Dr. Carmen Castañeda is a Tenured Researcher responsible for the Department of Soil and Water of the Estación Experimental de Aula Dei (EEAD), a research institute belonging to the National Scientific Council of Spain (CSIC). She holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Zaragoza and was awarded a post-doctoral remote sensing grant at CESBIO and OMP (Toulouse, France). Her interests are in the interface of arid and protected areas facing land use changes due to agricultural intensification. She studies inland saline wetlands, the soils, current processes, and hydrology, from a multidisciplinary point of view, using a range of tools from satellite images and lidar information to soil micromorphology. She belongs to the Spanish Association of Remote Sensing (AET) and the Spanish Soil Society (SECS). ORCID: 0000-0002-7467-4812.