Project description
Sowing the seeds of better water management
Extending the growing season and increasing yields. These are the two main goals for protected agriculture, which makes use of technology to improve the environment for crop growth. For instance, protected agriculture makes use of covers to shield crops from extreme weather conditions like heavy rain, strong winds or a sudden cold snap. However, these disrupt water budget terms. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) project REWATERING will deliver and validate a methodology for catchment-scale models to explicitly account for the role of protected agriculture in water quantity and quality.
Objective
Protected agriculture makes use of technology to create an optimal environment for crops growth. In particular, protected agriculture makes use of covers to shield crops from adverse meteorological events including storms, droughts, temperature extremes and strong winds. However, these controls inherently disrupt the water budget terms currently accounted for in hydrological modelling (runoff, evapotranspiration, soil moisture storage, infiltration, etc…). For the first time, the project REalistic WATER budgetING in protected agriculture (REWATERING) will deliver and validate a methodology for catchment-scale models (i.e. CATHY) to explicitly account for the role of protected agriculture on water quantity and quality. REWATERING will also unprecedently monitor water quality in a stream draining a small catchment mainly used for protected agriculture by means of high-resolution mass spectrometry. I will carry out REWATERING in a globally recognised research group for hydrological modelling. Overall, the host university will be the perfect interdisciplinary hub to accomplish the proposed research because it will provide internal collaborations with excellent academics in hydrology, agriculture and environmental chemistry. Protected agriculture is a growing reality worldwide, currently covering 15% of the agricultural lands, and often occupying entire hydrological catchments. The socially relevant and scientifically innovative interdisciplinary activities proposed in this research are urged to expand catchment-scale hydrological models to predict short- and long-term water quantity and quality resulting from water management characteristic of protected agriculture.
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences hydrology hydroinformatics
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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35122 PADOVA
Italy
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