First name

Maria Costanza

Last name

ANDRENELLI

Birth (date and place)

22 June 1966, Florence (Italy)

Nationality

Italian                  

Address

Office: C.R.A. National Council for Research in Agriculture - Experimental Institute for the Soil Study and Protection

 M. D’Azeglio 30 Square – 50131 Florence (Italy)

tel. +39 055 2491221; fax +39 055 241485

e-mail andrenelli@issds.it

Foreign languages

English: good

French: elementary

University degree

1992 Geological Sciences, University of Florence (Italy), (marks 110/110 with First Class-Honours). The underground water resources of the area between Massa Marittima (Gr) and Chiusdino (SI -Tuscany) Tutor Prof. Giovanni Pranzini  (4 years)

Post-degree specialization

1994 Environmental Impact Assessment, Città di Castello, Perugia, Italy (six months)

PhD course

2001-2004 Water balance under simulated rainfall events, physical and chemical characterization of soils in forest environment; study of vegetation on temporary forest roads, calibration of a rainfall-simulator. Department of Agriculture and Forestry Engineering, University of Florence – Italy, Tutor Prof. M. Falciai and Co-tutor Dott. D. Torri.

Habilitation

1993 II session  Department od geological Science Siena (marks 130/150)

Geological order inscription (date and number)

1996 N°911

Other fellowships

1995-1997 Authority Water And Gas – Prato, Italy (subject: pumping test to obtain hydro-geological parameters of the aquifers, 2 years)

1999-2001 Water Research Institute (IRSA-CNR Rome- Italy (subject: Pollutants behaviour in groundwater , 2 years)

1997        Qualified in II position in the competition promoted by GNDCI (CNR di Perugia) for one scholarship at MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge Massachusetts USA Bringing a Search Project “Connection between landslides and important Meteoric phenomena in the Mediterranean Area”.

Position

Post-doc fellowship

2004-2007 Assessment of the protective function of vegetation with regard to superficial instability phenomena, Experimental Institute for the Soil Study and Protection of Florence – Italy.

Professional geological activities

1990-1999: Collaboration with several geological studies on hydrogeology and geotechnics:

• -Laboratory shear strength tests and executive procedures to determine the soils index parameters.
• -Field experience related to geotechnical and hydro-geological problems

Expertise:

hydrogeological and chemical characteristics of the aquifers

• -Well pumping tests of aquifers;
• -Monitoring net planning for water table;
• - Field and laboratory analysis of groundwater;
• - Geochemical and hydro-geological interpretation of groundwater within the Northern Latium volcanic region.
• -Geostatistics application to the interpretation of water table morphology.
• -Treatment of chemical and physical data by statistical approach (Principal Component Analysis)

Expertise:

hydrological  and chemical properties of soils

• -Field and laboratory tests to determine hydraulic saturated conductivity;
• -Laboratory determination of physical (bulk density, rock fragment content, texture, aggregate stability with turbidimetric methodology) and chemical characteristics of soils (procedure for isolating soil organic matter fractions, nitrogen content).

Teaching activities at universities

• -Hydrogeological protection areas around water wells at the Environmental Engineering Department – Prato - Italy;
• -Forest Hydrology at the Department of Agriculture and Forestry Engineering, University of Florence - Italy
• -Agricultural hydraulics at the Department of Agriculture and Forestry Engineering, University of Florence – Italy

-         Co-tutor for  the following university degree thesis:

1.       Calibration of a rainfall-simulator for forest environment

2.     “Artificial” and natural snow: preliminary results of a survey performed within the Abetone Ski area.

Courses attended

2001 - Geo-pedology (Prof. G. Ferrari; Agricultural Faculty-Florence) Annual course

2001 - Soil chemistry (Prof. Landi; Agricultural Faculty-Florence) Annual course

2001-  Statistics (prof. G.M. Stefanini; Agricultural Faculty-Florence) Annual course

2004 - Soil hydrology I (Federico II University Portici –NA- one week)

2005 - Soil hydrology II (Federico II University Portici –NA- one week)

Visits to international research centres

1991- Department of Fisheries Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Nicosia Cipro (one month)

1992 - Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Of Dhera Dun India (one week)

1992 - Geology Faculty of Dhera Dun India (one week),

2003 - Ghent University, Belgium, (four days)

2004 - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece (one week)

2005 - Agricultural Research Service, US-Geological Survey, Tucson  - Arizona

          - Natural Resources Conservation Service Washington D.C. (one month)

Participations to research projects

2001-2003: Erosive effect of rainfalls and runoff in forest plots and within watershed (MIUR ex 40 %- Department of Agriculture and Forestry Engineering).

2003-2006: Models and indices for a sustainable forest planning (Sub-project 4.3 - Ri.Selv.Italia Project) (ISSDS)

2003-2006: Special project “Conservation and valorisation of the soil resource” financed by the  Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture politics (ISSDS)

2003-2006: Special project “The wild fauna for the valorisation of the agriculture and territory resources.

2006-2007: Collaboration with the School of Natural Resources BioScience – Tucson University for validating a procedure to determine the hydrological soil group.

2003-2007:  Collaboration with the Department of Vegetable Biology (Florence) for studying the evolution of the vegetation on temporary forest trials.

Conferences and seminars

(invited speaker)

2002 - National Conference “The mountain protection”, Assisi 11-12 Dicember 2002

2002 - Seminary “Watershed integrated management” Bari 2 October 2002

2003 - 25 Years of Assessment of erosion, Ghent, Belgium, 22-26 September.

2004 - Eco-Engineering: “The use of vegetation to Improve slope stability” Thessaloniki, Greece, 13-17 September 2004

2006 - SISS Annual Conference “Soil Environment Landscape”, Imola 27-30 June 2006