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Alejandro Cearreta is affiliated with the University of the Basque Country in Spain and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly work spans various subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum, focusing especially on:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Geological formations and processes

Alejandro Cearreta has published articles in a number of scientific journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Episodes
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Earth's Future

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Cearreta include:

  • Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines, 2021, Earth's Future
  • The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch, 2021, Episodes
  • Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Indicative value of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring: Assignment to ecological groups of sensitivity to total organic carbon of species from European intertidal areas and transitional waters, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin

The scientist regularly collaborates with various researchers, including frequent co-authors:

  • Colin N. Waters
  • Jan Zalasiewicz
  • Colin Summerhayes
  • Martin J. Head
  • Michael Wagreich

Best Publications

  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Juliana A. Ivar do Sul;Patricia L. Corcoran

  • The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Colin P. Summerhayes;Alexander P. Wolfe

  • Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective:

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Reinhold Leinfelder;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters

  • Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

    Jaia Syvitski;Colin N. Waters;John Day;John D. Milliman

  • Recent Anthropogenic Impacts on the Bilbao Estuary, Northern Spain: Geochemical and Microfaunal Evidence

    A. Cearreta;M.J. Irabien;E. Leorri;I. Yusta

  • Reconstructing historical trends in metal input in heavily-disturbed, contaminated estuaries: studies from Bilbao, Southampton Water and Sicily

    Andrew B. Cundy;Ian W. Croudace;Alejandro Cearreta;Marı́a J. Irabien

  • Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Ian J. Fairchild

  • Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch

    Colin N. Waters;James P. M. Syvitski;Agnieszka Gałuszka;Gary J. Hancock

  • The Anthropocene: comparing its meaning in geology (chronostratigraphy) with conceptual approaches arising in other disciplines

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Erle C. Ellis;Martin J. Head

  • Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques

    Jan A. Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Alexander P. Wolfe;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Development of a foraminifera-based transfer function in the Basque marshes, N. Spain: Implications for sea-level studies in the Bay of Biscay

    Eduardo Leorri;Eduardo Leorri;Benjamin P. Horton;Alejandro Cearreta

  • Environmental transformation of the Bilbao estuary, N. Spain: microfaunal and geochemical proxies in the recent sedimentary record

    A Cearreta;M.J Irabien;E Leorri;I Yusta

  • Recent salt marsh development and natural regeneration of reclaimed areas in the Plentzia estuary, N. Spain

    A. Cearreta;M.J. Irabien;I. Ulibarri;I. Yusta

  • Chapter 2 - Human activities along the Basque coast during the last two centuries: geological perspective of recent anthropogenic impact on the coast and its environmental consequences

    Alejandro Cearreta;María Jesús Irabien;Ana Pascual

  • The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch

    Martin J. Head;Will Steffen;David Fagerlind;Colin N. Waters

  • A 130 year record of pollution in the Suances estuary (southern Bay of Biscay): implications for environmental management.

    M.J. Irabien;A. Cearreta;E. Leorri;J. Gómez

  • Holocene sea-level database from the Atlantic coast of Europe

    Ane García-Artola;Ane García-Artola;Pierre Stéphan;Alejandro Cearreta;Robert Evans Kopp

  • Distribution of foraminifera in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast of SW Europe: Tools to reconstruct past sea-level variations

    Eduardo Leorri;W. Roland Gehrels;Benjamin P. Horton;Francisco Fatela

  • The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere

    Mark Williams;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Matt Edgeworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
Colin Summerhayes
Colin Summerhayes University of Cambridge
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Michael Wagreich
Michael Wagreich University of Vienna
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Reinhold Leinfelder
Reinhold Leinfelder Freie Universität Berlin
Anthony D. Barnosky
Anthony D. Barnosky University of California, Berkeley
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta
Daniel Richter
Daniel Richter Duke University

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