Hydraulics and Hydrology Group

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.
- 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.


UNDER CONSTRUCTION

"...ora in queste cose,
una grandissima parte di quello che noi chiamiamo naturale,
non è; anzi è piuttosto artificiale:come a dire,
i campi lavorati,
gli alberi e le altre piante educate e disposte in ordine,
i fiumi stretti infra certi termini e indirizzati a certo corso,
e cose simili, non hanno quello stato
nè quella sembianza che avrebbero naturalmente".


Giacomo Leopardi
da "Elogio degli uccelli" in: Operette morali
Milano, 1827

University of Basilicata
Department for Agricultural and Forestry Systems Management Di.T.Ec.
Hydraulics and Hydrology Group
Via dell'Ateneo Lucano
Potenza
Italy 85100


office phone Prof. COPPOLA: +39 0971.206120
office phone Prof. COMEGNA: +39 0971.205429