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Isabel Cacho is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and specializes primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans a variety of subfields including Atmospheric Science, Archeology, Oceanography, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work addresses multiple main topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Cacho has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, with recent publications including:

  • "Persistent warm Mediterranean surface waters during the Roman period" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Immediate temperature response in northern Iberia to last deglacial changes in the North Atlantic" (2021, Geology)
  • "Measurement report: Spatial variability of northern Iberian rainfall stable isotope values - investigating atmospheric controls on daily and monthly timescales" (2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • "Rapid northern hemisphere ice sheet melting during the penultimate deglaciation" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Late Miocene onset of the modern Antarctic Circumpolar Current" (2024, Nature Geoscience)

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues, notably:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • 44 Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva Abstracts Publication
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Climate of the past

Throughout their research career, Isabel Cacho has collaborated with various co-authors, with frequent partnerships including:

  • Fabrizio Lirer (17 joint publications)
  • Leopoldo D. Pena (16 joint publications)
  • Jaime Frigola (14 joint publications)
  • Ana Moreno (10 joint publications)
  • Francisco Javier Sierro (9 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event imprints in Alboran Sea paleotemperatures

    Isabel Cacho;Joan O Grimalt;Carles Pelejero;Miquel Canals

  • Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

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

  • Variability of the western Mediterranean Sea surface temperature during the last 25,000 years and its connection with the Northern Hemisphere climatic changes

    Isabel Cacho;Joan O. Grimalt;Miquel Canals;Laura Sbaffi

  • Abrupt Temperature Changes in the Western Mediterranean over the Past 250,000 Years

    Belen Martrat;Joan O. Grimalt;Constancia López-Martínez;Isabel Cacho;Isabel Cacho

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • Synchroneity between marine and terrestrial responses to millennial scale climatic variability during the last glacial period in the Mediterranean region

    M. F. Sanchez Goni;I. Cacho;J.-L. Turon;J. Guiot

  • Evidence for enhanced Mediterranean thermohaline circulation during rapid climatic coolings

    Isabel Cacho;Isabel Cacho;Joan O. Grimalt;Francisco J. Sierro;Nick Shackleton

  • Planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca as a proxy for past oceanic temperatures: a methodological overview and data compilation for the Last Glacial Maximum

    Stephen Barker;Isabel Cacho;Heather Benway;Kazuyo Tachikawa

  • Mediterranean outflow strengthening during northern hemisphere coolings: A salt source for the glacial Atlantic?

    Antje H.L. Voelker;S.M. Lebreiro;J. Schönfeld;I. Cacho

  • The Medieval Climate Anomaly in the Iberian Peninsula reconstructed from marine and lake records

    Ana Moreno;Ana Pérez;Jaime Frigola;Vanesa Nieto-Moreno

  • Saharan Dust Transport and High-Latitude Glacial Climatic Variability: The Alboran Sea Record

    Ana Moreno;Isabel Cacho;Isabel Cacho;Miquel Canals;Maarten A. Prins

  • Apparent long-term cooling of the sea surface in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean during the Holocene.

    Olivier Marchal;Isabel Cacho;Thomas F. Stocker;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Impact of iceberg melting on Mediterranean thermohaline circulation during Heinrich events

    F. J. Sierro;D. A. Hodell;J. H. Curtis;J. A. Flores

  • Position of the Polar Front along the western Iberian margin during key cold episodes of the last 45 ka

    Frédérique Eynaud;Lucia de Abreu;Antje H. L. Voelker;Joachim Schönfeld

  • Interlaboratory comparison study of calibration standards for foraminiferal Mg/Ca thermometry

    M. Greaves;N. Caillon;H. Rebaubier;G. Bartoli

  • Links between marine and atmospheric processes oscillating on a millennial time-scale. A multi-proxy study of the last 50,000 yr from the Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea)

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

  • Holocene climate variability in the western Mediterranean region from a deepwater sediment record

    J. Frigola;A. Moreno;I. Cacho;M. Canals

  • The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

    Monica Bini;Giovanni Zanchetta;Aurel Perşoiu;Rosine Cartier

  • Identification and removal of Mn-Mg-rich contaminant phases on foraminiferal tests: Implications for Mg/Ca past temperature reconstructions

    L Pena;Eva Calvo;Eva Calvo;I Cacho;I Cacho;Stephen Eggins

  • A speleothem record of glacial (25-11.6 kyr BP) rapid climatic changes from northern Iberian Peninsula

    Ana Moreno;Ana Moreno;Heather Stoll;Montserrat Jiménez-Sánchez;Isabel Cacho

  • Response of the Western Mediterranean Sea to rapid climatic variability during the last 50,000 years: a molecular biomarker approach

    I. Cacho;I. Cacho;J.O. Grimalt;M. Canals

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Miquel Canals
Miquel Canals University of Barcelona
José-Abel Flores
José-Abel Flores University of Salamanca
Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Ana Moreno
Ana Moreno Spanish National Research Council
Jean-Louis Turon
Jean-Louis Turon University of Bordeaux
Filipa Naughton
Filipa Naughton Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Francisco Javier Sierro
Francisco Javier Sierro University of Salamanca

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