Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on BioGeoSciences

This book features a selection of works presented in the 3rd International Conference on BioGeoSciences in a unified framework. It focuses on the physical and mathematical modelling of natural processes and environments at different spatial and temporal scales. This interdisciplinary book presents a comprehensive collection of case studies grouped according to the planetary ''spheres'': lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, magnetosphere and biosphere. It serves as a valuable resource for scientists engaged in natural and exact sciences.

Auteur

Prof. Dr. Rolando Cardenas received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and a second-degree Doctorate focused in Astrobiology and Earth Sciences. He conducts the interdisciplinary Planetary Science Laboratory at Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas since its foundation in 2011. In the decade of 2000's, he was recipient of annual awards of the Cuban Academy of Sciences in three occasions for research in Theoretical Cosmology, and in 2016, he was the main contributor for such an award for works on Astrobiology and Earth Sciences. In 2013, the Cuban Council of State awarded him with Carlos J. Finlay Order, the highest in the country for research activity. In 2016 and 2020, he also received the Honorary Distinctions of the Minister of Higher Education for Scientific Research. His research work is in the broad area of mathematical modeling of natural environments at different spatial and temporal scales.

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Mochalov currently works at Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, Russia. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics. His research interests include networks structure synthesis, artificial intelligence, bio-inspired algorithms, query-answering systems and Big Data, and their applications to Natural and Exact Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Oscar Parra is a biologist and professor at the Natural Resources and Oceanographic Sciences Faculty and founder Director of the Environmental Sciences Centre of the University of Concepción (Concepción, Chile). He is a very experienced researcher in the use of standard physical, chemical, and biological methods of water ecosystems, specialized on taxonomy and ecology of freshwater phytoplankton and phytobenthos. His research cover interdisciplinary studies of freshwater systems (lakes and rivers) on a watershed scale. He is the author of about 200 hundred scientific papers, book chapters, and books, and he has edited a number of books dealing with aquatic biota and management of water resources in Chile. He has participated as a leader of several national and international collaborative scientific projects and as a consultant of national and international institutions and organizations, e.g., UNESCO (Albania, Libia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina). Funding agencies for his research include PNUD UNESCO, European Commission, Italian Government, Germany Government, and Chilean National Science Commission.

Prof. Dr. Osmel Martin received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and conducts research at the Planetary Science Laboratory at Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas since its foundation in 2011. In 2016, he was one of the main contributors for an award of Cuban Academy of Sciences for works on Astrobiology and Earth Sciences. His current research work is in the broad area of mathematical modeling of natural environments, at different spatial-temporal scales, with emphasis in Atmospheric Sciences, BioGeoSciences, and Astrobiology.

Contenu

The Litosphere

1. Development of a preliminary model of infiltration of pollutants in rocks (Cesar Medero)

2. Analysis of daily seismicity and mass removal using radar interferometry (Luciana Silva)

3. Automated simulation of synthetic earthquakes for vulnerable reservoirs in the central region of Cuba (Miguel Hernandez)

4. Forcing factors and space pattern of territorial transformations. The role of environmental and social variables in the dynamics of soil use (Mauricio Aguayo)

5. Effect of coverage / use of the soil on the hydrological response in basins of the southern center of Chile (Rebeca Martinez)

The Hydrosphere

6. Study of the hydrodynamic transport of nitrate as a contaminant of rivers (Roxana Perez)

7. Effects of large-scale climatic variability on the flow of the central watersheds of Chile (Laura Perez)

8. Groundwater drought and land use/land cover changes in central Chile (Iongel Duran)

9. Productivity variability an Andean Lake of Chile through sedimentary records (Lien Rodriguez)

10. Analysis of the surface temperature trend of the lakes of the South Central of Chile by remote sensing for the period 2000-2016 (Roberto Urrutia)

11. Monitoring Program of Biobio Region (Chile) (Ricardo Figueroa)

12. Use of remote sensing tools applied to the spatial dynamics of the shoreline of the Rancho Luna beach in Cienfuegos, Cuba (Laura Castellanos)

13. Seasonal and interannual variability of sea surface temperature in the southern Cuban platform, based on remote perception (Alain Muñoz)

The Atmosphere

14. Application of deep learning for the construction of synthetic physical models (Vladimir Mochalov)

15. Description of solar and terrestrial radiation incident on urban and rural surfaces (Amari Pereira)

16. Ground-based measurements and statistical analysis of UVER and IG solar radiation in Santiago, Chile (33.5°S) (Lisdelys Gonzalez)

17. Coastal hydrodinamics during tropical cyclones on the North coast of Ciego de Avila, Cuba. Case study: Hurricane Irma (2017) (Maibelin Castillo)

18. Hurricane Irma in Ciego de Avila: associated coastal floods and comparison with other risky scenarios (Felipe Matos)

19. Paleotempestology in central northern coast of Cuba (Beatriz Beltran)

The Biosphere

20. On the planetary potential for subsurface life (Rolando Cardenas)

21. Impact of the Chicxulub asteroid: potential implications on phytoplankton and anammox bacteria (Noel Perez)

22. Entropic Approach to Primitive Cells (Manuel Fundora)

23. Darwinian evolution from a generational point of view (Osmel Martin)

24. Perspectives for spatially explicit individual-based modelling of spiny lobster populations in nursery areas of Cuba (Daile Avila)

25. Study of water and sediment of the Bay of Manatí, for the use of simulation models (Gustavo Arencibia)