dr. D.C. Chavarro Rincon (Diana)

Senior project & programme specialist with 15+ years of experience in the acquisition, development and coordination of international Earth Observation (EO) initiatives. Operating at the interface between academia, science, international organisations and regional stakeholders, I enable the implementation and institutional uptake of EO applications across international development, policy, and operational domains. Proven expertise in stakeholder engagement, user requirement analyses and capacity development within multicultural and multidisciplinary environments. Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle management of international EO capacity development programmes, ensuring strategic design, effective implementation and sustainable impact, with experience bridging European operational frameworks and institutional realities in the Global South

Expertise

• Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • Ground Penetrating Radar
  • Hazard
  • Opinion
  • Risk
  • Risk Assessment
  • Soil Surface
  • Surface Water
  • Tunisia

Organisations

-  Chavarro Rincón, D.; Parodi, G.; Damiano, F. y Castellano, S. Modelación 2D de inundaciones en áreas bajas con MDT derivados de drones y asistida por imágenes Sentinel-1. XXVI Congreso Argentino de la Ciencia del Suelo.  Tucumán, Argentina 2018.

-  Chen L., van Westen C.J., Hussin H., Ciurean R.L., Turkington T., Chavarro-Rincon D., Shrestha D.P. Integrating expert opinion with modeling for quantitative multi-hazard risk assessment in the Eastern Italian Alps. Geomorphology, Volume 273, 15 November 2016, Pages 150–167

-   Ghimire, C.P., Lubczynski, M.W., Bruijnzeel, L.A. and Chavarro-Rincon, D.C (2014) Transpiration and canopy conductance of two contrasting forest types in the Lesser Himalaya of Central Nepal. In: Agricultural and forest meteorology, 197 (2014) pp. 76-90.

-  Lubczynski, M.W., Chavarro-Rincon, D., Roy, J., Novel, cyclic heat dissipation method for the correction of NTG in sap flow measurements. Part 1. Theory and application. Tree physiology, 32 (2012)7 pp. 894-912.

-  Lambot S., Slob E., Chavarro-Rincon D., Lubczynski M., and Vereecken H. (2008) Measuring soil surface moisture in irrigated areas of southern Tunisia using full waveform inversion of proximal GPR data. Near Surface Geophysics, 6(2008), pp. 403-410.

-   Kimani, J.N., Hussin, Y.A., Lubczynski, M.W., Chavarro-Rincon, D.C. and Obakeng, O.T. (2007).Mapping savannah trees in Kalahari. In: International Journal of Geoinformatics, 3 (2007)2, pp. 29-39.

-  Chavarro-Rincon, D - Tree transpiration mapping from upscaled sap flow in the Botswana Kalahari - PhD dissertation ISBN 978-90-6164-273-2

Publications

Research profiles

2004–2009 - PhD in RS for Eco-hydrology. University of Twente - Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observations.  Enschede, the Netherlands. Dissertation: RS up-scaled sap flow for evapotranspiration mapping in African savannas

2000–2002 - M.Sc. in Geo-information. International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, Netherlands

 1998-2000 - Specialisation in Water Resources - Universidad Nacional de Colombia

1992–1996 - B.Sc. in Civil Engineering. Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino, Bogotá (Colombia)

Address

University of Twente

Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1129
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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