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MARCO MARANI

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Structure

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale - ICEA

Address

VIA F. MARZOLO, 9 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498275449

E-mail

marco.marani@unipd.it

Marco Marani. Laurea in Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, University of Padova, 1993; PhD in Hydrodynamics, University di Padova, 1997.

Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova 2018-today
Adjunct Professor, Earth and Ocean Sciences Division and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Duke University, USA 2018-today

Research Interests.
Marco Marani’s research interests have spanned flow and transport in the hydrologic cycle, hydro-meteorology, geomorphology, remote sensing, hydrologic drivers of disease vectors. Rainfall, and extremes in particular, have been one of his long-term research interests. With his group he has recently developed an extension of the traditional extreme value theory that relaxes long-standing limiting assumptions and paves the way for non-stationary theories. Applications of this theory now include daily and hourly rainfall, flood peak discharge, hurricane intensity, storm surge levels, and epidemic intensity. A second long-term research focus has been understanding and predicting coastal system dynamics and resilience, particularly in response to climatic and environmental changes. With his group, Marco Marani produced a theory showing that characteristic coastal landforms, such as marshes and tidal flats, arise independently of specific local conditions because they are solutions to general equations expressing soil mass conservation and vegetation dynamics.

Marco Marani has published more than 120 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 5 book chapters, more than 130 abstracts in international conferences and has edited 2 books. H-index is H=44 according to Scopus and H=51 according to Google Scholar. According to the Stanford global peer-reviewed study (Ioannidis et al., 2021) he is in the top 1% among the most influential scientists in the field of Civil and Environmental Engineering (which includes more than 580,000 scientists) and in the top 2% overall.

Recent Research Projects
PI, Center for Climate Change Impacts, Fondazione CARIPARO, Rovigo, 2023-2028.
PI, “Venice 2021”, Venice Water Authority, 2018-2021.
PI, “Optimal Satellite-based Estimation of Extreme Rainfall at the Global Scale”, NASA Earth Science Fellowship, Duke University, 2017-2020
PI, “Modellazione e osservazione delle dinamiche verticali di accrescimento barenale”, CoRiLa (Italy), 2016-2017.

Co-PI, “Watershed, estuarine, and local drivers of coastal marsh establishment and resilience”, NSF, 2016-2019.
Co-PI, “The Direct and Indirect Effect of Plantation Forestry Expansion on Usable Water in the Southeastern US”, NSF, 2014-2018.
Co-ordinator of the research activities towards a morphological management plan for the Venice Lagoon, Venice Water Authority, 2008-2009.

Service and recognitions
Coordinator, National panel for the evaluation of research quality (VQR) for the Civil Engineering Area, National Agency for the Evaluation of Research (ANVUR), 2020-2021.
Coordinator, Water and Geological Risk Engineering Master Program, University of Padova, 2020-
Director, Center for Lagoon Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics, University of Padova, 2019-2021
Elected member, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 2019-
Elected member, Galileian Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts, 2018-

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Publications

1. Hosseini, S. R., Scaioni, M., Marani, M. (2020). Extreme Atlantic Hurricane Probability of Occurrence Through the Metastatistical Extreme Value Distribution. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, vol. 47, ISSN: 1944-8007, doi: 10.1029/2019GL086138 - Articolo in rivista
2. Miniussi A., Marani M., Villarini G. (2020). Metastatistical Extreme Value Distribution applied to floods across the continental United States. ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES, vol. 136, 103498, ISSN: 0309-1708, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103498 - Articolo in rivista
3. Zorzetto E., Marani M. (2020). Extreme value metastatistical analysis of remotely sensed rainfall in ungauged areas: Spatial downscaling and error modelling. ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES, vol. 135, 103483, ISSN: 0309-1708, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103483 - Articolo in rivista
4. Zorzetto, Enrico, Marani, Marco (2019). Downscaling of Rainfall Extremes From Satellite Observations. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH, ISSN: 0043-1397, doi: 10.1029/2018WR022950 - Articolo in rivista
5. Alvise Finotello, Stefano Lanzoni, Massimiliano Ghinassi, Marco Marani, Andrea Rinaldo, Andrea D’Alpaos (2018). Field migration rates of tidal meanders recapitulate fluvial morphodynamics. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, vol. 115, p. 1463-1468, ISSN: 1091-6490, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1711330115 - Articolo in rivista
6. Jianping, Bing, Pengxin, Deng, Xiang, Zhang, Sunyun, Lv, Marani, Marco, Yi, Xiao (2018). Flood coincidence analysis of Poyang Lake and Yangtze River: risk and influencing factors. STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND RISK ASSESSMENT, vol. 32, p. 879-891, ISSN: 1436-3240, doi: 10.1007/s00477-018-1514-4 - Articolo in rivista
7. Manoli Gabriele, Domec Jean-Christophe, Novick Kimberly, Oishi Andrew Christopher, Noormets Asko, Marani Marco, Katul Gabriel (2016). Soil-plant-atmosphere conditions regulating convective cloud formation above southeastern US pine plantations. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, vol. 22, p. 2238-2254, ISSN: 1354-1013, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13221 - Articolo in rivista
8. Zorzetto E., G. Botter, Marani (2016). On the emergence of rainfall extremes from ordinary events. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, vol. 43, p. 8076-8082, ISSN: 1944-8007, doi: 10.1002/2016GL069445 - Articolo in rivista
9. Basso S., Frascati A., Marani M., Schirmer M., Botter G. (2015). Climatic and landscape controls on effective discharge. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, vol. 42, p. 8441-8447, ISSN: 0094-8276, doi: 10.1002/2015GL066014 - Articolo in rivista
10. Bonetti, Sara, MANOLI, GABRIELE, Domec, Jean Christophe, PUTTI, MARIO, MARANI, MARCO, Katul, Gabriel G. (2015). The influence of water table depth and the free atmospheric state on convective rainfall predisposition. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH, vol. 51, p. 2283-2297, ISSN: 0043-1397, doi: 10.1002/2014WR016431 - Articolo in rivista
11. Marani M., Ignaccolo M. (2015). A metastatistical approach to rainfall extremes. ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES, vol. 79, p. 121-126, ISSN: 0309-1708, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.03.001 - Articolo in rivista
12. Marani M., Zanetti S. (2015). Long-term oscillations in rainfall extremes in a 268 year daily time series. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH, vol. 51, p. 639-647, ISSN: 0043-1397, doi: 10.1002/2014WR015885 - Articolo in rivista
13. Marani Marco (2015). Forecasting the response of Earth's surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs. EARTH'S FUTURE, vol. 3, p. 220