectonic evolution of the São Vicente area and tsunamigenic potential of the active structures in the SW Iberian margin: Implications for hazard assessment 

Sánchez Serra, Cristina (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)

The southwestern margin of the Iberian Peninsula, which includes the Gulf of Cadiz, is characterized by a present-day active deformation mainly driven by the NW-SE trending convergence between the African and Eurasia plates. ...

Connectivity of the deep-sea red shrimp Aristeus antennatus in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea by modeling the Lagrangian transport of larvae 

Clavel-Henry, Morane (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)

The connectivity of the deep-sea blue and red shrimp Aristeus antennatus, the most targeted species by trawl fisheries in the western and central Mediterranean Sea, is an information of interest for the management policies ...