Program BioHydrology 7
Wednesday, October 18th 2023
Morning: visit to the city of Valencia
9.00. Meeting at the University of València. Faculty of Geography and History. Department of Geography.
10.00 Meeting point at the Valencia train station "Estació del nord"
10.30 The hydrology and geomorphology of the city of Valencia with Artemi Cerdà
14.00 Faculty of Geography and History.
Afternoon: Scientific talks at the Faculty of Geography and History
(AVE. Blasco Ibàñez, 28, 46010-Valencia)
16:00. The past and present of the Biohydrology as a scientific society and the future of the biohydrology as a community. Open discussion
18.00 Saskia Visser. The key to sustainable use of the bio-hydrological system: systemic transformation
19.00 Fernando Valladares. The fate of humans today. Climate change, the problem and the solutions.
20.00h. Closure of the day.
Thursday, October 19th 2023
Scientific sessions at Gandia International campus (2-minute walk from Gandia train station). address: carrer Tossal 8, 46702 Gandia
Before 9.00h
Welcome and registration
10.00h Opening by Artemi Cerdà and Francisco Escriva-Saneugenio
Carmen Melo (Director of the Centre Internacional de Gandia), Ana Camarasa (Head of the Department of Geography) and Josep Montesino (Dean of the Faculty of Geography and History)
Session water
chair: Dara Park
10.15 Isabella Hill: Impact of Water on Visual and Digital Color Assessment of South Carolina USA Soils.
10:30h. Jesús Barrena-González: Extreme Precipitation in Chile: Exploring Latitudinal and Altitudinal Variations
10:45h.: Francisco Escriva-Saneugenio: The loss of hydraulic heritage in the Valencian orchard.
11:00h. Francisco Rubén Badenes-Pérez: Effect of water stress combined with high photosynthetic active radiation on glucosinolate content variation in Barbarea spp. (Brassicaceae)
11:15h. Jesús Barrena-González: Assessing water quality for livestock management in mediterranean rangelands
11.30 Discussion on water
11:45h. Break
Session soils
chair: Antonio Giménez Morera
12.15 Masha Bokar: Potential Use of Biochar as a Soil Amandment to Sorb Terbuthylazine and 2-Methyl-4-Chlorophenoxyacetic Acid
12:30h. Payton Davis: The Role of Soil Health Management Practices on Soil Hydrophobicity in Agroecosystems: A Review.
12:45h. Sachaly Rosario Rivera: Soil Phosphorus Availability from Oat and Legume Cover Crops to a Wheat Crop in Southern Spain.
13:00h. Dara M. Park: Rootzone Soil Volumetric Water Content and Crop Yield from Contrasting Tillage and Cover Crop Strategies in South Carolina, USA
13:45h. Saskia Keesstra: The road towards climate-smart and sustainable management of agricultural soils in Europe: knowledge needs and research approaches
14:00h discussion Soils
14.15 Break
Session Biota and agriculture
chair: Saskia Keesstra
16:15h. Dara M. Park: FLORECE! Review and Opportunities for Growing Undergraduate Experiential Learning in Sustainable Agriculture
16:30h. Jesus Rodrigo-Comino: Assessment of erodibility in a vineyard in Granada through rainfall simulation and mini-disk infiltration experiments
16:45h. Payton Davis: Cover Crops and Climate Impact Temperature and Volumetric Water Content in Southern Piedmont Soils in South Carolina, USA
17:00h. Jesus Rodrigo-Comino: Designing of a novel methodological approach with remote sensing web platform Apps and UAVs for precision agriculture monitoring surveys of Mediterranean woody crops
17:15h. Saskia Keesstra: The potential role of fire management in the Green Deal
17.30h Artemi Cerdà: Soil and water losses in citrus plantations. Drip versus flood irrigation.
17:45h. Francisco Escriva-Saneugenio The disappearance of the small wetlands on the coast of Daimús-Marenys de Rafalcaid (València, Spain)
18:00h. Luca Salvati: Water scarcity, soil quality, peri-urban agriculture, forest fires and desertification under the lens of economic crisis
18:15h. Ana Pérez Albarracín: Water scarcity, soil quality, peri-urban agriculture, forest fires and desertification under the lens of economic crisis
18:30h. Antonio Giménez Morera: The role of extreme rainfall events on soil erosion on plots under tillage and plant covered treated management. A 7-year assessment under Mediterranean climatic conditions
18:45h. Artemi Cerdà: The importance of flood irrigation in Mediterranean-type ecosystems
19:00h. Discussion Biota and agriculture
19:30h. Discussion next biohydrology meeting
20:30. Closure
Thanks to the University of Valencia, Department of Geography (Ana Camarasa), Faculty of Geography and History (Josep Montesinos), Centre International of Gandia (Carme Melo). We thank Joan del Alcazar for the contribution to the success of this meeting.
Friday, October 20th 2023
Visit to the Marjal de Pego-Oliva Natural Park guided by Fernando Sendra and Artemi Cerdà
The Marjal Pego-Oliva Natural Park, with an area of 1,255ha. and surrounded by the Bullent or Vedat rivers, in the northern part, and the Racons or Molinell river, in the southern part, it is a fantastic example of the great Mediterranean coastal wetlands, which although in recent centuries like the rest of the wetlands Valencia has lost an important part of its surface, due to the advance of agriculture and anthropogenic pressure in general, it continues to be an ecosystem with great biodiversity and a refuge for the species that inhabit it, with a multitude of bloomers known as "ullals". During the visit, we will learn in depth about the space, its coexistence with other human uses and the challenges it faces.
9.30. Departure from Faculty of Geography and History. Valencia
11.00. Visit to the Natural Park La Marjaleria We talk about the evolution, formation of wetlands in Valencia and across the globe.
14.30 time for lunch
16.00 visit to the Rice Museum. Discussion about the management of wetlands with the example of Marjal de Pego-Oliva. The use of the wetlands in the future under the pressure of agriculture and urbanization
19.00 Closure
Saturday, October 21th 2023
Visit to the irrigation system of the Safor region (L'Hort de Gandia) guided by the book of Vicente Fontavella (+), Francisco Sendra and Artemi Cerdà
The territory where the Gandia orchard is located, on extensive coastal alluvial plains, is of great quality and fertility for cultivation, enabling ancient agriculture that the great civilizations that historically inhabited the territory, such as the Iberians, the Romans, have already begun to develop. and especially the Muslims of the time of Al-Andalus, who knew how to take advantage of the fertility of the soil to develop powerful agriculture. The hydraulic infrastructure such as mills, ditches, weirs, brazales, splitters, cenias, qanats, wells, etc., developed an irrigation system used to this day. During the visit we will observe the typical Mediterranean irrigated agricultural landscape and understand the hydraulic infrastructure. We will also understand the importance of protecting traditional irrigation systems, currently in progressive abandonment due to the development of drip irrigation.
8.15. Departure from Valencia (cross of Carrer Guillem de Castro and Carrer de l'Hospital)
9.30 Break
11.00 visit to irrigated gardens of Gandia: weirs, canals, ditches. Lighthouses and dark houses. we discuss the pros and cons of the introduction of drip irrigation and the cultural heritage of flood irrigation.
9.30. Visit to the Natural Park
14.00. Break
16.00 Visit to the final part of the irrigation system and the urbanised area at the beach.
19.00 back in Valencia
Sunday, October 22th 2023
Visit to the coastal land and the marine hydrology at Cullera to Daimús Beach
In recent decades, the Mediterranean coast has experienced a profound transformation of its territory to adapt it to the service sector and tourist activity, the waterproofing of soils, the fragmentation and elimination of ecosystems along with the overcrowding of coastal areas, have caused a series of environmental problems and risks that we will analyze and discuss during the visit to Daimús beach and its surroundings.
8.00 Departure from Valencia (cross of Carrer Guillem de Castro and Carrer de l'Hospital)
9.00 Mouth of the river Júcar.
10.00 View from the Cullera hills
11:00 Visit the coastal area of Cullera. The loss of houses and beaches.
13:00 The north of the port of Gandia. Sediments and marine currents
14:00 The lack of sediments in Daimús beach.
15:00 Break
16:00. Centre Internacional de Gandia (Carrer Tossal 8, Gandia).
16:10. Opening by Jesús Rodrigo
16:30. Artemi Cerdà. Fires and biohydrology
17:00. Open discussion.
20:00. Closure.
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