A5001275248- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Water resources management and optimization
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Innovations in Aquaponics and Hydroponics Systems
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Data Analysis with R
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Research Data Management Practices
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
Politecnico di Milano
2021-2023
Technische Universität Berlin
2015-2022
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
2015
The Mediterranean region faces critical challenges related to land degradation, requiring innovative and harmonized approaches for assessment restoration. To address these challenges, the Land Degradation Decision-Support Toolbox (LanDS) has been developed as part of REACT4MED project (https://react4med.eu/), funded by PRIMA (https://prima-med.org/). LanDS serves a comprehensive adaptable platform designed evaluate degradation assess impacts restoration measures across diverse contexts.LanDS...
How can we scale local knowledge and sustainable solutions to broader territories without losing their contextual relevance? Land degradation is a pressing issue in the Mediterranean, where diverse environmental socio-economic conditions exacerbate its impacts. While bottom-up approaches excel leveraging existing skills, knowledge, practical problem-solving, results often remain tied specific territorial contexts. The challenge lies generalising extending these insights new regions, enabling...
Large flow-through reservoirs and lakes possess environmental gradients monitoring programs are mostly adapted for cost time effectiveness. Bay areas often more isolated from the main water body likely to have unobserved different processes impacts. This study was performed at Itaparica Reservoir, São Francisco River, located in semi-arid Northeast Brazil, with dendritic form. Water residence Icó-Mandantes estimated by hydrodynamic flow transport simulations. The P-chlorophyll a relationship...
Finfish aquaculture in net cages is widely used Brazilian reservoirs, mainly for tilapia production.There a large and increasing potential production the São Francisco river basin, particularly Itaparica reservoir.Tilapia amounts to 24,000 t y -1 , with licensed amount of 43,267 .This intensive fish responsible significant biological oxygen demand, phosphorus nitrogen load on reservoir, which promotes eutrophication.Particulate organic matter released from accumulates beneath cages, minimum...
Hydrodynamics and transport simulations were conducted with the modeling software TELEMAC-2D on Icó-Mandantes bay, a branch of Itaparica reservoir. The bay has maximal operational water level amplitude 5 m is suffering from eutrophication algae bloom. Therefore, we investigated low high scenarios two different resolution meshes, purpose to deeper understand their impact substances improve watershed management. In particular, nutrient emissions hypothetical net cage aquaculture system located...
Abstract The hydropower production, water supply and aquaculture services of the Itaparica Reservoir are immense importance for Brazilian Northeast. Uncontrolled resources consumption (e.g. irrigation, supply), climate land use change effects deteriorated quantity quality in reservoir, leading to socio-economic environmental problems. In this work, a depth-averaged shallow model was set up Icó-Mandantes Bay, one major branch using open TELEMAC-MASCARET system. aim assess impacts newly built...
The Icó-Mandantes Bay is one of the major branches Itaparica Reservoir (Sub-Middle São Francisco River, Northeast Brazil) and focus this study. Besides harmful algae blooms (HAB) a severe prolonged drought, bay has strategic importance—e.g., eastern channel newly built water diversion will withdraw from it (drinking water). This article presents implementation three-dimensional (3D) numerical model—pioneering for region—using TELEMAC-3D. aim was to investigate 3D flows induced by moderate or...
Abstract Eutrophication problem in El Gouna shallow artificial coastal lagoons Egypt was investigated using 2D TELEMAC-EUTRO-WAQTEL module. Eight reactive components were presented, among them dissolved oxygen (DO), phosphorus, nitrogen, and phytoplankton biomass (PHY). The effect of warmer surface water on the eutrophication investigated. Also, spatial temporal variability analyzed considering different weather conditions: tide wave, wind speeds directions. Moreover, pollution from a nearby...
To provide the water demand, river transfer per canal is a common practice in Brazilian northeast.The Sertão Alagoano Canal takes from São Francisco river, into Apolônio Sales reservoir, to supply towns of state Alagoas.This research was designed analyze evolution physico-chemical parameters (temperature, pH, turbidity, conductivity, hardness, sulfates, chlorides, total nitrogen and phosphorus) over initial 29 km canal.Samples were taken during dry season at 10 points.Through non-parametric...
Abstract Reservoirs are used in the Brazilian semiarid for human supply, power generation, irrigated agriculture and more recently, intensive fish farming, Sobradinho reservoir being largest of this region. In last decade, region has suffered a strong drought, opposite direction to increasing demand multiple water uses. The present work aims study spatial-temporal variation quality two reservoirs (Sobradinho Itaparica reservoirs). For this, samples were collected dry wet periods between 2011...
More than half of the human population currently lives in urban areas and according to United Nations, cities will be living space an additional 2.5 billion people by year 2050 (UN, 2015b). The proportion speed this growth increase pressure on water resources, is often seen negatively. However, challenge can also a chance substantially improve quality life areas, if we consider how want live tomorrow actively shape our future. As group interdisciplinary young scientists authoring current...
How to create an impact on policies, operations, and society across the interdisciplinary sectors in which we - as researchers are involved? Managing Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus pursuing climate resilience is core task of several European (EU) projects highest interests our society. The Commission’s research funding programs attempt address a large range topics offer unique opportunities for scientists tangible environment We currently involved different EU projects,...
Arid and semi-arid regions such as the Middle East North Africa are increasingly suffering from water scarcity, exacerbated by climate change population growth. This trend calls for new strategies managing demand supply to face global changes in social-economic development, system expansions, cross-border differences.In this work, we explore potential mitigate existing conflicts over Nile River Basin, interconnecting using novel technological solutions, desalination aquaponics, combined with...
Twenty-six young scientists, mainly from Germany and Brazil, participated in the workshop “How do we want to live tomorrow?” identified four central research topics: a) integrated watershed management urban regions, b) sustainable sanitation rainwater management, c) micropollutants d) information flow people’s involvement.