Time: 2:00 pm, October 8th, 2016

Place: No.203 Meeting Room, the State Key Laboratory, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation

Topic 1: Ecohydrological modelling as a basis for water resource management

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nicola Fohrer

Brief Curriculum Vitae:

Prof. Nicola Fohrer work in the Department of Hydrology & Water Resources Management, Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel, and she got degree of MSc and PhD. from Technical University of Berlin. Prof. Fohrer’s main research interests is catchment hydrology, sustainable management of water resources in rural areas, ecohydrology and ecohydrological modeling. She also focuses on transport of agrochemicals, soil erosion and impact of global change. Her publications in this field are widely cited. Prof. Fohrer is a Steering commitee and foundation member of the German Hydrological Society, Chair of scientific board: German National Committee of IHP/HWRP of the UNESCO, and the chairperson of the international committee for Ecohydrolgy of UNESCO from 2009 to 2011. Prof. Fohrer also serves as an editor for some famous journal. She has been an editor Zeitschrift Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung since 2007, and also an editorial board member of the journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences HESS from 2005 to 2008.

Topic 2: Remote sensing and bio-optical modelling of water bodies

Speaker: Prof. Oppelt Natascha Maria

Brief Curriculum Vitae:

Prof. Oppelt is a professor of Physical Geography at Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel (Kiel University). She obtained her Ph. D at Ludwig-Maximilians-University(Munich) in 2002. Her main research interests are in the development of methods for process-oriented and spatially differentiated environmental observation with the aid of various measurement techniques, but in particular specialized sensor technology for remote sensing, GIS and semi-empirical or physically based modelling approaches. Prof. Oppelt gained extensive experience in sensor technology including design, calibration and operation of hyperspectral airborne and spaceborne instruments. She is also really good at passive remote sensing (and to a lesser extent in active sensory), the development of applications for environmental analysis such as agriculture (plant pigments, yield), land surface processes and landscape development (land use and land cover, monitoring of subtropical forests and mangroves), ecology and ecosystem services, soils (soil moisture) and aquatic ecosystems (coastal and inland waters, water quality, benthic vegetation) at various scales. A second key aspect of her research is in environmental modelling and the integration of remotely sensed parameters in physically-based or semi-empirical model approaches to enhance the modelling of spatially distributed processes such as photosynthesis, vegetation growth/yield estimation or the hydrological cycle and its elements in the context of a changing climate. Moreover, Prof. Oppelt is an editorial board member of the International Conference of Precision Agriculture, and an editorial board member for the European Conferences in Precision Agriculture.

Topic 3: Soil conservation practices: how to better link research findings and farmers behavior

Speaker: Prof. Giovanni Quaranta

Brief Curriculum Vitae:

Prof. Giovanni Quaranta is a professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy and Natural Resources Economics. His main topic of research activity is the sustainable management of natural resources, especially focusing in the evaluation of trade off between economic and environmental impacts associated to different management options. He has been, and is currently involved, as local project leader in many international research programmes (among the others, some EU projects included: MEDIMONT, MEDALUS II, MEDALUS III, DESERTLINKS, DESIRE, IMAGE Interreg III B Archimed, HADRIAMED Interreg III B Archimed, EUREKA Interreg III B Archimed, EDECCA Interreg III B Archimed) and is a member of several national and international organisations and advisory bodies, including the EAAE - European Association of Agricultural Economists, ESRS - European Society for Rural Sociology. Booklet author in LUCINDA (dry agriculture). He published over 30 scientific papers on the specific topic. He is a component, in quality of expert, of the Italian National Committee to Combat Desertification and Drought. He is also the scientific responsible of the Post-graduate Master course on "Management of territory, combating desertification and sustainable development” activated at University of Basilicata.

Topic 4: Water management: how to save irrigation water in an increasingly food demanding world

Speaker: Prof. Rosanna Salvia

Brief Curriculum Vitae:

Prof. Rosanna Salvia is an agricultural economist who specialize in the area of natural resources management with specific emphasis on socio-economic determinants of desertification and Resilience of socio-ecological systems. Her doctorate thesis has been on the role of social capital in promotion of local development and natural resources management. She has several publications in the national and international journals and conferences. She has participated in the EU projects MEDALUS, DESERTLINKS, DESIRE, LEDDRA, CASCADE, IMAGE Interreg III B Archimed, HADRIAMED Interreg III B Archimed, EUREKA Interreg III B Archimed, EDECCA Interreg III B Archimed. Prof. Rosanna Salvia has been appointed as researcher at MEDES Foundation, Foundation for the sustainable Development of Mediterranean Basin since 2009, and she is a professor of "Natural Resources Economics” within the International PhD program of Doctorate "Pythagoras of Samos” based at University of Basilicata from 2013.

Institute of Soil and Water Conservation
Sep 28, 2016