Michael Styllas (0000-0003-4385-0008)

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My scientific background involves a wide spectrum of research and development of solutions on water recycling that cut across the disciplines of glaciology, hydrology, sedimentology, geochemistry, and climate change. For the past 25 years I have followed a non-continuous academic path, intercepted by extensive periods of work in the private sector. As a freelance geologist, I have participated in several geotechnical and geoarchaeological projects, but the majority of my non-academic work has been the water cycle of the Mediterranean critical zone and particularly the artificial surface aquifer recharge across different sedimentary settings (e.g. alluvial plane, dune fields, silicate regolith).

My academic research has mainly focused on the Mediterranean Holocene palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions that resolve from glacial, fluvial, lacustrine, and coastal sedimentary archives along a source-to-sink continuum, and on the perturbations of landscape evolution by human activities.
More recently, my research has focused on the impacts of erosion and aeolian (Saharan) dust accretion on the Holocene evolution of Mediterranean alpine landscapes, and on the global glacial weathering dynamics and their links to the transient carbon cycle.

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Institut de physique du globe de Paris: Paris, FR

2024-04-01 to present | Post doctoral researcher (External Envelopes Geochemistry (G2E) team)

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Michael Styllas

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Institut de physique du globe de Paris: Paris, FR

Université Savoie Mont Blanc: Le Bourget-du-lac, FR

Geoservice LTD: Athens, GR

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Lausanne, VD, CH

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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Sciences: Thessaloniki, GR

Oregon State University College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences: Corvallis, OR, US

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Sciences: Thessaloniki, GR

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International Association of Sedimentologists: Ghent, BE

Academy of Athens: Athens, GR

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Did the Ancient Greek Gods ever got Cold?

Works (29)

Predicting climate-change impacts on the global glacier-fed stream microbiome

Gradients of Deposition and In Situ Production Drive Global Glacier Organic Matter Composition

Chapter Demonstrating Decentralised Circular Rainwater Management Solutions to Combat Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean

Global emergent responses of stream microbial metabolism to glacier shrinkage

Aeolian dust accretion outpaces erosion in the formation of Mediterranean alpine soils. New evidence from the periglacial zone of Mount Olympus, Greece

The dark side of the moon: first insights into the microbiome structure and function of one of the last glacier-fed streams in Africa

Aeolian dust accretion outpaces erosion in the formation of Mediterranean alpine soils. New evidence from the periglacial zone of Mount Olympus, Greece

The last bits of glacial ice and permafrost as remains of the late Holocene Mediterranean glaciations. New discoveries from Mount Olympus periglacial zone

Revisiting the determination of Mount Olympus Height (Greece)

Glacier shrinkage will accelerate downstream decomposition of organic matter and alters microbiome structure and function

Genomic and metabolic adaptations of biofilms to ecological windows of opportunity in glacier-fed streams

Microdiversity characterizes prevalent phylogenetic clades in the glacier-fed stream microbiome

Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe

Patterns and Drivers of Extracellular Enzyme Activity in New Zealand Glacier-Fed Streams

Unprecedented loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe related to record summer rains in 2019

Tracing a Late Holocene glacial climatic signal from source to sink under intensifying human erosion of Eastern Mediterranean landscapes

From subsurface to surface: a multidisciplinary approach to decoding uplift histories in tectonically‐active karst landscapes

Ice Caves in Greece

Relationship between winter orographic precipitation with synoptic and large-scale atmospheric circulation: The case of mount Olympus, Greece

Late-glacial and Holocene history of the northeast Mediterranean mountain glaciers - New insights from in situ-produced 36Cl-based cosmic ray exposure dating of paleo-glacier deposits on Mount Olympus, Greece

Natural Processes Versus Human Impacts During the Last Century: A Case Study of the Aliakmon River Delta

Earthquakes, Tsunamis and HarboursA Geoarchaeological GPR-Based Approach for Depicting the Spatial Characteristics of Human Structures and Natural Hazards in Ancient Falasarna Harbour

Early- to mid-Holocene paleohydrology in northeast Mediterranean: The detrital record of Aliakmon River in Loudias Lake, Greece

Geomorphologic and paleoclimatic evidence of Holocene glaciation on Mount Olympus, Greece

A simple approach to define Holocene sequence stratigraphy using borehole and cone penetration test data

Contribution on the Holocene Reconstruction of Thessaloniki Coastal Plain, Greece

Reconstruction of Mid-Holocene sedimentary environments in the central part of the Thessaloniki Plain (Greece), based on microfaunal identification, magnetic susceptibility and grain-size analyses

Human occupation and geomorphological evolution of the Thessaloniki Plain (Greece) since mid Holocene

Sediment Accumulation in Tillamook Bay, Oregon: Natural Processes versus Human Impacts