VERÓNICA CÁNOVAS LOSADA
Biography
Verónica Cánovas is a Civil Engineer, a PhD in Coastal Engineering (Universidad de Cantabria) and currently researcher of the Coastal Management and Engineering Group at IHCantabria.
Her main area of expertise covers coastal numerical modeling, coastal processes and engineering, beach morphodynamics, coastal risk assessment and management and climate change impacts on coastal areas. In addition, she contributes to the development of numerical models, tools and methodologies regarding coastal hydro-morphodynamics and coastal risks, especially for Coastal Modeling System (SMC) and SMC-Brasil.
She has participated in more than 30 research and consultancy projects in coastal engineering and management (national and international) dealing with coastal evolution and morphodynamics or coastal erosion issues among others.
In terms of publications, she has co-authored 17 publications in scientific journals and conferences related to coastal evolution, beach morphodynamics and wave climate analysis.
She also has experience in education and training of practitioners and researchers through tailor-made workshops and courses or Master’s course in Coast and Ports of the Universidad de Cantabria.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Coastal numerical modeling
Coastal processes and engineering
Beach morphodynamics
Coastal risk assessment and management
Climate change impacts on coastal areas
PUBLICATIONS
Quetzalcóatl, O., González, M., Cánovas, V., Medina, R., Espejo, A., Klein, A., Tessler, M.G., Almeida, L.R., Jaramillo, C., Garnier, R., Kakeh, N., González-Ondina, J., 2019. SMCε, a coastal modeling system for assessing beach processes and coastal interventions: Application to the Brazilian coast. Environ. Model. Softw. 116, 131–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.03.001
Camus, P., Menendez, M., Mendez, F.J., Izaguirre, C. l, Espejo, A., Canovas, V., Perez, J., Rueda, A., Losada, I.J., Medina, R., 2014. A weather-type statistical downscaling framework for ocean wave climate. J. Geophys. Res. 119, 7389–7405.
Díez, J., Uriarte, A., Cánovas, V., Medina, R., 2017b. A parametric model for dry beach equilibrium profiles. Coast. Eng. 127, 134–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.06.012
González, M., Nicolodi, J. L., Gutiérrez, O. Q., Cánovas, V., & Espejo, A. (2016). Brazilian Coastal Processes: Wind, Wave Climate and Sea Level. In A. D. Short & A. H. da F. Klein (Eds.), Brazilian Beach Systems (pp. 37–66). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30394-9_2
Diez, J., Cánovas, V., Uriarte, A., Medina, R., Díez, J., Cánovas, V., Uriarte, A., Medina, R., 2017a. Characterization of the Dry Beach Profile: A Morphological Approach. J. Coast. Res. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00179.1
González, M., Gutiérrez, O., Cánovas, V., Kakeh, N., Medina, R., Espejo, A., Méndez, F., Abascal, A., Castanedo, S., Martínez, C., Klein, A.H.F., Gomes, P., Dalinghauss, C., Gonzales, M., Rogacheski, C., Brelinger, C., 2014. New coastal modeling system smc-Brasil and its application to the erosion problem on the massaguacua beash (Sao Paulo, Brazil), in: Lynett, P. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference. Coastal Engineering Research Council, Seoul, Korea, pp. 1–4. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v34.management.49
Cánovas, V., Medina, R., 2012. A long-term equilibrium beach planform model for coastal work design, in: 33rd International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2012, ICCE 2012. Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain.
