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Personal

Salvatore Manfreda

Data of birth: 8/8/1976, Potenza, Italy

Status: married with two children

 

Languages

Italian and English.

Department Address

Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Fisica dell'Ambiente (DIFA), 

Università degli Studi della Basilicata,

via dell'Ateneo Lucano, 10, 85100

Potenza (ITA)

2001               Erasmus student at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.

2001               Degree in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics) cum laude at the University of Basilicata, Italy.

2003-2004       Visiting Technical Staff at the Princeton University, USA.

2004               Doctor of Philosophy, University of Basilicata, Italy.

2004-2005       Research Associate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University.

2005-2008       Research Associate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Basilicata.

2008-present   Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Basilicata.

Professional & Service Activities 

2005 - present          Reviewer of the Water Resources Research (WRR-AGU).

2005 - present          Reviewer of the Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier).

2005 - present          Reviewer of the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS-EGU).

2005 - present          Reviewer of the Journal of Spatial Hydrology (ASHU).

2007 - present          Reviewer of the Geophysical Research Letters  (GRL-AGU).

2008 - present          Reviewer of the Geography Compass  (Blackwell).

2008 - present          Reviewer of the Annals of Forest Science (EDP).

2008 - present          Reviewer of the Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS-EGU).

2009 - present          Reviewer of the Water (Molecular Diversity Preservation International - MDPI).

2009 - present          Reviewer of the Land Degradation (Wiley).

2010 - present          Reviewer of the Fresenius Environmental Bulletin (Parlar Scientific Publications -PSP).

2010 - present          Reviewer of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE).

2010 - present          Reviewer of the Hydrology Research (IWA publishing).

2010 - present          Reviewer of the Hydrogeology Journal (Springer).

2007-2008                Guest Editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences for the Special Issue on "Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological-hydrological processes".

2007 - present          Member of the EGU Sub-Division Committee on Estuaries, Wetlands & Eco-Hydrology.

2008 - present          Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Ecohydrology (Wiley).

2010                        Editor of the Special Issue on "Coupled Ecological-Hydrological Processes" on Ecohydrology.

2010 - 2012              Member of the AGU Hydrology Section Surface Ecohydrology Technical Committee.

Meetings

2005                     Convener of the session "Temporal and Spatial Variability in Coupled Ecological-Hydrological Processes", with Kelly Caylor e Paul Rich, Fall meeting AGU 2005.

2007                     Convener of the session "Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological-hydrological processes", with Nicola Montaldo, Murugesu Sivapalan, Vito Iacobellis, Harald Kunstmann and Dan Rosbjerg, General Assembly EGU, Vienna 2007.

2008                     Convener of the session "HS7.1 Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological-hydrological processes", with Nicola Montaldo, Murugesu Sivapalan, Vito Iacobellis, General Assembly EGU, Vienna 2008.

2008                     Convener of the session "NH9.7 The Management of Combined Extreme Events", with Francesco Sdao, Aurelia Sole, Allen Bateman, General Assembly EGU, Vienna 2008.

2009                     Convener of the session "Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological-hydrological processes", with Nicola Montaldo, Murugesu Sivapalan, Vito Iacobellis, Keith Smettem, General Assembly EGU, Vienna 2009.

2010                     Scientific Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 10” within 2010 International Conference on Computationa Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2010) March 23th to March 26th, 2010, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan.

2010                     Convener of the session "Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological-hydrological processes", with Nicola Montaldo, Murugesu Sivapalan, Vito Iacobellis, Keith Smettem, General Assembly EGU, Vienna 2010.

2011                     Coconvener of the session "Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological-hydrological processes", with Keith Smettem, Nicola Montaldo, Murugesu Sivapalan, Vito Iacobellis, General Assembly EGU, Vienna 2011.

Professional Society Memberships

2002 - present Member of the European Geophysical Society (EGS).

2003 - present Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

2004 - present Member of the New York Academy of Science (NYAS).

2005 - present Member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).

2007 - present Member of the Italian Hydrotechnical Association (IIA).

Honors and Awards

2002                      Prize of degree Avv. Eriberto Schettini of the Lions Club Potenza Host.

2005                      Member of the Scientific Academy “Gianfranco Merli”.

Teaching Experience

2004/08              Teaching assistant at the faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Basilicata in: Hydrology, Hydrology of Extremes, Water Resources Management and Hydraulic Constructions.

2004                  Teaching assistant for the courses of “Hydrology of Drought” and “Hydrology of Floods” for the Master Degree in “Engineering of Environmental Risks”.

2006-present          Course of "Ecohydrology" at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza  (PZ).

2006/07                  Course of "Water Saving Technology for Irrigation", Consorzio Consulting, Noci (BA).

2007-present          Course of "Water Management", Master in Sustainable Agriculture, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), Chania, Greece.

2008                      Course of "Ecology", Archè, Potenza (PZ).

2008                      Course of "Hydrology", Archè, Potenza (PZ).

2009-present          Course of "Engineering Methods for Irrigation" at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza  (PZ).

2008/09                  Course of "Stochastic Differential Equations in Hydrology" at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza  (PZ).

2008/09                  Course of "Regional water balance: investigation, surface water hydrology and groundwater hydraulics and management” with Dr. Ivan Portoghese at the MAIB (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari).

2010                      Lecture at the Summer school Advances in Ecohydrology held at the University of Palermo, 14 – 18 June 2010.

PARTICIPATIONS IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

2009-11                  COSMO-SkyMed AO Project: "Use of COSMO-SkyMed SAR data for landcover classification and surface parameters retrieval over agricultural sites" coordinato da F. Mattia (CNR - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione).

2009-10                  "METODI STATISTICI PER LA STIMA DELLA PORTATA AL COLMO DI PIENA", con il Dipartimento di Difesa del Suolo dell'Università della Calabria per l'Autorità di Bacino Regionale della Calabria.

2007-09                  PRIN "Relazioni tra processi idrologici e caratteristiche fisiche e climatiche del territorio alla scala regionale e di bacino", coordinator Prof. P. Claps.

2006-07                  MEDDMAN project Integrated water resources management, development and confrontation of common and transnational methodologies for combating drought within the MEDOCC region - coordinator Prof. A. Sole.

2005-07                  PRIN "Valorizzazione dell'informazione territoriale e climatica per la stima di portate fluviali caratteristiche in bacini non strumentati", coordinator  Prof. P. Claps.

2004-05                  Space-time Variability of Soil Moisture of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (Princeton University and NOAA), coordinator  Prof. I. Rodríguez-Iturbe.

2003-05                  PRIN: Sperimentazione idrologica a scala di bacino per la valutazione d'impatto delle dinamiche clima-suolo-vegetazione sui processi idrologici di base ed estremi, coordinato dal Prof. M. Fiorentino.

2001-04                  COS(OT) "Osservazione della terra", Prof. V. Cuomo.

2001-03                  PRIN: Interazione Clima-Suolo-Vegetazione e suoi effetti sugli Eventi Idrologici Estremi coordinator Prof. M. Fiorentino.

Most Recent publications

Manfreda, S., V. Iacobellis, M. Fiorentino, Appunti di Idrologia Superficiale, Aracne Editrice, pp176, 2010 (ISBN: 978-88-548-3203-9). [Link]

Manfreda, S., T.M. Scanlon, K.K. Caylor, On the importance of accurate depiction of infiltration processes on modelled soil moisture and vegetation water stress, Ecohydrology, 3, 155–165, 2010.

Manfreda, S., Runoff Generation Dynamics within a Humid River Basin, Natural Hazard and Earth System Sciences, 8, 1349-1357, 2008.

Manfreda, S., M. Fiorentino, A Stochastic Approach for the Description of the Water Balance Dynamics in a River Basin, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 1189-1200, 2008.

Gioia, A., V. Iacobellis, S. Manfreda, M. Fiorentino, Effects of Runoff Thresholds on Flood Frequency Distribution,  Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 5, 903-933, 2008.

Manfreda, S., A. Sole, M. Fiorentino, Can the basin morphology alone provide an insight on floodplain delineation?, on Flood Recovery Innovation and Response (edited by C.A. Brebbia), WITpress, 47-58, 2008.

Sofo, A., S. Manfreda, B. Dichio, M. Fiorentino, C. Xiloyannis, The Olive Tree: a Paradigm for Drought Tolerance in Mediterranean Climates, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 293-301, 2008.

Manfreda, S., M. McCabe, E.F. Wood, M. Fiorentino and I. Rodríguez-Iturbe, Spatial Patterns of Soil Moisture from Distributed Modeling, Advances in Water Resources,  2007.

Fiorentino, M., S. Manfreda, V. Iacobellis, Peak Runoff Contributing Area as Hydrological Signature of the Probability Distribution of Floods, Advances in Water Resources, 2007 (doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2006.11.017).

Manfreda, S., A. Sole, e M. Fiorentino, Valutazione del Pericolo di Allagamento sul Territorio Nazionale mediante un Approccio di Tipo Geomorfologico, L'Acqua, N. 4, pp. 43-54, 2007.

Manfreda, S. and I. Rodríguez-Iturbe, On the Spatial and Temporal Sampling of Soil Moisture Fields, Water Resources Research, 42, W05409, 2006.

Rodríguez-Iturbe, I., V. Isham, D.R. Cox, S. Manfreda, A. Porporato, Space-time modeling of soil moisture: stochastic rainfall forcing with heterogeneous vegetation, Water Resources Research, 42, W06D05, 2006. 

Isham, V., D.R. Cox, I. Rodríguez-Iturbe, A. Porporato, S. Manfreda, Representation of Space-Time Variability of Soil Moisture, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 461(2064), 4035 - 4055, 2005.

Caylor, K.K., S. Manfreda, I. Rodríguez-Iturbe, On the Coupled Geomorphological and Ecohydrological Organization of River Basins, Advances in Water Resources 28(1), 69–86, 2005.

Manfreda, S., M. Fiorentino, V. Iacobellis, DREAM: a Distributed model for Runoff, Evapotranspiration, and Antecedent soil Moisture simulation, Advances in Geosciences, 2, 31–39, 2005.

Scanlon, T.M., K.K. Caylor, S. Manfreda, S.A. Levin, I. Rodríguez-Iturbe, Dynamic Response of Grass Cover to Rainfall Variability: Implications the Function and Persistence of Savanna Ecosystems, Advances in Water Resources, 28(3), 291-302, 2005.