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Soil Conservation and Recuperation Unit (CoReS), Department of Environment (DMA), Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT) in Madrid, Spain

CoReS is a multidisciplinary research group addressing different soil-related aspects, from microbiology to remote sensing, taking into account the living cell through to Earth observation with satellite imagery. Our work focuses on three main axes of activity: soil conservation, recuperation of contaminated areas or degraded sites and sustainable agriculture. Please consult our research lines to obtain more information.

Researchers

Juan Pablo Corella

Position: Distinguished Researcher

Geoscientist with 20 years’ experience in environmental sciences research. Since 2021 he holds a “Distinguished Researcher” tenured position at CIEMAT. His research focus lies on the natural and anthropogenic control mechanisms on Global Change including long-term human-environment interactions and climate variability. His scientific approach combines field observations with state-of-the-art analytical and modelling techniques using high-resolution natural archives. He has been awarded by several national and international fellowships that allowed him to conduct his research in 9 different well-recognized national and international research institutions in Spain, USA, Germany, France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. He also has a strong commitment for teaching and mentoring junior researchers. He has been assistant lecturer in Aberystwyth University (UK) and University of Geneva (Switzerland). I have also supervised several BSc students, MSc thesis and PhD students at different national (U. Alcalá, U. Rey Juan Carlos, U. Autónoma and U. Zaragoza) and international (U. Geneva, U. Manchester) universities.

Thomas Schmid

Position: Senior Researcher / Principal investigator

He is a Geographer and Doctor in Science, and has a strong background in soil science, geomorphology and remote sensing. His research is centred on characterizing and monitoring soil processes and land cover changes that lead to soil degradation caused by human-induced activities as well as climate changes. He integrates hyper- and multispectral optical data, field and laboratory reflectance measurements and polarimetric SAR data to characterize and monitor the exploitation of soil resources and the conservation of natural ecosystems in semiarid regions and within ice-free regions of Antarctica. He has participated in numerous national and international projects and is Co-PI of various national projects in Antarctica. He is participating in the working Group IEEE SA P4005 establishing a standard protocol for laboratory and field soil spectral measurements. He has supervised bachelor’s and master’s thesis and is co-supervising a PhD thesis. He is author of over 80 scientific publications in international and national journals, books and book chapters.

Marta Pelayo

Position: Researcher

Doctor in Geological Sciences and Senior Researcher at CIEMAT in the Soil Recovery and Conservation Unit of the Department of the Environment. She has extensive experience in studies of alteration and mineralogical and geochemical characterization of soils. Her lines of work include clay mineralogy, soil characterization and spectroradiometry. She has participated in different research projects related to Deep Geological Storage of RRAA and CO2, and in the study of soil degradation and the consequences on ecosystems. In addition, she collaborates in monitoring physical and chemical processes of degraded areas using field spectroradiometry techniques. She has published in 40 journals and participated in nearly 50 conferences. She has collaborated in the course “Spectroradiometry applied to soil science”, organized by CIEMAT. For 10 years she has been collaborating with the UAM in the work of characterization and evolution of land surfaces and soils developed in Antarctica.

Claudia Giménez Poblador

Position: PhD student

Currently, she is a PhD student at the University of Alcalá with a fellowship from the Madrid Autonomous Community to carry out her research at CIEMAT. The thesis is centered on Climatic and anthropogenic impacts on the land surface of the ice-free areas of Antarctica applying advanced remote sensing techniques using hyperspectral and DInSAR (Differential interferometry synthetic aperture radar) data within the South Shetland Islands. She obtained her bachelor degree in Geography and Land Use Planning from the University of Zaragoza and her master degree in Geographic Information Technology from the University Complutense of Madrid. She was on a three-month research internship at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam, Germany. Here, she worked on data acquired by the German hyperspectral satellite mission EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program). She obtained experience processing hyperspectral airborne and satellite-borne data to determine soil cover properties within agricultural areas of the Central of Spain.