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Olivier Radakovitch is affiliated with the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire in France. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantive focus on subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The primary topics Olivier Radakovitch has worked on include:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements

Notable recent publications by Radakovitch cover a range of environmental and geochemical issues:

  • "Hydro-climatic drivers of land-based organic and inorganic particulate micropollutant fluxes: The regime of the largest river water inflow of the Mediterranean Sea" (2020), published in Water Research
  • "Distribution and accumulation of metals and metalloids in planktonic food webs of the Mediterranean Sea (MERITE-HIPPOCAMPE campaign)" (2022), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "A review on cesium desorption at the freshwater-seawater interface" (2020), published in Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
  • "Sediment dynamics in the Gulf of Lion (NW Mediterranean Sea) during two autumn-winter periods with contrasting meteorological conditions" (2022), published in Progress In Oceanography
  • "Mercury accumulation in the sediment of the Western Mediterranean abyssal plain: A reliable archive of the late Holocene" (2021), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Olivier Radakovitch frequently publishes in venues such as HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Goldschmidt Abstracts, and Progress In Oceanography.

In collaborative work, Olivier has partnered regularly with several co-authors, notably Jean-Paul Ambrosi, C. Duffa, Marina Coquery, Hugo Lepage, and Mostefa Boulahdid. These collaborations contribute to a rich multidisciplinary approach to environmental and radiological studies.

Best Publications

  • Marine ecosystems' responses to climatic and anthropogenic forcings in the Mediterranean

    X. Durrieu de Madron;C. Guieu;R. Sempéré;P. Conan

  • Origin of groundwater salinity and hydrogeochemical processes in a confined coastal aquifer: Case of the Rhône delta (Southern France)

    Veronique de Montety;Olivier Radakovitch;Christine Vallet-Coulomb;Bernard Blavoux

  • Particulate matter and organic carbon budgets for the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean)

    Xavier Durrieu De Madron;Abderrazzak Abassi;Serge Heussner;André Monaco

  • Major and trace element partition and fluxes in the Rhone River

    Patrick Ollivier;Olivier Radakovitch;Bruno Hamelin

  • 210Pb and Caesium Accumulation in the Rhône Delta Sediments

    Olivier Radakovitch;S Charmasson;M Arnaud;P Bouisset

  • Input of particulate heavy metals from rivers and associated sedimentary deposits on the Gulf of Lion continental shelf

    Olivier Radakovitch;Vincent Roussiez;Patrick Ollivier;Wolfgang Ludwig

  • 210Pb sedimentation rates from the Northwestern Mediterranean margin

    J Miralles;Olivier Radakovitch;Jc Aloisi

  • Mobility and fluxes of trace elements and nutrients at the sediment–water interface of a lagoon under contrasting water column oxygenation conditions

    Sylvain Rigaud;Olivier Radakovitch;Raoul-Marie Couture;Bruno Deflandre

  • Isotopic and geochemical characterization of salinization in the shallow aquifers of a reclaimed subsiding zone: The southern Venice Lagoon coastland

    Julie C. Gattacceca;Christine Vallet-Coulomb;Adriano Mayer;Christelle Claude

  • Origin and variability of downward biogeochemical fluxes on the Rhone continental margin (NW mediterranean)

    A. Monaco;X. Durrieu de Madron;O. Radakovitch;S. Heussner

  • Seasonal variations of physical and chemical erosion: A three-year survey of the Rhone River (France)

    Patrick Ollivier;Bruno Hamelin;Olivier Radakovitch

  • Role of the climatological and current variability on shelf-slope exchanges of particulate matter: Evidence from the Rhône continental margin (NW Mediterranean)

    X. Durrieu de Madron;O. Radakovitch;S. Heussner;M.D. Loye-Pilot

  • Environmental changes in a tropical lake (Lake Abiyata, Ethiopia) during recent centuries

    D Legesse;D Legesse;F. Gasse;Olivier Radakovitch;Christine Vallet-Coulomb

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of downward particle fluxes on the continental slope of the Bay of Biscay (northeastern Atlantic)

    Serge Heussner;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Olivier Radakovitch;Luc Beaufort

  • Long-core profiles of 137 Cs, 134 Cs, 60 Co and 210 Pb in sediment near the Rhône River (Northwestern Mediterranean Sea)

    Sabine Charmasson;Olivier Radakovitch;Mireille Arnaud;Patrick Bouisset

  • Fate of metals in coastal sediments of a Mediterranean flood-dominated system: An approach based on total and labile fractions

    Vincent Roussiez;Wolfgang Ludwig;Olivier Radakovitch;Jean-Luc Probst

  • Groundwater-driven nutrient inputs to coastal lagoons: The relevance of lagoon water recirculation as a conveyor of dissolved nutrients

    Valentí Rodellas;Thomas C. Stieglitz;Aladin Andrisoa;Peter G. Cook

  • An assessment of karstic submarine groundwater and associated nutrient discharge to a Mediterranean coastal area (Balearic Islands, Spain) using radium isotopes.

    Ester García-Solsona;Jordi García-Orellana;Jordi García-Orellana;Pere Masqué;Esther Garcés

  • Fluxes and budget of on the continental margin of the Bay of Biscay (northeastern Atlantic)

    Olivier Radakovitch;Serge Heussner

  • Historical levels of heavy metals and artificial radionuclides reconstructed from overbank sediment records in lower Rhône River (South - East France).

    E. Ferrand;F. Eyrolle;O. Radakovitch;M. Provansal

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Heussner
Serge Heussner Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bruno Hamelin
Bruno Hamelin Aix-Marseille University
Christophe Fontanier
Christophe Fontanier University of Angers
Patrick Raimbault
Patrick Raimbault Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Daniel Cossa
Daniel Cossa Grenoble Alpes University
Pascal Conan
Pascal Conan Sorbonne University
Mireille Pujo-Pay
Mireille Pujo-Pay Sorbonne University
Roselyne Buscail
Roselyne Buscail University of Perpignan
Marina Coquery
Marina Coquery INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Claude Estournel
Claude Estournel Paul Sabatier University

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