Mário Cachão

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG2 – Ocean, coastal and land surface processes
Position at IDL: Researcher
Job: Associate Professor 
Email: mcachao@fc.ul.pt 
Telephone Number: (351) 93-626-4754 
Extension: 26494 
Room: 6.4.55 
Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

  • Aggregation in Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal (October, 14th, 2005);

  • PhD in Paleontology and Stratigraphy, University of Lisbon (May 3rd, 1996);

  • Equiv. MSc in Paleontology, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (January 1990);

  • Degree in Geology, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Setember 1984).

Scientific Informations

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9490-4128

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6506718349

Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/2729342/mario-a-p-cachao/

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario_Cachao

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=UH3GS7UAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT


Main Interests: 

Micropaleontology of Cenozoic Calcareous nannofossils (Biostratigraphy, Paleoecology and Paleoceanography).

Ecobiostratigraphy, Global Change, Chaos theory, General Paleontologia (invertebrate, vertebrate, ichnology, taphonomy), Computing, Tectonics, Sedimentology.

Top 10 Publications: 

CACHÃO, M. & MOITA, T. (2000) – Coccolithus pelagicus, a productivity proxy related to moderate fronts off Western Iberia, Marine Micropaleontology, 39(1/4): 131-155. DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(00)00018-9

PARIS, R.; CACHÃO, M.; FOURNIER, J. & VOLDOIRE, O. (2010) – Nannoliths abundance and distribution in tsunami deposits: example from the December 26, 2004 tsunami in Lhok Nga (southwest Sumatra, Indonesia). Géomorphologie: relief, processus, environment, nº 1/2010, pp. 109-118. ISSN:1266-5304; WOS: 000276837200007

PÉREZ-MORENO, B.P.; CHURE, D.J.; PIRES, C.; MARQUES DA SILVA, C.; SANTOS, V.; DANTAS, P.; PÓVOAS, L.; CACHÃO, M.; SANZ, J.L. & GALOPIM DE CARVALHO, A.M. (1999) – On the presence of Allosaurus fragilis (Theropoda: Carnosauria) in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: first evidence of an intercontinental dinosaur species. Journal Geological Society, Londres, 156 (3): 449 – 452. DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.3.0449.

GUERREIRO, C.; CACHÃO, M.; PAWLOWSKY-GLAHN, V.; OLIVEIRA, A. & RODRIGUES, A. (2015) – Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) as a tool to study the (paleo)ecology of coccolithophores from coastal-neritic settings off central Portugal. Sedimentary Geology , 319: 134 – 146. DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.01.012

BARCELOS E RAMOS, J.; SCHULZ, K.G.; VOSS, M.; NARCISO, Á.; MÜLLER, M.N.; REIS, F.V.; CACHÃO, M. &  AZEVEDO, E.B. (2017) – Nutrient-specific responses of a phytoplankton community: a case study of the North Atlantic Gyre, Azores. J. Plankton Res., 39 (4): 744-761. DOI 10.1093/plankt/fbx025.

MALAFAIA, E.; ESCASO, F.; MOCHO, P.; SERRANO-MARTÍNEZ, A.; TORICES, A.; CACHÃO, M. & ORTEGA, F. (2017) – Analysis of diversity, stratigraphic and geographical distribution of isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Journal of Iberian Geology, 43: 257-291 DOI:10.1007/s41513-017-0021-7

JOHNSON, M.E., BAARLI, B.G., CACHÃO, M., MAYORAL, E., RAMALHO, R.S., SANTOS, A., AND SILVA, C.M. da.  (2018) – On the origin and demise of oceanic islands: Towards a global theory following from the pioneering studies of Charles Darwin and James Dwight Dana.  In Earth-Science Reviews, 180: 17-36. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.03.008

NARCISO, Á., CALDEIRA, R., REIS, J., HOPPENRATHE, M., CACHÃO, M. & KAUFMANN, M. (2019) – The effect of a transient frontal zone on the spatial distribution of extant coccolithophores around the Madeira archipelago (Northeast Atlantic). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 223: 25-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2019.04.014

SILVA, C.M., CACHÃO, M., REBELO, A.C., JOHNSON, M.E., BAARLI, B.G., SANTOS, A. & MAYORAL, E. (2019) – Paleoenvironment and taphonomy of lower Miocene bivalve and macroid assemblages: the Lagos Biocalcarenite (Lagos-Portimão Formation, southern Portugal). Facies, 65: 6pp. (online version) DOI: 10.1007/s10347-018-0550-3

FONSECA, M.L., SCOTESE, C.R. & CACHÃO, M. (2019) – Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography of Braarudosphaera bigelowii. Marine Micropaleontology (in press) DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.03.010