Dr. rer. nat . Piero Bellanova

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Hi,

I am Piero Bellanova.

Father, husband, and scientist.

I love to endeavor coastal sedimentary & environmental processes linked to natural hazards, such as floods, tsunamis and storms.

Working from source to sink, from the deep sea to coastal lowlands.

Reseach Interests

Expertise

Natural hazards related environmental and sedimentary processes
Short-term extreme and toxic flood events (e.g., tsunamis and river floods)
Environmental and sedimentary processes in the coastal interface (from land to sea)
Sources and distribution of flood & tsunami sediments
Distribution of sediment-associated biomarkers & pollutants by natural disasters onshore and offshore

organic geochemistry & biogeochemistry & environmental geochemistry
sedimentology & sedimentary processes
field & analytical methods (grain size, GC-MS analysis, extraction, separation, fractionation, hydrolysis, derivatization, petrography, scanning electron microscopy)
marine & coastal geology & oceanography
natural hazards & tsunami geology

Study Areas

Publications

Top 5 Publications

Bellanova, P., Feist, L., Costa, P.J., Orywol, S., Reicherter, K., Lehmkuhl, F., and Schwarzbauer, J. (2022). Contemporary pollution of surface sediments from the Algarve shelf, Portugal. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 176, DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113410.

Crawford, S.E., Brinkmann, M., Ouellet, J. D., Lehmkuhl, F., Reicherter, K., Schwarzbauer, J., Bellanova, P., Letmathe, P., Blank, L.M., Weber, R., Brack, W., van Dongen, J.T., Menzel, L., Hecker, M., Schüttrumpf, H. & Hollert, H. (2022). Remobilization of pollutants during extreme flood events poses severe risks to human and environmental health. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 421, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126691.

Bellanova, P., Frenken, M., Nishimura, Y., Schwarzbauer, J. & Reicherter, K. (2021). Tracing woody-organic tsunami deposits of the 2011 Tohoku-oki event in Misawa (Japan). Nature Scientific Reports 11, 1-13. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88199-3.

Bellanova, P., Frenken, M., Schwarzbauer, J., Reicherter, K., Szczuciński, W., & Jaffe, B. (2020). Anthropogenic pollutants - a new organic geochemical approach for the identification of tsunami deposits. Marine Geology 422, DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106117.

Bellanova, P., Frenken, M., Richmond, B., Schwarzbauer, J., La Selle, SP., Griswold, F., Jaffe, B., Nelson, A., & Reicherter, K. (2019) Organic geochemical investigation of far-field tsunami deposits of the Kahana Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Sedimentology, DOI: 10.1111/sed.12583.

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