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Santiago Giralt is affiliated with Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN - CSIC) in Spain and has an active research profile in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their body of work comprises 78 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 26 in Environmental Science, with a focus on diverse subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Geophysics, and Oceanography.

The main research topics covered by Santiago Giralt include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis

Santiago Giralt has published recent papers in recognized scientific journals. Some notable examples are:

  • A 2,000-year Bayesian NAO reconstruction from the Iberian Peninsula, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology of the collapse of Rapa Nui society, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Humid and cold periods in the last 5600 years in Arid Central Asia revealed by palynology of Picea schrenkiana from Issyk-Kul, 2020, The Holocene

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Giralt's frequent co-authors include:

  • Armand Hernández
  • Sergi Pla-Rabès
  • Alberto Sáez
  • Pedro M. Raposeiro
  • Adelina Geyer

Most publications are published within the following venues:

  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Scientific Reports

Giralt's research spans disciplines that integrate geological, ecological, and climatological perspectives, addressing long-term environmental changes, climatic variability, and their effects on historical human and ecological systems. Their work contributes to understanding Earth surface processes through advanced proxy-based reconstructions and isotope analyses.

Best Publications

  • The Little Ice Age in Iberian mountains

    M. Oliva;J. Ruiz-Fernández;M. Barriendos;G. Benito

  • A 14 kyr record of the tropical Andes: The Lago Chungará sequence (18°S, northern Chilean Altiplano)

    A. Moreno;S. Giralt;B. Valero-Garcés;A. Sáez

  • Climate reconstruction for the last two millennia in central Iberia: The role of East Atlantic (EA), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and their interplay over the Iberian Peninsula

    G. Sánchez-López;Armand Hernández;Sergi Pla-Rabes;Ricardo M. Trigo

  • Tracking climate variability in the western Mediterranean during the Late Holocene: a multiproxy approach

    V. Nieto-Moreno;F. Martínez-Ruiz;S. Giralt;F. Jiménez-Espejo

  • Palinología holocénica y desertización en el Mediterraneo occidental

    Francesc Burjachs i Casas;G. Seret;Santiago R. Giralt;Ramon Julià Brugués

  • Geochemical processes in a Mediterranean Lake: a high-resolution study of the last 4,000 years in Zoñar Lake, southern Spain

    Celia Martín-Puertas;Blas L. Valero-Garcés;M. Pilar Mata;Ana Moreno

  • Climate and human impact on a meromictic lake during the last 6,000 years (Montcortès Lake, Central Pyrenees, Spain)

    Juan Pablo Corella;Ana Moreno;Mario Morellón;Valentí Rull

  • A 2500-year multi-proxy reconstruction of climate change and human activities in northern Spain: The Lake Arreo record

    Juan Pablo Corella;Vania Stefanova;Adel El Anjoumi;Eugenio Rico

  • A 2,000‑year Bayesian NAO reconstruction from the Iberian Peninsula

    Armand Hernández;Guiomar Sánchez-López;Sergi Pla-Rabes;Laia Comas-Bru

  • Glacial to Holocene climate changes in the SE Pacific. The Raraku Lake sedimentary record (Easter Island, 27°S)

    Alberto Sáez;Blas L. Valero-Garcés;Santiago Giralt;Ana Moreno

  • Vegetation changes in the southern Pyrenean flank during the last millennium in relation to climate and human activities: the Montcortès lacustrine record

    Valentí Rull;Penélope González-Sampériz;Juan Pablo Corella;Mario Morellón

  • Vegetation changes and human settlement of Easter Island during the last millennia: a multiproxy study of the Lake Raraku sediments

    Núria Cañellas-Boltà;Núria Cañellas-Boltà;Valentí Rull;Alberto Sáez;Olga Margalef

  • Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene

    Armand Hernández;Celia Martin-Puertas;Paola Moffa-Sánchez;Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro

  • Natural and anthropogenic rapid changes in the Kara-Bogaz Gol over the last two centuries reconstructed from palynological analyses and a comparison to instrumental records

    S.A.G. Leroy;F. Marret;S. Giralt;S.A. Bulatov

  • Saharan aeolian input and effective humidity variations over western Europe during the Holocene from a high altitude record

    F.J. Jiménez-Espejo;A. García-Alix;G. Jiménez-Moreno;M. Rodrigo-Gámiz

  • Late Glacial to Early Holocene environmental adjustment in the Mediterranean semi-arid zone of the Salines playa-lake (Alacant, Spain)

    S. Giralt;F. Burjachs;J.R. Roca;R. Julia

  • Microbial Biscuits of Vaterite in Lake Issyk-Kul (Republic of Kyrgyzstan)

    Santiago Giralt;Ramon Julià;Jean Klerkx

  • Lacustrine carbonates of Iberian Karst Lakes: Sources, processes and depositional environments

    Blas Valero-Garcés;Mario Morellón;Ana Moreno;Juan Pablo Corella

  • A statistical approach to disentangle environmental forcings in a lacustrine record: the Lago Chungará case (Chilean Altiplano)

    Santiago Giralt;Ana Moreno;Roberto Bao;Alberto Sáez

  • Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times.

    Pedro M. Raposeiro;Armand Hernández;Sergi Pla-Rabes;Vítor Gonçalves

  • Paleoecology of Easter Island: evidence and uncertainties.

    Valentí Rull;Núria Cañellas-Boltà;Núria Cañellas-Boltà;Alberto Sáez;Santiago Giralt

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Sáez
Alberto Sáez University of Barcelona
Blas L. Valero-Garcés
Blas L. Valero-Garcés Spanish National Research Council
Ricardo M. Trigo
Ricardo M. Trigo University of Lisbon
Ana Moreno
Ana Moreno Spanish National Research Council
Marc Oliva
Marc Oliva University of Barcelona
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Linda A. Amaral-Zettler
Linda A. Amaral-Zettler University of Amsterdam
Claudio Latorre
Claudio Latorre Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ramon Julià
Ramon Julià Spanish National Research Council
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham

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