Pamela Alejandra Dominutti

Degree in Environmental Health

Professor and research assistantFaculty of Health Sciences, National University of Entre

Ríos

PhD student in Science and Technology

Fortaleza - Brazil, 01-12 November 2010 Fortaleza - Brazil, 01-12 November 2010

Concepción del Uruguay- Entre Ríos - Argentina

Current ResearchCurrent Research2

PID - UNER “Spatial characterization of

environmental risk in Concepción del Uruguay city

using geographical information technologies”

Environmental Risk Assessment by

floods in the north area of Concepción del Uruguay City using

geographical information tools.

Research Team: STIEFEL, Marta L.

CARÑEL, Griselda E. COSTA, Patricia

SAVOY, FranciscoDOMINUTTI, Pamela A.

Entre Ríos

Argentina

MotivationsMotivations

•Permanent Threat•Focus on population vulnerability•Objective: reach the risk management for its future decrease

Materials and methods:

Satellite imagesDemographic and socio economic dataEnvironmental analysis

GIS, Remote sensing, information from surveys

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Some Some applicationsapplications 4

April 2008 – Normal course of the Uruguay River

December 2009 – the greatest floods in the last

half century

Landsat and Cbers Images

December 2009

Spatial profile for Band 4 and 5Threat analysisThreat analysis 5

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Analysis of the flooded area

Threat analysisThreat analysis

Characterization of river

Natural Threat occurrence in the last 50 years

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•Area of influence• Basin study•Threat exposition

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Vulnerability AnalysisVulnerability Analysis 8

Digitalization and geographic localization of demographic dataSocio-economic and environmental analysis of population exposed to the

threat

PhDPhD. . progressprogress9

Modeling of atmospheric pollutants dispersion in the Uruguay River area

PhD Advisor: Dr. Guillermo Berri

Research developed in the National Weather Service

Environmental Monitoring Program of the Uruguay River

NOAA Hysplit ModelCompute air concentration, trajectories and deposition

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Point Source, located in UruguayPulp Factory

International conflict

Output Trajectories compute

Future worksFuture works

PID - UNER “Spatial characterization of environmental risk in Concepción del Uruguay city using geographical information technologies”

Characterization and quantification of humidity in the southern soils of Entre Ríos, Argentina

Environmental, social and productive assessment of the Parana River Delta (Wetlands area)

Epidemiological mapping of families with children and adolescents with preventable health problems in communities of Entre Ríos” - Project funded by the Science and Technology Agency of Entre Rios State

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PhD.Improve HYSPLIT model knowledgeAtmospheric chemistryApplied remote sensing tools

Chas Gracias!Chas Gracias!

12Sunset on the Uruguay River – Source: ONG Vida