Nadezhda Morova

Nadezhda Morova received a Bachelor's degree in soil science (2013) from the Department of Biology and Soil Faculty of Saint-Petersburg University, Russia.

In 2015 she received am MS.c. from the Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia. Degree obtained – Master of Ecology and Nature Management.

Her BSc and MSc projects were devoted to study Antarctic and Arctic soils regarding of its organic matter and taxonomic diversity.

She worked as Laboratory assistant at the Department of Soil Sciences and Soil Ecology, at the Department of Applied Ecology and at the Department of Botany, Saint Petersburg State University.

Supervisors: Dr R. Bookman, Dr Nurit Shtuber-Ziso and Dr. Anna Brook

The research concerns the impact of wildfires on denudation processes in the Mediterranean region (the Mount Carmel, Israel as a case study). In the course of the proposed study, a multi-proxy investigation will include the assessment of temporal and spatial aspects in order to elucidate post-fire geomorphological processes and how post-fire landscapes are evolving.

Modelling the post-fire erosion potential and its relevance to denudation processes at landscape-scale can serve as a novel method to mitigate the effects of wildfires as agent of landscape changes in Israel and in the Mediterranean region in general.