Navarro Cuenca, Anna (Date of defense: 2012-06-18)
Field biomonitoring based on molecular biomarkers detects early warning signals of stress suffered by organisms exposed to contamination. The lower part of the Ebro River basin has a long pollution ...
Alomar Domínguez, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-12-03)
The main objective of this study is to improve wind wave forecasting in the NW Mediterranean Sea while focusing on the characteristic sharp gradients of the wind and wave conditions. This work was ...
Díez Rilova, Margarita (Date of defense: 2012-05-07)
En nuestra sociedad los derivados del petróleo son la fuente principal de energía. Los accidentes con hidrocarburos han protagonizado episodios de contaminación trágicos para la biosfera del océano. ...
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 ...
Lana Celaya, María Aránzazu (Date of defense: 2012-02-10)
Marine aerosols have a large potential to influence the Earth¿s climate through their effects on cloud properties. The CLAW hypothesis goes further, and suggests that marine aerosols formed by the sulphur ...
Lozoya Azcárate, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)
This thesis deals with the need to move towards a holistic, truly integrated and ecosystem-based beach management that allows a sustainable use of these systems within the socio-ecological paradigm. ...
Serrano Samaniego, Letzi Graciela (Date of defense: 2012-07-24)
Soft-bottom polychaete assemblages inhabiting shallow waters of the northern Mediterranean Spanish coast were studied with the objective to elucidate its present structure, distribution and diversity ...
Sancho García, Amanda (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)
The predictability of beach inundation is mainly related to wave runup and most of the formulations that have been developed focus on the hydrodynamics, disregarding the morphological changes caused ...
Morell Ybarz, Maria (Date of defense: 2012-05-04)
The morphological study of the Odontocete organ of Corti including possible pathological features resulting from sound over-exposure, represent a key conservation issue to assess the effects of acoustic ...
Galí Tàpias, Martí (Date of defense: 2012-12-18)
The production and subsequent emission of volatile compounds is one of the numerous ways by which microbial plankton participate in the cycling of elements and influence the Earth's climate. Dimethylsulfide ...