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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.
Tutorials of Science of Climate Change and Climate Actions 2023
"Science of Climate Change and Climate Actions" is a 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. Details are given here. Access is given to a maximum number of 200 students. The study plan is as follows:
Tutorials of Harbour Engineering - 2023
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.
Sixteen suggestions for a career in science (and engineering)
NEW: Courses on Climate Change and Adaptation - Spring 2023
Next Spring I am teaching two courses on climate change and adaptation at the University of Bologna. The courses will be delivered in hybrid mode, that is, in physical presence and streaming (delivery in streaming is pending the approval of the University, please check here for updates. However, video of the lectures will be made promptly available in any case).
The courses are:
Tutorials of Mountain Rivers Training (Costruzioni Idrauliche M - 2022-2023 - in Italian)
Web site providing information, tutorials and videos for the master degree course on Mountain Rivers Training. The web page is in Italian.
Tutorials of Coastal Engineering - 2022-2023
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.
My new website
Since August 15, 2022, my website has been mirrored to a new platform. The new version of the website is mobile friendly and is much more versatile.
The content of the old website is still available at the address https://oldsite1.albertomontanari.it, but please note that its content will not be updated anymore.
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Tutorials of Sustainable Design of Water Resources Systems - 2022
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 - 2022
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.
My presentation at the "Hydrology Days" of the Italian Hydrological Society titled "What water for the future? Engineering design under climate change" (in Italian)
My presentation "What water for the future? Engineering design under climate change" (in Italian) at the Hydrology Days of the Italian Hydrological Society (Genoa 9-11 November 2022).
Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto
My interview at InsolvenzFest 2022 (in Italian) on "There's no water for everybody if the distribution is leaking: history of water debt...."
In September 2022 I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Luisiana Gaita at InsolvenzFest 2022 in Bologna. The interview focused on water resources management in the presence of climate change. In particular our discussion adopted the unusual view of looking at current water issues as a form of "water debt" that we are passing to future generations.
How to write a paper on a high profile scientific journal (in Italian). Talk by Guenter Bloeschl
Here below you can find the video and the presentation of the talk "How to write a paper on a high profile scientific journal" (in Italian), by Guenter Bloeschl. The talk was delivered at the University of Bologna on June 24, 2022. Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto
My presentation at the 2022 IAHS conference "Bluecat: A Local Uncertainty Estimator for Deterministic Simulations and Predictions"
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
Scientific paper: Influence of Urban Areas on Surface Water Loss in the Contiguous United States
The scientific paper "Influence of Urban Areas on Surface Water Loss in the Contiguous United States" has been just published on AGU Advances. It is available open access.
The paper got the AGU Advances Editor's highlight.
Scientific paper: Bluecat: A Local Uncertainty Estimator for Deterministic Simulations and Predictions
The paper "Bluecat: A Local Uncertainty Estimator for Deterministic Simulations and Predictions" has been accepted for publication in Water Resources Research.
The plain language abstract reads as:
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.
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