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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture - Prof. Sara Bonetti
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sara Bonetti\nDate: 31 May 2023\nTime: 17:30 - 19:30\nIn
 troductions by the Dean\, lectures by Prof. Meret Aeppli\, Prof. Ianina Al
 tshuler and Prof. Sara Bonetti. Followed by an Apero.\nPlace: CO 1\nZoom l
 ink\n\nTitle:\nFrom roots to landscapes: catchment processes across scales
 \n\nAbstract\nCatchments are natural integrators of a wide array of biotic
  and abiotic processes (e.g.\, surface/subsurface water dynamics\, cycling
  of carbon and nutrients\, soil erosion) and providers of key ecosystem se
 rvices (e.g.\, water regulation\, biodiversity\, food and energy productio
 n). Yet\, in light of the complex interactions of multiple biophysical pro
 cesses and the high spatial variability of their features\, our ability to
  describe catchment dynamics across different spatio-temporal scales is st
 ill limited. Here\, efforts and opportunities in the representation of sma
 ll‐scale soil and hydrological processes for regional and global scale a
 pplications are first considered. We will show that\, under certain climat
 ic conditions\, small-scale soil structure features may prominently alter 
 the hydrologic response emerging at larger scales. Such hydrologic alterat
 ions have notable implications for soil erosion and carbon dynamics\, pote
 ntially affecting regional and global carbon budgets. The concept of catch
 ments as dynamic landscapes is then introduced to show how natural process
 es and human interventions regulate the evolution of catchment properties 
 and fluxes in space and time. Particularly\, the impact of agricultural la
 nd use on soil erosion and carbon dynamics is briefly discussed to highlig
 ht the need for holistic descriptions of catchment processes that integrat
 e complex interactions acting over a wide range of spatio-temporal scales.
  Progress on this front is key to understand system dynamics\, identify dr
 ivers of change\, and ultimately build predictive models to foresee the co
 nsequences of climate and land use change\, devise optimal land management
  strategies\, and avoid critical transitions to unsustainable conditions.\
 n\nAbout the speaker\nProf. Sara Bonetti joined EPFL in September 2022 as 
 a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Catchment Hydrology and Geomorpholog
 y. Before joining EPFL\, she was Assistant Professor at the Soil Physics a
 nd Land Management Group at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). She r
 eceived a BSc degree in 2009 and a MSc degree in 2011 in Civil Engineering
 \, both from the University of Padova (Italy). From 2012 to 2014 she was a
  research assistant\, first at Duke University (USA) and then at the Unive
 rsity of Padova (Italy). In 2018\, she obtained her PhD in Civil and Envir
 onmental Engineering from Duke University\, with a doctoral dissertation o
 n the analysis and modelling of landscape evolution and soil erosion. From
  August 2018 to July 2020\, she was a postdoctoral associate at the Soil a
 nd Terrestrial Environmental Physics group at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and
 \, from March 2020 to September 2021\, she worked as a research fellow at 
 the Institute for Sustainable Resources at University College London (UK).
  Her work focuses on the development of quantitative tools for the descrip
 tion of coupled ecohydrological and geomorphological processes in natural 
 and managed ecosystems.\n 
LOCATION:CO1 https://plan.epfl.ch//?room==CO%201 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68
 864051571
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