Dr. Marzia Ciampittiello

National Council for Research Water Research Institute
Italy

Abstract Title: Trends in Lake Maggiore floods event (NW Italy) and impacts on macroinvertebrates assemblages

Biography:

Marzia Ciampittiello works since 2001 at Italian National Council of Research, Water research Institute in Verbania, on Lake Maggiore (North-Wester Italy).

The areas of her research concern the hydrology, hydro-morphological aspects of lakes and rivers, climate change and its effects on hydro-morphology and consequently on the quality of aquatic ecosystems and the water resources.

She started to deal with climate change within the EUROLIMPACS project in 2005, delving into the aspect of long time series analyses. Subsequently she developed analysis and statistical models for the evaluation of climate change in the Alpine area and its consequences on aquatic ecosystems and natural hazards.

Since 2007, she has been the Italian national contact person for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60 for the evaluation of the hydro-morphological quality of lakes. In this context she took part in the CEN working group - TC 230/WG 2/TG 5 Water quality for Developing standard method for assessing lake hydromorphology (first standard, 2008-2010) and for Guidance standard on determining the degree of modification of lake hydromorphology (second standard, 2010-2014).

Since 2008 to today she has been responsible for various research projects relating to hydromorphological aspects, climate change and water resources, also providing support to regional, provincial and municipal bodies in relation to her research areas through hydrological analysis, analysis of the impact of climate change on the fluctuation of lake levels, assessments of the impacts of the use of water resources on aquatic ecosystems.

From October 2022 she is part of a CIS working group (CIS Water Scarcity and Droughts) as an Italian representative.

To address the management of water resources taking into account climate change, the quality of aquatic ecosystems and the interrelationships between them, she is deepening the use of system dynamics.

In September 2004 she received the award for best researcher in the environmental field

Research Interest:

Hydrology, meteorology  and climate, fluvial and lacustrine hydro-morphology and hydraulic aspects, environmental sensors