Graduate student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Duke - Duke University
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, 2018
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Padova, Italy, 2011
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Padova, Italy, 2009
At the Calhoun CZO, Sara studies and models the effects of disturbances on landscape evolution (erosional/depositional rates).
2020
Channelization cascade in landscape evolution. Bonetti, S., M. Hooshyar, C. Camporeale, and A. Porporato (2020): PNAS 117(3): 1375-1382
2020
From turbulence to landscapes: Logarithmic mean profiles in bounded complex systems. Hooshyar, M., S. Bonetti, A. Singh, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, and A. Porporato (2020): Physical Review E 102, 033107
2019
The effect of accelerated soil erosion on hillslope morphology. Bonetti, Sara, Daniel D. Richter, Amilcare Porporato (2019): Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 44(15): 3007-3019
2018
On the theory of drainage area for regular and non-regular points. Bonetti, S., A.D. Bragg, A. Porporato (2018): Proceedings of the Royal Society A 474: 20170693
2017
On the dynamic smoothing of mountains. Bonetti, S., and Porporato, A. (2017): Geophysical Research Letters 44(11): 5531-5539
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
2020
Optimality in landscape channelization and analogy with turbulence. Hooshyar, Milad, Sara Bonetti, Arvind Singh, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, and Amilcare Porporato (2020): EGU General Assembly 4-8 May 2020
2018
Analysis and Modeling of Landscape Topography: Statistical Description and Evolution Under Natural and Disturbed Conditions. Bonetti, Sara (2018): PhD Dissertation, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2018
Impact of climate-vegetation interactions on natural and disturbed landscape evolution: insights from the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Bonetti, Sara; Ferguson, Terry; Richter, Daniel; Porporato, Amilcare (2018): European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 4-13 April, 2018, Vienna, Austria
2017
Topographic controls on vegetation patterns. Bonetti, S., and Porporato, A. (2017): SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT, 21-25 May 2017
2017
Forward and backward evolution of the Calhoun CZO: the effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Bonetti, S.; Porporato, A. M. (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, 11-15 Dec. 2017, New Orleans, LA
2017
Forward and backward evolution of the Calhoun CZO landscape. Sara Bonetti and Amilcare Porporato (2017): Critical Zone Science: Current Advances and Future Opportunities, workshop in Arlington, VA, 4-6 June, 2017