Martina Sanchez Pinillos obtains her M.Sc. degree

Last week, Martina Sanchez Pinillos successfully defended her Master Thesis, entitled 'Assessing forest response-type diversity to natural disturbances in Peninsular Spain and the Balearic Islands'. Martina has elaborated a thorough response-trait database for most woody species in the Spanish Forest Inventory (IFN) and has calculated several indices to assess forest resilience to the main abiotic disturbances (fire, drought and windstorms). This work will contribute to advance in the understanding of the main traits that promote forest resilience, and to assess how resilience distributes across biomes, regions, and forest types.

Martina's work has been mentored by Lluís Coll, (CTFC - FiDBosc), and Aitor Ameztegui (UQAM), and supervised by Santiago Saura (UPM). The defence took place last Thursday (July, 10th) at the School of Forestry of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and the board was composed by Rafael Escribano, Juan Oliet and Carmen Collada, professors at the UPM. Martina will soon start her PhD at FiDBosc, supervised by Lluís and Aitor.

Congratulations, Martina!

Martina, during the defence

New doctor at FiDBosc!

Lluis, Aitor and the members of the board

Today, July 17th, Aitor Ameztegui  succesfully defended his PhD Dissertation entitled "Forest dynamics at the montane-subalpine ecotone in the Eastern Pyrenees", here in Solsona, in front of the members of the board: Dr. Jordi Voltas from Universitat de Lleida, Dr. Lorena Gómez-Aparicio from IRNAS-CSIC, and Dr. Christian Ammer from Göttingen University.

Aitor's thesis has been developed here at FiDBosc, under supervision of Lluís Coll, so congratulations to both Lluís and Aitor!

Two moments of the defence

M.Sc. Degree obtained

Santiago Martín and Aitor Améztegui have recently obtained the Master of Science degree on Forest Research at Universitat de Lleida. Santiago Martin's Master Thesis analysed the effects of stand attributes and location on wind and snow damage in the Pyrenees pine forests, while Aitor Ameztegui assessed the role of land-use changes on the expansion of Pinus uncinata in the Eastern Pyrenees.

Congratulations to both of them!