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Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi

Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi

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Earth Science

D-Index
51
Citations
11977
World Ranking
3172
National Ranking
222

Overview

Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science and Social Sciences.

Their work encompasses several specialized subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Anthropology, Ecology, and Geophysics. Key topics of research cover Geology and Paleoclimatology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi has coauthored extensively with several researchers, frequently collaborating with:

  • Filipa Naughton
  • Teresa Rodrigues
  • José-Abel Flores
  • Francisco Javier Sierro
  • Bárbara Balestra

Their publications appear regularly in a range of venues, notably in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi include:

  • "Regional impacts of climate change and its relevance to human evolution," 2020, Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • "Modern pollen representation of the vegetation of the Tagus Basin (central Iberian Peninsula)," 2020, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • "Carbon 13 Isotopes Reveal Limited Ocean Circulation Changes Between Interglacials of the Last 800 ka," 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Combination of insolation and ice-sheet forcing drive enhanced humidity in northern subtropical regions during MIS 13," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Control Mechanisms of Primary Productivity Revealed by Calcareous Nannoplankton From Marine Isotope Stages 12 to 9 at the Shackleton Site (IODP Site U1385)," 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Best Publications

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • 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

  • High resolution palynological record off the Iberian margin: direct land-sea correlation for the Last Interglacial complex

    M.F. Sánchez Goñi;M.F. Sánchez Goñi;F. Eynaud;J.L. Turon;N.J. Shackleton

  • Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial in vegetation records from Europe

    William J. Fletcher;Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Judy R.M. Allen;Rachid Cheddadi

  • Contrasting impacts of Dansgaard-Oeschger events over a western European latitudinal transect modulated by orbital parameters

    María Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Amaelle Landais;Amaelle Landais;William J. Fletcher;Filipa Naughton

  • Orbital- and sub-orbital-scale climate impacts on vegetation of the western Mediterranean basin over the last 48,000 yr

    William J. Fletcher;Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Millennial-scale climate variability and vegetation changes during the last glacial: concepts and terminology

    Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi;Sandy P. Harrison

  • Neandertal extinction and the millennial scale climatic variability of OIS 3

    Francesco d’Errico;Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi

  • Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion

    William E. Banks;Francesco d'Errico;Francesco d'Errico;A. Townsend Peterson;Masa Kageyama

  • Revealing climatic variability of the last three millennia in northwestern Iberia using pollen influx data

    Stéphanie Desprat;Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Marie-France Loutre

  • European Climatic Response to Millennial-Scale Changes in the Atmosphere–Ocean System during the Last Glacial Period

    Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Jean-Louis Turon;Frédérique Eynaud;Sandra Gendreau

  • Present-day and past (last 25000 years) marine pollen signal off western Iberia

    F. Naughton;M.F. Sanchez Goñi;S. Desprat;J.-L. Turon

  • Holocene biomass burning and global dynamics of the carbon cycle.

    C Carcaillet;H Almquist;H Asnong;R H W Bradshaw

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

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

  • 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

  • Evidence for Obliquity Forcing of Glacial Termination II

    R.N. Drysdale;J. C. Hellstrom;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;A. E. Fallick

  • The Classic Marine Isotope Substage 5e

    Nicholas J. Shackleton;Mark Chapman;Maria Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi;Delphine Pailler

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Filipa Naughton
Filipa Naughton Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Bruno Malaizé
Bruno Malaizé University of Bordeaux
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Samuel Toucanne
Samuel Toucanne French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Joachim Schönfeld
Joachim Schönfeld GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Martin Ziegler
Martin Ziegler Utrecht University
Anders E. Carlson
Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University
Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

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