Antonio Miguel Calafat Frau

Antonio Miguel Calafat Frau

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0001-7927-3105
Scopus Author ID: 7005617315
Knowledge area: Estratigrafia

Grup de Recerca en Geociències Marines

Contact Information
Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics
Martí Franqués, s/n
934021361
antonicalafat(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Ambients
Littoral sedimentary dynamics

Academic Training

Lic. Geología . Universidad de Barcelona . 06/1982 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Grado . Universidad de Barcelona . 06/1986 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Docteur en Océanologie . Université de Perpignan (Francia) . 10/1993 . (Ph.D.)
Doctor en C. Geológicas (Homologación) . Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia . 09/1996 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Sedimentología Marina
Flujos de materia
Geología ambiental de zonas costeras
Dinámica litoral

Projects

NUevos REtos en la investigación de cañones submarinos: Indicadores del Estado ambiental y Variabilidad espacio-temporal El papel de los temporales . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.CTM2013-44598-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Miquel Canals Artigas; Anna Sanchez Vidal
Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation (MIDAS) . 2013 - 2016 . Ref.603418 . Unió Europea . PI: Miquel Canals Artigas
Grup de Recerca en Geociències Marines . 2014 - 2017 . Ref.2014SGR1068 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Miquel Canals Artigas
Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (PERSEUS) . 2012 - 2015 . Ref.287600 . Unió Europea . PI: Miquel Canals Artigas
Assessorament i investigació aplicada en el camp de la sedimentologia . 2015 - 2015 . Ref.302569 . Diversos . PI: Antonio Miguel Calafat Frau

Journal Publications

Danovaro, R.; Canals, M.; Tangherlini, M.; Dell'Anno, A.; Gambi, C.; Lastras, G.; Amblas, D.; Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Frigola, J.; Calafat, A.M.; Pedrosa, R.; Rivera, J.; Rayo, X.; Corinaldesi, C. (2017). A submarine volcanic eruption leads to a novel microbial habitat. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, p. 0144 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0144 . ISSN: 2397-334X
Oscar Serrano; Paul S. Lavery; Carlos M. Duarte; Garry A. Kendrick; Antoni Calafat; Paul H. York; Andy Stevens; Peter Macreadie (2016). Can mud (silt and clay) concentration be used to predict soil organic carbon content within seagrass ecosystems?. Biogeosciences, 13(17), pp. 4915 - 4926 . ISSN: 1726-4170
Pedrosa-Pàmies, R.; Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Canals, M.; Lampadariou, N.; Velaoras, D.; Gogou, A.; Parinos, C.; Calafat, A. (2016). Enhanced carbon export to the abyssal depths driven by atmosphere dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, pp. 8626 - 8636 . https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069781 . ISSN: 0094-8276
Pedrosa-Pàmies, R.; Parinos, C.; Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Gogou, A.; Calafat, A.; Canals, M.; Bouloubassi, I.; Lampadariou, N. (2015). Composition and sources of sedimentary organic matter in the deep Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Biogeosciences, 12(24), pp. 7379 - 7402 . https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7379-2015 . ISSN: 1726-4170
Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Veres, O.; Langone, L.; Ferré, B.; Calafat, A.; Canals, M.; Durrieu de Madron, X.; Heussner, S.; Mienert, J.; Grimalt, J.O.; Pusceddu, A.; Danovaro, R. (2015). Particle sources and downward fluxes in the eastern Fram strait under the influence of the west Spitsbergen current. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 103, pp. 49 - 63 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0967-0637
Gogou, A.; Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Stavrakakis, S.; Durrieu de Madron, A.; Calafat, A.M.; Stabholz, M.; Psarra, S.; Canals, M.; Heussner, S.; Stavrakaki, I.; Papathanassiou, V. (2014). Carbon Flux to the Deep in three open sites of the Southern European Seas. Journal of Marine Systems, 129, pp. 224 - 233 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.05.013 . ISSN: 0924-7963
Higueras, M.; Kerhervé, P.; Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Calafat, A.; Ludwig, W.; Verdoit-Jarraya, M.; Heussner, S.; Canals, M. (2014). Biogeochemical characterization of the riverine organic matter transferred to the NW Mediterranean Sea. Biogeosciences, 11, pp. 157 - 172 . https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-157-2014 . ISSN: 1726-4170
Pasqual, C.; Amores, A.; Flexas, M.M.; Monserrat, S.; Calafat, A. (2014). Environmental factors controlling particulate mass fluxes on the Mallorca continental slope (Western Mediterranean Sea). Journal of Marine Systems, 138, pp. 63 - 69 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.05.008 . ISSN: 0924-7963
Woodall, L.; Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Canals, M.; Paterson, G.; Coppock, R.; Sleight, V.; Calafat, A.; Rogers, A.; Narayanaswamy, B.; Thompson, R., (2014). The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris. Royal Society Open Science, 1(1), p. 140317 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2054-5703

Others Publications

A. GARCIA-GARCIA, T. SCHOOLMEESTER, D. ORANGE, A. CALAFAT, J. FABRES, E. GROSSMAN, M. FIELD, T.D. LORENSON, M. LEVEY AND M. SANSOUCY (2012). Recent sedimentary processes in the Cap de Creus canyon head and adjacent continental shelf, NE spain: evidence from multibeam bathymetry, sub-bottom profiles and coring . In Sediment Morphology and Sedimentary Processes on Continental Shelves . Volume. 44 . (pp. 71 - 98) . Wiley-Blackwell . ISBN: 978-1-4443-5082-1 .
Company, J.B.; Ramirez-Llodra, E.; Sardà, F.; Aguzzi, J.; Puig, P.; Canals, M.; Calafat, A.; Palanques, A.; Solé, M.; Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Martín, J.; Lastras, G.; Tecchio, S.; Koenig, S.; Fernandez-Arcaya, U.; Mechó, A.; Fernández, P. (2012). Submarine canyons in the Catalan Sea (NW Mediterranean): megafaunal biodiversity patterns and anthropogenic threats . In Mediterranean Submarine Canyons, Ecology and Governance (M. Würtz, ed.) . (pp. 133 - 144) . ISBN: 978-2-8317-1469-1 .
Canals, M.; Amblas, D.; Lastras, G.; Sànchez-Vidal, A.; Calafat, A.M.; Rayo, X.; Casamor, J.L. (2012). Els canyons submarins . In Suplement de la Història Natural dels Països Catalans. La terra a l'univers: astronomia. Addenda geològica . (pp. 251 - 272) . Enciclopèdia Catalana . ISBN: 978-84-412-1953-3 .