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Marina-Ramona Vîrghileanu

Ph.D.

Lecturer - UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Researcher | Teaching staff

Web of Science ResearcherID: J-6048-2018

Curriculum Vitae (15/07/2023)

Expertise & keywords

A CLOUD-BASED REMOTE SENSING DATA SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING RESEARCH AND SOCIOECONOMIC STUDIES IN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTS Call name: EC - Horizon Europe
Horizon-242603-101086386 2023 - 2026

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: Institution

Project partners: CHAROKOPEIO PANEPISTIMIO (GR); LUNDS UNIVERSITET (SE); UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION (GR); CloudEO AG (DE); PLANETGIS SKY SRL (RO); ILMATIETEEN LAITOS (FI); YETITMOVES SRL (IT); CLOUDEO ELLAS I.K.E. (GR); CLOUDFERRO SA (PL); ALTUS LSA COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING PRIVATE SECURITY SERVICE COMPANY SOCIETE ANOMYME SA (GR); INNOV-ACTS LIMITED (CY); AG FUTURA TECHNOLOGII DOOEL SKOPJE (MK)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5fc5a3466&appId=PPGMS

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Complex modelling of multiple land degradation processes in Europe. Towards an integrative scientific framework for sustainable land management across the continent Call name:
PNRR CF 216/19.11.2022 2023 - 2026

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI ()

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Abstract:

Land degradation is a complex environmental disturbance acting via multiple pathways, which, to date, have been investigated in an isolated (unilateral) manner, focused on singular (individual) degradation processes. This project proposes an integrating (unifying) scientific analysis of the multiple processes present in European agricultural environments, by considering 12 major processes (water erosion, wind erosion, soil organic carbon loss, soil salinization, soil acidification, soil compaction, soil nutrient imbalances, soil pollution via pesticides, soil pollution via heavy metals, vegetation degradation, groundwater decline and aridity) that affect agricultural lands in 40 continental countries. The methodological approach of the present project allows the geospatial modelling, for the first time, of multiple convergent degradation processes, which act in synergy and generate a wide range of negative effects continentally, i.e. they lower agricultural productivity, amplify climate change, and jeopardize governmental sustainable development objectives. The expected results of the detailed investigation of agricultural land multi-degradation have a multidimensional importance for current European policies, which aim to control land degradation and ensure food security on the continent. Also, the expected complex results can be a valuable informational support for policies intended to combat climate change and implement sustainable development, two essential conditions for Europe's socio-economic stability and prosperity. This triple positive impact of the project was designed to be as effective as possible, by establishing multiple vectors for disseminating results to various policymakers or stakeholders active in European agriculture.

An integrated Remote Sensing - GIS approach for soil erosion mapping and modelling in Romania Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare Postdoctorală - PD-2021
PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2021-0082 2023 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://rs4soil.unibuc.ro/

Abstract:

Soil erosion, as one of the most significant worldwide environmental problem, is a dynamic water-related process, controlled by natural and anthropic factors, causing serious losses of fertile topsoil. Previous contributions show warning loss rates of soil resource for the EU territory: a total annual soil loss of 950 megatons, with an average rate of 2.4 t/ha/yr, smaller than the one for Romania of 3 t/ha/yr (EC-JRC, 2012), increasing values featuring areas with high dynamics of the land cover/use pattern. The project aims to develop an integrated approach for soil erosion mapping and modelling in temperate regions from Romania, based on remote sensing (RS) data and GIS techniques. The research is organized between three main levels: (1) a RS and GIS-based potential soil erosion modelling approach, in order to quantify the potential soil loss rates for specific temporal moments, to analyze the potential soil erosion changes and predict future trends; (2) a RS-based soil erosion mapping approach for detecting the spatial locations and intensity classes of the affected areas, by integrating various Earth Observation imagery and data mining techniques; (3) an integrated approach for land cover/use - soil erosion relationship analysis through in-situ measurements. The main outcomes (methodologies and geospatial database on national and local levels) represent essential and required instruments among scientists and policy-makers for decision making and sustainable space planning.

State, Communities and Nature of the Lower Danube Islands: An Environmental History (1830-2020) Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie, 2020
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1238 2021 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE ANTROPOLOGIE ''FRANCISC I .RAINER''

Project partners: INSTITUTUL DE ANTROPOLOGIE ''FRANCISC I .RAINER'' (RO)

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Project website: https://danislandsproject.wordpress.com/

Abstract:

This project aims at investigating the importance of Danubian islands for local riparian communities and for the riparian states (Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine) in a period ranging from 1830 to 2020. We particularly look at the role played by the Danubian islands in the modern and contemporary history of the relationships between Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine. For different reasons, these islands (their material structure and dynamics, their ecological features) are interfering with human’s affairs. We thus consider the hydro-morphological dynamics of islands to illuminate the regional entangled history of the three riparian countries. The research extends on a period of almost two hundred years. Since 1830, when the Danubian islands appear for the first time in documents as a major issue in setting the border between Walachia/the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, until nowadays when a new alluvial island emerging from the Danube ruined an EU investment in the newly built port of Rast (Romania) islands constantly have intervened in riparian countries politics and economy. Thus the research aims at a longue durée analysis of the Danubian islands to explain how these newly emerged amphibian landscapes are ‘socialized’ and appropriated by the riparian societies, how they are participating to social conflicts and what is their impact on riparian states, economies and communities. We engage an environmental history perspective informed by the more-than-human theory.

Collective Approach of Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Highland Call name: EC - H2020
H2020-226887-872328 2020 - 2023

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN

Project partners: OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN (AT); THE LIVESTOCK SUSTAINABILITY TLS (FR); NIBIO - NORSK INSTITUTT FOR BIOOKONOMI (NO); KMETIJSKI INSTITUT SLOVENIJE - AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA (SI); ASOCIACION DE HOSTELERIA Y TURISMO DE TREVINCA (ES); ELLINIKOS GEORGIKOS ORGANISMOS - DIMITRA (EL); INSTITUT D ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR ET DE RECHERCHE EN ALIMENTATION SANTE ANIMALE SCIENCES AGRONOMIQUES ETDE L ENVIRONNEMENT VETAGRO SUP (FR); UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); UNIWERSYTET ROLNICZY IM. HUGONA KOLLATAJA W KRAKOWIE (PL); UNIVERSITAET BERN (CH); SYNDICAT MIXTE DU PARC NATUREL REGIONAL DU LIVRADOIS FOREZ (FR); SRUC (UK); UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (ES); UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG (DE); UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA (IT); FOREAS SYNERGASIAS MIKRON GALAKTOKOMIKON PERIOXON THESSALIAS (EL); R.N.P. ROMSILVA - ADMINISTRATIA PARCULUI NATIONAL PIATRA CRAIULUI RA (RO); INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET INDUSTRIES DU VIVANT ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT - AGROPARISTECH (FR); CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY (UK); ASSOCIACAO GEOPARK ESTRELA (PT); POSOSKI RAZVOJNI CENTER (SI); INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT (FR); LOFOTLAM SA (NO); UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK (AT); INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT (FR); ISTITUTO CULTURALE MOCHENO (IT); REGIONALPLANUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT GROSSES WALSERTAL (AT); JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET CRNE GORE PODGORICA (ME); INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE TOMAR (PT); Perth College (UK); NORGES MILJO-OG BIOVITENSKAPLIGE UNIVERSITET (NO); ENTE PARCO NATURALE PANEVEGGIO PALE DI SAN MARTINO (IT); UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA AUSTRAL (AR); UNIVERSITE FERHAT ABBAS SETIF 1 (DZ); INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE ET VETERINAIRE HASSAN II (MA); CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS (CONICET) (AR); Sokoine University of Agriculture (TZ); UNIVERSIDAD EXTERNADO DE COLOMBIA (CO); INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT (NP); UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA MARIA (BR); THE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC (PE); NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE (VN); MEKELLE UNIVERSITY (ET); Lanzhou University (CN); UNIVERSIDADE DE CABO VERDE (CV); LILONGWE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES (MW)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

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Development of dynamic context theory by analysing of aridization role in generating and amplifying regressive phenomenon from the territorial systems Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - RUTE -2014 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0835 2015 - 2017

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.caimt.ro/documente/RAPORT-FINAL-TE.pdf

Abstract:

The overall objective of the project is to quantify the effects regression of local and regional territorial systems, generated or amplified by aridity in developing regions: South-West Oltenia, South Muntenia; Southeast and Bucharest-Ilfov.

The proposed theme is a part of the advanced modeling attempts tears functional determinants of territorial systems emergence application. The project aims to develop a methodology for modeling aridization impact on local and regional economies through reporting to the complex determinants in their dynamics. The results are particularly important because they help to develop dynamic context theory, developed by our team through numerous studies that have focused on the complex relationship between the components of territorial systems.

Project meets all performance standards for this project. The most important argument is meeting standards enabling CNADCU.Directorul criteria will both participate in the project management activities and the implementation of project activities. Available Infrastructure: Implementation Team will benefit from the research infrastructure of the Center for Analysis and Integrated Territorial Management and Research Instritutului the University of Bucharest.

Competitive multidisciplinary doctoral research at European level Call name:
POSDRU 187/1.5/S/155559 2015 - 2015

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI ()

Project website: https://unibuc.ro/n/despre/proi-fond-stru/burse-doctorale-2015/

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