Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture, and Forestry (TESAF), University of Padova (UNIPD)
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Description
The Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture, and Forestry (TESAF) of the University of Padova (Italy) was founded in 1987. It is a modern and multidisciplinary university department that is part of one of the oldest universities in the world. Activities are strongly oriented to the study, conservation, effective management and sustainable use of agricultural, forest and natural resources. The departmental structure reflects the range of different types of knowledge that characterize it, including ecology, silviculture, plant pathology, policy and law, agri-food and forest economics and policies, hydrology and water resource management, geomatics, xylology and wood technology, and agricultural and forestry mechanization.
Role :
As part of the EUROSION project, the research team at the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture, and Forestry (TESAF) is responsible for the research activities in the Italian monitoring nodes, where soil erosion by water is assessed under different cropping systems, and leads Task 8.4 (Collaboration with sister projects and other projects). The research team of Department TESAF is also involved in testing and validating new approaches, in communication and dissemination, and in education and training initiatives.
In WP8 - Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation, UNIPD is leading task T8.4 - Collaboration with sister projects and other projects.
Paolo Tarolli
Full professor, project manager at Department TESAF, Task 8.4 leader, Italian MoN leader
Project manager of the EUROSION project at Department TESAF, and participant in several projects such as: PHITO (Horizon EU), TERRACE (ERC H2020). Research interests include digital terrain analysis, earth surface processes analysis, hydro-geomorphology, remote sensing, agricultural landscapes under climate change scenarios, sustainable agriculture to mitigate the impact of weather extremes on soils, heroic agriculture and its heritage preservation.
Giulia Zuecco
Associate professor, Italian MoN Team
Role description and favorite/related topic/area of research: participant in the EUROSION project, Italian MoN Team. Research interests include ecohydrology, hydrological processes and erosion at the hillslope and small catchment scale, tracer hydrology.
Vincenzo D’Agostino
Full professor, Italian MoN Team
Role description and favorite/related topic/area of research: participant in the EUROSION project, Italian MoN Team. Research interests include sediment transport in mountain catchments, hydraulics modeling, debris flow dynamics, river restoration, nature-based solutions applications.