VIRGINIA VENTURINI Nationality - Universidad Nacional del Litoral

VIRGINIA VENTURINI
Nationality: Argentina
Birthday date: 22/10/1962
Address: Ciudad Universitaria, CC 217. Santa Fe (3000)
Phone: (0342) 457-5233/34/39 Ext. 197.
e-mail: vventurini@fich.unl.edu.ar
Web: http://www.unl.edu.ar/ceneha/
Education
Ingeniera en Recursos Hídricos.
Department of Water Sciences (FICH) - Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL).
Graduation date March 18 th , 1989.
Master in Science
University of Cincinnati, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Graduation date March 17 th , 2002.
PhD in Engineering-Water Science Department.
Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
Graduation date September 24 th , 2007
Positions Held
Assistant Professor, Department of Water Sciences- University Nacional del Litoral. Since Oct. 2006.
Research areas
Satellite Information applied to the monitoring of terrestrial ecosystems.
Energy and water balance at the surface level-
Evapotranspiration and water stress
Courses
Environmental Remote Sensing Applications –
Remote Sensing Applied to Water and Environmental Sciences.
Introduction to IDL
Awards
• Best Work in Natural and Environment XII Spanish Conference on remote Sensing. Awarded by Scientific
Merits by the National Commission of Argentina Space Activities (CONAE). Mar del Plata, Argentina,
Sept. 2007.
• Coordinator invited by the IHLET Life water Forum Concept - A Cross-Border SDI Approach - from
Local to Global. Budapest- Hungry- July 2010.
• Scholarship provided by MIT / Harvard Program on Negotiation to participate in the Water Diplomacy
Workshop-13-17 June 2011 - Tufts University - Boston MA, USA.
Selected Publications:
• “Comparison of Evaporative Fractions Estimated from AVHRR and MODIS Sensor over South Florida”.
Virginia Venturini, Bisht G., Islam S. and Jiang L. Remote Sensing of Environment 93 (2004) 77-83.
• “Estimation of the Net Radiation using MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Terra
Data for clear sky days”. Gautam Bisht, Virginia Venturini, Shafiqul Islam and Le Jiang. Remote Sensing
of Environment, 97 (2005), 52-67.
• “Estimation and Comparison of Evapotranspiration from Multiple Satellites for Clear Sky Days”. Namrata
Batra, Islam S., Venturini V., Bisht G. and Jiang L. Remote Sensing of Environment, 103 (2006) 1-15.
• “Estimation of evaporative Fraction and Evapotranspiration from MODIS products using a complementary
based model”. Venturini Virginia, Islam S., and Rodriguez L. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112 (2008)
132-141.
• “Metodología para la estimación de la facción evaporable y la evapotranspiración con productos MODIS”
(A methodology to estimate evaporative fraction and evapotranspiration with MODIS products, in Spanish).
Venturini Virginia, Leticia Rodríguez y Shafiqul Islam. Revista de Teledetección de la Asociación Española
de Teledetección. 27 (2007), 44-52

• “Estimation of evaporative Fraction and Evapotranspiration from MODIS products using a complementary
based model”. Venturini Virginia, Islam S., and Remote Sensing of Environment, 112 (2008) 132-141.
• “Assessing Interannual Water Balance of La Plata River Basin”. Krepper C. M. and Venturini V.
Atmosfera 22(4) (2009) 387-398.
• “A comparison among different modified Priestley and Taylor´s equation to calculate actual
evapotranspiration”. Virginia Venturini, Rodriguez L. and Bisht G. International Journal of Remote
Sensing. 32 (5), (2011). pp. 1319-1338
• “Influencia de la resolución espacial de los diagramas NDVI – T s en el cálculo de la fracción evaporable”.
Girolimetto Daniela, Venturini V. y Rodríguez L. Ingeniería Hidráulica en México, 2(3) (2011) .
• “Análisis de la influencia de la resolución espacial de las imágenes de NDVI y Ts en el cálculo del estrés
hídrico”. Venturini V. y Girolimetto D. Special Edition Journal of the Latin American Society on
Remote Sensing Specialist . En prensa (2011)
• “Evapotranspiration estimation based on the complementary relationships”. Venturini V., Krepper C.,
Rodriguez L. Evaporation/Book1. ISBN 979-953-307-009-3. Editor: Dr. Ayse Irmak Intech – Open
Access Publisher (2011). Vienna. Austria. In Press
• “Effect of the spatial resolution of the NDVI-Ts space “ Venturini V. Giroimetto D. Italian Journal of
Remote Sensing , (2011) In review
Latest communications in congress and Conferences
• “Potential of Satellite-Based Models for Land Surface Evapotranspiration Estimation”. Le Jiang, Shafiqul
Islam, Gautam Bisht, Virginia Venturini, Toby Carlson, Wei Guo and Dan Tarpley. Trabajo aceptado para
ser presentado en American Geophysical Union-2005 Spring Meeting. May 23 rd -27 th , 2005, New Orleans,
USA.
• “Estimation of Evaporative Fraction and Evapotranspiration From Remotely Sensed Data Using
Complementary Relationship”. Virginia Venturini, Shafiqul Islam, Gautam Bisht, and Leticia Rodriguez.
America Meteorological Society 86th Annual Meeting and 20th Conference on Hydrology. Atlanta,
Georgia-USA. January 29 th , 2006.
• “Comparación de dos metodologías para calcular la evapotranspiración real con datos teleobservados
(Comparison of two methodologies to calculate evapotranspiration from remote sensing). Virginia
Venturini and Leticia Rodríguez. XXI Congreso del Agua. May 15th-19th 2007. San Miguel de Tucumán,
Tucumán. Argentina.
• “Influencia de la Resolución Espacial de la Temperatura de Superficie Teledetectada en el contexto NDVI-
To”. (Spatial resolution influence on the Land surface temperature on the NDVI-To space) Daniela
Girolimetto, Virginia Venturini y Leticia Rodríguez. XII Congreso de la Asociación Española de
Teledetección. September 19th-21 st 2007.Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires. Argentina.
• “Utilidades de los Sensores remotos para la Identificación de Cambios en la Distribución de la Radiación
Neta”(Remote Sensors use to identify the net radiation changes and distribution). Workshop: Raúl Rivas
and Virginia Venturini. IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Ambiente y Calidad de Vida y 5 to Congreso de
Ambiente y Calidad de Vida. September 22 nd -24 th , 2008. Catamarca. Argentina.
• “Efecto de la resolución espacial y el tamaño de la región en el espacio NDVI-T s ”(Effect of the spatial
resolution and region side on the NDVI-T s space). Venturini Virginia and Daniela Girolimetto. Poster.
Cuarto Encuentro Internacional del ICES (Internacional Centre for Earth Sciences), Octuber 29 th -31 st
2008. Mendoza. Argentina.
• “Effects of land use changes on water balance of the upper Paraná basin”. Carlos Krepper and Venturini
Virginia. II Congreso Paraguayo en Recursos Hídricos. Octuber 29 th -31 st 2008. Asunción del Paraguay-
Paraguay.
• “Validation of data from the SAC-D / AQUARIUS mission: Application to the knowledge of vegetation
water stress”. Venturini V. y Rivas R. 5th Aquarius/SAC-D Science Meeting. NASA-CONAE. Oct. 21-23
(2009). Buenos Aires-Argentina.
• “Preliminary results for the future Application to the knowledge of vegetation water stress”. Venturini V. y

Rivas R. 6th Aquarius/SAC-D Science Meeting. NASA-CONAE. July 19-21 (2010). Seattle-WA- EEUU.
• “Using Palmer index to determine period of drought in the Northeastern Argentina”. Szymula Juan P.,
Venturini V. y Krepper C. I Congreso Internacional de Hidrología de Llanuras. Sept. 2010. Azul- Buenos
Aires – Argentina. Poster.
• “Using termal Infrared images along with microwave images to determine the surface emisitiviy”.
Venturini V., Girolimetto D. y Rivas R. I Congreso Internacional de Hidrología de Llanuras. Sept. 2010.
Azul- Buenos Aires – Argentina.
• “La Plata Basin Vulnerability: analysis of large water excess/shortage events. Krepper C. y Venturini V. I
Congreso Internacional de Hidrología de Llanuras. 21 al 24 de Sept. 2010. Azul- Buenos Aires – Argentina.
• “Efecto del tipo y uso del suelo del noreste Argentino en los índices de vegetación”. Szymula Juan P. y
Venturini Virginia. XXIII Congreso del Agua. July 2011. Resistencia- Chaco. Argentina.
Research Projects:
• PI in Hydrologic Monitoring Network in the Cululú Basin. Funded by ANPCyT. From 2005-2007.
• Director of the "Study of the Evaporative Fraction and Evapotranspiration in no-heterogeneous from
Remote Sensing". CAI+D 2006- UNL. (2006-2008)
• Co-director of the The Impact of the Anthropic Action in the Salado River Basin Water Balance (Santa Fe-
Argentina). CAI+D 2009- UNL. (2009-2011)
• PI and Co-director of “Validation of data from the SAC-D / AQUARIUS mission: Application to the
knowledge of vegetation water stress”. CONAE. Director Dr. Raúl Rivas- UNCPBA. (2010-2012).
• Co-director of Proyecto “Variability of water deficits and excesses on the River Plate Basin”. Director
Krepper C. M. PIP 11220100100260 -CONICET. (2011-2013).
• Participant in “A Global Water Diplomacy Network: Synthesis of Science, Policy, and Politics for a
Sustainable Water Future”. PI Dr. S. Islam and L. Susskind. NSF. In review.