Hydraulics and Hydrology Group

Antonio COPPOLA, Associate Professor
Agricultural and Forestry Hydraulics
Dept. DITEC, Università of Basilicata

Current research focuses on measuring
and modeling water and solute transport in unsaturated heterogeneous
and layered porous media. Specific topics include:

• Modeling water flow in soils with bimodal pore size distribution;
• Measuring and modeling nitrogen and pesticide
• leaching in the vadose zone;
• Upscaling of soil hydrological parameterizations;
• Modeling overland flow at basin scale;
• Evaluating effects of marginal water
• resources on soil hydrological behavior;
• Assessing groundwater vulnerability at basin scale.

Vincenzo COMEGNA, Full Professor
Agricultural and Forestry Hydraulics
Dept. DITEC, Università of Basilicata

Current research focuses on measuring water and solute transport in unsaturated heterogeneous media. Specific topics include:

• STAR models for soil water status analysis;
• Translating environmental xenobiothics fate models across scales;
• Flow and entrapment of nonaqueous phase liquids in heterogenous porous media;
• Measuring principal controls on free trace metal concentrations in soil solutions;
• Using fractal models for upscaling from the soil core to the field scale.

Alessandro Comegna, Engineer
Agricultural and Forestry Hydraulics
Dept. DITEC, Università of Basilicata

Current research focuses on measuring water and solute transport
in unsaturated heterogeneous media. Specific topics include:

• Water and solute transport in heterogeneous porous media;
• Spatial variability of soil hydraulic properties;
• Water quality management;
• Reusing of waste water in agricultural irrigation;
• Remediation of contaminated soils by heavy metal.