ELENA ROGET ARMENGOL
Environmental Physics Group, Department of Physics,
University of Girona, Campus de Montilivi, Girona, E-17071
Phone: + 34 972 41 82 67, Fax: + 34 972 41 83 61, E-mail: elena.roget@udg.edu
Education:
1992 Ph.D. in Physical Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
1987 M.S. in Physical Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
1985 B.S. in Physical Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Academic Experience:
1997- present Associate Professor, University of Girona, Spain
1992-1997 Assistant Professor, University of Girona, Spain
1985-1992 Assistant Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Awards and Fellowships:
1987 Award of the Catalan Society of Sciences to the M.S. project in Physical Sciences
1988 Fellowship from the CIRIT (Catalan Government) for abroad research stays EE88/2-88
1988 Fellowship from the Institut zur Erforshung und zum Schutz der Gewässer Ottendorf, R.F.A.
1989 Junior scientists fellowship from the CIRIT (Catalan Government) AR88
1990 Junior scientists fellowship from the CIRIT (Catalan Government) AR89
1989 Fellowship from the CIRIT (Catalan Government) for abroad research stays EE90/2-4.483
1993 Fellowship from the DGICYT (Spanish Government) for research training abroad EX93
Visiting Scholars:
1988- Institut zur Erforshung und zum Schuts der Gewässer Ottendorf, Kiel, Germany, (12 weeks).
1991- VAW (Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie), Federal Institut of Technology, ETH- Zurich, Switzerland, (9 weeks).
1992- Laboratorio di Fisica Terrestre, Istituto Cantonale Tecnico Sperimentale, Lugano, Italy, (4 weeks).
1993- Center for Water Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, (43 weeks).
2001- Arizona State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Environmental Fluid Dynamics Program (1 week).
Research Funding:
Principal Investigator (PI):
1990 Environmental Impact Study of the enlargement and modification of Lake Banyoles for the Olympic games. BOC (Barcelona Olympic Committee) – 92.
1998 Microstructure profiler and biological sensors. Infrastructure project, CICYT(Spanish government) and DGR (Catalan Government).
1997-2000 Transport and mixing of particles in lakes and reservoirs, CICYT; HID97-0833.
2000-2001 Incidence of turbulence and light environment to the parameters of water quality.. MICYT (Spanish Government) REN2000-0648
2001 Mesurements of microestructure and turbulence across the North Atlantic. MICYT (Spanish Government) REN2000-2893-E
Research Scientist:
1987-1988 Coastal lagoons and contamination in the Baltic Sea (Schleswig-Holstein), Environmental Office of the RFA. WASSER 102 04 355.
1993 Laser techniques for particle distribution studies, DGICYT (Spanish Government)
1994-1996 Sediments resuspension induced by turbulent plumes DGICYT PB83-0548
2002-2004 Particles distribution in reservoirs and its effect on water quality. MICYT (Spanish Government) REN2001-2239
Teaching Experience:
Graduate courses:
Environmental Physics. Transport Phenomena. Electromagnetic Phenomena. General Phy-sics for Chemistry Sciences. Applied Physics to Biologists. Environmental Physics.
Doctoral courses:
Physical Limnology. Fluid Mechanics. Turbulence. Data analysis. Geophysical fluids. Physical measurements in Environmental Sciences.
Academic and Scientific Services:
1988 Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th Spanish Congress of Limnology, Banyoles (Spain).
1992 Convener of the XXV Congress of the International Limnology Association (SIL), Barcelona (Spain).
1992 Chair - Physical Limnology XXV Congress of the International Limnolgy Association (SIL), Barcelona (Spain).
1995 - present Research Scientist of the Research Group of Catalonia on Environmental Analysis (1995SGR-071 1997SGR-071 1999SGR-168).
1996 - present Member of the European net on Fluid Dynamics and Geophysical Turbulence funded by the Catalan Government (1996XT-041 1998XT-041 2000XT-041).
1997 Chair in the Hydrodynamics session on the II Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters (Spatial-temporal dynamics in natural waters) CEC Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy.
1997-1999 Director of the doctoral program on Applied Physics to Environmental Processes, University of Girona, Spain
1999 - present Coordinator of the Environmental Physics Itinerary on the Environmental Doctoral Program of the University of Girona.
2001 Member of the Organizing Committee of the 6th International Workshop on Physical Process in Natural Waters, Girona (Spain).
Casamitjana, X., Roget, E., Jou, D., Llebot, J.E, 1988: Effect of the suspended sediment in the heating of Lake Banyoles, J. Geophys. Res., 93(C8) 9332 – 9336.
Casamitjana, X., Roget, E., 1990: The thermal structure of Lake Banyoles, Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 24, 89 - 91.
Casamitjana, X., Roget, E., 1990: Characterization of the natural fluidized beds of Lake Banyoles. Fluidization and fluid particle systems ISBN 84-7653-068-4, J. Casals and J. Arnaldos, Ed. UPC, Barcelona.
Roget, E., Casamitjana, X., 1990: Water exchanges in the coastal lagoon in Neustadt-Binnenwasser (R.F.A.), Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 24, 92- 96.
Roget, E., Colomer, J., Casamitjana, X. Llebot, J.E., 1993: Bottom currents induced by baroclinic forcing in lake Banyoles (Spain), Aquat. Sci. 55(3), 206- 227.
Casamitjana, X., Roget, E., 1993: Resuspension of sediment by focused groundwater in lake Banyoles, Limnol. Oceanogr., 38(3), 643- 656.
Roget, E., Salvadé, G., Zamboni, F., Llebot, E., 1993: Internal waves in a small lake with a thick metalimnion, Ver. Int. Ver. A Limnol. , 25l: 91- 99.
Casamitjana, X., Roget, E., Sschladow, G., 1993: The seasonal cycle of a groundwater dominated lake, J. Hydraulic Res. 31(3), 293-306.
Roget, E., Casamitjana, X., Llebot, J.E., 1994: Calculation of the flow into a lake through the underground spring with suspensions, Nether, J. Aquat. Ecol., 28l, 135- 141.
Colomer, J., Roget, E., Casamitjana, X., King, I.P., 1995: Simulating sediment resuspension by focused groundwater in a karstic V-shaped basin of lake Banyoles. Hydra 2000, ISBN 0-7277-2059-9, London.
Colomer, J., Roget, E., Casamitjana, X., 1996: Daytime heat balance for estimating non-radiative fluxes of Lake Banyoles, Hydrol. Process. 10, 721- 726.
Casamitjana, X., Colomer, J., Roget, E., Serra. T., 1996: On the presence of aggregates in the basin of Lake Banyoles, Geophys. Res. Lett. 3(20), 2737-2740.
Fort, J., Poch, J., Roget, E., 1996: Hydrodynamics of shallow lakes subject to wind: gyres and geometry, Z. Angew. Math. Mech., 76, 147-149.
Roget, E., Colomer, J., 1996: Geostrophic balance in a baroclinic current, Aquat. Sci. 58(4), 1015-1621.
Roget, E., Colomer, J., 1996: Flow characteristics of a gravity current induced by differential cooling in a small lake, Aquat. Sci., 58(4), 367- 377.
Roget, E., Salvadé, G., Zamboni, F., 1997: Internal seiche climatology in a small lake where transversal and second vertical modes are usually observed, Limnol. Oceanogr. 4(42), 663-673.
Piera, J., Roget, E., Catalan, J., 2000. Turbulent patch identification in microestructure profiles. Stratified Flows (Ed. G. Lawrence, R. Pieters, N. Yonemitsu), UofBC, Vancouver, Canada, 1233-1238. ISBN 0-88865-344-I.
Serra, T., Piera, J., Catalan, J., Colomer, J. Roget, E., Casamitjana, X., 2000: Particle and turbulence measurements in lakes. Application to the rising plume of lake Banyoles, Ver. Inter. Ver. A. Limnol. 27, 256-260.
Colomer, J., Serra, T., Piera, J., Roget, E., Casamitjana, X., 2001: Observations of a hydrothermal plume in a karstic lake, Limnol. Oceanogr. 46(1), 197-203.
Pérez-Losada, J., Schladow, S. G., Reuter, J. E., Jassby, A. D., Goldman, C. R., Roget, E., 2001. Modeling seasonal and long term water quality. Physical Processes in Natural Waters (Ed. X. Casamitjana) UdG, Girona, 171-176. ISBN/ISSN: 84-8458-062-8.
Casamitjana, X., Serra, T., Colomer, J., Pérez, J., Roget, E., Baserba, C., 2001. Evolution of the particle boundary layer in a reservoir. Physical Processes in Natural Waters (Ed. X. Casamitjana) UdG, Girona, 147-150. ISBN/ISSN: 84-8458-062-8.
Piera, J., Roget, E., Catalan, J., 2001: Length scale analysis of turbulent patches in wind-forced stratified waters. Physical Processes in Natural Waters (Ed. X. Casamitjana) UdG, Girona, 15-18. ISBN/ISSN: 84-8458-062-8.
Lozovatsky, I. D., Morozov, E. G., Roget, E., Shapovalov, S. M., 2001. Ocean mixing influenced by topography. Proceed. 3rd Int. Symp. Environ. Hydraulics. CD-ROM Mira Digital Publishing, p6.
Piera, J., Roget, E., Catalan, J., (accepted). Turbulent patch identification in microstructure profiles: A method based on wavelet denoising and Thorpe displacement analysis. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech.
International Conferences not included in publications:
Roget, E., Colomer, J., 1991: Water exchanges due to baroclinic currents in small lakes, XXIV Biennial Congress of the International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR), Madrid (Spain).
Roget, E., Salvadé, G., Zamboni, F., 1993: Internal wave climatology in a small lake, XXV Congress of the International Limnology Association (SIL), Barcelona (Spain).
Roget, E., Colomer, J., 1994: Vertical and horizontal structure of a density current in a small lake, IV International Symposium on Stratified flows (IAHR, IAPSO, IAMAS, ASCE), Grenoble (France).
Roget, E., Imberger, J. Ishikawa, T., 1995: Turbulence measurements in a gravity current, Eromech 339. Internal waves, turbulence and mixing in stratified flows, Lyon (France).
Roget, E., 1995: Hydrodynamics of shallow lakes, III International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Hamburg (Germany).
Roget, E., Imberger, T., Ishikawa, Y, Nagao, M., 1995: The turbulent properties of a gravity underflow: field measurements, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Broome (Australia Occidental).
Roget, E., Colomer, J., Juanola, R., 1997: Second-step inhomogeneities in a lake due to the differential cooling. Mean flow characteristics of a thermal gravity current, 2nd Workshop on Physical Process in Natural Waters, JRC, Ispra (Italia).
Piera, J., Roget, E., Catalan, J.,1998: Instrumental limitations and physical limits on computing Thorpe displacement, IV Workshop of advances in Turbulence. Fluid dynamics in geophysics, UPC, Barcelona (Spain).
Perez-Losada, J., Roget, E., 1998. Internal waves at Boadella reservoir. IV Workshop of Advances in Turbulence. Fluid Dynamics in Geophysics, UPC, Barcelona (Spain).
Colomer, J., Serra, T., Roget, E., Casamitjana, X., 1999: Hydrothermal plume from a warm lutocline, 22nd General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Birmingham (England).
Piera, J., Catalan, J., Roget, E., 1999. Characteristisc lengthscale. A wavelet analysis approximation. V Workshop on Advances in Turbulence. Mixing in environmental flows. Interaction between physical and biological processes in lakes and oceans. Univesity of Girona (Spain).
Piera, J., Roget, E., Catalan, J., 2001. Integrating turbulent characterisation to fine scale: a method for linking turbulent mixing to biological processes. 2nd Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences. SEFS2. Toulouse (France).
Roget, E., Figueroa, M., Lozovatsky, I., 2002. The dissipation rate in the wind-induced Ekman boundary layer. European Geophysical Society, XXVII General Assembly, Nice (France).
Figueroa, M., Roget, E., Piera, J., Lozovatsky, I., 2002. Wavelet denoising of the dissipation measurements in the upper ocean. European Geophysical Society, XXVII General Assembly, Nice (France).
Ph.D. supervision:
2001- A deterministic model for lake clarity; application to management of Lake Tahoe (California-Nevada), USA. Joaquim Perez Losada, University of Girona, Spain (co-supervisor: G. Schladow, UCD, Davis)
2002- Signal processing of microstructure profiles: Integrating turbulent spatial scales in aquatic ecological modeling. J. Piera, University of Girona, Spain (co-supervisor: J. Catalan, Dept. Ecology – UB, Barcelona)