Jaime Frigola Ferrer

Lecturer Professor

Scopus Author ID: 26532615900

Researcher ID: J-6095-2017

Knowledge area: Estratigrafia

Grup de Recerca en 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
GRC Geociències Marines, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra. C/ Martí i Franquès s/n
934021367
jfrigola(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Grau de Ciències del Mar. Assignatures: Iniciació a les Ciències del Mar (coordinador), Geologia Marina (coordinador), Oceanografia Química

Grau de Geologia. Assignatures: Geologia

Màster d'Oceanografia i Gestió del Medi Marí. Assignatures: Pràctiques de Mar, Geologia dels Oceans, Canvi Climàtic i Oceà

My profile

Tenure-eligible lecturer professor from the Serra Húnter Programme (2019) and member of the GRC Marine Geosciences at the Dept. of Earth and Ocean's Dynamics of the Faculty of Earth Sciences (UB). Manager of the CORELAB laboratory for the non-destructive analyses of geological materials (2009).

My main research topic focusses on the study of marine sediment sequences for the reconstruction of past oceanographic and environmental conditions (Paleoceanography), and also for the study of continental margin development and stability, geohazards, and human induced contaminants dispersion into the sea (Marine Geology).

I obtained my PhD Thesis by the University of Barcelona (2012) entitled "Rapid climate variability in the Western Mediterranean Basin: the sedimentological record". During my scientific career, I have investigated past surface and deep water ventilation conditions in the western Mediterranean region related to climate transitions occurring during the last glacial cycle and the Holocene period. Especially, I have focused on investigating transference mechanisms of the climate variability signal from global to regional scale, mainly related to deep-water formation in the Gulf of Lion continental margin and surface conditions in the Western Mediterranean Basin.

I performed short abroad research stays at IFREMER (Best, France - 2004), IODP core repository (Bremen, Germany - 2004) and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (New York, USA - 2014).

Participated actively in the setting up and managed the CORELAB laboratory, a research facility of the University of Barcelona with a XRF core scanner (Avaatech), a Multi-sensor core logger (MSCL's, Geotek) and a micro-CT system, giving open service to research and private contracts. I obtained a contract of technician for research facilities of the Spanish government (2012-2015, MICINN).

I have co-authored 24 peer-reviewed scientific articles in peer review journals, with more than 120 contributions to international conferences and workshops. I have participated in 24 national and international research projects and contracts. My work has been cited 1076 times resulting in an impact factor H of 16 (source: googlescholar).

I have supervised 3 Bachelor (BSc) and 6 Master (MSc) theses, and at present I am supervising the PhD Thesis of Andrea Baza, focussed on the study of the sedimentary record of a mine tailing deposit in the submerged area of Portmán Bay, SE Spain.

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Projects

Abrupt hydrological changes in the Iberian Peninsula during Interglacial Climatic Instabilities: A combined speleothem and marine approach (HIDROPAST) . 2010 - 2013 . Ref.CGL2010-16376 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Heather Stoll

PROMESS 1 (Profiles across Mediterranean Sedimentary Systems 1) . 2002 - 2006 . Ref.EVR1-CT-200240024 . Comunitat Econòmica Europea . PI: Miquel Canals

Cambios en las interacciones océano-atmósfera: respuesta durante el pasado y la era moderna . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.CTM2016-75411-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Leopoldo David Pena Gonzalez; Eva Isabel Cacho Lascorz

Nuevos retos de investigación en el ambiente extremo de los vertidos mineros de la Bahía de Portman: aplicación de tecnologías avanzadas . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.CTM2016-75953-C2-1-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Miquel Canals Artigas; Anna Sanchez Vidal

Journal Publications

Frigola, J.; Canals, M.; Cacho, I.; Moreno, A.; Sierro, F.J.; Flores, J.A.; Berné, S.; Jouet, G.; Dennielou, B.; Herrera, G.; Pasqual, C.; Grimalt, J.O.; Galavazi, M.; Schneider, R. (2012). A 500 kyr record of global sea level oscillations in the Gulf of Lion, Mediterranean Sea: new insights into MIS 3 sea level variability. Climate Of The Past, 8, pp. 1067 - 1077 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1814-9324

Cisneros Bermejo, Mercè; Cacho, Isabel; Frigola, Jaime; Canals, Miquel; Masqué, Pere ; Martrat, Belen; Casado, Marta; Grimalt, Joan O.; Pena, Leopoldo D.; Margaritelli, Giulia; Lirer, Fabrizio (2016). Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: a multi-proxy and multi-record approach. Climate Of The Past, 12(4), pp. 849 - 869 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1814-9324

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

Balbo, A. L.; Puy, A.; Frigola, J.; Retamero, F.; Cacho, I.; Kirchner, H. (2018). Amplified environmental change: Evidence from land-use and climate change in medieval Minorca. Land Degradation & Development, 29(4), pp. 1262 - 1269 . https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2869 . ISSN: 1085-3278

Cisneros, M.; Cacho, I.; Frigola, J.; Sánchez-Vidal, A.; Calafat, A.; Pedrosa-Pàmies, R.; Rumón-Caparrós, A.; Canals, M. (2019). Deep-water formation variability in the north-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2500yr: A proxy validation with present-day data. Global and Planetary Change, 177, pp. 56 - 68 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0921-8181

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

Vilardell, A.M.; Cinca, N.; Barriuso, E.; Frigola, J.; Dosta, S.; Cano, I.G.; Guilemany, J.M. (2019). X-ray microtomographic characterization of highly rough titanium cold gas sprayed coating for identification of effective surfaces for osseointegration. Microscopy, 68(5), pp. 413 - 416 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2050-5698

Torner, J.; Cacho, I.; Moreno, A.; Sierro, F.J.; Martrat, B.; Rodriguez-Lazaro, J.; Frigola, J.; Arnau, P.; Belmonte, A.; Hellstrom, J.; Cheng, H.; Edwards, R.L.; Stoll, H. (2019). Ocean-atmosphere interconnections from the last interglacial to the early glacial: An integration of marine and cave records in the Iberian region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 226, p. 106037 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106037 . ISSN: 0277-3791

Pérez-Asensio, J.N.; Frigola, J.; Pena, L.D.; Sierro, F.J.; Reguera, M.I.; Rodríguez-Tovar, F.; Dorador, J.; Asioli, A.; Kuhlmann, J.; Huhn, K.; Cacho, I. (2020). Changes in western Mediterranean thermohaline circulation in association with a deglacial Organic Rich Layer formation in the Alboran Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 228, p. 106075 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0277-3791

Cerdà-Domènech, M.; Frigola, J.; Sanchez-Vidal, A.; Canals, M. (2020). Calibrating high resolution XRF core scanner data to obtain absolute metal concentrations in highly polluted marine deposits after two case studies off Portmán Bay and Barcelona, Spain. Science of the Total Environment, 717, pp. 1 - 12 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134778 . ISSN: 0048-9697