Civil Engineering and Geosciences

civil engineering and geosciences

people

	Dr Isabella Bovolo Research Associate Phone: 222 8599 isabella.bovolo@ncl.ac.uk
roles and responsibilities
IWOKRAMA 2009 - present Commonwealth Secretariat funded consultancy: Iwokrama International centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development's climate and hydrology. Collation and assessment of climate (and hydrology) data availability and quality for Guyana and the surrounding regions. Also analysis of the data in order to place Iwokrama's climate into a regional and global context, and for use as a baseline for further studies. AQUATERRA 2008 - 2009 EC project: Global Change and Ecosystems Integrated Project. Generation of climate change scenarios for Gallego catchment (Spain) using a simple bias-correction method to downscale the daily precipitation and temperature fields of a selection of regional climate models from the grid-cell to point scale. SAM 2008 - 2009 DTI project: System Based Analysis and Management of Urban Flood Risk. Investigating the use of radar data for validating and supporting a spatial and temporal rainfall model for use in Integrated Urban Drainage Design and Management. EPIC-FORCE 2007 - present EC project: Evidence-based policy for integrated control of forested river catchments in extreme rainfall and snowmelt. Application of the SHETRAN model (a physically based, spatially distributed, integrated surface/subsurface system for modelling water flow and sediment transport in river catchments, shallow landslides and debris flows) to a catchment in Ecuador. MEDIGRID 2004-2006 EC project: Mediterranean Grid of Multi-Risk Data and Models - aiming to integrate hazard assessment models (e.g. forest fires, flash floods and soil erosion) into a web-based distributed risk-assessment service using shared disaster-related data resources. LESSLOSS 2004-2006 EC project: European Integrated Project on Risk Mitigation for Earthquakes and Landslides - simulating the occurrence of shallow landslides and debris flows as a function of rainfall return period. SUSMAQ 2005 DFID project: Sustainable Management of the West Bank and Gaza Aquifers - investigated the impact of land-use change and climate change on the West Bank using PRECIS RCM. MEDACTION 2002-2004 EC project: Policies for Land Use to Combat Desertification.
qualifications
Ph.D. Thermodynamic Properties of Lower Mantle Minerals: Constraints on Mantle Composition (Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK, 2002) B.Sc. (Hons) Geochemistry (Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, 1995)
previous positions
University of Bristol, UK. 1996-2001 Demonstrator for undergraduate courses (Geophysics, Mineralogy, Metamorphic Geology, Various Computer Courses, Structural Geology); Computer Advisor and Network Administrator. BP Amoco (Russian & Ukrainian Team) - Sunbury, UK. Summer 1999 Geological History of the Baikal Rift Zone and the Lena Dome, East Siberia. Shell International Petroleum Company Ltd (Exploration) - London, UK. Summer 1994 Geothermal Gradients in the West of Shetland and Basin Modelling. Natural History Museum - London, UK. Summer 1994 Collection audit, electron microprobe and x-ray dffraction investigations of the humite mineral group.
memberships
Fellow of the Geological Society of London 2006- Member of the British Hydrological Society (BHS) 2005- Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 1997, 2003, 2006 Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2004-
main expertise/research interests
Catchment hydrology & shallow landslide modelling, climate change impact assessment, mineral physics & the earth's deep interior.
esteem indicators
Editorial Board of Environmental Research Letters Committee member of the Northern Regional Group of the Geological Society 2006-present Convener & session chair of American Geophysical Union (AGU) sessions, San Francisco, USA (11-15th December 2006) -Coupling hydrological models with geomechanical models for predicting the timing and location of landslides and debris flows. -Modeling, Prediction, and Monitoring of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Landslides and Debris Flows Posters. Program Committee & session chair, Environmental Applicatons and Distributed Computing (EADC) conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, 16-18th Oct, 2006 Solicited Presentations: European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, April 2006 Session: Rainfall induced landslides and debris flows Title: Simulating the occurrence of shallow landslides and debris flows as a function of rainfall return period. European GeoInformatics Workshop (e-sci), Edinburgh, March 2007 Session: Grid Technologies for Geoscience Title: The MEDIGRID Distributed Framework for Multi-risk Assessment of Natural Hazards
funding received
£400 British Hydrological Society Travel Grant £700 Royal Academy of Engineering Travel Grant
weblinks
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/isabella.bovolo/
sample publications

Bovolo CI; Abele SJ; Bathurst JC. Modelling shallow landslides within the context of a distributed framework for multi-risk assessment of forest fire hazards. Proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Applications and Distributed Computing 2006. Bratislava: Veda (Slovak Academy of Sciences), 99-107.
Bathurst JC; Birkinshaw SJ; Bovolo CI. Use of decision support systems to analyse policy effects. In: Enne, G; Peter, D; Zanolla, C; Zucca, C, ed. The MEDRAP Concerted Action to support the Northern Mediterranean Action Programme to Combat Desertification. Workshop results & Proceedings 2004. Sassari, Italy: Nucleo Ricerca Desertificazione, 1, 482-490.
Bovolo CI; Bathurst JC. Simulating the occurrence of shallow landslides and debris flows as a function of rainfall return period. 3rd EGU General Assembly 2006. Vienna, Austria: Geophysical Research Abstracts: Copernicus GmbH, 8, EGU06-A-08329.
Bovolo CI; Bathurst JC. An itegrated decision support system for desertification mitigation. EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly 2003. Nice, France: Geophysical Research Abstracts: Copernicus GmbH, 5, EAE03-A-12565.
Bovolo CI; Abele SJ; Bathurst JC. Modelling shallow landslides within the context of a distributed framework for multi-risk assessment of natural hazards. 2006. Vienna, Austria: Geophysical Research Abstracts: Copernicus GmbH, 8, 09393.
Bovolo CI; Bathurst JC. Modelling the timing and location of shallow landslides and debris flows using the SHETRAN model. Eos Transactions. AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement 2006, 87(52), H51B-0477.
Bovolo CI. PHD Thesis: Thermodynamic Properties of Lower Mantle Minerals: Constraints on Mantle Composition. 2002.
Bovolo CI; Sherman DM; Helffrich GR. Composition of the lower mantle: Predicted properties from atomistic simulations. Journal of Conference Abstracts: Goldschmidt 2000. Oxford, UK: Cambridge Publications, 5, 2.
Bovolo CI; Sherman DM; Helffrich GR. Elastic properties of iron at inner core conditions and the origin of the seismic anisotropy. Terra Nova 1997, 9(Supplement 1), 32.