Gina Marano

My research focuses on assessing the impacts of drought on forest growth and competition that ultimately lead to the tree mortality events that have been observed in temperate forests in Europe over the last years. 

In my research project I am examining the driving mechanisms of drought including climatic drivers and soil physical properties and investigating the role of soil water dynamics in drought-response in the climate-sensitive forest succession (“gap”) model ForClim.

Since January 2021 - Present

PhD student in  Forest Ecology, ETH Zürich

Research Project title: "Impacts and implications of drought on long-term forest dynamics in temperate forests: a modelling perspective"

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Bugmann; Co-Advisor: Dr. Ulrike Hiltner

2018-2020 

Research Fellow for European Union's Horizon 2020(H2020-RUR-2017-2) "LANDSUPPORT" - Grant Agreement No. 774234

Research topic: Development of tools to aid forest planning and management in geoSpatial Decision Support Systems (S-DSS)

2018 

MSc Forestry and Environmental Sciences curriculum Forestry (University of Padua, Italy)

Thesis topic: Forest Energy Systems: physico-chemical characterization of energy wood and cascade use of wood by-products 

2015

BSc Forestry and Environmental Sciences (University of Naples, Italy)

Thesis topic: Forest soils phsyical properties affecting site index quality in Fagus sylvatica and Castanea sativa forest stands in the Southern Italian Appenines.