Labarre, Aurélie (Date of defense: 2020-11-26)
In the vast network of the ocean, microbes are abundant and unevenly distributed. As an important microbial component, the protists play a key role in global biogeochemical cycles and contribute to the ...
Palacios Pierluissi, Andrea Viviana (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Seawater intrusion (SWI) consists in the movement of seawater (SW) into freshwater (FW) aquifers, contaminating drinking water resources. SWI, along with the parallel reduction of Submarine Groundwater ...
Alvarado de Menéndez, Clara Elena (Date of defense: 2017-05-18)
Rockfill is a coarse material widely used in geotechnical works such as earth-fill dams (shoulders and toe drains), as well as in embankments and well-graded quarry materials for railway infrastructures. ...
Lakshmikantha, M.R. (Date of defense: 2009-06-12)
The thesis focuses on the experimental and theoretical aspects of the process of cracking in drying soils. The results and conclusions were drawn from an exhaustive experimental campaign characterised ...
Dávila Ordóñez, Maria Gabriela (Date of defense: 2015-11-06)
A test site for CO2 geological storage is situated in Hontomín (Burgos, northern Spain) with a reservoir rock that is mainly composed of limestone. The reservoir rock is a deep saline aquifer, which ...
Castellanos Ossa, Paola (Date of defense: 2012-11-12)
During the last two decades the scientific community has recognised the importance of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the upwelling regions on the Earth's climate. This recognition has opened new questions ...
Guerrero Sánchez, Queralt (Date of defense: 2019-02-08)
This Thesis conducts the study of bedform development and dynamics in the inner shelf integrating observations at different spatial and temporal scales. An initial assumption is that different scales ...
Spada, Michele (Date of defense: 2015-11-23)
This PhD Thesis presents and discusses the developments of a hybrid sectional-bulk multicomponent aerosol module coupled with the multiscale chemical weather prediction system NMMB/BSC-CTM. The module ...
Herrera Lameli, Christian (Date of defense: 2001-07-06)
La Isla de Fuerteventura se sitúa en el borde oriental del Archipiélago de Canarias, a sólo 100 km del continente africano. Presenta un relieve topográfico relativamente suave respecto a las otras islas ...
León Arteaga, Angélica M. de (Date of defense: 2002-07-19)
In this research we tested two data analyses methodologies, namely the empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) to estimate hydrographic CTD data profiles, and a successive corrections algorithm (SC) to ...