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2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Albert Palanques is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on various subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their work covers several research topics, notably:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Among their recent publications are:

  • Persistence of Biogeochemical Alterations of Deep-Sea Sediments by Bottom Trawling, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Contrasting particle fluxes and composition in a submarine canyon affected by natural sediment transport events and bottom trawling, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Sediment dynamics in the Gulf of Lion (NW Mediterranean Sea) during two autumn-winter periods with contrasting meteorological conditions, 2022, Progress In Oceanography
  • Natural vs. trawling-induced water turbidity and suspended sediment transport variability within the Palamós Canyon (NW Mediterranean), 2021, Marine Geophysical Research
  • Evidence of large increases in sedimentation rates due to fish trawling in submarine canyons of the Gulf of Palermo (SW Mediterranean), 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Pere Puig
  • Sarah Paradis
  • Pere Masqué
  • Ruth Durán
  • Marta Arjona-Camas

Albert Palanques often publishes in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Geophysical Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Flushing submarine canyons

    Miquel Canals;Pere Puig;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Serge Heussner

  • Chronic and intensive bottom trawling impairs deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Antonio Pusceddu;Silvia Bianchelli;Jacobo Martín;Pere Puig

  • Ploughing the deep sea floor

    Pere Puig;Miquel Canals;Jacobo Martín

  • Suspended sediment fluxes and transport processes in the Gulf of Lions submarine canyons. The role of storms and dense water cascading

    Albert Palanques;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Pere Puig;Joan Fabres

  • The distribution of trace metals in Florida Bay sediments.

    Valentina González Caccia;Frank J. Millero;Albert Palanques

  • Contemporary Sediment-Transport Processes in Submarine Canyons

    Pere Puig;Albert Palanques;Jacobo Martín

  • A 120-yr record of widespread contamination from mining of the Iberian pyrite belt

    A. van Geen;J. F. Adkins;E. A. Boyle;C. H. Nelson

  • Impact of bottom trawling on water turbidity and muddy sediment of an unfished continental shelf

    Albert Palanques;Jorge Guillén;Pere Puig

  • Climate Influence on Deep Sea Populations

    Pere Puig;Francisco Sardà;Albert Palanques

  • Interaction of dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection in the northwestern Mediterranean during winter 2012

    X. Durrieu de Madron;L. Houpert;P. Puig;A. Sanchez-Vidal

  • Suspended sediment transport in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean): Impact of extreme storms and floods

    C. Ulses;C. Estournel;X. Durrieu de Madron;A. Palanques

  • Seasonal changes of water mass structure and shelf slope exchanges at the Ebro Shelf (NW Mediterranean)

    Jordi Salat;Marc A. Garcia;Antonio Cruzado;Albert Palanques

  • Dense shelf water cascades and sedimentary furrow formation in the Cap de Creus Canyon, northwestern Mediterranean Sea

    Pere Puig;Albert Palanques;D.L. Orange;G. Lastras

  • Cascades in Mediterranean Submarine Grand Canyons

    Miquel Canals;Roberto Danovaro;Serge Heussner;Vasilios Lykousis

  • Sediment dynamics and hydrodynamics in the lower course of a river highly regulated by dams: the Ebro River

    Jorge Guillen;Albert Palanques

  • Role of internal waves in the generation of nepheloid layers on the northwestern Alboran slope: Implications for continental margin shaping

    P. Puig;A. Palanques;J. Guillén;M. El Khatab

  • Sediment accumulation rates in the southern Barcelona continental margin (NW Mediterranean Sea) derived from 210Pb and 137Cs chronology

    Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza;Pere Masqué;I. Ani-Ragolta;Juan Merino

  • A historical perspective of the morphological evolution in the lower Ebro river

    Jorge Guillén;Albert Palanques

  • Sediment dynamics during wet and dry storm events on the Têt inner shelf (SW Gulf of Lions)

    J. Guillén;F. Bourrin;A. Palanques;X. Durrieu de Madron

  • Thick bottom nepheloid layers in the western Mediterranean generated by deep dense shelf water cascading

    Pere Puig;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Jordi Salat;Katrin Schroeder

Frequent Co-Authors

Pere Puig
Pere Puig Spanish National Research Council
Jorge Guillén
Jorge Guillén Spanish National Research Council
Jacobo Martín
Jacobo Martín Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society
Serge Heussner
Serge Heussner Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Miquel Canals
Miquel Canals University of Barcelona
Antoni Calafat
Antoni Calafat University of Barcelona
X. Durrieu de Madron
X. Durrieu de Madron University of Perpignan
Anna Sanchez-Vidal
Anna Sanchez-Vidal University of Barcelona
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza National Autonomous University of Mexico

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