This book features a selection of works presented at the 4th International Conference on Biogeosciences in a unified framework. It focuses on the physical and mathematical modeling of natural processes and environments at different spatial and temporal scales. To accomplish such an interdisciplinary task, contents are grouped according to the planetary “spheres”: lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. It is also presented a part on the development and application of algorithms and technologies for Biogeosciences.
Part I The Lithosphere.- I.1 Kinetic and thermodynamic study of urea
sorption in clay from the Manicaragua region, Villa Clara, Cuba.- Part II The
Hydrosphere.- II.1 Turbidity recovery in Lake Villarrica using spectral
indices and Sentinel-2 images.- II.2 Generation of time series of water
levels from radar altimetry data in lake Ranco in southern Chile.- Part III
The Atmosphere.- III.1 Atmospheric Rivers: Impacts, Detection and Future
Projections.- III.2 Bibliometric review: Microplastics in the atmosphere.-
Part IV The Biosphere.- IV.1 Theoretical physical-mathematical model for
relative activity of anammox.- IV.2 Mathematical Modeling of Photosynthesis
in Medicinal Plants.- IV.3 Influence of Acidification on the Habitability of
Coastal Ecosystems.- IV.4 Plastic pollution in the Wildlife of the Americas:
A Bibliometric Analysis.- IV.5 Evaluation of the ecosystem services of an
urban lagoon and associated wetland, BioBio region, Chile.- IV.6
Cyanobacteria as bioindicators of eutrophication fresh water south-central
zone of Chile.- IV.7 Effects of Pesticide Use on South American Wildlife.
Review.- IV.8 Characteristic vectors to select the best probability
distribution in survival.- IV.9 Calanoids copepods sizes patterns in a
latitude gradient in Chilean lakes and lagoons.- Part V Algorithms and
Technology Development in BioGeoSciences.- V.1 Cloud bee apiary.- V.2
Beehives made of polyethylene foam.- V.3 Open-source autopilot based
Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) for environmental monitoring.- V.4
Monitoring Chlorophyll-a concentrations in Lake Laja using Landsat data and
Google Earth Engine.- V.5 Design of synchronization protocols for LoRa
networks in IoT applications.- V.6 Irrigation System Based on
Evapotranspiration Forecasting Using Machine Learning.
Professor Rolando Cardenas finished B Sc in Chemistry in 1988, PhD in Physics in 2003 and Doctorate in Science in 2019. Since its foundation in 2010, he is the Director of the Planetary Science Laboratory of Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas (Santa Clara, Cuba). His main research interest is mathematical modeling of natural environments, especially applied to Oceanography, Biophysics, and Planetary Science in general.
