Gina Marano
Gina Marano
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-USYS
Additional information
Research area
My research focuses on assessing the impacts of drought on forest growth and competition that ultimately lead to the tree mortality events that have been observed in temperate forests in Europe over the last years.
In my research project I am examining the driving mechanisms of drought including climatic drivers and soil physical properties and investigating the role of soil water dynamics in drought-response in the climate-sensitive forest succession (“gap”) model ForClim.
Since January 2021 - Present
PhD student in Forest Ecology, ETH Zürich
Research Project title: "Impacts and implications of drought on long-term forest dynamics in temperate forests: a modelling perspective"
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Bugmann; Co-Advisor: Dr. Ulrike Hiltner
2018-2020
Research Fellow for European Union's Horizon 2020(H2020-RUR-2017-2) "LANDSUPPORT" - Grant Agreement No. 774234
Research topic: Development of tools to aid forest planning and management in geoSpatial Decision Support Systems (S-DSS)
2018
MSc Forestry and Environmental Sciences curriculum Forestry (University of Padua, Italy)
Thesis topic: Forest Energy Systems: physico-chemical characterization of energy wood and cascade use of wood by-products
2015
BSc Forestry and Environmental Sciences (University of Naples, Italy)
Thesis topic: Forest soils phsyical properties affecting site index quality in Fagus sylvatica and Castanea sativa forest stands in the Southern Italian Appenines.
Membership
| Since | Membership |
|---|---|
| 2014 | Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF, Italy) |
Additional information
Research project: Analysis of structural uncertainty in soil water balance formulations to assess effects of drought on temperate forest dynamics: a forest modeling perspective