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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr S. Bonetti
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Sara Bonetti\n15:15 – 16:00 – Dr Sara Bonetti\nResearch
  fellow at University College London\, UK\n\nFrom roots to landscapes: soi
 l processes across scales\n\nSoil provides critical regulatory and ecosyst
 em services\, from water filtration and storage to climate regulation and 
 food production. Inventorying and characterizing soil functions is essenti
 al for sustainable land management and for calibrating intensive land use 
 for food security. Yet\, ability to describe soil as a living system remai
 ns limited due to the complex interactions of biotic and abiotic processes
  acting over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Here\, efforts a
 nd opportunities in the representation of small‐scale soil and hydrologi
 cal processes for regional and global applications are first considered. U
 nder certain soil and climatic conditions\, small scale soil structure fea
 tures prominently alter the hydrologic response emerging at larger scales.
  The concept of soil as a dynamic system\, whose temporal evolution shapes
  the spatial arrangement of soil physical\, biological\, and chemical prop
 erties\, is then illustrated. I will focus on the contrasting features of 
 natural and intensively managed landscapes to discuss the impact of anthro
 pogenic disturbances on erosional processes and their legacy effects on bi
 ogeochemical cycles. Novel quantitative\, data-informed and holistic appro
 aches to soil system science must integrate the physical\, social\, and ec
 onomic dimensions of soils at scales ranging from pedons to continents to 
 ensure long-term sustainability of soil resources.\n\n\nShort bio:\nSara B
 onetti received a BSc degree in 2009 and a MSc degree in 2011 in Civil Eng
 ineering\, both at the University of Padova (Italy). From 2012 to 2014 she
  was a research assistant at the University of Padova (Italy) and at the N
 icholas School of the Environment (Duke University\, USA)\, where she work
 ed on soil-plant-atmosphere modelling. In 2018\, Sara obtained her PhD in 
 Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University\, under the supervi
 sion of Prof. Amilcare Porporato. The focus of her doctoral dissertation w
 as the analysis and modelling of landscape evolution and soil erosion. Dur
 ing her doctoral studies\, Sara spent one year as a visiting graduate stud
 ent at Princeton University (USA). From August 2018 to July 2020\, she was
  a postdoctoral associate at the Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physic
 s group at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). She joined the Institute for Sustaina
 ble Resources at University College London in February 2020 where she prim
 arily works on the SHEFS (Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems) project\, 
 contributing to the quantification of the environmental impacts of food pr
 oduction with a specific focus on water and soil resources.\n 
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81275857926
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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