Georgia "Gia" Destouni (born 26 January 1961) is a Professor of Hydrology at Stockholm University. She works on the Baltic Sea Region Programme as well as studying the impact of climate change on societies in Northern Europe. She is the chair of the Global Wetland Ecohydrology Network (GWEN) and was involved with the National Geosphere Laboratory.
Georgia Destouni | |
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| Born | 26 January 1961 |
| Alma mater | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| Awards | European Geosciences Union Henry Darcy Medal (2013) |
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| Institutions | Stockholm University |
| Thesis | Hydraulics Engineering, Title: Solute fluxes and travel times in heterogeneous soil (1991) |
Early life and education
editDestouni studied civil engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, earning her Master's degree in 1987. She remained there for her doctoral studies, working in hydraulic engineering and completing her PhD in 1991. Owing to Destouni's contributions to academia, she was awarded a docent degree in 1993.[citation needed]
Research and career
editDestouni was a research fellow at the Swedish Natural Science Research Council from 1992 to 1998. Here she worked on hydrological transport models, and spent a year as a visiting scientist at the University of Florida.[1] Her early research included the transport of solutes by groundwater in aquifers. In particular, she looked at hydrological transport in soil-groundwater systems. Destouni was appointed as an Associate Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1998, and was made a full Professor in 1999.
In 2005 Destouni moved to Stockholm University. She has looked at leaching from mining rocks, and how pollution can be managed in large water resource systems. She has investigated how nutrient loads are discharged into the Baltic Sea. During these investigations, she identified hotspots of pollution that had been overlooked from environmental monitoring.[2] After Destouni identified these hotspots, Sweden set up 10 new monitoring stations to augment the environmental network.[2]
Destouni was one of the first to demonstrate the impact of dams and irrigation on the global amount of fresh water.[3] The freshwater footprint estimated by Destouni and colleagues was significantly larger than previously thought.[4]
Academic service
editDestouni was made Secretary General of the Swedish Research Council Formas in 2013.[5] In 2014 she was elected to Academia.Net for her work in hydrology.[6] She was elected to the Scientific Advisory Committee of Science Europe in 2016.[7] She serves as the Vice Chair of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences and is part of the Baltic Sea Region Programme.[8][9][10] She is a board member of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, as well as a member of the American Geophysical Union Union Fellows Committee.[11][12]
Awards and honours
edit- 2003 Elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences[citation needed]
- 2003 Elected to the Academy of Engineering Sciences[citation needed]
- 2013 European Geosciences Union Henry Darcy Medal[1]
- 2015 Elected to the American Geophysical Union[13]
References
edit- ^ a b "Georgia Destouni". European Geosciences Union (EGU). Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ a b "Sea's pollution hotspots 'missed'". 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "New study raises the global human freshwater footprint". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "Human freshwater footprint larger than expected shows new study in Science". BECC - Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate. 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "Georgia Destouni – Kindra Project". kindraproject.eu. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Georgia (Gia) Destouni - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "Georgia Destouni elected to Scientific Advisory Committee - Stockholm University". www.su.se. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "Georgia Destouni - Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Göteborgs universitet". Göteborgs universitet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "Officers of IAHS | hydrology | International Association of Hydrological Sciences". iahs.info. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "The Team". BALSYS. 2015-06-15. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "Board - Stockholm Resilience Centre". www.stockholmresilience.org. 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "Union Fellows Committee". Leadership. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ "2015 Class of AGU Fellows Announced". Eos. Retrieved 2019-06-29.