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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
83
Citations
25850
World Ranking
423
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Miquel Canals is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the disciplines of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Pollution, Oceanography, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics including Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geological formations and processes, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and the presence of Heavy metals in the environment.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Miquel Canals include:

  • Anna Sànchez-Vidal
  • Ostin Garcés-Ordóñez
  • Luisa F. Espinosa-Díaz
  • Martín Thiel
  • David Amblàs

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in several academic venues, notably:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Scientific Reports

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Miquel Canals include:

  • "The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects" (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • "The missing ocean plastic sink: Gone with the rivers" (2021), Science
  • "The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0" (2020), Scientific Data
  • "The Making of the NEAM Tsunami Hazard Model 2018 (NEAMTHM18)" (2021), Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Seagrasses provide a novel ecosystem service by trapping marine plastics" (2021), Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

    Lucy C. Woodall;Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;Gordon L.J. Paterson

  • Flushing submarine canyons

    Miquel Canals;Pere Puig;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Serge Heussner

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

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

  • Marine litter distribution and density in European seas, from the shelves to deep basins.

    Christopher K. Pham;Eva Ramirez-Llodra;Eva Ramirez-Llodra;Claudia H. S. Alt;Teresa Amaro

  • 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

  • Slope failures on the flanks of the western Canary Islands

    D.G Masson;A.B Watts;M.J.R Gee;R Urgeles

  • Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project

    M. Canals;G. Lastras;R. Urgeles;J.L. Casamor

  • Triggering mechanisms of slope instability processes and sediment failures on continental margins: a geotechnical approach

    Nabil Sultan;Pierre Cochonat;M Canals;Antonio Cattaneo

  • Ploughing the deep sea floor

    Pere Puig;Miquel Canals;Jacobo Martín

  • Evidence for enhanced Mediterranean thermohaline circulation during rapid climatic coolings

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

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities

    Sabine Gollner;Stefanie Kaiser;Lena Menzel;Daniel O.B. Jones

  • The missing ocean plastic sink: Gone with the rivers.

    Lisa Weiss;Wolfgang Ludwig;Serge Heussner;Miquel Canals

  • Suspended sediment fluxes and transport processes in the Gulf of Lions submarine canyons. The role of storms and dense water cascading

    Albert Palanques;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Pere Puig;Joan Fabres

  • Deep sea-floor evidence of past ice streams off the Antarctic Peninsula

    Miquel Canals;Roger Urgeles;Antoni M. Calafat

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

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

  • The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0.

    Martin Jakobsson;Larry A. Mayer;Caroline Bringensparr;Carlos F. Castro

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

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

  • Production of carbonate particles by phytobenthic communities on the Mallorca-Menorca shelf, northwestern Mediterranean Sea

    Miquel Canals;Enric Ballesteros

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna Sanchez-Vidal
Anna Sanchez-Vidal University of Barcelona
Galderic Lastras
Galderic Lastras University of Barcelona
Antoni Calafat
Antoni Calafat University of Barcelona
Roger Urgeles
Roger Urgeles Spanish National Research Council
Serge Heussner
Serge Heussner Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Isabel Cacho
Isabel Cacho University of Barcelona
Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Pere Puig
Pere Puig Spanish National Research Council
Albert Palanques
Albert Palanques Spanish National Research Council
Roberto Danovaro
Roberto Danovaro Marche Polytechnic University

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