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Environmental Sciences
Italy
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
21568
World Ranking
1556
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Carlo Barbante is affiliated with Ca Foscari University of Venice in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research focuses on several main topics:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Polar Research and Ecology

Carlo Barbante has published in various scientific journals and platforms. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Environmental Pollution
  • The Cryosphere

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of research interests and topics:

  • "An extension of the TALDICE ice core age scale reaching back to MIS 10.1," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Biogeochemical Connectivity Between Freshwater Ecosystems beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Sub-Ice Marine Environment," 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Identification and quantification of tire wear particles by employing different cross-validation techniques: FTIR-ATR Micro-FTIR, Pyr-GC/MS, and SEM," 2023, Environmental Pollution
  • "Permafrost dynamics and the risk of anthrax transmission: a modelling study," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Evidence of small microplastics (<100 μm) ingestion by Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas): A novel method of extraction, purification, and analysis using Micro-FTIR," 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Collaboration forms a significant part of Carlo Barbante's scientific output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Andrea Gambaro (57 collaborations)
  • Andrea Spolaor (54 collaborations)
  • Elena Barbaro (45 collaborations)
  • Matteo Feltracco (35 collaborations)
  • Clara Turetta (32 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

  • One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

    C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

  • Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles

    E.W. Wolff;H. Fischer;F. Fundel;U. Ruth

  • Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

    A. Berger;M. Crucifix;D.A. Hodell

  • Synchronous Change of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature During the Last Deglacial Warming

    F. Parrenin;V. Masson-Delmotte;P. Köhler;D. Raynaud

  • Greenland snow evidence of large scale atmospheric contamination for platinum, palladium, and rhodium.

    Carlo Barbante;Audrey Veysseyre;Christophe Ferrari;Katja Van De Velde

  • A microbial ecosystem beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet

    Brent C. Christner;John C. Priscu;Amanda M. Achberger;Carlo Barbante

  • Links between iron supply, marine productivity, sea surface temperature, and CO2 over the last 1.1 Ma

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert;Rainer Gersonde

  • Atmospheric mercury concentrations observed at ground-based monitoring sites globally distributed in the framework of the GMOS network

    Francesca Sprovieri;Nicola Pirrone;Mariantonia Bencardino;Francesco D'Amore

  • Expression of the bipolar see-saw in Antarctic climate records during the last deglaciation

    B. Stenni;D. Buiron;M. Frezzotti;S. Albani

  • Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

    Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Katrin J Meissner;Alan C Mix;Nerilie J Abram

  • Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from chemical analysis of the EPICA Dome C ice core

    E. W. Wolff;C. Barbante;S. Becagli;M. Bigler

  • Bacterial characterization of the snow cover at Spitzberg, Svalbard.

    Pierre Amato;Raphaëlle Hennebelle;Olivier Magand;Martine Sancelme

  • Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica

    Hubertus Fischer;Felix Fundel;Urs Ruth;Birthe Twarloh

  • Importance of automobile exhaust catalyst emissions for the deposition of platinum, palladium, and rhodium in the Northern Hemisphere

    Sebastien Rauch;Harold F. Hemond;Carlo Barbante;Masanori Owari

  • Historical record of European emissions of heavy metals to the atmosphere since the 1650s from alpine snow/ice cores drilled near Monte Rosa.

    Carlo Barbante;Margit Schwikowski;Thomas Döring;Heinz W. Gäggeler

  • Changes in heavy metals in Antarctic snow from Coats Land since the mid-19th to the late-20th century

    Frédéric A.M. Planchon;Claude F. Boutron;Claude F. Boutron;Carlo Barbante;Giulio Cozzi

  • A novel method for purification, quantitative analysis and characterization of microplastic fibers using Micro-FTIR.

    Fabiana Corami;Beatrice Rosso;Barbara Bravo;Andrea Gambaro

  • The role of Southern Ocean processes in orbital and millennial CO2 variations – A synthesis

    Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Dieter Lüthi;Dieter Lüthi;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker

  • Meteoric smoke fallout over the Holocene epoch revealed by iridium and platinum in Greenland ice

    Paolo Gabrielli;Paolo Gabrielli;Carlo Barbante;John M. C. Plane;Anita Varga

  • Post 17th-century changes of European PAH emissions recorded in high-altitude Alpine snow and ice.

    Jacopo Gabrieli;Paul Vallelonga;Giulio Cozzi;Paolo Gabrielli

  • Greenland records of aerosol source and atmospheric lifetime changes from the Eemian to the Holocene.

    Simon Schüpbach;Hubertus Fischer;M. Bigler;Tobias Erhardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude F. Boutron
Claude F. Boutron Grenoble Alpes University
Paolo Cescon
Paolo Cescon Ca Foscari University of Venice
Andrea Gambaro
Andrea Gambaro Ca Foscari University of Venice
Paolo Gabrielli
Paolo Gabrielli The Ohio State University
Christophe Ferrari
Christophe Ferrari Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Giulio Cozzi
Giulio Cozzi National Research Council (CNR)
Paul Vallelonga
Paul Vallelonga Department of Transport, Western Australia
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Sungmin Hong
Sungmin Hong Inha University

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