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Languages

Italian and English.

Affiliation

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

Universitŕ degli Studi della Basilicata,

via dell'Ateneo Lucano, 10, 85100

Potenza (ITA)

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

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Basilicata, Italy, 2004.  

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

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

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

Visiting Professor at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (September 2010).

 

Professional & Service Activities 

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

Reviewer of the Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier).

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

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

Reviewer of the Geography Compass  (Blackwell).

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

Reviewer of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE).

Reviewer of the Hydrogeology Journal (Springer).

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

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

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

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

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

Meetings

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scientific Committee of the first Summer School on Monitoring and Modeling Surface Hydrological Processes, University of Basilicata, Marsico Nuovo, 27 june- 1july, 2011.

 

Professional Society Memberships

Member of the European Geophysical Society (EGS).

Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Member of the New York Academy of Science (NYAS).

Member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).

Member of the Italian Hydrotechnical Association (AII).

Member of the Italian Hydrological Society (SII).

 

Honors and Awards

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

Member of the Scientific Academy “Gianfranco Merli”, 2005.

 

Teaching Experience

Course of "Ecohydrology" at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Basilicata, 2006-present                 .

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

Course of "Water Management", Master in Sustainable Agriculture, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Chania, Greece.  MAICh, 2007-2010.

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

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

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

 

Research Projects

Responsabile scientifico della convenzione dal titolo "OTTIMIZZAZIONE DI MODELLO IDROLOGICO PER LA PREVISIONE DEI DEFLUSSI IN ARRIVO AD UN IMPIANTO IDROELETTRICO", 2011-13.

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), 2009-11.

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

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

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, 2006-07.

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

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

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, 2003-05.       

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

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

                 

Most Recent Publications

MANFREDA, S., T. LACAVA, B. ONORATI, N. PERGOLA, M. DI LEO, M.R. MARGIOTTA, V. TRAMUTOLI, ON THE USE OF AMSU-BASED PRODUCTS FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF SOIL WATER CONTENT AT BASIN SCALE, HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES DISCUSSION, 8, 5319-5353, 2011.

MANFREDA, S., M. DI LEO, A. SOLE, DETECTION OF FLOOD PRONE AREAS USING DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS, JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGIC ENGINEERING, (10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000367), 2011.

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.

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, 30(10), 2145-2150,  2007.

FIORENTINO, M., S. MANFREDA, V. IACOBELLIS, PEAK RUNOFF CONTRIBUTING AREA AS HYDROLOGICAL SIGNATURE OF THE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF FLOODS, ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES, 30(10), 2123-2134, 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.