Biography

Fotini E. Stamati was born in Greece, in 1981. She received her diploma and MS in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Crete in Greece, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. Fotini got from the university scholarship for excellent records in graduate studies. Since 2003 she is a young researcher in the Hydrogeochemical Engineering and Remediation of Soils Laboratory (Director: Professor Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis) at the Technical University of Crete. She has involved in many projects, such as the LIFE-NATURA 2004 MedPonds, the CyberManagement of Koiliaris Experimental River Basin, the Life-Environment 2005 EnviFriendly, and the SSA SoilCritZone. Fotini attended with scholarship the International Critical Zone Summer Field School (1-13/6/2010) Pennsylvania State: Critical Zone science and modelling. She has also teaching experience in lab and field courses related to 'Environmental monitoring and modelling'. She has expertise in hydrogeochemical modeling of environmental ecosystems from the field to the watershed scale: soil and aquatic C, N, and P cycling. Fotini has developed new models and she is experienced in models like the ROTHC carbon model and ArcSWAT (Soil Water Assessment Tool) watershed model. She was, together with Prof. Nikolaidis, trainer of these two models in the SoilTreC training workshop, 18-19 November, ISPRA, Italy. Fotini received the Bodossakis scholarship for PhD studies (2006-2010). Her dissertation is dedicated to the Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in the Soil/Water/Plant/Atmosphere System in Agricultural Lands. Her PhD defence is scheduled to be in December 2011. Fotini was a visiting scholar in the IIHR- Hydroscience & Engineering in the University of Iowa, for the period November 2008 to May 2009, working under Professor Jerald P. Schnoor. She is a manuscript referee for Environmental Science and Technology, European Journal of Soil Science, and Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology. Her current research interests are: modelling of soil carbon loss in managed ecosystems, soil organic amendments application: evaluation and quantification of soil benefits and potential for climate change mitigation in climatic gradients (modelling framework), soil aggregation: physical/chemical fractionation, spectroscopic, and microbial techniques, coupled modelling of soil Carbon and Nitrogen turnover & aggregate formation/degradation by 1st principles.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

• Stamati, F.E., Nikolaidis, N.P., Schnoor, J.P., Modeling carbon sequestration in agricultural soils - Uncertainty analysis. Journal of Environmental Quality, in review.
• Stamati, F.E., Nikolaidis, N.P., Venieri, D., Psillakis, E., Kalogerakis, N., 2011. Dissolved organic nitrogen as an indicator of livestock impacts on soil biochemical quality. Applied Geochemistry, 340-343.
• Moraetis, D., Stamati, F., Kotronakis, M., Fragia, T., Paranychnianakis, N., Nikolaidis, N.P., 2011. Identification of hydrologic and geochemical pathways using high frequency sampling, REE aqueous sampling and soil characterization at Koiliaris Critical Zone Observatory, Crete. Applied Geochemistry, 26, 101-104.
• Moraetis, D., Stamati, F.E., Nikolaidis, N.P., Kalogerakis, N., 2011. Olive mill wastewater irrigation of maize: Impacts on soil and groundwater. Agric. Water Manag., 98, 1125-1132.
• Stamati, F.E., Chalkias, N., Moraetis, D., ?ikolaidis, N., 2010. Natural attenuation of nutrients in a Mediterranean drainage canal. J. Environ. Monitor. 12, 164-171.
• Moraetis, D., Efstathiou, D., Stamati, F.E., Tzoraki, O., Nikolaidis, N.P., Schnoor, J.P., Vozinakis, K., 2010. High frequency monitoring for the identification of hydrological and biochemical processes in a Mediterranean river basin. Journal of Hydrology, 389, 127-136.
• Dimitriou, E., Moussoulis, E., Stamati, F., ?ikolaidis, N., 2009. Modeling hydrological characteristics of Mediterranean Temporary Ponds and potential impacts from climate change. Hydrobiologia 634, 195-208.
• Stamati, F., ?ikolaidis, N., Dimitriou, E., Koussouris, T. 2008. Hydro-geochemical Aspects of Mediterranean Temporary Ponds in Western Crete. Journal of Environmental Quality. 37, 164-173.

SELECTED CONFERENCES, 2011

• Stamati, F.E., Nikolaidis, N.P., Schnoor, J.P., Assessment of Carbon needs to renew soil fertility. Goldschmidt2011 August 14-19, 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.
• Stamati, F.E., Kotronakis, M., Fragia, T., Paranychianakis, N., Kalogerakis, N., ?ikolaidis, ?.P. Modeling carbon sequestration potential in Cretan soils. 5th Bioremediation, July 4-7, 2011 in Chania, Crete, Greece.