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My presentation at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society "Pandemics, geopolitics, economic inflation and water resources management"" (in Italian)

My presentation "Pandemics, geopolitics, economic inflation and water resources management" (in Italian) at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society is available for download at the link below. It's a new interdisciplinary adventure stimulated by the awareness that water resources management is driven by forcings related to political economy.

Thank you for your interest.

Ciao,
Alberto 

My poster contribution "Why the 2022 drought in the Po River is the worst ever" (in Italian) at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society

My poster contribution titled "Why the 2022 drought in the Po River is the worst ever" (in Italian) presented at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society is available for download at the link below.

Thanks for your interest!

Best,
Alberto

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.

Article on Nature Italy and press coverage on the 2022 drought along the Po River

Nature Italy published an article by Ginevra Chelli titled "Po river drought in 2022 was the worst of the last two centuries", that comments on the results presented in the paper ""Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries" published in Science Advances, by myself, Hung Nguyen, Sara Rubinetti, Serena Ceola, Stefano Galelli, Angelo Rubino and Davide Zanchettin.

The paper was widely commented by the press. Please see:

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My presentation at the Mediterranean Ph.D School on Impacts of Climate Change and Sustainable Engineering Responses titled "Climate Change and Floods"

My presentation at the Short Mediterranean Ph.D School on Impacts of Climate Change and Sustainable Engineering Responses (Naples, October 7-11, 2019) is available at the link below.

The title is "Climate change and floods".

Thank you for your interest.
Best,
Alberto

Scientific paper published on Nature: "Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods"

I had the opportunity to participate, together with Attilio Castellarin and several other researchers, to a study conducted by a team at the Technical University of Wien on trends of floods frequency in Europe.

Data from numerous measurement stations all across Europe have been evaluated. The data shows that magnitude of flood events is changing with different patterns in different regions.

IAHS-WMO-UNESCO Dooge Medal Lecture: "To change or not to change, that is the question" - Montreal, July 12, 2019

I had the great honor to be awarded the Dooge Medal by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UNESCO. The award ceremony took place in Montreal, during the 2019 IUGG General Assembly, on July 12, 2019.

Scientific paper "Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective"

The scientific paper "Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective" is available here.
The paper is open access and therefore it can be freely downloaded. It presents a community effort to identify research questions for the hydrological community. They have been identified with a community endeavor. Of course these questions are far from being exhaustive, but they provide a very good picture of current emerging issues.

My presentation at the Ministry of Environment (June 27, 2019) titled "Integrating "nature based" solutions and structural interventions for adapting to climate change" (in Italian)

My presentation at the workshop "Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio Alluvioni – Governance del territorio e contributo del mondo scientifico" (in Italian, Roma, Ministry of the Environment, June 27, 2019) titled "Integrating "nature based" solutions and structural interventions for adapting to climate change" (in Italian) is available for download at the link below.

See also my lecture to students on the same topic (in Italian).

Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto