Sara Bonetti

sara.bonetti@duke.edu

Education

M.S. in Civil Engineering (summa cum laude), September 2011, University of Padova, Italy
B.S. in Civil Engineering (summa cum laude), September 2009, University of Padova, Italy

Publications
  1. Bonetti, S., Bragg, A. D., and Porporato, A. M. (2018). On the theory of drainage area for regular and non-regular points. Proceeding of the Royal Society A, 474: 20170693.
  2. Manoli, G., Huang, C.-W., Bonetti, S., Domec, J.-C., Marani, M., and Katul, G. G. (2017). Competition for light and water in a coupled soil-plant system. Advances in Water Resources, 108, 216-230.
  3. Bonetti S., and Porporato A. (2017). On the dynamic smoothing of mountains. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, DOI: 10.1002/2017gl073095.
  4. Bonetti, S., Feng, X., and Porporato, A. (2017). Ecohydrological controls on plant diversity in tropical South America. Ecohydrology, e1853, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1853.
  5. Bonetti, S., Manoli, G., Manes, C., Porporato, A., and Katul, G. G. (2017). Manning’s formula and Strickler’s scaling explained by a co-spectral budget model. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 812, 1189-1212. doi:10.1017/jfm.2016.863.
  6. Manoli, G., Bonetti, S., Scudiero, E., Morari, F., Putti, M., and Teatini, P. (2015). Modeling Soil–Plant Dynamics: Assessing Simulation Accuracy by Comparison with Spatially Distributed Crop Yield Measurements. Vadose Zone Journal, 14 (12).
  7. Bonetti, S., G. Manoli, J.-C. Domec, M. Putti, M. Marani, and G. G. Katul (2015), The influence of water table depth and the free atmospheric state on convective rainfall predisposition, Water Resources Research, 51, doi:10.1002/2014WR016431.
  8. Manoli, G., Bonetti, S., Domec, J. C., Putti, M., Katul, G., and Marani, M. (2014). Tree root systems competing for soil moisture in a 3D soil–plant model. Advances in Water Resources, 66, 32-42.
  9. Manoli, G., Bonetti, S., Scudiero, E., Teatini, P., Binning, P. J., Morari, F., Putti, M., and Marani, M. (2013). Monitoring and modeling farmland productivity along the Venice coastland, Italy. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 19, 361-368.
Conference Abstracts
  1. Bonetti, S., Ferguson, T., Richter, D. deB, and Porporato, A. M. (2018, April). Impact of climate-vegetation interactions on natural and disturbed landscape evolution: insights from the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (8-13 April 2018).
  2. Manoli, G., Huang, C.-W., Bonetti, S., Domec, J.-C., Putti, M., Marani, M., and Katul, G. (2018, April). Soil-plant interactions in silico: the role of plant water storage, hydraulic redistribution and competition among plants. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (8-13 April 2018).
  3. Silber, M., Bonetti, S., Gandhi, P., Gowda, K., Iams, S., and Porporato, A. M. (2018, March). Transport and feedback in models of self-organizing vegetation patterns in dryland ecosystems: some comparisons with satellite images. In Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  4. Bonetti, S., and Porporato, A. M. (2017, December). Forward and backward evolution of the Calhoun CZO: the effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11-15.
  5. Silber, M., Bonetti, S., Gandhi, P., Gowda, K., Iams, S., and Porporato, A. (2017, December) The role of different plant soil-water feedbacks in models of dryland vegetation patterns. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11-15.
  6. Bonetti, S., and Porporato, A. M. (2017, June). Forward and backward evolution of the Calhoun CZO landscape. Critical Zone Science: Current Advances and Future Opportunities, workshop in Arlington, VA, 4-6 June, 2017.
  7. Bonetti, S., and Porporato, A. M. (2017, May) Topographic Controls on Vegetation Patterns. In SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT, 21-25 May, 2017.
  8. Porporato, A., Bonetti, S. and Feng, X. (2014). Environmental controls and space-time biodiversity patterns in the Amazon. Abstract PP14A-07, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 15-19.
  9. Bonetti, S., Manoli, G., Scudiero, E., Morari, F., Putti, M., and Teatini, P. (2014, December). Modeling temporal and spatial variability of crop yield. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 1, p. 0939).
  10. Manoli, G., Bonetti, S., Scudiero, E., Teatini, P., Binning, P. J., Morari, F., Putti, M., and Marani, M. (2014). From plant to field: a novel mechanistic approach to modeling soil-plant-atmosphere interactions at the watershed scale. In International Conference on Monitoring and Modeling Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Processes.
  11. Manoli, G., Bonetti, S., Putti, M., Katul, G. G., and Marani, M. (2013, December). a Three-Dimensional Approach to Modeling Root Water Uptake by Multiple Trees. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 1, p. 1228).
  12. Bonetti, S., Manoli, G., Putti, M., Marani, M., and Katul, G. G. (2013, December). a Coupled Soil-Plant Approach to Modeling Convective Rainfall Initiation Induced by Water Table Fluctuation. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 1, p. 1076).
  13. Manoli, G., Bonetti, S., Scudiero, E., Teatini, P., Binning, P. J., Morari, F., Putti, M. and Marani, M. (2013). Monitoring and Modeling Farmland Productivity along the Venice Coastland, Italy. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 19, 361–368.