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Francisco José Jiménez Espejo

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Marine Geosciences

He is a multidisciplinary researcher developing his work in inorganic geochemistry in marine and continental sediments (lacustrine sediments, cave speleothems and archeological sites) in middle and high latitudes. His research has focused on unraveling paleoceanography, climatic, ice sheet and oceanic variability during past warm intervals in the past 7 million years, the effect of ocean bottom currents has in ocean circulation and ice sheet dynamics; and coutourite and other transport deposits as recorders of past ice sheet dynamics. He also put special focus in the impact of climate change in human cultural evolution. This research is achieved through the integration of geochemical and sedimentological data. Postdoctoral training in the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science, Yokosuka (Japan). He has participated in a total of 16 international, national and regional projects of which two as IP. Participant in ODP/IODP Leg/ expeditions 318, 339, and 361 and five more expeditions onboard of R/V Chikyu (Indian Ocean), R/V Yokosuka (Ohkotsk Sea), TTR-12 and TTR-14 R/V Prof. Logachev (Alboran Sea), and BIO Hesperides (Weddell Sea).

Author of more than 100 SCI publications with  >4000 citations by >2500 documents (Scopus), h-index 37 (Scopus), in journals as Nature, Science, Nature Geosciences, Plos One, PNAS, Scientific Reports among others. 

Projects

  • 2022

    • CAMBIOS AMBIENTALES PASADOS, PRESENTES Y FUTUROS EN EL SUR DE LA PENINSULA IBERICA A TRAVES DEL ESTUDIO DE LAS VARIACIONES CLIMATICAS ABRUPTAS DESDE EL ULTIMO MAXIMO GLACIAL

      Reference: PID2021-125619OB-C22
      Researcher(s): Francisco José Jiménez Espejo/Concepción Jiménez de Cisneros Vencela
      Date: 1 de September del 2022 - 31 de August del 2026
      Funding agency: Ministerio
  • 2018

    • EVENTOS TECTÓNICOS Y OCEANOGRÁFICOS EN EL DESARROLLO DE LA CORRIENTE CIRCUMPOLAR ANTÁRTICA (ACC) Y SU RELACIÓN CON LA EVOLUCIÓN PALEOCLIMÁTICA Y DEL CASQUETE DE HIELOS.

      Reference: CTM2017-89711-C2-1-P
      Researcher(s): Carlota Escutia Dotti
      Date: 1 de January del 2018 - 31 de December del 2021
      Funding agency: Ministerio

Publications

Authors Year Title Magazine, volume, pages.
Katelyn M. Johnson, Robert M. McKay, Johan Etourneau, Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, Anya Albot, Christina R. Riesselman, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Huw J. Horgan, Xavier Crosta, James Bendle, Kate E. Ashley, Masako Yamane, Yusuke Yokoyama, Stephen F. Pekar, Carlota Escutia, Robert B. Dunbar. 2021 Sensitivity of Holocene East Antarctic productivity to subdecadal variability set by sea ice Nature Geoscience, 14, 762-768
Sandra Castro, Francisco Javier Hernández‐Molina, Wouter Weger, Francisco José Jiménez‐Espejo, Francisco Javier Rodríguez‐Tovar, Anxo Mena, Estefanía Llave, Francisco Javier Sierro. 2020 Contourite characterization and its discrimination from other deep‐water deposits in the Gulf of Cadiz contourite depositional system Sedimentology, 68, 987-1027
André Bahr, Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, Nada Kolasinac, Patrick Grunert, F. Javier Hernández-Molina, Ursula Röhl, Antje H. L. Voelker, Carlota Escutia, Dorrik A. V. Stow, David Hodell, Carlos A. Alvarez-Zarikian. 2014 Deciphering bottom current velocity and paleoclimate signals from contourite deposits in the Gulf of Cádiz during the last 140 kyr: An inorganic geochemical approach Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15, 3145-3160
M. O. Patterson, , R. McKay, T. Naish, C. Escutia, F. J. Jimenez-Espejo, M. E. Raymo, S. R. Meyers, L. Tauxe, H. Brinkhuis. 2014 Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Nature Geoscience, 7, 841-847
F.J. Jiménez-Espejo, A. García-Alix, G. Jiménez-Moreno, M. Rodrigo-Gámiz, R.S. Anderson, F.J. Rodríguez-Tovar, F. Martínez-Ruiz, Santiago Giralt, A. Delgado Huertas, E. Pardo-Igúzquiza. 2014 Saharan aeolian input and effective humidity variations over western Europe during the Holocene from a high altitude record Chemical Geology, 374-375, 1-12

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