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Consorzio di Bonifica di Secondo Grado per il Canale Emiliano Romagnolo - Canale Giandotti

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Role: Research, (Male). Responsible of the Irrigation Experimentation Agency of the CER since 1998. His main research fields concern (i) the water requirements of orchards, vegetables, biomass and seed crops, development of Crop Water Stress Index Curves (infrared thermometry), the technological tests of micro-irrigation materials, fertigation. Since 1999 he was nominated scientific responsible of many projects on water saving financed by the Emilia Romagna Region. In tree orchards in particular his expertise includes: response to irrigation, deficit irrigation, regulated deficit irrigation, irrigation scheduling for the fruit quality, water table effects on trees water supply, relationships between irrigation and root system, technology of drip, sub-surface drip and rain irrigation, anti-frost sprinkler irrigation, irrigation scheme, precise irrigation, artificial wetlands. Since 1996 he has been responsible of a research project on phytodepuration for the protection of the wetlands of the Po Delta, financed by the Department of Agriculture for Community Structural Interventions of the Emilia Romagna Region - Objective 5b, aimed at assessing the effects of phyto-purification with macrophytes on the qualitative improvement of waste water. He was coordinator of the project “On farm phytodepuration of water”, financed by Emilia Romagna Region LR28/98. He is also co-author of a book on micro-irrigation and is author of over 80 publications published in the major magazines of agricultural interest or presented at national and international congresses. Stefano is the scientific responsible of 6 RDP-FEASR projects.