The award, granted by the Chair of Environmental Engineering, recognizes research on how droughts, at critical moments after fires, condition the regeneration of Mediterranean vegetation. Salesa's thesis highlights the importance of the timing of drought episodes and contributes knowledge to understand the current and future impacts of changes in fire and drought regimes on ecosystems, as well as to design management and conservation strategies.
The CEAM Foundation, through its Forest Research Area, has had its researcher's work recognized. The prize, sponsored by the Third Vice Presidency and Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure, Territory, and Recovery of the Generalitat Valenciana, is affiliated with the Water and Environmental Engineering Institute of the Universitat Politècnica de València (IIAMA-UPV).
The doctoral thesis, supervised by Víctor M. Santana Pastor, studies how the interaction between forest fires and post-fire droughts affects the recovery of Mediterranean ecosystems.
In this edition, the third position was also awarded to Laura Paredes i Fortuny for her thesis on atmospheric heatwaves, their evolution, their impacts on health, and their interaction with marine heatwaves. This research was co-directed by Dr. Samira Khodayar Pardo and developed within the Meteorology and Climatology Area of CEAM.
Both works underscore the relevance of the research being conducted at CEAM.
