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Dimitris Sakellariou is affiliated with the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Greece. Their research primarily covers the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions to Geophysics, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Archaeology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geological formations and processes

Frequent coauthors in Sakellariou's publications are:

  • Konstantina Tsampouraki-Kraounaki
  • G. Rousakis
  • Francesca Paraschos
  • Maria Geraga
  • Paraskevi Drakopoulou

Key recent papers include:

  • The Santorini-Amorgos Shear Zone: Evidence for Dextral Transtension in the South Aegean Back-Arc Region, Greece (2021), Geosciences
  • Marine litter in the deepest site of the Mediterranean Sea (2025), Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Lower Palaeolithic archaeology and submerged landscapes in Greece: The current state of the art (2020), Quaternary International
  • Influences of sea level changes and the South Asian Monsoon on southern Red Sea oceanography over the last 30 ka (2022), Quaternary Research
  • Evolution of the North Anatolian Fault from a diffuse to a localized shear zone in the North Aegean Sea during the Plio-Pleistocene (2023), Geophysical Journal International

Publications span several venues with the most frequent being:

  • Quaternary International
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Geosciences
  • Quaternary Research

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem-based marine spatial management: Review of concepts, policies, tools, and critical issues

    Stelios Katsanevakis;Vanessa Stelzenmüller;Andy South;Thomas Kirk Sørensen

  • Robotic tools for deep water archaeology: Surveying an ancient shipwreck with an autonomous underwater vehicle

    Brian Bingham;Brendan Foley;Hanumant Singh;Richard Camilli

  • Historical and pre-historical tsunamis in the Mediterranean and its connected seas: Geological signatures, generation mechanisms and coastal impacts

    Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos;Eulàlia Gràcia;Roger Urgeles;Valenti Sallares

  • The Gulf of Corinth: an active half graben?

    Isabelle Moretti;D. Sakellariou;V. Lykousis;L. Micarelli

  • Marine investigations of Greece's Santorini Volcanic Field

    Haraldur Sigurdsson;Steven Carey;Matina Alexandri;Georges Vougioukalakis

  • Submarine volcanoes of the Kolumbo volcanic zone NE of Santorini Caldera, Greece

    P. Nomikou;S. Carey;D. Papanikolaou;K. Croff Bell

  • Submarine volcanoes along the Aegean volcanic arc

    Paraskevi Nomikou;Dimitrios Papanikolaou;Matina Alexandri;Dimitris Sakellariou

  • Rapid spatiotemporal variations in rift structure during development of the Corinth Rift, central Greece

    Casey W. Nixon;Casey W. Nixon;Lisa C. McNeill;Jonathan M. Bull;Rebecca E. Bell

  • Late Quaternary basin evolution of the Gulf of Corinth: Sequence stratigraphy, sedimentation, fault–slip and subsidence rates

    V. Lykousis;D. Sakellariou;I. Moretti;H. Kaberi

  • Mud volcanoes and gas hydrates in the Anaximander mountains (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)

    V. Lykousis;S. Alexandri;J.M. Woodside;de G. Lange

  • Paleoseismicity of the 1981 Corinth earthquake fault: Seismic contribution to extensional strain in central Greece and implications for seismic hazard

    Richard E. L. Collier;Daniela Pantosti;Giuliana D'Addezio;Paolo Marco de Martini

  • Blue Arabia: Palaeolithic and underwater survey in SW Saudi Arabia and the role of coasts in Pleistocene dispersals

    G.N. Bailey;M.H. Devès;R.H. Inglis;M.G. Meredith-Williams

  • Submarine mass movements and their consequences : 3rd international symposium

    Vasilios Lykousis;Dimitris Sakellariou;Jacques Locat

  • Pleistocene submerged landscapes and Palaeolithic archaeology in the tectonically active Aegean region

    D. Sakellariou;N. Galanidou

  • Under the Sea: Archaeology and Palaeolandscapes of the Continental Shelf

    Geoffrey N. Bailey;Jan Harff;Dimitris Sakellariou

  • The 2005 Chios ancient shipwreck survey : new methods for underwater archaeology

    Brendan P. Foley;Katerina Dellaporta;Dimitris Sakellariou;Brian S. Bingham

  • Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

    Vasilios Lykousis;Dimitris Sakellariou;Jacques Locat

  • Faulting, seismic‐stratigraphic architecture and Late Quaternary evolution of the Gulf of Alkyonides Basin–East Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece

    D. Sakellariou;V. Lykousis;S. Alexandri;H. Kaberi

  • Sedimentation and subsidence rate in the Gulf of Corinth: what we learn from the Marion Dufresne's long-piston coring

    Isabelle Moretti;Vassilis Lykousis;Dimitris Sakellariou;Jean-Yves Reynaud

  • Marine Transform Faults and Fracture Zones: A Joint Perspective Integrating Seismicity, Fluid Flow and Life

    Christian Hensen;Joao N. Duarte;Paola Vannucchi;Paola Vannucchi;Adriano Mazzini

  • The use of a biotic index (Bentix) in assessing long-term effects of dumping coarse metalliferous waste on soft bottom benthic communities

    N. Simboura;E. Papathanassiou;D. Sakellariou

Frequent Co-Authors

Paraskevi Nomikou
Paraskevi Nomikou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Christian Beck
Christian Beck Queen Mary University of London
George Papatheodorou
George Papatheodorou University of Patras
Jean-Louis Reyss
Jean-Louis Reyss Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Marc De Batist
Marc De Batist Ghent University
Helmut Brückner
Helmut Brückner University of Cologne
Geoff Bailey
Geoff Bailey University of York
Haraldur Sigurdsson
Haraldur Sigurdsson University of Rhode Island
Tiago Marcos Alves
Tiago Marcos Alves Cardiff University
George Ferentinos
George Ferentinos University of Patras

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