Albert Català Caparrós

Adjunct part-time

Knowledge area: Estratigrafia

Research group: GRC Geociències Marines

Contact Information
Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics
Facultat de Ciències de la Terra Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà Carrer Martí i Franquès s/n Despatx: 337B
934021369
al_catala(a)ub.edu

Teaching

- Grau de Ciències del Mar. Assignatures: Canvi Climàtic i Oceà

- Màster d'Oceanografia i Gestió del Medi Marí. Assignatures: Canvi Climàtic i Oceà, Ambients i Processos Sedimentaris Marins

Academic Training

Llicenciat en Geologia . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . 15/09/2011 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Màster Universitari en Ciències del Mar: Oceanografia i Gestió del Médi Marí . Universitat de Barcelona . 02/10/2014 . (Official Master)

Doctor en Ciències del Mar . Universitat de Barcelona . 17/02/2023 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Climate variability reconstruction during the Holocene in the western Mediterranean Sea

Projects

Grup de Recerca en Geociències Marines . 2014 - 2017 . Ref.2014SGR1068 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Miquel Canals Artigas

Ocean forcing of Iberian Precipitation variability and Marine Ecosystem Response to Anthropogenic CO2 (OPERA) . 2014 - 2017 . Ref.CTM2013-48639-C2-1-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Isabel Cacho

Changing ocean-atmosphere Interactions: responses during past times and the Modern ERA (CHIMERA) . 2017 - 2020 . Ref.CTM2016-75411-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Leopoldo Pena

Testing the role of Mediterranean thermo-haline circulation as a sensor of transient climate events and shaker of North Atlantic Circulation. (TIMED) . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.683237 . European Research Council . PI: Isabel Cacho

Journal Publications

Català, A.; Cacho, I.; Frigola, J.; Pena, L.D.; Lirer, F. (2019). Holocene hydrography evolution in the Alboran Sea: a multi-record and multiproxy comparison. Climate Of The Past, 15(3), pp. 927 - 942 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1814-9324

Bini, Monica; Zanchetta, Giovanni; Persoiu, Aurel; Cartier, Rosine; Catala, Albert; Cacho, Isabel; Dean, Jonathan R.; Di Rita, Federico; Drysdale, Russell N.; Finne, Martin; Isola, Ilaria; Jalali, Bassem; Lirer, Fabrizio; Magri, Donatella; Masi, Alessia; Marks, Leszek; Mercuri, Anna Maria; Peyron, Odile; Sadori, Laura; Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine; Welc, Fabian; Zielhofer, Christoph; Brisset, Elodie (2019). The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview. Climate Of The Past, 15(2), pp. 555 - 577 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1814-9324

Margaritelli, G.; Cacho, I; Catala, A.; Barra, M.; Bellucci, L. G.; Lubritto, C.; Rettori, R.; Lirer, F. (2020). Persistent warm Mediterranean surface waters during the Roman period. Scientific Reports, 10(10431) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

Totaro, Federica; Insinga, Donatella D.; Lirer, Fabrizio; Margaritelli, Giulia; Català, Albert; de la Fuente, Maria; Petrosino, Paola (2022). The Late Pleistocene to Holocene tephra record of ND14Q site (southern Adriatic Sea): Traceability and preservation of Neapolitan explosive products in the marine realm. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 423 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107461 . ISSN: 0377-0273

Cisneros Bermejo, Mercè; Cacho, Isabel; Moreno, A.; Stoll; H.; Edwards, R.L.; Cheng, H.; Fornós, J.J. (Under Review). (2021). Hydroclimate variability during the last 2700 years based on stalagmite multi-proxy records in the central-western Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 269(107137) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0277-3791

Sergio Trias-Navarro; Leopoldo David Pena; Maria de la Fuente; Eduardo Paredes; Ester Garcia-Solsona; Jaime Frigola; Albert Català; Antonio Caruso; Fabrizio Lirer; Negar Hahipour; José Noel Pérez-Asensio; Isabel Cacho (2023). Eastern Mediterranean water outflow during the Younger Dryas was twice that of the present day. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(147) . https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00812-7 . ISSN: 2662-4435