Virginia Venturini (Graduate Fellow)
Current Degree
Doctorate (PhD) - Environmental Hydrology
University of Cincinnati, College of Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Previous Degrees
Master of Science (University of Cincinnati, OH)
Water Resource Engineer (Universidad Nacional del Litoral)
Viginia is a Water Resources engineer, and is currently a doctoral student in Environmental Engineering. She has been involved in projects dealing with modeling of pollutant transport in surface water (river, lakes, etc.), surface runoff and evapotranspiration/evaporation modeling. Her doctoral research deals with enhancing remote sensed data for modeling. Her background includes Physics, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Mathematics. She is excited to participate in Project STEP and her goals include developing new activities in the following areas (among others topics): water cycle and energy transfer; weather predictions and remote sensed data from satellites; heat and energy transfers in and out the atmosphere; El Niño and La Niña phenomena; water uses and water quality; and different sources of pollution and treatments. She note that most of these processes can be modeled with simple algebraic concepts, which might be useful to integrate in the mathematics and sciences courses taught to secondary school students.
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