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As Editor-in-Chief of Land, I am pleased to announce the two winners of the 2018 Travel Awards sponsored by Land:
The Travel Awards were granted to Dr. Giulia Sofia, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Padova, Italy and Mrs. Khadiza Begum, Ph.D. student in the Institute of Biological and Environmental Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Dr. Giulia Sofia’s research focusses on hydrogeomorphic feature extraction from high-resolution topography. Through such an approach, her most recent research aims to model and quantify interlocking relations between soil properties, the geometry of the drainage network and climatic inputs, to investigate how they determine the watershed response. She plans to expand this analysis to understand how network properties influence flood regimes at a larger scale.
Mrs. Khadiza Begum’s research area mainly focuses on greenhouse (GHG) mitigation potentials under improved management practices on Bangladesh rice crop land. The DayCent model was used to simulate covering 64 districts of Bangladesh, considering diverse soil types and climatic variability. Modelled results suggest that in an integrated management scenario consisting of reduced water, tillage with residue management, reduced fertilization offsets GHG emissions while maintaining yield. Further research is required to expand the model evaluation across robust measured datasets at a finer resolution.
The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to support travel towards their attendance at an academic conference in 2018.
Prof. Dr. Andrew Millington Editor-in-Chief of Land
Land 2018 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Rocky Talchabhadel
Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Leah Renwick
University of Chile
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst
Chairman
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Prof. Dr. Hossein Azadi
Department of Economics and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Le Yu
Tsinghua University
Winner
Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán
University of La Laguna
Lauren Nerfa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Andrew Millington
Chairman
Flinders University
Prof. Dr. Thomas Maloutas
Dr. Eddie J. B. Van Etten
Edith Cowan University
Dr. Agata Novara
Prof. Dr. Alejandro Rescia Perazzo
Complutense University of Madrid
Prof. Krish Jayachandran
Earth and Environment Department, Agroecology Program
Dr. Javier Martínez-López
Ecology Department - University of Granada
Winner
Cynthia Faye Isley
Macquarie University
Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen
Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Andrew Millington
Chairman
Flinders University
Prof. Audrey Mayer
Michigan Technological University
Dr. Ward Anseeuw
CIRAD & University of Pretoria
Dr. Saskia Keesstra
Wageningen Environmental Research
Winner
Elizabeth Tellman
Arizona State University
Catalina Munteanu
Humboldt-University Berlin
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Andrew Millington
Chairman
Flinders University
Dr. Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash
Dr. Zahra Kalantari
Stockholm University
Prof. Dr. Hossein Azadi
Department of Economics and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Prof. Paul Aplin
Mary Immaculate College
Dr. Alexander Prishchepov
University of Copenhagen
Prof. Ian Baird
Winner
Giulia Sofia
University of Padova
KHADIZA BEGUM
PhD research student, School of Biological Science, Institute of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Winner
Michael Lathuillière
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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