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Lecture notes for Climate Change Modelling, Mitigation and Adaptation

Climate Change Modelling, Mitigation and Adaptation concentrates on strategies and actions to mitigate the impact of climate change on society, with a particular focus on infrastructure design. I am teaching 36 hours of the course, including lectures given by the teacher and exercises developed by collaborative work by students and the teacher.

My short presentation at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society (Bari, September 2025) on technical design under climate change

At the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society I delivered a short contribution focusing on engineering design under climate change. My presentation is available at the link below.

Thanks.
Ciao,
Alberto 

New editorial in AGU Advances: Commitment to advance excellence and inclusion in the Earth and space sciences scholarly publications

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.

Thanks for your interest.

All the best,
Alberto

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Degree and Ph.D. opportunities at Unibo

The Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering at the University of Bologna, where I teach and work as a researcher, offers several opportunities to foreign students. I believe studying in Bologna and Ravenna (where the University of Bologna has a campus and where I am teaching) is a great experience for a foreign student.

Degree programmes

If you are interested in degree programs (bachelor and master) offered by my Department, please refer to the following link:

Tutorials of Coastal Engineering - 2023-2024

The course on Coastal Engineering is included in the study plan of the master degree program in Off-shore Engineering at the University of Bologna. The part of course that I am teaching counts 12 hours of lectures. The teacher will make extensive use of interactivity, with the options illustrated below. Lectures include about 4 hours dedicated to solving exercises by using the personal computer, by collaborative work by students and teacher. Students will be kindly asked to bring their own personal computer to solve the exercises.

Lecture notes for "Climate change and global health" - University San Raffaele

"Climate change and global health" (CCGH) is a 12-hour module of the course on "Climate changing and architecture for health" at the University San Raffaele in Milan. I am teaching CCGH for the first time in the fall semester 2023.

The 12 hours of teaching will be delivered through in-presence frontal lectures. the study plan is as follows:

Presentation of the curriculum "Harbour Engineering" of the master degree in Civil Engineering - Unibo

The curriculum "Harbour Engineering" of the international Master’s in Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna is a programme that aims at educating professionals with the necessary in-depth scientific and technical knowledge in the field of coastal and marine engineering, by specifically focusing on resilience of marine structures and environment under climate change. The programme provides students with firm technical bases while nurturing decision-making and leadership potential.

Tutorials of Climate Change Adaptation - 2023

Climate Change Adaptation is concentrating on strategies and actions to mitigate the impact of climate change on society, with a particular focus on water. The course will be taught during 48 hours of frontal teaching, including lectures given by the teacher and exercises developed by collaborative work by students and the teacher. The purpose of the course is to provide an overview of modern techniques for estimating design variables for water resources systems in the presence of human impact.

My interview (in Italian) at the TeleReggio TV on the integrated management of water services

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

Scientific article: Uncertainty estimation for environmental multimodel predictions: The BLUECAT approach and software

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 IAHS Peter Loucks Lecture titled "An impossible dream: The deterministic hydrologic prediction", Florianopolis, November 2024

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.

Thank you very much for your interest!
Ciao,
Alberto

 

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Scientific article: The IAHS Science for Solutions decade, with Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world (HELPING)

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.

Thanks a lot for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto

Scientific paper: Monitoring macroplastics in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: Expert survey reveals visual and drone-based census as most effective techniques

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.

Thank you for your interest!
Best,
Alberto

 

Bluecat: an extension of the approach and software to allow application to any environmental prediction or ensemble prediction

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.

Causes of the exceptional 2022 drought in the Po River Basin (in Italian). My presentation at the National Meeting of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Works, Parma, Sept 2024

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.

Thank you for your interest.

Ciao,
Alberto