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Lorenzo Marchi is affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in the subfields of management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, ecology, soil science, and ocean engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include landslides and related hazards, hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, flood risk assessment and management, cryospheric studies and observations, fire effects on ecosystems, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Marchi include:

  • Debris flows recorded in the Moscardo catchment (Italian Alps) between 1990 and 2019, 2021, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Sediment-water flows in mountain streams: Recognition and classification based on field evidence, 2020, Geomorphology
  • How does co-registration affect geomorphic change estimates in multi-temporal surveys?, 2020, GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Storm characteristics dictate sediment dynamics and geomorphic changes in mountain channels: A case study in the Italian Alps, 2022, Geomorphology
  • Combining Instrumental Monitoring and High-Resolution Topography for Estimating Sediment Yield in a Debris-Flow Catchment, 2020, Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Stefano Crema
  • Marco Cavalli
  • Nicola Surian
  • Marco Borga
  • Francesco Comiti

Marchi's work has been published in a variety of journals, with notable recurring publication venues such as:

  • Geomorphology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Maps
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • E3S Web of Conferences

The scientist's research intersects with critical environmental challenges, addressing sediment dynamics and hazards such as debris flows in mountainous regions. This work informs understanding of ecosystem processes, sediment yield, and geomorphic changes driven by storms and environmental factors.

Best Publications

  • A compilation of data on European flash floods

    Eric Gaume;Valerie Bain;Pietro Bernardara;Olivier Newinger

  • Characterisation of selected extreme flash floods in Europe and implications for flood risk management

    L. Marchi;M. Borga;E. Preciso;Eric Gaume

  • Geomorphometric assessment of spatial sediment connectivity in small Alpine catchments

    Marco Cavalli;Sebastiano Trevisani;Francesco Comiti;Lorenzo Marchi

  • Hydrogeomorphic response to extreme rainfall in headwater systems: Flash floods and debris flows

    Marco Borga;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Lorenzo Marchi;Francesco Marra

  • Ten years of debris-flow monitoring in the Moscardo Torrent (Italian Alps)

    Lorenzo Marchi;Massimo Arattano;Andrea M Deganutti

  • Suspended sediment load during floods in a small stream of the Dolomites (northeastern Italy)

    Mario Aristide Lenzi;Lorenzo Marchi

  • The effectiveness of airborne LiDAR data in the recognition of channel-bed morphology

    Marco Cavalli;Paolo Tarolli;Lorenzo Marchi;Giancarlo Dalla Fontana

  • Surveying flash floods: gauging the ungauged extremes

    Marco Borga;Eric Gaume;Jean Dominique Creutin;Lorenzo Marchi

  • Shallow landslide hazard assessment using a physically based model and digital elevation data

    M. Borga;G. Dalla Fontana;D. Da Ros;L. Marchi

  • Direct Determination of Rheological Characteristics of Debris Flow

    Philippe Coussot;Dominique Laigle;Massimo Arattano;Andrea Deganutti

  • Systems and Sensors for Debris-flow Monitoring and Warning

    Massimo Arattano;Lorenzo Marchi

  • Impact of uncertainty in rainfall estimation on the identification of rainfall thresholds for debris flow occurrence

    Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos;Stefano Crema;Stefano Crema;Lorenzo Marchi;Francesco Marra

  • Characterisation of the surface morphology of an alpine alluvial fan using airborne LiDAR

    M. Cavalli;L. Marchi

  • Estimation of debris-flow magnitude in the Eastern Italian Alps

    Lorenzo Marchi;Vincenzo D'Agostino

  • Assessment of shallow landsliding by using a physically based model of hillslope stability

    Marco Borga;Giancarlo Dalla Fontana;Carlo Gregoretti;Lorenzo Marchi

  • Field and laboratory investigations of runout distances of debris flows in the Dolomites (Eastern Italian Alps)

    Vincenzo D'Agostino;Matteo Cesca;Lorenzo Marchi

  • Channel response to extreme floods: Insights on controlling factors from six mountain rivers in northern Apennines, Italy

    Nicola Surian;Margherita Righini;Ana Lucía;Laura Nardi

  • A new monitoring station for debris flows in the European Alps: first observations in the Gadria basin

    F. Comiti;L. Marchi;P. Macconi;M. Arattano

  • Assessment of erosion and deposition in steep mountain basins by differencing sequential digital terrain models

    Marco Cavalli;Beatrice Goldin;Francesco Comiti;Francesco Brardinoni

  • Measurements of debris flow velocity through cross-correlation of instrumentation data

    M. Arattano;L. Marchi

  • Dynamics of large wood during a flash flood in two mountain catchments

    A. Lucía;F. Comiti;M. Borga;M. Cavalli

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Cavalli
Marco Cavalli National Research Council (CNR)
Marco Borga
Marco Borga University of Padua
Francesco Comiti
Francesco Comiti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Eric Gaume
Eric Gaume Université Gustave Eiffel
Nicola Surian
Nicola Surian University of Padua
Guy Delrieu
Guy Delrieu Grenoble Alpes University
Mario Aristide Lenzi
Mario Aristide Lenzi University of Padua
Daniele Penna
Daniele Penna University of Florence
Massimiliano Ghinassi
Massimiliano Ghinassi University of Padua
Luca Schenato
Luca Schenato University of Padua

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