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Partner 1 (Co-ordinator): department of civil and environmental engineering HYDRAULICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SECTION University of Catania, Italy. The
Department has a long experience in hydrologic modelling and water resource
management. It is involved in the activities of the Italian Group for the
Defence from Hydrogeological Disasters (NGDHD). It has carried out several
studies on topics of public interest (Regional Department of Forestry, Municipal
Water Company, Irrigation District Board). The Institute was involved in recent
years in some study for EEC: -
INCO-DC IC18CT970169 A DSS for mitigation of
drought impacts in Mediterranean regions -
EPOCH-CT90-0028 about drought effects on
vegetation and soil degradation in Mediterranean areas; -
EUROFLOOD II-EV5V-CT93-0296 about improvement of
understanding of the causes, impacts and responses to flood hazard in European
countries. -
POP Sicily 1990/93 Project Water Resources,
Module A34 on water supply management under drought conditions. Coordinator: Prof. Giuseppe ROSSI Full
professor in Hydrology, College of Engineering, University of Catania. Prof Rossi has carried out several studies on drought since 1978, and was
co-ordinator of a NGDHD report on guidelines for emergency plans at regional
level during periods of limited water availability. -
Rossi, G., Ancarani, A., and Cancelliere, A., “A comparison between
neural network approach and multiple regression procedures for deriving
reservoir operation policies”, to appear in Proc.
Int.Conf. on “Water, Environment, Ecology, Socio-economics, and Health
Engineering”, Seoul, October 18-21, 1999. -
Rossi, G., “A comprehensive framework for drought mitigation measures”,
Workshop on Drought and Drought Mitigation
in Europe, JRC-ISPRA, 1999. -
Rossi, G., Benedini, M., Tsakiris, G., and Giakoumakis, S., “On
regional drought estimation and analysis”, Water
Resources Management, vol. 6, 1992. -
Barbagallo, S., Rossi, G., Tamburino, V., Emergency measures in water
supply systems for alleviating the effects of the 1987-90 drought in Sicily, ICID
XVI European Regional Conference, Budapest, June 1992. Prof. Federico VAGLIASINDI, Ph.D. Associate Professor of
Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Catania. -
Vagliasindi, F.G.A., Benjamin, M., “Arsenic
Removal in Fresh and NOM-preloaded Ion Exchange Packed Bed Adsorption Reactors”.
Water Science and Technology Vol.38, No. 6, pp. 337-343,1998. -
Vagliasindi, F.G.A., Belgiorno, V., e Napoli,
R.M.A., "Water Treatment in Remote and Rural Areas: a Conceptual Screening
Protocol for Appropriate POU/POE Technologies". Environmental Engineering
and Renewable Energy, pp. 329-336, Pergamon Press (1998). -
Mendia, L, Napoli, R.M.A., Vagliasindi, F.G.A.,
“Wastewater Treatment" In: Civil Engineering Hanbook, Edizioni Cremonesi,
1996 (in Italian). -
Vagliasindi, F., Hendricks, D. W., "Wave
Front Behavior in Adsorption Reactors", ASCE Journal of the Environmental
Engineering Division, August 1992. Antonino CANCELLIERE, M.S. Researcher, College of
Engineering, University of Catania; Expert in Hydrology Statistics. -
Cancelliere, A., Ancarani, A., Rossi, G.,
“Distribuzioni di probabilità delle caratteristiche di siccità” (Probability
distribution of drought characteristics), Proc.
of XXVI Nat.Congr. on Hydraulics and Hydraulic Plants, “Water Engineering and
Sustainable Development”, Catania, September 9-12, 1998 (in Italian). -
Cancelliere, A., Ancarani, A., Rossi, G.,
“Susceptibility of water supply reservoirs to drought conditions”, Journal
of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, vol.102 (4), 1998. -
Cancelliere, A., Rossi, G., Ancarani, A., “Use
of Palmer index as a drought indicator in Mediterranean regions”, Proc.
IAHR African-Division Congr. on From Flood to Drought, Sun City (South
Africa), 1996. Alessandro ANCARANI, engineer Contract
Researcher, College of Engineering, University of Catania; Expert in water
resource management. -
Ancarani, A., Rossi, G., Cancelliere, A., “Assessment of the effects
of different drought mitigation measures on a complex water supply system”, to
appear in Proc. Int. Conf. on “Water,
Environment, Ecology, Socio-economics, and Health Engineering”, Seoul,
October 18-21, 1999. -
Ristori, C., Barbaro, A., Del Carlo, C.,
Martini, M., Ancarani,
A., “A potentiometric method for the detection of pesticides in water
samples”, Analitica Chimica Acta,
325, 1996. Rossi, G., Ancarani, A., and Cancelliere, A., “ Water
supply systems management under drought conditions: the role of mathematical
models", IIIGA, Università
di Catania, Catania, 1995 (in Italian). |