Paola Passalacqua, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: 8.612
Phone:(512) 471-3319
Fax: (512) 471-5870
Email: paola@austin.utexas.edu
UT Mail: C1786
Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-EWRE
301 E. Dean Keeton St. Stop C1786
Austin, TX 78712-1173
Area(s) of Expertise:
Water Resources Engineering
Educational Qualifications:
PhD, Civil Engineering-Water Resources, University of Minnesota, 2009
MS, Civil Engineering-Water Resources, University of Minnesota, 2005
BS and MS, Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa, 2002
Technical Interests:
Multi-scale analysis of hydrological processes; dynamics of environmental transport on river networks and deltaic systems; quantitative analysis and modeling of landscape forming processes, geomorphic transport laws and subgrid-scale parameterization.
Selected Publications:
Passalacqua, P., Tarolli, P., and Foufoula-Georgiou, E., 2010. Testing space-scale methodologies for automatic geomorphic feature extraction from lidar data in a complex mountainous landscape. Water Resources Research, in press.
Passalacqua, P., Do Trung, T., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Sapiro, G., and Dietrich, W. E., 2010. A geometric framework for channel network extraction from lidar: Nonlinear diffusion and geodesic paths. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, F01002, doi:10.1029/2009JF001254
Ganti, V., Singh, A., Passalacqua, P., and Foufoula-Georgiou, E., 2009. Subordinated Brownian motion model for sediment transport. Physical Review E., 80, 011111, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011111.
Passalacqua, P., Porte'-Agel, F., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., and Paola, C., 2006. Application of dynamic subgrid-scale concepts from large-eddy simulation to modeling landscape evolution. Water Resources Research, 42, W06D11, doi:10.1029/2006WR004879