Marcello Di Bonito

Formal collaboration with:: Centre for Ecological Restoration - Kenya
Country:: Kenya
Description:: GLOBAL SOUTH 2021 PROJECT - PI: prof. Marcello Di Bonito - Project title: Soil Health Evaluation in Ecological Restoration in savannah environments - SHEER Background Ecological restorations focus on ‘repairing’ sites whose biological communities and ecosystems have been degraded or destroyed. Restoration projects are being carried out in many parts of the world, to try to re-establish a sustainable balance between habitats and recover degraded environments. The Centre for Ecosystem Restoration-Kenya (CERK), is undertaking such a restoration project in a savannah environment, at Maa Trust in the Maasai Mara region. The site is 28 ha and is nestled between the Naboisho and Olare Motorogi Conservancies, in southwest Kenya. The University of Bologna, together with two local (Kenyan) universities, Mount Kenya University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, are collaborating with CERK to build a ‘model’ restoration plan to potentially up-scale it to further areas.

Collaboration with:: CERES international
Country:: Portugal
Description:: Erasmus + mobility funding Mobility Consortium Certificate for a total approved grant of €226k to fund mobilities for 194 university academic staff for the UK, and EU partners, from 2020-2022 - (Principal investigator for NTU).

Collaboration with:: University of Makerere
Country:: Uganda
Description:: Erasmus + International Credit Mobility (ICM) funding to foster collaboration between Nottingham Trent University and University of Makerere (Uganda), for a total approved grant of €656,554, for 3 years, for 120 mobilities (Coordinator for NTU).

Collaboration with:: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Country:: Kenya
Description:: Erasmus + International Credit Mobility (ICM) funding to foster collaboration between Nottingham Trent University and Mount Kenya University, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Brackenhurst Kenya, for a total approved grant of €136,360, over 3 years, for a total 44 exchange participants (Coordinator for ARES, NTU).

Collaboration with:: British Geological Survey
Country:: United Kingdom
Description:: PhD project - Development of field method for mercury speciation analysis of environmental matrices from artisanal gold mining sites in Kenya (Director of studies from 2021).

Collaboration with:: Nottingham Trent University
Country:: United Kingdom
Description:: PhD project - Socio-cultural valuation of urban parks: Lessons from the Philippines (Director of studies since October 2019).

Collaboration with:: Nottingham Trent University
Country:: United Kingdom
Description:: PhD project - Coupling Phyto- and Myco-remediation techniques to manage crude oil contaminated soils in the Niger Delta, Nigeria (Director of Studies, 2016-2020).

Collaboration with:: Università degli Studi di NAPOLI "Federico II"
Country:: Italy
Description:: PhD project - Environmental research on geochemistry of Metals and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) as a tool of exposure evaluation and chemical risk assessment (External supervisor, from 2016-2019).

Collaboration with:: Universidad del Valle, Cali
Country:: Colombia
Description:: Projects and knowledge exchange within the Santander Research Mobility Grant: 1) Food security and resource management for local communities in Roldanillo valle, Colombia (Principal investigator - 2013). 2) An interdisciplinary approach to assess the impact of land use change on quality and distribution of natural resources in the area of Dagua, Colombia (Principal investigator - 2014).

Collaboration with:: Università degli Studi di CAGLIARI
Country:: Italy
Description:: PhD project - Chemistry, mineralogy, mobility and bioavailability of heavy metals in soil, plants (Pistacia lentiscus L.) and soil solutions in the Rio San Giorgio catchment (Iglesias, Gonnesa, South Sardinia, Italy) to develop soil remediation strategies (External supervisor, 2010-2013).

Collaboration with:: University of South Pacific
Country:: Fiji
Description:: PhD project and partnership - Catchment modelling of climate change impacts on hydrology and water quality: focus on the Ba watershed (Fiji); project funded by University of South Pacific - EU Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) scholarship program and facilitated at the Faculty of Science, through the Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PACE-SD), University of South Pacific, 2012; external supervisor.

Collaboration with:: Nottingham Trent University
Country:: United Kingdom
Description:: PhD project - Sustainable intensification in agriculture: an action research (Co-supervisor, 2014-2018).

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