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Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández

Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández

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Environmental Sciences

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42
Citations
6973
World Ranking
7396
National Ranking
11

Overview

Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a substantial focus on several related subfields.

The main subfields of their work include Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. The research topics covered reflect these subfields with emphasis on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and Marine and coastal ecosystems. Specific research topics also include heavy metals in the environment, marine and coastal plant biology, mercury impact and mitigation studies, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández has co-authored publications frequently with Joan-Albert Sánchez-Cabeza, Libia Hascibe Pérez-Bernal, José Gilberto Cardoso-Mohedano, María Luisa Machain-Castillo, and Jorge Feliciano Ontiveros-Cuadras. These collaborations have contributed to the dissemination of their scientific findings in several academic venues.

Their work has been published in multiple scientific journals, with the most frequent venues being Marine Pollution Bulletin, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, CATENA, and Quaternary Geochronology.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • Challenges and limitations of the 210Pb sediment dating method: Results from an IAEA modelling interlaboratory comparison exercise, 2020, Quaternary Geochronology
  • Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Microplastics in the tissues of commercial semi-intensive shrimp pond-farmed Litopenaeus vannamei from the Gulf of California ecoregion, 2022, Chemosphere
  • Microplastic contamination and fluxes in a touristic area at the SE Gulf of California, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Comparing classical and Bayesian 210Pb dating models in human-impacted aquatic environments, 2020, Quaternary Geochronology

Best Publications

  • 210Pb sediment radiochronology: An integrated formulation and classification of dating models

    J.A. Sanchez-Cabeza;J.A. Sanchez-Cabeza;A.C. Ruiz-Fernández

  • Assessing, quantifying and valuing the ecosystem services of coastal lagoons

    Alice Newton;Ana C. Brito;John D. Icely;Valérie Derolez

  • Provenance and depositional history of continental slope sediments in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico unraveled by geochemical analysis

    John S. Armstrong-Altrin;María Luisa Machain-Castillo;Leticia Rosales-Hoz;Arturo Carranza-Edwards

  • Shrimp aquaculture development and the environment in the Gulf of California ecoregion

    F Páez-Osuna;A Gracia;F Flores-Verdugo;L P Lyle-Fritch

  • Fluxes and mass balances of nutrients in a semi-intensive shrimp farm in north-western Mexico

    F. Páez-Osuna;S.R. Guerrero-Galván;A.C. Ruiz-Fernández;R. Espinoza-Angulo

  • The environmental impact of shrimp aquaculture and the coastal pollution in Mexico

    Federico Páez-Osuna;Saúl R Guerrero-Galván;Ana C Ruiz-Fernández

  • Recent sedimentary history of anthropogenic impacts on the Culiacan River Estuary, northwestern Mexico: geochemical evidence from organic matter and nutrients.

    A.C Ruiz-Fernández;A.C Ruiz-Fernández;C Hillaire-Marcel;B Ghaleb;M Soto-Jiménez

  • Discharge of Nutrients from Shrimp Farming to Coastal Waters of the Gulf of California

    Federico Páez-Osuna;Saúl R. Guerrero-Galván;Ana C. Ruiz-Fernández

  • Environmental status of the Gulf of California: A pollution review

    Federico Páez-Osuna;Saúl Álvarez-Borrego;Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández;Jacqueline García-Hernández

  • Extreme wave deposits on the Pacific coast of Mexico: Tsunamis or storms? — A multi-proxy approach

    María-Teresa Ramírez-Herrera;Marcelo Lagos;Ian Hutchinson;Vladimir Kostoglodov

  • Concentrations of selected trace metals (Cu, Pb, Zn), organochlorines (PCBs, HCB) and total PAHs in mangrove oysters from the Pacific Coast of Mexico: an overview.

    F Páez-Osuna;A.C Ruiz-Fernández;A.V Botello;G Ponce-Vélez

  • Historical trends of metal pollution recorded in the sediments of the Culiacan River Estuary, Northwestern Mexico

    A.C Ruiz-Fernández;C Hillaire-Marcel;F Páez-Osuna;B Ghaleb

  • 210Pb-derived ages for the reconstruction of terrestrial contaminant history into the Mexican Pacific coast: Potential and limitations

    A.C. Ruiz-Fernández;C. Hillaire-Marcel

  • A long-term record of land use change impacts on sediments in Oualidia lagoon, Morocco

    Mehdi Maanan;Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández;Mohamed Maanan;Paul Fattal

  • Geochemical evidences of the anthropogenic alteration of trace metal composition of the sediments of Chiricahueto marsh (SE Gulf of California)

    M Soto-Jiménez;F Páez-Osuna;A.C Ruiz-Fernández

  • Monte Carlo uncertainty calculation of 210Pb chronologies and accumulation rates of sediments and peat bogs

    Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza;Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández;Jorge Feliciano Ontiveros-Cuadras;Libia Hascibe Pérez Bernal

  • Spatial and temporal distribution of heavy metal concentrations and enrichment in the southern Gulf of Mexico

    Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández;J. A. Sanchez-Cabeza;L. H. Pérez-Bernal;Adolfo Gracia

  • Trace Metals (Cd, Cu, Hg, and Pb) Accumulation Recorded in the Intertidal Mudflat Sediments of Three Coastal Lagoons in the Gulf of California, Mexico

    A. C. Ruiz-Fernández;M. Frignani;C. Hillaire-Marcel;B. Ghaleb

  • Recent history of persistent organic pollutants (PAHs, PCBs, PBDEs) in sediments from a large tropical lake

    Jorge Feliciano Ontiveros-Cuadras;Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández;Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza;José Sericano

  • Environmental status of the Gulf of California: A review of responses to climate change and climate variability

    F. Páez-Osuna;J.A. Sanchez-Cabeza;A.C. Ruiz-Fernández;R. Alonso-Rodríguez

  • 210Pb chronology and trace metal geochemistry at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, as evidenced by a sedimentary record from the Lago Verde crater lake

    Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández;Claude Hillaire-Marcel;Federico Páez-Osuna;Bassam Ghaleb

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza National Autonomous University of Mexico
Federico Páez-Osuna
Federico Páez-Osuna National Autonomous University of Mexico
Claude Hillaire-Marcel
Claude Hillaire-Marcel University of Quebec at Montreal
Bassam Ghaleb
Bassam Ghaleb University of Quebec at Montreal
Alejandro Cearreta
Alejandro Cearreta University of the Basque Country
David J. Hollander
David J. Hollander University of South Florida
Anne de Vernal
Anne de Vernal University of Quebec at Montreal
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University
Jose L. Sericano
Jose L. Sericano Texas A&M University
Catherine Chagué-Goff
Catherine Chagué-Goff University of New South Wales

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