Research

The editorial "Commitment to advance excellence and inclusion in the Earth and space sciences scholarly publications" has been recently published in AGU Advances. It is co-authored by several editors in chief of the American Geophysical Union and comments on recent developments and future perspectives about equality, diversity and inclusivity in science.

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All the best,
Alberto

The scientific paper "Assessment of climate change impacts on groundwater exploitation sustainability in the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy)" has been just published in the Hydrological Sciences Journal.

Thanks to Ilaria Delfini for leading the study!

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Ciao,
Alberto

Two years after the flood in Romagna, the regional administration has published on YouTube ‘Let's talk about’: social pills of the Emilia-Romagna region on floods (in Italian).

The scientific paper "Leverage Points and Cascading Impacts Analysis in Nexus Systems Using System Dynamics Modeling" (open access) has been published in Earth's Future in July. It is an application of dynamical system modelling to study the interaction between catchment and societal dynamics.

Thanks a lot to Virginia Coletta for leading this adventure!

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Alberto

My presentation titled "Hydrology and Civil Protection in Italy as seen by Lino Versace" (in Italian) delivered at the meeting "Raccontare Lino", Cosenza, July 3rd, 2025.

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Ciao,
Alberto 

My presentation at the General Assembly 2025 of the European Geosciences Union (Vienna April 27-May 2) titled "Uncertainty estimation for environmental predictions: the BLUECAT approach and software" is available for download at the link below.

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Best,
Alberto
 

My presentation at the General Assembly 2025 of the European Geosciences Union (Vienna April 27-May 2) titled "A closer look at flood risk and future perspectives after changes in climate, hydrology and society" is available for download at the link below.

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Best,
Alberto

The scientific paper "Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society" has been just published in the Hydrological Sciences Journal. It is a summary of the Panta Rhei scientific decade of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences.

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Alberto

My presentation (in Italian) at the professional and technical  shool "Resilient2Risk" titled "Climate change scenarios and flood risk" is available at the link below. Resilient2Risk "Management of environmental risk for a resilient land" focuses on environmental risks, natural and human induced..

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Ciao,
Alberto 

The scientific paper "Bridging Information From Paleo-Hydrological and Climate Model Ensembles to Assess Long Term Hydrological Drought Hazard" has been just published in AGU Advances. It focuses on the evolution of drought frequency and severity under anthropogenic global warming, through analysis of paleo river flows for the Po River.

A synthesis of my interview (in Italian) at the TeleReggio TV on the integrated management of water services in the Municipality of Reggio Emilia is available at the link below. It is a short resume, the whole interview was 10 minutes long and is not available online.

Water services (civil water supply and wastewater management) in Reggio Emilia are managed through a partnership between local municipalities and an industrial partner.

Thanks for your interest.

Best,
Alberto

The scientific article "Scientific article: Uncertainty estimation for environmental multimodel predictions: The BLUECAT approach and software" - published in Environmental Modelling and Software - is now available online. It is open access.

My presentation at the 2024 AGU Fall meeting titled "Climate change and droughts: uncovering the drivers for drought impact amplification" is available at the link below.

Thanks for your interest.

Ciao,
Alberto

I delivered the 2024 IAHS Peter Loucks Lecture in Florianopolis (Brasil) during the Joint IAHS IWRM-STAHY-EBE Conference. The title of the lecture was "An impossible dream: The deterministic hydrologic prediction". My presentation is available at the link below.

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Ciao,
Alberto

Download presentation with animations (pdf, 31 Mb)

The scientific paper "The IAHS Science for Solutions decade, with Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world (HELPING)" is available online here. It is the presentation to the scientific community of the new IAHS scientific decade 2023-2032.

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Ciao,
Alberto

The scientific paper "Monitoring macroplastics in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: Expert survey reveals visual and drone-based census as most effective techniques" is available online here.

It's my first experience in the field of plastic transport in aquatic systems. Different monitoring techniques are evaluated through an expert survey.

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Best,
Alberto

An extension of the Bluecat approach and software to allow uncertainty assessment for predictions given by any environmental (multi)model has been released in September 2024.

The extension is presented in a submitted paper, titled "Uncertainty estimation for environmental multimodel predictions: the BLUECAT approach and software". Preprint is available here.

On June 15 I have been interviewed by the TV channel TRC. The discussion focused on flood and drought risk.

The interview can be watched here. The video has been kindly provided by TRC.

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Ciao,
Alberto

My oral contribution titled "Causes of the exceptional 2022 drought in the Po River Basin" (in Italian) at the National Meeting of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Works  is available at the link below.

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Ciao,
Alberto 

I created a "presentation mode" version of the ebook "A travel through time to explore past and future megadroughts" (linked in the left column here) which can be downloaded at the link below. It is a powerpoint file that may be useful when presenting to an audience.

It also was an opportunity to revise the ebook and add a page on megadroughts during the "Common Era".

Enjoy your travel! If you have any comment please do send an email to me.

Thanks a lot.
Best,
Alberto