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Anna Sanchez-Vidal

Anna Sanchez-Vidal

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
7436
World Ranking
5737
National Ranking
102

Overview

Anna Sanchez-Vidal is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research emphasizes pollution, oceanography, industrial and manufacturing engineering, atmospheric science, and ecology.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, marine biology and ecology research, heavy metals in the environment, geochemistry and elemental analysis, marine biology and environmental chemistry, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Recent publications include:

  • The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Seagrasses provide a novel ecosystem service by trapping marine plastics, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Microplastic fluxes in a large and a small Mediterranean river catchments: The Têt and the Rhône, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • A systematic review on microplastic pollution in water, sediments, and organisms from 50 coastal lagoons across the globe, 2022, Environmental Pollution

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this researcher include:

  • Miquel Canals
  • Marc Cerdà-Domènech
  • Antoni Calafat
  • William P. de Haan
  • David Amblàs

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Pollution

Best Publications

  • The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

    Lucy C. Woodall;Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;Gordon L.J. Paterson

  • Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities

    Sabine Gollner;Stefanie Kaiser;Lena Menzel;Daniel O.B. Jones

  • Floating microplastics and aggregate formation in the Western Mediterranean Sea.

    William P de Haan;Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;Nureiev Shipboard Scientific Party

  • The imprint of microfibres in southern European deep seas.

    Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Richard C. Thompson;Miquel Canals;William P. de Haan

  • Microplastics composition and load from three wastewater treatment plants discharging into Mersin Bay, north eastern Mediterranean Sea.

    Ceyhun Akarsu;Halil Kumbur;Kerem Gokdag;Ahmet Erkan Kıdeyş

  • 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

  • Seagrasses provide a novel ecosystem service by trapping marine plastics.

    Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;William P. de Haan;Javier Romero

  • Impacts on the deep-sea ecosystem by a severe coastal storm

    Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;Antoni M. Calafat;Galderic Lastras

  • Cascades in Mediterranean Submarine Grand Canyons

    Miquel Canals;Roberto Danovaro;Serge Heussner;Vasilios Lykousis

  • Organic matter in sediments of canyons and open slopes of the Portuguese, Catalan, Southern Adriatic and Cretan Sea margins

    Antonio Pusceddu;Silvia Bianchelli;Miquel Canals;Anna Sanchez-Vidal

  • The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

    Miquel Canals;Christopher K Pham;Melanie Bergmann;Lars Gutow

  • Role of slowly settling particles in the ocean carbon cycle

    Iván J. Alonso-González;Javier Arístegui;Cindy Lee;Anna Sanchez-Vidal

  • Identifying Toxic Impacts of Metals Potentially Released during Deep-Sea Mining—A Synthesis of the Challenges to Quantifying Risk

    Chris Hauton;Alastair Brown;Sven Thatje;Nélia C. Mestre

  • Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea

    Christopher T. Hayes;Kassandra M. Costa;Robert F. Anderson;Eva María Calvo

  • Composition and spatio-temporal variability of particle fluxes in the Western Alboran Gyre, Mediterranean Sea

    J Fabres;A Calafat;A Sanchez-Vidal;M Canals

  • Microplastic fluxes in a large and a small Mediterranean river catchments: The Têt and the Rhône, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea.

    Mel Constant;Mel Constant;Wolfgang Ludwig;Wolfgang Ludwig;Philippe Kerhervé;Philippe Kerhervé;Jennifer Sola;Jennifer Sola

  • Accumulation rates of major constituents of hemipelagic sediments in the deep Alboran Sea: a centennial perspective of sedimentary dynamics

    P Masqué;J Fabres;M Canals;J.A Sanchez-Cabeza

  • Integrated study of Mediterranean deep canyons: Novel results and future challenges

    Miquel Canals;Daniel Martin;Anna Sánchez-Vidal

  • Millennial-scale variability in the productivity signal from the Alboran Sea record, Western Mediterranean Sea

    Ana Moreno;Isabel Cacho;Isabel Cacho;Miquel Canals;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Particle fluxes dynamics in Blanes submarine canyon (Northwestern Mediterranean)

    Diana Zúñiga;M. Mar Flexas;Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Johan Coenjaerts

  • Impact of dense shelf water cascading on the transfer of organic matter to the deep western Mediterranean basin

    A. Sanchez-Vidal;C. Pasqual;P. Kerhervé;A. Calafat

Frequent Co-Authors

Miquel Canals
Miquel Canals University of Barcelona
Antoni Calafat
Antoni Calafat University of Barcelona
Serge Heussner
Serge Heussner Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pere Puig
Pere Puig Spanish National Research Council
Albert Palanques
Albert Palanques Spanish National Research Council
Roberto Danovaro
Roberto Danovaro Marche Polytechnic University
Jacobo Martín
Jacobo Martín Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society
Galderic Lastras
Galderic Lastras University of Barcelona
X. Durrieu de Madron
X. Durrieu de Madron University of Perpignan
Antonio Pusceddu
Antonio Pusceddu University of Cagliari

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