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Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques

Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques

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Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques is a researcher affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their work spans several fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques has authored and contributed to numerous publications. Among recent papers authored by or involving the scientist are:

  • "Sedimentation on the southern Brazilian shelf mud depocenters: Insights on potential source areas," 2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • "Ecological quality status of the NE sector of the Guanabara Bay (Brazil): A case of living benthic foraminiferal resilience," 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "Organic contaminants and trace metals in the western South Atlantic upper continental margin: Anthropogenic influence on mud depocenters," 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "Historical deposition of PAHs in mud depocenters from the Southwestern Atlantic continental shelf: The influence of socio-economic development and coal consumption in the last century," 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • "End-member modeling and sediment trend analysis as tools for sedimentary processes inference in a subtropical estuary," 2022, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

The scientist's frequent coauthors include Rubens César Lopes Figueira, Márcia Caruso Bı́cego, Renata Hanae Nagai, Bianca Sung Mi Kim, and Paulo Alves de Lima Ferreira.

Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ocean and Coastal Research
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Best Publications

  • An extensive reef system at the Amazon River mouth

    Rodrigo L. Moura;Gilberto M. Amado-Filho;Fernando C. Moraes;Poliana S. Brasileiro

  • Three-dimensional distribution of plastic pellets in sandy beaches: shifting paradigms

    Alexander Turra;Aruanã B. Manzano;Rodolfo Jasão S. Dias;Michel M. Mahiques

  • Hydrodynamically driven patterns of recent sedimentation in the shelf and upper slope off Southeast Brazil

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Moysés Gonsalez Tessler;Aurea Maria Ciotti;Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira

  • 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

  • Anthropogenic influences in a lagoonal environment: a multiproxy approach at the valo grande mouth, Cananéia-Iguape system (SE Brazil)

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Leticia Burone;Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira;Ana Amélia de Oliveira Lavenére-Wanderley

  • Assessment of the health quality of Ria de Aveiro (Portugal): heavy metals and benthic foraminifera.

    Virgínia A. Martins;Fabrizio Frontalini;Keila M. Tramonte;Rubens C.L. Figueira

  • 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

  • Mid- to late-Holocene paleoceanographic changes on the southeastern Brazilian shelf based on grain size records

    Richard Gyllencreutz;M. M. Mahiques;D. V. P. Alves;I. K. C. Wainer

  • The Southern Brazilian shelf: general characteristics, quaternary evolution and sediment distribution

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa;Valdenir Veronese Furtado;Moysés Gonsalez Tessler

  • Post-LGM sedimentation on the outer shelf–upper slope of the northernmost part of the São Paulo Bight, southeastern Brazil

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira;Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa;Marcelo Rodrigues

  • Characteristics of the sedimentary organic matter on the inner and middle continental shelf between Guanabara Bay and São Francisco do Sul, southeastern Brazilian margin☆

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Yasufumi Mishima;Marcelo Rodrigues

  • 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

  • Nd and Pb isotope signatures on the Southeastern South American upper margin: Implications for sediment transport and source rocks

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari;Susana Marcolini;Roberto A. Violante

  • 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

  • 150 years of anthropogenic metal input in a Biosphere Reserve: the case study of the Cananéia–Iguape coastal system, Southeastern Brazil

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Rubens Cesar Figueira Figueira;Alexandre Barbosa Salaroli;Daniel Pavani Vicente Alves

  • Characterization of Energy Gradient in Enclosed Bays of Ubatuba Region, South-eastern Brazil

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  • Modern sedimentation in the Cabo Frio upwelling system, Southeastern Brazilian shelf

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Márcia Caruso Bícego;Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira;Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa

  • Dinâmica sedimentar atual nas enseadas da região de Ubatuba, estado de São Paulo

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques

  • Spatial distribution and historical input of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in sediments from a subtropical estuary (Guaratuba Bay, SW Atlantic).

    Tatiane Combi;Satie Taniguchi;Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira;Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques

  • Comparison between anthropogenic hydrocarbons and magnetic susceptibility in sediment cores from the Santos Estuary, Brazil.

    César C. Martins;Michel M. Mahiques;Márcia C. Bícego;Marina M. Fukumoto

  • Distribution of 137Cs, 238Pu and 239+240Pu in sediments of the southeastern Brazilian shelf-SW Atlantic margin

    Rubens C.L. Figueira;Moyses G. Tessler;Michel M. de Mahiques;Ieda I.L. Cunha

  • An extensive pockmark field on the upper Atlantic margin of Southeast Brazil: spatial analysis and its relationship with salt diapirism.

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Uri Schattner;Michael Lazar;Paulo Yukio Gomes Sumida

Frequent Co-Authors

Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira
Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira Universidade de São Paulo
Márcia Caruso Bícego
Márcia Caruso Bícego Universidade de São Paulo
César C. Martins
César C. Martins Universidade de São Paulo
Rosalinda Carmela Montone
Rosalinda Carmela Montone Universidade de São Paulo
João Alveirinho Dias
João Alveirinho Dias University of Algarve
Fabrizio Frontalini
Fabrizio Frontalini University of Urbino
Till J J Hanebuth
Till J J Hanebuth Coastal Carolina University
Fernando Rocha
Fernando Rocha University of Aveiro
Carlos Eduardo de Rezende
Carlos Eduardo de Rezende State University of Norte Fluminense
Fabiano L. Thompson
Fabiano L. Thompson Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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