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My presentation at the EGU25 General Assembly titled "Uncertainty estimation for environmental predictions: the BLUECAT approach and software"

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.

Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto
 

My presentation at the EGU25 General Assembly titled "A closer look at flood risk and future perspectives after changes in climate, hydrology and society"

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.

Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto

Scientific paper "Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society"

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.

Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto

My presentation at the school Resilient2Risk titled (in Italian) "Climate change scenarios and flood risk"

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..

Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto 

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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.

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 

A "presentation mode" version of the ebook "A travel through time to explore past and future megadroughts"

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

New scientific paper: "The sword of Damocles of the impossible flood"

We are pleased to report the publication of our (together with Guenter Bloeschl and Bruno Merz) opinion paper "The Sword of Damocles of the impossible flood". It discusses reasons why floods often call us by surprise.

This is main research focus at the moment, one of the central themes of my brand new project CO22Water. If you are interested please follow the web page of the project, there will be opportunities to contribute soon.

My presentation "Uncertainty assessment for predictions of natural hazard events and impact" at the workshop "Multi risk models from assessment to validation and implication for decision making" - Bari, June 2024

My presentation "Uncertainty assessment for predictions of natural hazard events and impact" at the workshop "Multi risk models from assessment to validation and implication for decision making", that took place in Bari during June 20-21 2024, is available at the link below.

Thanks a lot for your interest.

Ciao,
Alberto

My presentation at the meeting "80 Years of Hydrology" (Salerno, 23-24 January 2024) titled "Civil protection in Italy: origin, evolution and future perspectives" (in Italian)

My invited presentation (together with Pierluigi Claps and Paola Pagliara) titled "Civil protection in Italy: origin, evolution and future perspectives" (in Italian)  at the meeting "80 Years of Hydrology" (Salerno, January 23-24, 2024) is available for download at the link below.

It is a celebration of the contributions by Fabio Rossi and Lino Versace to civil protection.

Thank you for your interest.

Ciao,
Alberto

My live interview (in Italian) at the TRC TV on megaflood predictability

On November 27 I have been live interviewed by the TV channel TRC. The discussion focused on predictability of megafloods, after the publication of the Nature Geoscience paper  "Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments", authored by Miriam Bertola with a large pool of co-authors.

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

Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto