Senior Scientific Researcher
National Institute of
Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH)
Agrometeorological Division
Bucharest
Romania
Phone +401 2303240/173
Fax:
+401 2307762
adriana_marica@yahoo.com
Education
1999 Technical University of
Civil Engineering, Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering.
Ph.D. in environmental science.
1972. University of
Agronomic Sciences, Bucharest, Agriculture Faculty M.Sc
1999 Summer Leadership Program: International Women in Science and Engineering Program (IWISE), UNESCO/Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
1997 Technologies of Rural Rehabilitation, UNECSO Department for Integrated Rural Development, Bucharest, Romania
1993 Soil Physics, UNESCO/ICTP Trieste, Italy
1990 Crop Weather
Modeling, WMO/Bet Dagan, Israel
During the 1972-1982 she has
worked as agricultural engineer at the Invanesti Agricultural Unit and from
1982 until 1987 as chief of the Watering Forecasting and Programming Division
at Greaca and Dor Marunt Irrigation Systems. Since 1987 she has been working at
the Agrometeorological Division of NIMH as Senior Scientific Researcher and is
currently the chief of this division from 1998. She has been involved in the management of several international
projects, including “EC-Cropchange
Project” (1993-1995), “U.S. Country Study Climate Change
Program” (1995-1997), “Network
for Women in Environmental & Agriculture Science (NWEAS) Project (2000)
and “EC-COST Program” (2000-2004). She is now a National Representative in the
Management Committee of EC-COST Program, Action 718 and also an expert reviewer
at the 3th Evaluation Report of the Working Group II of IPCC and at
the Synthesis Report, including its Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC Third Assessment
Report (1999-2001). In 2000 she was one of the founder members of the Network
for Women in Environmental & Agriculture Science in Romania.
Research Interests
Work in our
Agrometeorological Division is in two related areas, operational and research.
The operational activity consists in elaboration of the Agrometeorological
Bulletin, based on an agrometeorological monitoring system and dissemination
information to the end-users: decision making bodies in the agriculture, the
farmers enabling activity planning and to the mass-media. The research activity
is focused on the environmental impact assessment of climate variability and
change on different agricultural crops by using crop-growth simulation models
linked with various decision support systems.
Our present interest is in
the application of the new agrometeorological models for soil water balance
evaluation and for irrigation planning and management. Agrometeorological
models are increasing being used as tools in research, however, their use in
the operational sense has lagged behind. So one of the tasks of our division is
to test and check the ability of the agrometeorological models dealing with
irrigation management to predict and forecast short- and long-term outputs.
A high priority in our
Agrometeorological Division is to improve meteorological application for
agriculture by developing new methods and techniques based on GIS, remote
sensing and satellite imagery application, with respect to end-user needs.
Marica Adriana, Petruta Tuinea, J. Urban. 2001. Application of an operational
computer program for irrigation planing and management in Romania, paper submitted to be published in the Abstracts
Volume of the 5th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology
(ECAM2001-September), Budapest, Hungary;
Marica Adriana, Petruta Tuinea, V. Turcu. 2001. An agrometeorological monitoring
system used in Romania to estimate vegetation status and soil water
availability for agricultural crops,
Geophysical Research Abstracts 2001, EGS;
Marica Adriana, Petruta Tuinea, Elena Mateescu, V. Turcu, J. Urban. 2000. Drought
monitoring in the specific weather conditions of the year 2000, in order to
evaluate and mitigate the negative effects on crop yields. Poster presented at the ROMEXPO, CIS-2000, Bucharest
(Targul realizarilor Stiintei si Iventicii Romanesti);
Marica Adriana, V. Cuculeanu, 2000. Use of a decision support system for drought
impact assessment and agricultural mitigation options in Romania, Abstracts of Papers of the Central and Eastern
European Workshop on Drought Mitigation, Budapest-Felsogod, Hungary;
Roman Ana-Maria, Adriana Marica, Doina Brailoiu, Carmen Buta, 2000. Gender
activity in agrometeorology as support for women in rural development in
Romania, Fourth International
Conference of the Centre for Women in Rural Development, at the Humboldt
Universitat Berlin (July);
Cuculeanu V., Adriana
Marica, Simota, C., 2000. Climate
change impacts on agricultural crops in Romania and adaptation options, In: Nobuo Mimura (eds.), January 2000, Proceedings
of the Conference on National Assessment Results of Climate Change, held in San
Jose, Costa Rica, March 25-28, 1998 (Printed by the Japan Environmental Agency
and Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center), pp. 647-666;
Marica Adriana, Cuculeanu, V., 1999. Use of a decision support system for
agricultural management under different climate conditions, Abstracts Volume of the 4th European
Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM99), Norrköping, Sweden,
13-17 September, pp. 135;
Cuculeanu V., Adriana
Marica, Simota, C., 1999. Climate
change impacts on agricultural crops in Romania and adaptation options, Climate Research (CR SPECIAL 6, Book Version), vol.
12, Inter-Research ISSN 0936-577X, Germany, pp. 153-160;
Marica Adriana, Petruta Tuinea, Adamiade,V., TurcuV., 1999. Monthly
Agrometeorological Forecasts, Agrostar
Journal, Ed.Trithenius Media, Bucharest;
Cuculeanu V., Adriana
Marica, Simota, C., 1998. Climate
change impacts on agricultural crops in Romania and adaptation options, Abstracts Volume of International Conferences on
“National Assessment Results of Climate Change: Impacts and
Responses”, San Jose, Costa Rica, 25-28 March, pp. 1-2;
Marica Adriana, Ana Maria Roman, Cuculeanu, V., Roman, Ghe., 1998. Modelling maize
responses to carbon dioxide doubling and climate changes, Proceedings of the First Asian Conference for
Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA Conference), 24-26 January,
Wakayama City, Japan, the Asian Federation for Information Technology in
Agriculture, pp.173-181;
Marica Adriana, Ana Maria Roman, Cuculeanu, V., 1997. La modellisation de
l’impacte des changements climatiques et du doublement du CO2 sur la
culture du mais pour le sud de la Romanie, Ateliers de Modelisation
de L’Atmosphere (AMA97), Toulouse, Meteo-France, 2-3 December,
France;
Simota, C., Adriana Marica, 1997.
Assessment of the potential effects of climate change on agriculture
ecosystem and evaluation
adaptation measures (by using
DSSATv.3.0), Element 2: Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Techniques,
U.S. Country Study Program, Final
Report, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C., pp.
1-88; In: Cuculeanu V. et all.
Marica Adriana, Simota, C., 1996. Modeling climate change impacts on development,
grain yield and water balance for winter wheat and maize crops by using
CERES-Wheat,CERES-Maize models and different equilibrium scenarios, International Journal of Environmental Engineering
University, Bucharest, Romania;
Marica Adriana, Simota C., Beatrice Cusursuz, 1996. Effects of the forecasted climate change on the winter
wheat and maize crop (using AFRCWheat and Maize models); adaptation measures, Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of
Biometeorology (ICB 96), Sept. 1-8, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ISBN
961-90373-0-8, pg. 252.
Miglietta, F., Tanasescu, M., Adriana Marica, 1995. The
expected effects of climate change on wheat development (IATA-Wheat
phenological model), Global Change
Biology, 1(6), 407-415; In: Robert T. Watson, Marufu C.
Zinyowera, Richard H. Moss, The Regional Impacts of Climate Change for
Europe, Special Report of IPCC
Working Group II, Cambridge University Press;
Tanasescu, M., Adriana Marica, Magdalena Popescu, 1995. Effects of climate change on winter wheat production in
south regions of Romania (AFRCWheat model),EC-Cropchange Project, Final Report, Wageningen, Netherlands;
Marica Adriana, Tanasescu, M., 1995. The effect of climate change on water balance
in the winter wheat crop, Studies
and Meteorological Research of National Institute of meteorology and Hydrology,
Bucharest, Romania;
Marica Adriana, Tanasescu M., Magdalena Popescu, Petruta Tuinea, 1994. Potential
effect of climate change on the wheat yield, using a dynamic model (Ro-Wheat), Studies and Meteorological Research of National
Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, no. 9, Bucharest; Romania;
Dobre Elisabeta, Adriana Marica, Tanasescu M., et al., 1992. Mathematical model
for simulation of the potential yield of wheat, Ed. Informative Bulletin of Scientific Academy of
Agriculture and Forest Studies, nr. 20, Bucharest, pag.91-98;
Dobre Elisabeta, Adriana Marica, Tanasescu M., et al., 1992. Simulation impact of
the thermic regime variation on potential yield of winter wheat crop, Ed. Studies and Meteorological Research of National
Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, no. 7, Bucharest;
Dobre Elisabeta, Adriana Marica, et al., 1991. The study of simulation potential
yield formation of tomatoes crop in conditions of thermic stress, Ed. Annals of Vidra Research Institute, pag.229-240;
Dobre Elisabeta, Adriana Marica, Tanasescu, M., et al., 1991. Statistical model
for estimation of phytoclimate regime on tomato crop, Ed. Annals of Vidra Research Institute, pag.
143-151.