News

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

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Teaching

Tutorials of Mountain Rivers Training (Costruzioni Idrauliche M - 2019-2020 - in Italian)

Web site providing information, tutorials and videos for the master degree course on Mountain Rivers Training. The web page is in Italian.

 

 

Questa pagina internet mette a disposizione degli studenti le informazioni ed il materiale di supporto per l'insegnamento (1 modulo, 6 crediti formativi universitari) di Costruzioni Idrauliche M indirizzato agli studenti dell'Università di Bologna.

 

Tutorials of Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems - 2019

Sustainable Design of Water Resources System is a subject included in the study plan of the master degree programs in Civil Engineering and Earth Resources Engineering at the University of Bologna. 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.

Master degree course on Mountain Rivers Training (2018-2019) (in Italian)

Web site providing information, tutorials and videos for the master degree course on Mountain Rivers Training. The web page is in Italian.

Questa pagina internet mette a disposizione degli studenti le informazioni ed il materiale di supporto per l'insegnamento (1 modulo, 6 crediti formativi universitari) di Costruzioni Idrauliche M indirizzato agli studenti dell'Università di Bologna.

Tutorials of Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems - 2018

Sustainable Design of Water Resources System is a subject included in the study plan of the master degree programs in Civil Engineering and Earth Resources Engineering at the University of Bologna. 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.

Research

My presentation (in Italian) to the "Hydrology Days 2021" titled "Bluecat: Un metodo innovativo per studiare l’incertezza di previsioni di deflussi fluviali", Naples October 1, 2021

My presentation to the Hydrology Days 2021 (Naples, September 30 and October 1st, 2021) is available for download at the link below. The title is "Bluecat: Un metodo innovativo per studiare l’incertezza di previsioni di deflussi fluviali". It is the first presentation of Bluecat in the Italian language.
Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto

The Bluecat Home Page

Bluecat is a new method that Demetris Koutsoyiannis and myself recently proposed to estimate uncertainty of hydrological predictions. Bluecat comes with an open source and user friendly software to support its application. The original idea was elaborated by Demetris during his stay in Bologna in 2019. Formalisation of the method and software preparation were as all of my working hours from February 2020 to May 2021 were absorbed by the management of the COVID19 emergency in the academia.

My presentation at the meeting "Towards an institutional agremeent for water: the perspectives of stakeholders" (in Italian).

My presentation at the meeting "Towards an institutional agreement for water: the perspectives of stakeholders" (in Italian), titled: "Three priorities for water governance" is available at the link below.
Thank you for your interest.
All the best,
Alberto

My presentation (with video) at the SAgE PGR Conference (Newcastle, July 7, 2021) titled: "Water Resources and Sustainability under Climate Change"

My invited presentation at the SAgE PGR Conference (Newcastle, July 7, 2021) titled: "Water Resources and Sustainability under Climate Change" is available for download at the link below. The video of my presentation is available here. Thank you for your interest. Best, Alberto

My presentation at the webinar "Climate change: hydrologic and hydraulic impacts" titled "Generation of tecnical scenarios of future climate for studying extreme events in the presence of climate change", June 17, 2021

My presentation at the webinar "Climate change: hydrologic and hydraulic impacts" organised by the Foir and the Italian Hydrotecnical Association and held on June 17, 2021 is available at the link below. The title is "Generation of tecnical scenarios of future climate for studying extreme events in the presence of climate change".
Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto

My presentation "Future climatic scenario for the design of climate change adaptation strategies" (in Italian) delivered at the webinar "Characterisation of failures in water distribution network and sensitivity analysis"

My presentation "Future climatic scenario for the design of climate change adaptation strategies" (in Italian) delivered at the webinar "Characterisation of failures in water distribution network and sensitivity analysis" is available for download at the link below.

Thank you.
Alberto

The video of the presentation (in Italian)

My memory of Prof. Fabio Rossi presented to the "Memorial of Prof. Fabio Rossi" - February 22, 2021 (in Italian)

 have had the honor to present my memory of Prof. Fabio Rossi, who recently passed away, to his memorial organised by the "Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica". My presentation is available for download at the link below. Its title is: "Fabio Rossi: l'impersonificazione dell'idrologia quale scienza ingegneristica" (in Italian).
Thank you very much for the invitation and your interest.
Best,
Alberto

My talk at the inaugural day of the PhD programme on "Future Earth, climate change and societal challenges"

My presentation at the inaugural day of the PhD programme on "Future Earth, climate change and societal challenges" (University of Bologna) is available for download at the link below. The title of my talk is "Taking a wide perspective". It gives some advice to PhD students to plan their research activity.
Thank you for your interest.
All the best,
Alberto

My presentations at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting 2020

My presentations at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting titled:

can be downloaded by clicking on the above links. They discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the scientific community. Thank you for your interest.

Best,
Alberto

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