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20810166 -
COASTAL HYDROLOGY
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Coastal Hydrology-B mira a fornire le conoscenze e a sviluppare le competenze necessarie per lo studio e la valutazione del trasporto e trasformazione delle sostanze inquinanti nei corpi idrici superficiali e sotterranei verso le coste, per la valutazione dei conseguenti rischi per la salute umana e la determinazione di interventi di bonifica in ambito costiero e marino. Le conoscenze sono indirizzate allo studio della dinamica dei contaminanti nell’interfaccia costiera, determinata dalle principali forzanti idrologiche ed antropiche. Nel quadro di questo percorso, l’insegnamento si propone di fornire una conoscenza approfondita 1) delle principali fonti di contaminazione del suolo e degli acquiferi, 2) della modellazione dei processi di trasporto di contaminanti, con particolare riferimento all’ambiente costiero, in funzione delle forzanti idrologiche, 3) dei modelli matematici per l’analisi della propagazione del contaminante nei suoli, negli acquiferi e nei corsi d’acqua verso l’ambiente costiero; 5) del concetto di rischio per la salute umana collegato all’utilizzo domestico di acqua contaminata in ambito costiero e marino; 6) delle principali opere di bonifica delle acque superficiali e sotterranee che sfociano nelle coste.
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20810166-1 -
COASTAL HYDROLOGY-COASTAL FLOWS
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Coastal Hydrology - A course introduces the students to surface and subsurface hydrology and provides the modeling skills for solving practical problems dealing with water exchange at the costal boundary.
This course is part of the master's degree program in "Sustainable Coastal and Ocean Engineering", whose objective is to train civil engineers with high professional qualification for development of coastal and marine infrastructures, with an increasing concern towards environmental protection and sustainable development under environmental changing conditions.
Within this framework, the course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of 1) the main physical processes involved in water cycle, 2) the fundamental issues related to water resources use, 3) the measurement and analysis of hydrologic data, 4) the hydrologic modeling of transport in aquifers and vadose zone, 5) the hydrologic modeling of surface processes at the catchment scale, contributing to water exchange across the coastal boundary and through the sea, and 6) the main criteria to develop a complex hydrological model, with specific focus on the interface with coastal and ocean environments.
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VOLPI ELENA
( syllabus)
1: Hydrology and global water cycle
2: Precipitation
3: Evapotranspiration
4: Runoff generation
5: Rainfall-runoff modeling
6: Flood routing
7: Estuaries and estuarine physics
8: Tidal analysis
( reference books)
Dingman, S.L. (2015). Physical Hydrology, Third Edition. Waveland Press, Long Grove, Illinois
Kovalik Z., Luick J.L. (2019). MODERN THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TIDE ANALYSIS AND TIDAL POWER. Austides Consulting, Australia.
Parker, B. B. (2007). Tidal analysis and prediction. NOAA
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FIORI ALDO
( syllabus)
1. Water flow in saturated media; saturated and unsaturated media; conceptual model; types of aquifers; fundamental equations, solutions; scale problem; Dupuit approximation; regional scale equations
2. Water flow in saturated media: Regional-scale equations; boundary conditions; modeling protocol; Wells
3. Supply from wells; well hydraulics; Methods of estimating hydrogeological parameters; groundwater pumping tests; flow in unsaturated media: flow equations; pedofunctions;
4. Flow in unsaturated media: loss analysis; calculation of infiltration
5. Introduction to MODFLOW and MODELMUSE: installation, basic operation
6. Examples: coastal aquifer, boundary conditions: constant head, general head Boundary, packages: lateral recharge, rain, wells, river
( reference books)
Handsout by the lecturer
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6
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ICAR/02
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54
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20810166-2 -
COASTAL HYDROLOGY-COASTAL CONTAMINANTS
(objectives)
The course Coastal Hydrology - B is part of the master's degree program in "Sustainable Coastal and Ocean Engineering", whose objective is to train civil engineers with high professional qualification for development of coastal and marine infrastructures, with an increasing concern towards environmental protection and sustainable development under environmental changing conditions.
Within this framework the course Coastal Hydrology - B aims at the developing of a new scientific and technological awareness in the field of water quality protection in complex coastal environments, characterized by increasing anthropogenic pressure and a dynamic equilibrium between fresh and salty water. The Students will be trained within a program focused in specific problems of coastal environments, such as the aquifers salinization and the contamination of environmental matrices. A depth knowledge in this field will be provided by studying 1) the interface dynamics between continental and marine waters; 2) the main sources of anthropogenic contamination in coastal environments; 3) the contaminants transport processes through the hydrological water cycle and the coastal interface; 4) the concepts of vulnerability of risk in coastal areas; 5) the main design techniques for the protection of surface, ground- and marine waters and the restoration of contaminated sites.
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ZARLENGA ANTONIO
( syllabus)
1. Introduction to the contamination problem, Contaminant Classification
2. Basic transport mechanisms in GW - ADE
3. Introduction to reactive transport, Sorbing solutes
4. Multi-Phase Flow, NAPL
5. Remediation techniques
6. Coastal GW systems, seawater intrusion
7. Governing equation (variable density flow)
8. SWI approach, analytical solution, application examples
9. Land reclamation introduction and application example with SWI solutions
( reference books)
Contaminant Hydrogeology
C.W. Fetter, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1999.
ISBN 10: 0137512155 / ISBN 13: 9780137512157
Coastal Hydrogeology
J. Jiao, V. Post, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-107-03059-6
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6
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ICAR/02
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54
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20810167 -
MARINE SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
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Providing students with notions about the environmental impacts related to anthropic activities, classifying and describing the impacts, also illustrating the sustainability concept, and describing environmental impact assessment procedures and environmental certification protocols. Describing the Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations 2030 Agenda. Illustrating the concept of environmental footprint (carbon and water footprint) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Describing the Green Economy sectors, with regard to renewable energy sources and sustainable transport, and the related energy, environmental and economic effects. Illustrating, by means of significant case studies, examples of environmental impact assessment and impact mitigation, with special regard to marine and coastal applications.
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EVANGELISTI LUCA
( syllabus)
Topics covered in the course
Basics of thermodynamics, heat transmission, acoustics and lighting.
Sustainable movement, population and prosperity, climate change, comparison between energy efficiency and renewable energy, renewable and non-renewable energy resources, basic theory of the atmosphere, adiabatic temperature gradient.
Introduction to the concept of sustainability: history of sustainability and sustainable development, the pillars of sustainability and the 2030 Agenda.
Environmental sustainability indicators: general information, PSR and DPISR models, common European indicators, Global Warming Potential and CO2 equivalent. Ecological Footprint, Carbon Footprint, Life Cycle Analysis, Water Footprint.
Environmental impact of energy systems: types of polluting emissions, main smoke treatment techniques and environmental impacts of renewable energy technologies.
Global pollution phenomena: acid rain, ozone and the greenhouse effect.
Environmental impact assessment: legislation, procedures, methodologies, contents and phases.
Air pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, light pollution and pollution of the seas.
Green Buildings.
Sustainable energy: energy from the sun, energy from the wind, energy from the sea, energy from the earth and biomass.
( reference books)
Educational material provided by the professor
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ING-IND/11
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54
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20810168 -
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND BIO-RESOURCES
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The aim is to provide basic notions on ecology with specific reference to marine ecosystems. It provides the basic tools to evaluate the nature and the extend of anthropogenic and climate change disturbances to the environment, and to formulate specific actions aimed at the management, planning and conservation of marine resources. Basic ideas on bio-resources and bioremediation will also be provided.
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Riccieri Alessandra
( syllabus)
Basic notions of marine ecology: definition of ecosystem; structure and function of a marine ecosystem; definition of biodiversity; definition of community, species and population; interspecific interactions; definition of ecological niche; trophic chains; ecological pyramids; energy flows; notes on the cycles of oxygen and carbon; organisms adaptations to the marine environment; life cycles of marine organisms.
Animal and Plant biodiversity in marine and coastal environments in relation to the ecological category to which they belong (Plankton, Necton, Benthos), with particular focus on the Mediterranean Sea. Insights on Porifera, Cnidarians, Molluscs, Annelids, Crustaceans and Vertebrate Chordates.
Insights on: Coral reefs, Mangroves, Posidonia meadows, Polar seas.
Applied marine ecology and anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems: plastic pollution; oil rigs; oil pollution; wind farms; coastal infrastructures (ports, bathhouses, piers, breakwaters etc.); maritime traffic; noise pollution; construction of transoceanic canals; alien species (eg Lessepsian elements, ballast water, etc.); pisciculture; overexploitation; eutrophication of waters; toxic algal blooms; biomagnification; climate changes; ocean acidification; meridionalization and tropicalization.
Conservation of marine ecosystems; bioremediation.
( reference books)
Danovaro (2019). Biologia marina. Biodiversità e funzionamento degli ecosistemi marini, UTET Università, Bologna
Castro and Huber (2019). Marine Biology. 11th Edition, McGraw Hill Education
Levinton (2021). Marine Biology. 6th Edition, Oxford University Press
Trainito and Baldacconi (2021). Atlante di Flora e Fauna del Mediterraneo - Guida alla biodiversità degli ambienti marini. Il Castello
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5
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BIO/05
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45
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20810175 -
MARITIME POLICIES AND BLUE ECONOMY
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The course aims to provide fundamental knowledge on the environmental laws, both at national and transnational level., on international policies for the marine environment protection, such as the Common Fisheries Policy, the Water Framework Directive, the EU Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and in general the Integrated maritime policy. Further knowledge on the main international programs for the marine environment such as the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the consequent Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) are provided. Also basic knowledge on blue economy is introduced. After the course students will be able of recognizing and applying the laws and the recommendations to be used in the solution of the engineering problems related to the coast and to the ocean and will be able of individuating and developing blue growth opportunities.
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5
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IUS/10
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45
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