Visiting PhD student from Italian National Research Council and University of Basilicata – Soil and Water Conservation Research Group

Italian PhD student, Civil-environmental Engineer with a MSc in Hydraulic Engineering and Violinist.

Antonella Dimotta comes from the Italian National Research Council and University of Basilicata (School of Agricultural School Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences). Her PhD Program is on land, environmental and forestry science. At CEBAS-CSIC she will study the soil erosion process as affected by land use change, by using the Soil and Water Conservation Research Group’s experience with different environmental modelling and assessment approaches. Antonella applies the InVEST model to model soil erosion and various other incidences on the environmental economic scope at a regional scale (Basilicata, South Italy).

For this purpose, the main goals of her PhD research are the following:

Soil erosion modeling and methods application in the Mediterranean areas
On-site and off-site effects due to the soil loss by erosion
Economic and environmental assessment of the soil erosion effects and impacts
Economic and environmental impacts on the agricultural productivity
Landscape evolution and transformation in relation to different territorial scales
Land Management and Land Use Policy: insights and potential developments.