Francisca Martínez-Ruiz
Scientific Researcher
 
 
Projects

      National

      The role of exopolimeric substances (EPS) in the mineral precipitation in the oceans: implications in biogeochemical cycles.
      Reference: CGL2017-92600-EXP
      Time: 01/11/2018 to 01/11/2020
      Researchers number: 7
      Coordinator: F. Martínez Ruiz
      Budget: 40.000 €

      Carbonates: from biomineralization and Earth's climate evolution to CO2 capture and built heritage conservation.
      Financing entity: Unit of excellence of Granada University (UCE-PP2016-05)
      Time: 2017-2019
      Researchers number: 7
      Coordinator: C. Rodríguez-Navarro

      Sensitivity of the marine geochemical record to the impacts of climate change in the Mediterranean: scenarios of past climate variability and future responses.
      Reference: CGL2015-66830-R                               
      Time: 01/01/2016 to 31/12/2018
      Responsable research: F. Martínez Ruiz                 
      Researchers number: 15
      Budget: 121.000 €

      Climatic and paleoceanographic events in the western Mediterranean during the last glacial cycle: biosphere-geosphere interactions and deep fluids.
      Reference: CGL2012-32659                                   
      Time: 01/01/2013 to 31/12/2015
      Responsable research: F. Martínez Ruiz     
      Researchers number: 13
      Budget: 156.780,00 €

      The biogeochemical cycles of barium and carbon: record of marine biological paleoproductivity and global change.
      Reference: Junta de Andalucía P09-RNM-5212    
      Time: 03/02/2010 a 31/12/2014
      Responsable research: F. Martínez Ruiz                 
      Researchers number: 13
      Budget: 243,685,68 €

      Rapid climatic variability during the Holocene in the western Mediterranean: global and regional climate responses.
      Reference: CGL2009-07603                                   
      Time: 01/01/2010 to 31/12/2012
      Responsable research: F. Martínez Ruiz                 
      Researchers number: 13
      Budget: 147.620,00 €

      The Arc of Gibraltar system: improvement and validation of research on remarkable geological cases in the Alboran Sea (GASALB).
      Financing entity: CTM2009-07715 (subprogram MAR)
      Duration: 01/01/2010 to 31/12/2012      
      Responsable research: M. Comas
      Researchers number: 10
      Budget: 254.100 €

      Climate variability and marine biological productivity: Paleo-records as climate change scenarios.
      Reference: Strategic Action Climate Change, MARM 200800050084447
      Time: 17/12/2008 to 31/12/2011
      Responsable research: F. Martínez Ruiz                 
      Researchers number: 12
      Budget: 84.000,00 €

      Participation in the UNESCO-IOC / MSU Training Through Research Program.
      (Campaign TTR-17 / SAGAS-1)

      Financing entity: MEC, CGL2007-28727-E/BTE
      Duration: 01/01/2008 to 31/12/2008
      Responsable research: M. Comas
      Researchers number: 12
      Budget: 65.000 €

      Geosciences in Iberia: integrated studies of topography and evolution 4D (TOPO-IBERIA)
      Financing entity: Ministry of Education and Science CSD2006-00041 (announcement Consolider-Ingenio 2010)
      Duration: 01/10/2006 to 30/09/2011
      Responsable research: J. Gallart Muset

      Rapid climate changes in the Iberian Peninsula based on calibration of indicators, long instrumental series and high resolution analysis of marine records.
      Reference: CGL2006-13327-C04-04                      
      Time: 01/10/2006 to 30/09/2009
      Responsable research: F. Martínez Ruiz                 
      Researchers number: 13
      Budget: 88.330,00 €

      The Gibraltar Arc system: active geodynamic processes in sub-Iberian margins: SAGAS-1
      Financing entity: MEC CTM2005-08071-C03-01
      Duration: 31/12/2005 to 30/12/2008      
      Responsable research: M. Comas
      Researchers number: 12
      Budget: 133.004,58 €

      The Indonesian earthquake (mw9.3) and the Holocene paleoseismic record
      of the Sumatra subduction zone: participation in the Sumatra-2007 marine campaign
      Financing entity: Plan Nacional I+D+I, MCYT ( Acción Especial CTM2006-27159-E)
      Duration:12/2006 to 12/2007
      Responsable research: E. Gràcia (UTM-CSIC)
      Budget: 13.500 €

      Geochemical indicators of environmental changes. Application to the study of global change
      Financing entity: Junta de Andalucía RNM 432
      Duration: 2006 to 2009
      Responsable research: M. Ortega Huerta
      Researchers number: 5
      Budget: 93.000 €

      Management of the IODP Scientific Program in Spain
      Financing entity: MEC International Complementary Action
      Duration: 2006 to 2006
      Responsable research: M. Comas
      Researchers number: 7
      Budget: 56.000 €

      Interactions between fire, climate, vegetation and human action in Mediterranean paleoecosystems
      Financing entity: Seneca Fundation
      Duration: 2005 to 2007
      Responsable research: J. S. Carrión
      Researchers number: 7
      Budget: 8.000 €

      Climatic variability and its impact on P. Ibérica from the last glacial maximum:
      Correlation of continental and marine records and implications for understanding the present and future climate (CLIBER)

      Financing entity: MCYT REN2003-09130 / CLI
      Duration: 2003 to 2005
      Coordinator: F. Martínez Ruiz
      Researchers number: 26

      Climatic variability and its impact on the Iberian Peninsula since the last maximum
      glacial: high resolution analysis of marine records and implications for the understanding of present and future climate (CLIBER)

      Financing entity: MCYT REN2003-09130-C02-01 / CLI
      Duration: 17/12/2003 to 16/12/2006
      Responsable research: F. Martínez Ruiz
      Researchers number: 13
      Budget: 138.000 €

      Participation in the Ocean Drilling Program: sedimentological, geochemical and magnetic analysis of the samples acquired during leg 204 (drilling of gas hydrates in the Oregon margin)
      Financing entity: Plan Nacional I+D+I, MCYT ( Special action BTE2002-11698-E)
      Duration:11/2003 to 12/2004
      Responsable research: E. Gràcia (UTM-CSIC)
      Budget: 16.500 €

      Geological and geophysical studies integrated in margins and sedimentary basins of southern iberia: Relationship between Surface and Deep Processes in the Alboran Sea and its Connection with the Atlantic (Acronism MARSIBAL)
      Financing entity: REN2001-3868-CO3-01-MAR
      Duration: 12/2001 to 12/2004    
      Responsable research: M. Comas
      Budget: 169.004,58 €

      Geochemical and biotic indicators of climatic variability in the western Mediterranean during the last 20,000 years.
      Financing entity: MCYT. Project REN2000-0798
      Duration: 28/12/2000 to 27/12/2003      
      Responsable research: F. Martínez-Ruiz
      Researchers number: 5
      Budget: 11.704.000 Pts

      Spanish participation in the LEG 190 of the Ocean Drilling Program: Deformation and fluid flow processes in the accretion prism of the Nankai Trench (Japan).
      Financing entity: Science and Technology Ministry, special action REN2000-0310-E
      Duration:  12/2000 to 12/2002
      Responsable research: M. Sánchez Gómez             
      Researchers number: 3
      Budget: 800.000 pesetas

      Interdisciplinary study of margins and basins of the Alboran and Surbalear Sea: validation of a lithospheric structure model for the westernmost Mediterranean.
      Financing entity: C.I.C.Y.T. Project MAR98-0981
      Duration: 1998 to 2001 
      Responsable research: M. Comas.
      Researchers number: 10
      Budget: 31.698.000 Pts

      Mineralogy and geochemistry of new sections of Cretaceous-Tertiary traffic in the Atlantic NO (ODP, Leg 171B).Comparison with NE Atlantic and Mediterranean sequences.
      Financing entity: DGES-MEC
      Duration: 1997 to 2000
      Responsable research: M. Ortega Huertas.
      Researchers number: 3
      Budget: 5.000.000 Pts

      The Alborán Sea basin: Log of tectonic processes, control factors of sedimentary fill and continental lithosphere model.
      Financing entity: D.G.Y.C.I.T. Project AMB95-1557
      Duration: 08/1995 to 08/1998       
      Responsable research: M. Comas.
      Researchers number: 9
      Budget: 32.750.000 Pts

      Geochemical and mineralogical anomalies during the Mesozoic and Paleogene in Alpine chains of the western Mediterranean. Its application in watershed analysis.
      Financing entity: D.G.I.C.Y.T. Project PB-92-0960
      Duration: 06/1993 to 05/1996
      Responsable research: M. Ortega Huertas.
      Researchers number: 10
      Budget: 5.250.000 Pts

      The continental margins of the South and West of Iberia during the Upper Jurassic and the Lower-Middle Cretaceous. A basin analysis compared.
      Financing entity: D.G.I.C.Y.T. Project PB-87-0271
      Duration: 08/1988 to 07/1992
      Responsable research: M. Comas.
      Researchers number: 14

      Research group: Mineralogy and geochemistry of sedimentary and metamorphic environments (Research group RNM 0179).
      Financing entity: Junta de Andalucía                       
      Time: Enero 1989 - present
      Responsable research: M. Ortega Huertas

       

      International

      Marine gas hydrate - an indigenous resource of natural gas for Europe (MIGRATE).
      ESSEM COST Action ES1405 (2015-2019)
      Responsable research: Klaus Wallmann (Coordinator)

      Impact of fluid circulation in old oceanic lithosphere on the seismicity of transform-type plate boundaries: new solutions for early seismic monitoring of major European Seismogenic zones (FLOWS).
      ESSEM COST Action ES1301 (2013-2017)
      Responsable research: Christian Hensen (Coordinator)

      Tectonics in the Gibraltar Arc System and Atlas Mountains: Lithospheric causes and topographic consequences. Project contribution to CRP. TOPOMED
      Financing entity: ESF Project + special action MICINN
      Duration: 28/12/2008 to 27/12/2012
      Investigador responsable: M. Comas

      Paleochemical studies of marine environments during high productive and/or anoxic episodes: inferences for processes related to global change
      Financing entity: MEC Integrated spanish-german HA2006-0049.
      Duration: 01/2007 to 12/2008
      Responsable research: F. Martínez Ruiz (Spain).

      14th UNESCO/IOC cruise of RV Professor Logachev: North Atlantic and Western Mediterranean – Leg 3: Alboran and South Balearic basins
      Financing entity: UNESCO-IOC + Project Marsibal + Project Cliber
      Participation: 2004
      Responsable research: M. Ivanov, Floating University (Moscow State University) – M. Comas – F. Martínez-Ruiz

      Imaging the Western Mediterranean Margins: A key target to understand the interaction between deep and shallow processes.
      Financing entity: ESF Eurocores-Euromargin Projects + special action MCYT (REN2002-1-2095-E/MAR)
      Duration: 12/2003 to 12/2006
      Responsable research: M. Comas

      PROMESS 1, PROfiles across MEditerranean Sedimentary Systems. Part 1, EVR1-CT-2002-40024
      Financing entity: European Union
      Duration: 02/2003 to 01/ 2006
      Responsable research: Serge Berne (Coordinator, Ifremer, France)

      ASSEMBLAGE, Assessment of the Black Sea sedimentary system since the last glacial extreme, EVK3-CT-2002-0090
      Financing entity: Unión Europea
      Duration: 02/2003 to 06/2006
      Responsable research: Gilles Lericolais (Coordinator, Ifremer, France), Spain: F. Martínez Ruiz

      Ocean Drilling Program, ODP Leg 204 (shorebased scientist).
      Financing entity: National Science Foundation (Estados Unidos), Consortium of Canada and Australia, Japan, members of the Consortium of the European Science Foundation for the Underwater Drilling Program, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
      Duration: 2002 to 2005
      Responsable research: G. Bohrmann & A. M. Tréhu (co-chief scientists).

      12th UNESCO/IOC cruise of RV Professor Logachev: Geological processes on continental margins of Europe and North Africa – Leg 3. Western and Eastern Alboran Sea
      Financing entity: UNESCO-IOC + Project Marsibal
      Participation: 2002
      Responsable research: M. Ivanov, Floating University (Moscow State University) – M. Comas

      Ocean Drilling Program, ODP Leg 190 (shorebased scientist).
      Financing entity: National Science Foundation (Estados Unidos), Consortium of Canada and Australia, Japan, members of the Consortium of the European Science Foundation for the Underwater Drilling Program, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
      Duration: 01/2000 to 01/2004
      Responsable research: F. Moore & A. Taira (co-chief scientists).

      9th UNESCO/IOC cruise of RV Professor Logachev: Multidisciplinary Study of Geological Processes on the North East Atlantic and Western Mediterranean Margins - Leg 3: Alboran and South Balearic basins
      Financing entity: UNESCO-IOC/MSU + special action Basacalb
      Participation: 1999
      Responsable research: M. Ivanov, Floating University (Moscow State University) – M. Comas

      ESF Scientific Programme on Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes (IMPACT). European Network.
      Financing entity: European Science Foundation.
      Duration: 01/1998 to 01/2003
      Responsable research: C. Koeberl (Steering Committe).

      Ocean Drilling Program, ODP Leg 171B (shipboard scientist).
      Financing entity: National Science Foundation (Estados Unidos), Consortium of Canada and Australia, Japan, members of the Consortium of the European Science Foundation for the Underwater Drilling Program, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
      Duration:01/1997 to 01/2001
      Responsable research: D. Kroon & R. D. Norris (co-chief scientists).

      Climate change and paleoceanographic evolution of the Alboran Sea during the Pliocene-Pleistocene.
      Financing entity: MEC- German Ministry of Education. Integraded acción spanish-german
      Duration: 01/1998 to 01/2000
      Responsable research: M. Comas (spanish part).

      Ocean Drilling Program, ODP Leg 161 (shorebased scientist).
      Financing entity: National Science Foundation (Estados Unidos), Consortium of Canada and Australia, Japan, members of the Consortium of the European Science Foundation for the Underwater Drilling Program, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
      Duration: 01/1995 to 01/1999
      Responsable research: M. Comas & R. Zahn.

      Ocean Drilling Program, ODP Leg 160 (shorebased scientist).
      Financing entity: National Science Foundation (Estados Unidos), Consortium of Canada and Australia, Japan, members of the Consortium of the European Science Foundation for the Underwater Drilling Program, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
      Duration: 01/1995 to01/1999
      Responsable research: K. C. Emeis & A. H. F. Robertson (co-chief scientists).

      4th UNESCO-ESF Training-through-Research Cruise of the R/V Gelendzhik: Sediments transport processes in the Western Mediterranean Sea: Leg 1 (Training Leg)
      Financing entity: UNESCO-ESF/MSU
      Participation: 1994
      Responsable research: M. Ivanov, Floating University (Moscow State University)

      Geochemical anomalies in the Cretaceous-Tertiary and Paleocene-Eocene transits. Comparative study of stratigraphic sequences in Spain, Italy and France.
      Financing entity: CSIC-CNR Italy. Bilateral cooperation agreement
      Duration: 01/1993 to 01/1994
      Responsable research: M. Ortega Huertas (spanish part).

      Evolution and Correlation of Epicratonic Peritethyan Basins. Project 343
      Financing entity: Network CEE. Euro-Tethys Conference.
      Duration: 1993  to 2000
      Responsable research: J. Dercourt (Paris University VI).

      Geochemical study of Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments of the Betic Cordilleras.
      Financing entity: MEC y French education ministry.
      Duration: 01/1993 to 01/1994
      Responsable research: E. Sebastián Pardo (spanish part).

      Geochemistry of stable isotopes, elements of the platinum group and distribution of rare earths. Its application in watershed analysis.
      Financing entity: MEC y MIPI. Integrated action spanish-italian 9A. Universities of Granada, Roma, Bari y Pavía.
      Duration: 01/1992 to 01/1993
      Responsable research: M. Ortega Huertas (spanish part).

      Mineralogy and geochemistry of mesozoic anoxic facies and the sediments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transit. Application in the analysis of alpine Mediterranean basins.
      Financing entity: MEC y MIPI. Integrated action spanish-italian 8A. Universities of Granada, Bari y Pavía.
      Duration: 01/1991 to 01/1992
      Responsable research: M. Ortega Huertas (spanish part).

      Paleocene/Eocene Boundary Events.
      Financing entity: IUGS/UNESCO.
      Duration: 01/1990 to 01/1993
      Responsable research: E. Molina (spanish part).

      Mineralogy and geochemistry of mesozoic anoxic facies and the sediments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transit.
      Financing entity: MEC y Italian Ministry (MIPI). Integrated action spanish-italian 66. Universities of Granada,Bari y Pavía.
      Duration: 01/1990 to 01/1991
      Responsable research: M. Ortega Huertas (spanish part).