Manuela Balzarolo

Manuela Balzarolo is a senior scientist at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation (CMCC), working in the Institute for Climate Resilience within the Division on Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services. She has over 15 years of expertise in remote sensing applications for terrestrial ecosystem monitoring, focusing on the impact of climate change and extremes on ecosystem functions and carbon cycle.

Manuela Balzarolo holds the following educational qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• PhD in Forest Ecology from the University of Viterbo, Italy

Her research interests center on climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, utilizing remote sensing technologies. She specializes in modeling ecosystem functions and carbon cycle dynamics under climate extremes. Her work involves fieldwork, data analysis, and modeling at various scales, from plant to ecosystem levels, and from seasonal to annual time frames.

Balzarolo Manuela's recent publications reflect a strong focus on remote sensing applications for ecosystem monitoring and climate change impact assessment. Key themes include net primary production, phenology, forest fire detection, and vegetation carbon uptake. Her work leverages satellite data (such as Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2) and addresses challenges in Mediterranean and sub-arctic regions, contributing to global databases and monitoring principles.

Manuela Balzarolo has not been mentioned to have received any scientific awards in the provided text.

As a Principal Investigator, Manuela Balzarolo has led international research projects in Belgium and Spain for over a decade. Her work involves assessing ecosystem services through fieldwork, data analysis, and modeling at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

She is part of the Division on Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services at the CMCC Foundation, collaborating with international research groups in Belgium and Spain.