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Márcia Caruso Bícego

Márcia Caruso Bícego

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
49
Citations
7486
World Ranking
5337
National Ranking
31

Overview

Márcia Caruso Bícego is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, conducting research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work spans a diverse range of topics including geology, paleoclimatology, environmental toxicology, and marine ecosystems.

Their research contributions include multiple recent papers such as:

  • Sedimentation on the southern Brazilian shelf mud depocenters: Insights on potential source areas (2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)
  • Microplastics and linear alkylbenzene levels in oysters Crassostrea gigas driven by sewage contamination at an important aquaculture area of Brazil (2022, Chemosphere)
  • Integrated biomarker responses in oysters Crassostrea gasar as an approach for assessing aquatic pollution of a Brazilian estuary (2021, Marine Environmental Research)
  • Organic contaminants and trace metals in the western South Atlantic upper continental margin: Anthropogenic influence on mud depocenters (2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin)
  • Dredging impacts on the toxicity and development of sediment quality values in a semi-arid region (Ceará state, NE Brazil) (2020, Environmental Research)

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Satie Taniguchi
  • Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques
  • Rubens César Lopes Figueira
  • Rafael André Lourenço
  • Felipe R. Santos

The venues where Márcia Caruso Bícego has frequently published work include:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemosphere
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Main research fields cover Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with subfields focusing on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, and Oceanography. This indicates a multidisciplinary approach addressing environmental and planetary-level challenges.

The scientist's primary research topics encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Best Publications

  • A wintertime study of PAHs in fine and coarse aerosols in São Paulo city‚ Brazil

    Christine Bourotte;Maria-Cristina Forti;Satie Taniguchi;Marcia Caruso Bícego

  • Assessment of contamination by heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons in sediments of Montevideo Harbour (Uruguay)

    Pablo Muniz;Eva Danulat;Beatriz Yannicelli;Javier Garcı́a-Alonso

  • Natural and anthropogenic hydrocarbon inputs to sediments of Patos Lagoon Estuary, Brazil.

    Patricia Matheus Medeiros;Márcia Caruso Bícego;Renato Menezes Castelao;Clarissa Del Rosso

  • Investigation of natural and anthropogenic hydrocarbon inputs in sediments using geochemical markers. I. Santos, SP––Brazil

    Patricia Matheus Medeiros;Márcia Caruso Bı́cego

  • Assessment of contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls and aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments of the Santos and São Vicente Estuary System, São Paulo, Brazil.

    Márcia Caruso Bícego;Satie Taniguchi;Gilvan Takeshi Yogui;Rosalinda Carmela Montone

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in plastic pellets: variability in the concentration and composition at different sediment depths in a sandy beach.

    Mara Fisner;Satie Taniguchi;Fabiana Moreira;Márcia C. Bícego

  • Historical record of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs) in marine sediment cores from Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica.

    César C. Martins;Márcia C. Bícego;Neil L. Rose;Satie Taniguchi

  • Aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments of Santos and Cananéia, SP, Brazil

    Fernando Noboru Nishigima;Rolf Roland Weber;Márcia Caruso Bı́cego

  • Aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in surface sediments in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica

    C.C. Martins;M.C. Bícego;S. Taniguchi;R.C. Montone

  • Sedimentary biomarkers along a contamination gradient in a human-impacted sub-estuary in Southern Brazil: a multi-parameter approach based on spatial and seasonal variability.

    Michelle Alves de Abreu-Mota;Carlos Alberto de Moura Barboza;Márcia C. Bícego;César C. Martins

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a large South American industrial coastal area (Santos Estuary, Southeastern Brazil): Sources and depositional history

    César de Castro Martins;Marcia Caruso Bicego;Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Rubens Cesar Figueira Figueira

  • Evaluation of tropical water sources and mollusks in southern Brazil using microbiological, biochemical, and chemical parameters

    Doris Sobral Marques Souza;Ana Paula Dores Ramos;Fabrício Flores Nunes;Vanessa Moresco

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and petroleum biomarkers in São Sebastião Channel, Brazil: assessment of petroleum contamination.

    Denis A.M. da Silva;Márcia C. Bícego

  • Spatial variability in persistent organic pollutants and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons found in beach-stranded pellets along the coast of the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil

    Satie Taniguchi;Fernanda I. Colabuono;Patrick S. Dias;Renato Oliveira

  • Concentration and composition of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in plastic pellets: implications for small-scale diagnostic and environmental monitoring.

    Mara Fisner;Satie Taniguchi;Alessandra P. Majer;Márcia C. Bícego

  • Distribution and origin of hydrocarbons in water and sediment in São Sebastião, SP, Brazil

    Eliete Zanardi;MÁrcia Caruso BÍcego;Luiz Bruner de Miranda;Rolf Roland Weber

  • Integrated quality assessment of sediments from harbour areas in Santos-São Vicente Estuarine System, Southern Brazil

    Lucas Moreira Buruaem;Lucas Moreira Buruaem;Ítalo Braga de Castro;Marcos Antonio Hortellani;Satie Taniguchi

  • Arsenic and trace metal contents in sediment profiles from the Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica.

    Andreza Portella Ribeiro;Rubens Cesar Figueira Figueira;César de Castro Martins;Charles Roberto de Almeida Silva

  • Chlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the fat tissue of seabirds from King George Island, Antarctica.

    Satie Taniguchi;Rosalinda C. Montone;Márcia C. Bícego;Fernanda Imperatrice Colabuono

  • Sunlight-induced compositional alterations in the seawater-soluble fraction of a crude oil

    Manfred G Ehrhardt;Kathryn A Burns;Marcia C Bicego

  • Spatial distribution of sedimentary linear alkylbenzenes and faecal steroids of Santos Bay and adjoining continental shelf, SW Atlantic, Brazil: origin and fate of sewage contamination in the shallow coastal environment.

    César C. Martins;Juliana A. Ferreira;Satie Taniguchi;Michel M. Mahiques

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosalinda Carmela Montone
Rosalinda Carmela Montone Universidade de São Paulo
César C. Martins
César C. Martins Universidade de São Paulo
Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira
Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira Universidade de São Paulo
Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques
Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques Universidade de São Paulo
Denis Moledo de Souza Abessa
Denis Moledo de Souza Abessa Sao Paulo State University
Alexander Turra
Alexander Turra Universidade de São Paulo
Letícia V. Costa-Lotufo
Letícia V. Costa-Lotufo Universidade de São Paulo
Gilberto Fillmann
Gilberto Fillmann Federal University of Rio Grande
Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer
Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Alexandre Soares Rosado
Alexandre Soares Rosado King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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