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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

Lecture notes for Climate Change Adaptation (Floods and Water Resources in a Changing Climate) 2024

Climate Change Adaptation (Floods and Water Resources in a Changing Climate for student of physics) 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 with 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 designing climate resilient environmental systems in the presence of human impact.

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

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Tutorials of Coastal Engineering - 2021

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.

Tutorials of Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems - 2021

Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems is concentrating on the management of water resources in the presence of increasing anthropogenic pressure and climate change. 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.

Tutorials of Harbour Engineering - 2021

The course on Harbour Engineering focuses on design of harbors and coast management. The part of course that I am teaching counts 32 hours of lectures. The teacher will make extensive use of interactivity, with the options illustrated below. Lectures include about 6 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. Students are kindly advised to speak with me if bringing their own personal computer turns out to be not possible.

Tutorials of Science of Climate Change and Climate Actions 2021

"Science of Climate Change and Climate Actions" is a new soft skill course at the University of Bologna. It will be taught in English for a total of 24 hours (3 credits) in the second semester, by me and other expert colleagues from other Departments. Details are given here. Access is given to a maximum number of 200 students. The study plan is as follows:

Tutorials of Mountain Rivers Training (Costruzioni Idrauliche M - 2020-2021 - 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 - 2020

Sustainable Design of Water Resources System is concentrating on the management of water resources in the presence of increasing anthropogenic pressure and climate change. 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.

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.

 

My presentation at the EGU22 meeting "Uncertainty assessment with Bluecat: Recognising randomness as a fundamental component of physics"

My presentation at the EGU22 meeting titled "Uncertainty assessment with Bluecat: Recognising randomness as a fundamental component of physics" is available at the link below.
Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto

My presentation "Climate change and frequency of hydrometeorological extremes. What solutions?" (in Italian) to the meeting "I Lincei per il clima", Genoa, March 15, 2022

My presentation at the meeting "I Lincei per il clima", Genoa, March 15, 2022 is available for download at the link below. The title is "Climate change and frequency of hydrometeorological extremes. What solutions?", it is in Italian and addressed to students of the high school.
Thank you for your interest.
Best,
Alberto

My presentation at the meeting "Water that will be. Climate change: new challenges and solutions for water supply"

At the link below my presentation at the meeting "Water that will be. Climate change: new challenges and solutions for water supply", held in Bologna on December 14th 2021, can be downloaded. The title is: "Climate change and water: New Scenarios, New engineering, New solutions" (in Italian).
The video of my contribution is available here (from time 33'28").
TV reports on the event are available below (in Italian):

1st Workshop on "Novel hydrological concepts for the engineering practice", Bologna, September 29, 2021

The Workshop "Novel hydrological concepts for the engineering practice" has taken place in Bologna on September 29, 2021. It has been organised to celebrate the degree Honoris Causa in Environmental Engineering that has been awarded by the University of Bologna to Günter Blöschl. The emergency due to COVID19 imposed a severe restriction to the number of attendants and therefore the audience was not large.

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.