Dr. David Amblas

Dr. David Amblas

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0002-6248-5512
Scopus Author ID: 8544523400
Researcher ID: A-5482-2015
Knowledge area: Estratigrafia

Research group: GRC Geociències Marines

Teaching Innovation Groups: GI-DINTO - Grup d’Innovació de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà

Contact Information
Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics
C/ Marti i Franquès, s/n
934021367
damblas(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Degree in Marine Sciences. Subjects: Marine Habitat Mapping (coordinator), Geology I, Initiation to Marine Sciences, Marine Geology, Projects Design
Master in Marine Sciences. Subjects: Marine Habitat Mapping (coordinator), Marine Sedimentary Processes and Products, Geology of the Oceans

My profile

I graduated in Geology at the University of Barcelona (UB). During my PhD in Earth Sciences at the same university I benefited from training stays at the universities of Duke (USA), Florida State ... + info

Academic Training

Doctor per la Universitat de Barcelona . Facultat de Geologia - Universitat de Barcelona . 05/10/2012 . (Ph.D.)
PostDoc (Marie Curie EU Research Fellowship) 2016-18 . Scott Polar Research Institute - University of Cambridge . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Codis UNESCO: 250619 Estratigrafia 250607 Geomorfologia 250609 Geologia Glacial 250616 Teledetecció 250618 Sedimentologia 2510.06 Processos del Fons Marí 2510.90 Geologia Marina 2510.90-1 Geologia Marina. Dinàmica Sedimentària

Projects

Seabed Imprint of Dense Shelf Water Cascading (SIDEW) . 2016 - 2018 . Ref.658358 . Unió Europea . PI: David Amblas Novellas
Estudio del transporte masivo de aguas densas de plataforma hacia el océano profundo: forzamientos, dinámica y señales . 2020 - 2022 . Ref.EIN2020-112179 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: David Amblas Novellas
Impactos de largo alcance de las cascadas de agua densa en el Océano Atlántico Norte y el Mar Mediterráneo (FAR-DWO) . 2021 - 2025 . Ref.PID2020-114322RB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Anna Sanchez Vidal; David Amblas Novellas
Ross Sea far-reaching signals and distribution of Dense shelf water cascades' (ROSEBUD) . 2021 - 2021 . Ref.FBG . EU FP7 EUROFLEETS Project . PI: David Amblas Novellas
Curso geoformas del relieve submarino, para 13 participantes. Exp. 3073-129-L119 . 2020 - 2020 . Ref.310597 . Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada (SHOA) . PI: David Amblas Novellas

Journal Publications

Amblas, D.; Canals, M.; Urgeles, R.; Lastras, G.; Liquete, C.; Hughes-Clarke, J.E.; Casamor, J.L.; Calafat, A.M. (2006). Morphogenetic mesoscale analysis of the northeastern Iberian margin, NW Mediterranean Basin. Marine Geology, 234(1-4), pp. 3 - 20 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2006.09.009 . ISSN: 0025-3227
Gerber, T.P.; Amblas, D.; Wolinsky, M.A.; Pratson, L.F.; Canals, M. (2009). A model for the long-profile shape of submarine canyons. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114(F03002) . https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JF001190 . ISSN: 0148-0227
Amblas, D.; Gerber, T.P.; Canals, M.; Pratson, L.F.; Urgeles, R.; Lastras, G.; Calafat, A.M. (2011). Transient erosion in the Valencia Trough turbidite systems, NW Mediterranean Basin. Geomorphology, 130(3-4), pp. 173 - 184 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0169-555X
Amblas, D.; Gerber, T.P.; De Mol, B.; Urgeles, R.; Garcia-Castellanos, D.; Canals, M.; Pratson, L.F.; Robb, N.; Canning, J. (2012). Survival of a submarine canyon during long-term outbuilding of a continental margin. Geology, 40(6), pp. 543 - 546 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0091-7613
Puig, P.; Canals, M.; Company, J.B.; Martin, J.; Amblas, D.; Lastras, G.; Palanques, A.; Calafat, A. (2012). Ploughing the deep sea floor. Nature, 489, pp. 286 - 289 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0028-0836
Lai, S.Y.J.; Gerber, T.P.; Amblas, D. (2016). An experimental approach to submarine canyon evolution. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(6), pp. 2741 - 2747 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0094-8276
Amblas, D.; Dowdeswell, J.A. (2018). Physiographic influences on dense shelf-water cascading down the Antarctic continental slope. Earth-Science Reviews, 185, pp. 887 - 900 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0012-8252
Portell, J.; Amblas, D.; Mitchell, G.; Morales, M.; Villafranca, A.G.; Iudica, R.; Lastras, G. (2019). High-Performance Compression of Multibeam Echosounders Water Column Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 12(6), pp. 1771 - 1783 . ISSN: 1939-1404
Jakobsson, M.; Mayer, L.A.; Bringensparr, C.; Castro, C.; Mohammad, R.; Johnsson, P.; Ketter, T.; Amblas, D.; Arndt, J.E.; Canals, M.; Coakley, B.; Danielson, S.; Dickson, M.-L.; Dowdeswell, J.A.; Demarte, M.; Dorschel, B.; Dreutter, S.; Gerling, J.; Hehemann, L.; Hodnesdal, H.; Hong, J.; Ivaldi, R.; Kristoffersen, Y.; Kuipers, B.R.; Lévesque, S.; An, L.; Morligheim, M.; Noormets, R.; Prescott, M.M.; Rebesco, R.; Rignot, E.; Tate, A.; Travaglini, P.; Zarayskaya, Y.; Zimmermann, M.; Zinglersen, K.; Zhang, T. (2020). The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 4.0. Scientific Data, 7(176), pp. 1 - 14 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2052-4463
Martí, A.; Portell, J.; Amblas, D.; de Cabrera, F.; Vilà, M.; Riba, J.; Mitchell, G. (2022). Compression of Multibeam Echosounders Bathymetry and Water Column Data. Remote Sensing, 14(9), p. 2063 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2072-4292

Others Publications

Amblas, D.; Canals, M.; Gerbert, T.P. (2015). The long-term evolution of submarine canyons: insights from the NW Mediterranean . In CIESM Monograph 47 [F. Briand ed.] Submarine canyon dynamics in the Mediterranean and tributary seas -An integrated geological, oceanographic and biological perspective, . Volume. 47 . (pp. 171 - 181) . CIESM . https://www.ciesm.org/catalog/index.php?article=1047
Amblas, D.; Canals, M. (2016). Landform assemblage produced by the Biscoe Trough ice stream, northern Antarctic Peninsula . In J.A. Dowdeswell, M., Canals, M. Jakobsson, B.J. Todd, E.K. Dowdeswell y K.A. Hogan, K.A. (eds): Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient . Volume. Memoirs . Number. 46 . (pp. 341 - 344) . Geological Society, London . ISBN: 978-1-78620-268-0 . http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1.toc
Amblas, D.; Portell, J.; Rayo, X.; Villafranca, A.G.; García-Berro, E.; Canals, M. (2016). Real-time lossless compression of multibeam echosounder water column data . In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Marine Technology MARTECH, Instrumentation Viewpoint . Number. 19 . (pp. 46 - 49) . 7th International Workshop on Marine Technology MARTECH .
Amblas, D.; Ceramicola, S.; Gerber, T.P.; Canals, M.; Chiocci, F.L.; Dowdeswell, J.A.; Harris, P.T.; Huvenne, V.A.I.; Lai, S.Y.J.; Lastras, G.; Lo Iacono, C.; Micallef, A.; Mountjoy, J.J.; Paull, C.K.; Puig, P.; Sanchez-Vidal, A. (2017). Submarine canyons and gullies . In Micallef, A., Krastel, S., Savini, A., (eds.), Submarine Geomorphology . (pp. 251 - 272) . Springer International Publishing . ISBN: 978-3-319-57851-4 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57852-1_14
Amblas, D.; Micallef, A.; Ceramicola, S.; Gerber, T.P.; Canals, M.; Casalbore, D.; Chiocci, F.L.; Duran, R.; Harris, P.T.; Huvenne, V.A.I.; Lai, S.Y.J.; Lastras, G.; Lo Iacono, C.; Matos, F.L.; Mountjoy, J.J.; Paull, C.K.; Puig, P.; Sanchez-Vidal, A. (2022). Submarine Canyons . In Shroder, J.F., (ed.), Treatise on Geomorphology, vol. 8. Elsevier, Academic Press . Volume. 8 . (pp. 830 - 846) . Elsevier . ISBN: 9780124095489 . https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00146-2