Professor
Alfred Vespremeanu-Stroe, PhD
University of Bucharest
Email: sfredi@geo.unibuc.ro
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Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography and the Head of Sf. Gheorghe Marine and Fluvial Research Station and of the GEODAR Research Center for Geomorphology, Geoarchaeology and Paleo-environments.
For the past five years, Professor Vespremeanu-Stroe has been involved in the following past and current projects: The response of climate-sensitive environments to global warming, sea-level rise and increasing extremes: the Carpathians and Danube delta – ClimaLAND (2020-2024, funded by Norway Grants, UEFISCDI;) and Climate- and tectonics-related surface processes in the Southern Carpathians and Northern Balkan Mountains. A geochronological approach at different timescales – ChronoCaRP (2023-2026, funded by European Union).
Studies
University of Bucharest, Romania – BSc (1998), MSc (1999), PhD (2004)
Doctoral fellowship (2002-2003, 4 months) at University of Loughborough, UK
Mary Sears fellowship (2004, 2 months) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
DAAD fellowship (2019, 2 months) at University of Frankfurt, Germany
Areas of interest
Coastal processes, Geomorphology, Palaeo-environment reconstruction, Geoarchaeology, Climate change, Periglacial processes.
Courses
Oceanography, Coastal Geomorphology, Black Sea Geography.
Membership and professional affiliations
International Association of Quaternary (INQUA)
European Geoscience Union (EGU)
Romanian Association of Geomorphologists (RAG)
International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG)
Selected List of Publications
Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Zăinescu, F., Preoteasa, L., Tătui, F., Rotaru, S., Morhange, C., Stoica, M., Hanganu, J., Timar-Gabor, A., Cârdan, I., Piotrowska, N. (2017). Holocene evolution of the Danube delta: an integral reconstruction and a revised chronology. Marine Geology, 388, 38-61.
Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Preoteasa, L., Zăinescu, F., Rotaru, S., Croitoru, L., Timar-Gabor, A., (2016). Formation of Danube delta beach ridge plains and signatures in morphology. Quaternary International. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.060.
Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Preoteasa, L., Hanganu, D., Brown, T., Birzescu, I., Toms, P., Timar-Gabor, A. (2013). The impact of the Late Holocene coastal changes on the rise and decay of the ancient city of Histria (Southern Danube delta). Quaternary International, 293, 245-256.
Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Constantinescu, Ş., Tătui, F., Giosan, L. (2007). Multi-decadal evolution and North Atlantic Oscillation influences on the dynamics of the Danube delta shoreline. Journal of Coastal Research, 50, 157-162.
Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Preoteasa, L. (2007). Beach-dune interactions on the dry-temperate Danube delta coast. Geomorphology, 86, 267-282.
Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Zăinescu, F., Pîrvan, M., Tătui, F., Preoteasa, L. (2023). Long-term evolution of the Sacalin barrier island (Danube delta) under the influence of storms, floods and big breaches, Coastal Sediments 2023, 1458-1465.
Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Urdea, P., Popescu, R., & Vasile, M. (2012). Rock glacier activity in the Retezat mountains, Southern Carpathians, Romania. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 23(2), 127-137, DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1736
Zăinescu, F., Anthony, E., Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Besset, M., Tătui, F. 2023. Concerns about data linking delta land gain to human action, Nature, 614 (7947), E20-E25.
Giosan, L., Donnelly, J., P., Constantinescu, S., Filip, F., Ovejanu, I., Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Vespremeanu, E., Duller, G.A.T., (2006). Young Danube delta documents stable Black Sea level since the middle Holocene: Morphodynamic, paleogeographic and archaeological implications, Geology, 34, 757-760.
Tătui, F., Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Ruessink, B.G. (2016). Alongshore variability of cross-shore bar behavior on a nontidal beach, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.3974.
Preoteasa, L., Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Tătui, F., Zăinescu, F., Timar-Gabor, A., Cârdan, I. (2016). The evolution of the Sf. Gheorghe assymetric deltaic lobe in association with the cyclic development of a river-mouth bar and present adaptations to human-induced sediment depletion. Geomorphology, 253, 59-73.
Zăinescu F., Tătui F., Valchev N., Vespremeanu-Stroe A., (2017). Storm climate on the Danube delta coast: evidence of recent storminess change and links with large-scale teleconnection patterns, Natural Hazards, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-2783-9.
Zăinescu, F., Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Anthony, E., Tătui, F., Preoteasa, L., Mateescu, R. 2019. Flood deposition and storm removal of sediments in front of a deltaic wave-influenced river mouth. Marine Geology 417, 106015.