Ramón Blanco Chao (ORCID: 0000-0002-5220-3956; WOS Researcher IDE: L-3017-2014) is PhD in Geography, Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela. His research activity focuses specifically on coastal geomorphology, especially on rocky coasts, high-energy beaches and morphodynamic changes in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, as well as on recent erosion and sedimentation processes in beach-dune systems. The research has contributed to the definition of para-periglacial behaviour on the NW Iberian Peninsula coasts, and shed light on the control of morphodynamic inheritance on current processes.

He published more than 65 papers, including 12 articles in JCR journals, and 9 in other journals; 14 book chapters, 3 of them in JCR publishers. He presented 35 papers at national and international conferences. He was also editor of several books and special issues in international journals (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Remote Sensing).

He participated as a researcher in 10 projects, being PI of an international project “Cambio climático global e actividade antrópica en hábitats de especial interese para a biodiversidade: unha comparación interhemisférica entre Tierra de Fuego (Arxentina) & NW da Península Ibérica”. Ministerio de Educación e Ciencia. GL2004-3380/BOS. (2004-2007) & a national project “Cambios xeomorfológicos, ambientais e ocupación humana no Holoceno medio e final na costa atlántica do NW da Península Ibérica”. Ministerio de Economía e Competitividade: CSO2014-55816-P. 2015 –2017.

His most outstanding bibliographic contributions include:

• Blanco-Chao, R., Cajade-Pascual, D.; Costa-Casais, M. (2020). Rotation, sedimentary deficit and erosion of a trailing spit inside ria of Arousa (NW Spain). Science of The Total Environment. 749. Article num. 141480, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141480
• Cajade-Pascual, D., Costa-Casais, M., Blanco-Chao, R. Taboada-Rodriguez, T. (2023) Sea-level change and human occupation over 6000 years on Areoso Island (Ría de Arousa, NW Iberian Peninsula). Environmenatl Earth Sciences: 82, 260 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-10955-7
• Blanco-Chao, R. (2018) Beaches of Galicia. In Morales, J (Ed.) The Spanish Coastal Systems: Dynamic processes, sediments and management. Springer. Switzerland. Pp. 189-207. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-93169-2 ISBN 9783319931692 (online) 9783319931685 (print)
• Tallón-Armada R; Costa-Casais M; Blanco-Chao R; Taboada Rodríguez T; Martínez-Cortizas A. (2017) Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of an urban archaeological site: the Roman salt mines of Vigo, northwest Iberia. Geoarchaeology. 33:112–126. DOI:10.1002/gea.21648
• Blanco-Chao, R.; Pérez-Alberti, A.; Trenhaile, A.S.; Costa-Casais, M.; Valcárcel-Díaz, M. (2007) Shore platform abrasion in a para-periglacial environment, Galicia, northwestern Spain. Geomorphology, 83:136–151
• (2003) Evolution and inheritance of a rock coast: western Galicia, Northwestern Spain. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 28: 757-775
• Blanco Chao, R.; Costa Casais, M.; Martínez Cortizas, A.; Pérez Alberti, A. ; Vázquez Paz, M. (2002) Holocene evolution in Galician coast (NW Spain): an example of paraglacial dynamics. Quaternary International. 93-94: 149-159