Marina Peña Gallardo

NH Natural Hazards

The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Marina Peña Gallardo for the poster/PICO entitled:

The impacts of drought in agricultural productivity. An analysis at different scales for the two major rain-fed crops in Spain. (Peña Gallardo, M.; Vicente-Serrano, S. M.; Beguerìa-Portugués, S.; Domínguez-Castro, F.)

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Marina Peña Gallardo is a PhD student under supervision of Sergio Martín Vicente Serrano and Santiago Beguería Portugués at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC) in Zaragoza (Spain). The aim of her study is focused on the development of sectorial drought indices on the Iberian Peninsula, being the main objective of her work to improve the predictability of the occurrence and impacts of severe drought events over different natural sectors. The awarded poster presents an assessment of the direct relationship between drought episodes and crop yields diminishing in Spain. For this purpose, different well-known drought indices commonly used for monitoring drought have been tested. Also two barley and wheat dataset at different spatial scales have been compared.

Publication resulting from the award

Peña-Gallardo, M., Vicente-Serrano, S. M., Domínguez-Castro, F., and Beguería, S.: The impact of drought on the productivity of two rainfed crops in Spain, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 1215–1234, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1215-2019, 2019.