During my education in Bioscience Engineering, at Ghent University, my interest for environment and hydrology has grown over the years. Therefore, I chose a Msc. in land and water management in which the link between climate, soil and water was established. My thesis project was about linking the occurrence of droughts to ocean-atmospheric oscillations and investigating whether droughts are influenced by internal climate variability or by external anthropogenic forcings. In October 2019, I started working as a scientific researcher at the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management. My current research is part of the BelSAR Science project and focuses on soil moisture retrieval from simultaneous mono- and bistatic radar observations.

Research topics: remote sensing, radar backscatter modelling, bistatic SAR science, soil moisture retrieval.

CONTACT

Address: Coupure links 653 - Room A2.007

               9000 Ghent, Belgium

Phone: +32 9 264 61 37

E-mail: Emma.Tronquo@UGent.be

TRAJECTORY

• 2019 – Present: PhD candidate – Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent University
• 2019 – Present: Postgraduate Studies in Weather and Climate Modelling, Ghent University
• 2014 – 2019: MSc. In Applied Biological Sciences – Land and Water Management, Ghent University

ONGOING PROJECTS

• BelSAR Science (ESA-BELSPO) - Soil and crop monitoring from simultaneous mono- and bistatic radar observations