Elena Marra, a technologist at IRET in Florence, Italy, was awarded the renowned IUFRO Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (ODRA). This award is given every five years to nine doctoral students who have distinguished themselves for excellence in forestry. The award was given to Elena for her innovative work that improved the understanding of the physiological and morphological response of forest plants to environmental stresses by using a meta-analytical approach and implementing two innovative methods to estimate the soil impact caused by the passage of forest machinery under different working conditions.
The award ceremony took place during the IUFRO World Congress, held in Stockholm from June 23-29, 2024, with the theme “Forests and Society towards 2050.”