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URL:https://www.eng.ufl.edu/news-events/events/abe-biocomplexity-engineeri
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SUMMARY:ABE Biocomplexity Engineering seminar
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Rafael Muñoz-Carpena\nTitle: ABE Biocomplexity En
 gineering: "Mechanistic modeling of the impact of rainfall pumping on solu
 te remobilization from soils into runoff"\nBio: Dr. Rafael Muñoz-Carpena 
 is a Distinguished Professor in Hydrology and Environmental Modeling at th
 e University of Florida\, USA. He earned MSc. and BSc. Agricultural Engine
 ering degrees from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain)\, and a Ph
 .D. in Biological and Agricultural Engineering specialized in water resour
 ces (hydrology and sediment transport through vegetation) at North Carolin
 a State University (USA) as Fulbright INIA/USDA scholar. His work focuses 
 on integrated environmental systems modelling\, including interactions bet
 ween hydrological\, ecological and human components. His maintains a very 
 active international research program. In 2010 he started a long-term coll
 aboration with OTS in Palo Verde National Park\, Costa Rica where with NSF
  funding his team established a dense monitoring network with 120 sensors 
 (15-minute readings for rain\, stream flow\, surface and ground water\, an
 d soil moisture and salinity)\, spatially distributed in 12 different stat
 ions encompassing the main landscapes within the Park. This large continuo
 us database (2012-2018) combined with remote sensing and prior data at the
  larger Tempisque-Bebedero basin served to analyze changes and trends in h
 ydrology and vegetation within the Park influenced by upstream land use an
 d climate change. Currently\, Dr. Muñoz-Carpena co-leads a transdisciplin
 ary cohort of doctoral students (engineers\, biologist\, meteorologist\, s
 ociologist\, lawyers) working as a team on the Tempisque and Palo Verde. H
 is computer simulation model VFSMOD to study the effect of dense vegetatio
 n buffers as a surface runoff pollution control practice is widely used to
  design vegetative buffers in agricultural and urban settings\, and as a c
 omponent in higher-tier in long-term pesticide environmental assessments a
 s part of the regulatory pesticide registration process in the USA and EU.
  Dr. Muñoz-Carpena is currently Editor-in-Chief (Americas) for Elsevier
 ’s Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (JIF:5.02). He has received nu
 merous international recognitions including Fellow of AAAS and ASABE\, ASA
 BE John Deer National Gold Medal and ADS/Hancor National Soil and Water En
 gineering Award\, 2013 National Postdoctoral Association Mentor Award\, NC
  State/CALS 2021 Outstanding Alumni Award\, and in 2015 he was elected as 
 Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Engineering of Spain.\nWeb page: ht
 tp://abe.ufl.edu/carpena
CATEGORIES:Seminars
LOCATION:https://ufl.zoom.us/j/93808447293
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