Profile series: Antonio Annis (he/him)

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Young Hydrologic Society

Let’s get the basics. Name, where you are from, and your current affiliation/ advisor and profile?

I’m Antonio Annis, from Italy, currently CEO and Co-founder of GRIDDIT Srl and research fellow at the Water Resources Research and Documentation Center (WARREDOC) at Università per Stranieri di Perugia. My advisor and partner in the Company is Prof. Fernando Nardi.

What is the research you are currently working on?

My main activities are:

  1. Hydrogeomorphic models and scaling laws for floodplain mapping,
  2.  Integration of satellite data and Crowdsourced observations in data assimilation frameworks for near real time flood forecasting,
  3.  Multilayer green roofs for urban flood risk mitigation, and
  4. Supporting the coordination of a European project focused on the Water-Energy-Food Ecosystem. In parallel, I’m also carrying on activities related to the development of the services related to the GRIDDIT Startup. We are developing a web service related to hydro-meteo risks and their socio-economic impacts.
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Nicholas Kinar: An Inspiring Hydrologist Behind the Hydrology Paper of the Day Twitter page!

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Young Hydrologic Society

–contribution by Navid Ghajarnia (NG) to Hallway Conversations (HC)

Dr. Nicholas J. Kinar (NK) is the Assistant Director of the Smart Water Systems Laboratory at University of Saskatchewan with the Global Institute for Water Security. Many hydrologists know Nicholas from his Twitter page, Hydrology Paper of the Day (@KinarNicholas)! At YHS, we decided to have a Hallway Conversation with Nicholas to get to know him better and to introduce him from a different perspective to the hydrology society. During the interview, he was kind, enthusiastic and full of positive energy! Read this interview and you’ll get a new perspective and a warm feeling when you read Hydrology Paper of the Day on Twitter from now on!

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Profile Series: Francesco Avanzi

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Young Hydrologic Society

Let’s get the basics. Name, where you are from, and your current affiliation, advisor and profile?

My name is Francesco Avanzi and I am from Milan, Italy. I earned my PhD in snow hydrology and physics as the Politecnico di Milano, with visiting periods in Switzerland and Japan. After a postdoc at UC Berkeley (CA), I am now back to my home country and work at CIMA Research Foundation, an applied-research center focusing on civil protection, disaster mitigation, and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems conservation.

What is the research you are currently working on (projects/funding/teaching)?

I contribute to CIMA’s mountain-hydrology research, meaning that most – if not all – CIMA projects related to snow, glaciers, and mountains in general are on my agenda. My duties include developing and deploying operational flood- and water-resources forecasting chains, implementing snow and glacier models, validating snow-satellite data products, and formulating new data-assimilation techniques. I also serve with my colleagues as an operational flood forecaster in support of the European Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) and advise undergrad and grad students.

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GEOframe Winter School 2022

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Young Hydrologic Society

The fourth edition of the Winter School on GEOframe-NewAge GWS2022, organised by the University of Trento, will be held online and onsite on 20 – 22 December 2021 and 10 – 14 January 2022.

GEOframe is a system for doing hydrology by computer. By saying that it is a system, we emphasize that it is not a model but an infrastructure that can contain many differentiated modelling solutions (some tens of that) that are built upon models components. This is because GEOframe leverage on the Object Modelling system-framework (v3) that allows to connect modelling components to solve a specific hydrological issue together and having many alternative for its mathematical/numerical description. This infrastructure allows adapting the tools to the problems and not viceversa. GEOframe has been applied to hydrological simulations from the point scale to large catchments as the Blue Nile, and among those is being deployed to the Po river (the largest in Italy) with great detail. GEOframe is open source and built with open source tools.

You can find all the information about the event and the programme at this link.

Click here for registration related information.

The GEOframe crew. 

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IAHS-YHS Workshops at the Great Rivers of Africa Conference in Cotonou, Benin

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Young Hydrologic Society

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Each year the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IASH) which is an association to promote hydrological sciences in the world organizes an event (Assembly, conference, etc.). Thus, during the 4th edition of the international conference on the hydrology of large African rivers in Cotonou, Benin from November 13 to 20, 2021, the IAHS SYSTA awardees, in collaboration with the Young Hydrologic Society (YHS), will organize two workshops for early career scientists (ECS). The aim is to connect ECS attending the conference and stimulate their active participation in the more established hydrological sciences community through workshops on one or more scientific themes in hydrology. In the upcoming Cotonou conference, there will be two workshops on the following themes:

  • The use of open-source data and tools in hydrology (Main organizer Dr. Djan’na Koubodana, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda), and
  • How to write a scientific paper in hydrology (Main organizer, Dr. Kossitse Venyo Akpataku, Université de Kara, Togo).
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