**++Hosting Foreign Young Researchers / Students in Short Stays for I+D+i / Academic Work Activities**++

• Xuebao Hong (Doctorate student at the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, P.R. China). Brief research stay in the framework of the Task 2 on GNSS Reflectometry, Determination of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Water Content by Reflected GNSS Signals - VARIETAL-2 Project 20 Dec 2019-25 Feb 2020

• Agnieszka Wrzosek (Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice: Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Water Resources Management Pioneers 1 & 2: Contribution to organisation and development of Copernicus Climathon Burjassot 2019). Sep-Oct 2019

• Maria Grazia Madaffari (Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice: Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Water Resources Management Pioneer 3: Detection & Monitoring of Microplastics in Mediterranean Coastal Areas). Sep 2019

• Mario Špadina (Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice: Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Water Resources Management Pioneer 3: Detection & Monitoring of Microplastics in Mediterranean Coastal Areas). Sep 2019

• Luca Famooss Paolini (Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice: Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Water Resources Management Pioneer 3: Detection & Monitoring of Microplastics in Mediterranean Coastal Areas). Sep 2019

• Rita de Cássia Ferreira da Silva (Curso de Doctorado del Programa de Postgrado en Ciencias Ambientales de la UNESP-ICT). Sep 2019-Feb 2020 (TBC)

• Gloria Okafor. WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate change And Land use) en Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Topic: High-Resolution Climate Change Projections for West African Impact Research. Programme: COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Capacity Building Fellowship Programme. 10-31 Oct 2018

• Eleni Loulli. Cyprus University of Technology, ERATOSTHENES Research Centre, School of Engineering and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Limassol, Cyprus. Topic: Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Water Resources Management. Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Actions within the Copernicus Climate-KIC Ecosystem. Programme: Climate KIC - Pioneers into Practice 2018. 22 Sep-19 Oct 2018

• Jakub Walawender. Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing at the University in Marburg. Topic: Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Water Resources Management. Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Actions within the Copernicus Climate-KIC Ecosystem. Programme: Climate KIC - Pioneers into Practice 2018. 3-28 Sep 2018

• Gisell Hernández Vargas. Universidad Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias. Topic: Estimation of biohysical vegetation parameters using OLCI (Ocean and Land Colour Instrument) data. Programme: programa UNAM-FUNAM-SEP-2018. 3 Sep-31 Oct 2018

• Dr Lei Yang. School of Information Science and Technology. Shandong Agricultural University. Topic: BeiDou GNSS-R Soil Moisture Experiment at the Valencia Anchor Station validation site. Programme: Collaboration of Professor Dongkai Yang (BeiHang University, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing, P.R. China) and his collaborators in the VARIETAL (Validation of Earth Observation Data and Products at the Valencia and the Alacant Anchor Stations) Project from the Spanish National Research Programme on Space (E. Lopez-Baeza VARIETAL Principal Investigator). 15 May-10 Aug. 2018

• Adeyeri Oluwafemi. WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate change And adapted land use) GRP Climate Change and Water Resources, Universite d’ Abomey-Calavi, Benin.Topic: Modeling the Hydrological Response of Komadugu-Yobe Area of the Lake Chad Basin to Climate Change. Programme: COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Capacity Building Fellowship Programme. Feb 2nd-Mar 2nd, 2018

• Dr A. Geraldo Ferreira. Adjunct Professor Level III. Coordinator of the LABOMAR Earth Observation Laboratory, and Coordinator of the Oceanography Course, LABOMAR Sea Science Institute/Federal University of Ceara (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. Topic: Identification of water scarce areas with Remore Sensing and water quality in coastal areas (19-29 Sep 2017)

• Dr. Iolanda Silveira Duarte. Adjunct Professor. Coordinator of the Environmental Microbiology Lab. Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Campus Sorocaba (UFSCar-Sorocaba), Brazil. Topic: Anthropogenic Surfactants Detection (Linear Alquil benzeno Sulfonado, LAS) with Copernicus Sentinel-1 Remote Sensing Products. 9 Mar-20 Aug 2016)

• Pierre Ferreira do Prado. Engenharia Ambiental, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho”, UNESP Sorocaba, Brazil. Topic: Earth Observation Image Processing for Environmental Education. 9 Mar-20 Aug 2016)

• Ebrahim Asadi Oskouei. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad & Iran Meteorological Organisation, Iran. Topic: Partitioning Evapotranspiration into Transpiration and Evaporation Fluxes with Remote Sensing. Programme: COSPAR Capacity Building Fellowship Programme & University Sabbatical Stay. 9 Dec 2015-20 Jul 2016

• Dr Daniele Cespi. Dept. Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari”. University of Bologna, Italy. Topic: Sustainability Studies over Vineyards at the Valencia Anchor Station Site. Life Cycle Assessment. Water and Carbon Footprints. Programme: Climate KIC - Pioneers into Practice 2015. 1-30 Oct 2015

• Dr A. Geraldo Ferreira. Adjunct Professor. Coordinator of the LABOMAR Earth Observation Laboratory, and Coordinator of the Oceanography Course, LABOMAR Sea Science Institute/Federal University of Ceara (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. Topic: Validation of Sentinel-3 OLCI (23 Mar-5 Apr 2015)

• Cong Yin. Chinese Meteorological Administration. Topic: Soil Moisture Monitoring Station (SOMOSTA) Experiment. Soil Moisture Monitoring with GNSS-R Signals. Programme: Soil Moisture Monitoring with GNSS-R Signals. ESA + Chinese Meteorological Administration + University of Valencia (Climatology from Satellites Group). Nov. 2013 - Nov. 2014. 26 May-26 Oct 2014

• Esmeralda Neri. Dept. Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari”. University of Bologna, Italy. Topic: Study of the energy content (consumption) associated with the different uses of water in a perspective of life cycle assessment (LCA). Programme: Climate KIC - Pioneers into Practice 2014. 15 Sep-15 Oct 2014

• Abdolreza Ansari. Iranian Space Agency. Topic: SMOS and SMAP Spatial Issues. Programme: COSPAR Capacity Building Fellowship Programme. July 2014

• Edwin Loarte Cadenas. Peru National Water Agency. Topic: Remote Sensing for Water Management Optimisation. Programme: Practicum from the Master on Water Resources Management. Mar - May 2014

• Dr Samiro Khodayar. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Topic: Use of SMOS Data and Products in Convective Systems Generation Models. Programme: Research Stay. May 2013-May 2014

• Dr. Roberto Wagner Lourenço. Engenharia Ambiental. UNESP Sorocaba, Brasil. Topic: Measuring Water Vapour and CO2 Fluxes with Eddy-Covariance Station. Programme: Research Stay. Oct-Nov 2013

• Claudio Corticelli. Dept. Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari”. University of Bologna, Italy. Topic: Installation and Set-Up of Eddy-Covariance Station for the Measurement Water Vapour and CO2 Fluxes. Programme: Climate KIC - Pioneers into Practice 2013. 15 Sep-15 Oct 2013

• Maria Aufschlager. Institute for Space Sciences. Freie Universitaet Berlin. Topic: Installation and Set-Up of Eddy-Covariance Station for the Measurement Water Vapour and CO2 Fluxes. Programme: “External Internshisp” Proyecto Fin de Grado en Meteorología. ERASMUS Programme Training Agreement And Quality Commitment. Academic Year 2012-2013

• Rhydian Bell. Imperial College, London, UK. Topioc: ADvice on the Use of Active seNsors in the ADM scene ID (ADUANA). Programme: ERASMUS. Academic Year 2012-2013

• Maria Jorgiana F. Dantas. UNESP/FCA GEPAG - Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas Agrárias Georreferenciadas. Botucatu, Brasil. Topic: Diagnóstico Ambiental na Avaliação da Pressão Antrópica em uma Bacia Hidrográfica do Semiárido. Programme: Programa de Doctorado-Sandwich en el Extranjero - PDSE - CAPES. Mar-Jun 2013

• Julio A. García Leal. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia. Topic: Estimation of Surface Runoff in the Jucar River Basin from raingauge precipitation measurements and soil moisture products from SMOS. Programme: COSPAR Capacity Building Fellowship Programme. Oct 2012

• Geraldo Ferreira. LABOMAR Sea Science Institute/Federal University of Ceara (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. Topic: Estudio de la Radiación Neta en Zonas Semiáridas. 12 Feb-2 Mar 2012

• Dr Heather Lawrence. Université Bordeaux-1, France. Topic: Validation of SMOS at the Valencia Anchor Station. Programme: Contract in MIDAS-6/UVEG Project. SMOS Ocean Salinity and Soil Moisture Products. Improvements and Applications Demonstration. Ministry for Science and Innovation, Spanish Space Research Programme. Sep. 2011-Sep 2012

• Maciej Miernecki. Topic: Validation of SMOS at the Valencia Anchor Station. Programme: Contract in MIDAS-6/UVEG Project. SMOS Ocean Salinity and Soil Moisture Products. Improvements and Applications Demonstration. Ministry for Science and Innovation, Spanish Space Research Programme. Sep. 2011-Sep 2012

• Martha Ixchel Reyes Banda. Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, UNAM. Mexico. Topic: SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) Validation Techniques. Programme: Research Stay. Aug 2009-Jan 2010

• Ricardo Acosta. Universidade de São Paulo. Topic: Soil Moisture Estimates at the Valencia Anchor Station Using the Temperature-Vegetation Dryness Index (TVDI) Obtained From MODIS Satellite Images. Programme European Union Project on Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems (ICONE-ALFA 2. Nov 2007-May 2008

• A. Geraldo Ferreira. FUNCEME, Ceará, Brasil. Topic: Doctoral Thesis on Estudio de la Radiación Neta en Zonas Semiáridas Utilizando Modelos Lineales y Neuronales y la Sinergia entre GERB y SEVIRI. Programme: Programa Alßan. Programa de Becas de Alto Nivel de la Unión Europea para América Latina. Jan 2006-Jun 2010