Young Academics Award 2019
Sustainable Water Management in the Alps
Award-winning theses
The prizes for the Young Academics Award of the Alpine Convention in its 2019 edition have been awarded to:
- Marta Zaniolo (IT): “Design and application of drought indexes in highly regulated water systems”
- Marina Amadori (IT): “Characterisation of transport phenomena in Lake Garda through integrative hydrodynamic and meteorological modelling”
- Gianluca Antonino Vassallo (DE): “Design and development of a living green wall for greywater treatment”
Special Prizes
Additionally, three special prizes have been awarded by the Alpine Convention InfoPoints:
- Kim Ferjančič (SI): “Fish passability assessment of transverse water obstacles in the Bača river” (Infopoint Tolmin)
- Giovanni Martino Bombelli (IT): “The influence of climate change on hydro power production of large reservoirs in Lombardy” (Infopoint Morbegno)
- Michele Bigoni (IT): “Validation of guidelines for groundwater quantitative status assessment: application to Aosta Valley” (Infopoint Grand Paradis)
Jurors
- Antonio Ballarin (IT): Professor of Environmental Physics, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Catholic University Milan;
- Leo Füreder (AT): Head of the Research Group River and Conservation Research, University of Innsbruck;
- Emmanuel Reynard (FR): Professor of physical geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne;
- Mimi Urbanc (SI): Assistant Director, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana.