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Luigi Tosi is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy, where their research primarily focuses on earth and environmental sciences. Their work spans across the main fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with specific attention to several subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Ecology, Oceanography, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to research on topics such as Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Geological formations and processes, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Maritime and Coastal Archaeology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Sensitivity, Hazard, and Vulnerability of Farmlands to Saltwater Intrusion in Low-Lying Coastal Areas of Venice, Italy," 2021, Water
  • "Mapping the global threat of land subsidence," 2020, Science
  • "Advances and Practices on the Research, Prevention and Control of Land Subsidence in Coastal Cities," 2020, Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition
  • "Resolving the thickness of peat deposits with contact-less electromagnetic methods: A case study in the Venice coastland," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "In-situ loading experiments reveal how the subsurface affects coastal marsh survival," 2022, Communications Earth & Environment

Their publication venues reflect a multidisciplinary approach, with frequent contributions to:

  • Water
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science

Luigi Tosi has collaborated regularly with several researchers, among them:

  • Sandra Donnici
  • Cristina Da Lio
  • Pietro Teatini
  • A. Bergamasco
  • Marta Cosma

This collaboration highlights a network of expertise in related scientific fields and provides a broader context to their research on coastal and environmental processes.

Best Publications

  • Mapping the global threat of land subsidence

    Gerardo Herrera-García;Pablo Ezquerro;Roberto Tomás;Marta Béjar-Pizarro

  • Monitoring the saltwater intrusion by time lapse electrical resistivity tomography: The Chioggia test site (Venice Lagoon, Italy)

    R. de Franco;G. Biella;L. Tosi;P. Teatini;P. Teatini

  • Eustacy and land subsidence in the Venice Lagoon at the beginning of the new millennium

    Laura Carbognin;Pietro Teatini;Luigi Tosi

  • The Lagoon of Venice: geological setting, evolution and land subsidence

    Antonio Brambati;Laura Carbognin;Tullio Quaia;Pietro Teatini

  • Quantitative evidence that compaction of Holocene sediments drives the present land subsidence of the Po Delta, Italy

    P. Teatini;P. Teatini;L. Tosi;T. Strozzi

  • Global change and relative sea level rise at Venice: what impact in term of flooding

    Laura Carbognin;Pietro Teatini;Pietro Teatini;Alberto Tomasin;Luigi Tosi

  • Mapping regional land displacements in the Venice coastland by an integrated monitoring system

    Pietro Teatini;Luigi Tosi;Tazio Strozzi;Laura Carbognin

  • Natural versus anthropogenic subsidence of Venice

    Luigi Tosi;Pietro Teatini;Pietro Teatini;Tazio Strozzi

  • Resolving land subsidence within the Venice Lagoon by persistent scatterer SAR interferometry

    P. Teatini;L. Tosi;T. Strozzi;L. Carbognin

  • Using high resolution data to reveal depth-dependent mechanisms that drive land subsidence: The Venice coast, Italy

    L. Tosi;P. Teatini;L. Carbognin;G. Brancolini

  • Sequence stratigraphy based on high-resolution seismic profiles in the late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits of the Venice area

    Massimo Zecchin;Luca Baradello;Giuliano Brancolini;Federica Donda

  • Heavy Metal Pollution in Central Venice Lagoon Bottom Sediments: Evaluation of the Metal Bioavailability by Geochemical Speciation Procedure

    Guido Perin;M. Bonardi;R. Fabris;B. Simoncini

  • Evidence of the present relative land stability of Venice, Italy, from land, sea, and space observations

    Luigi Tosi;Laura Carbognin;Pietro Teatini;Tazio Strozzi

  • Surface water-groundwater exchange in transitional coastal environments by airborne electromagnetics: The Venice Lagoon example

    A Viezzoli;L Tosi;Pietro Teatini;S. Silvestri

  • Anatomy of the Holocene succession of the southern Venice lagoon revealed by very high-resolution seismic data

    Massimo Zecchin;Giuliano Brancolini;Luigi Tosi;Federica Rizzetto

  • Combining L- and X-Band SAR Interferometry to Assess Ground Displacements in Heterogeneous Coastal Environments: The Po River Delta and Venice Lagoon, Italy

    Luigi Tosi;Cristina Da Lio;Tazio Strozzi;Pietro Teatini

  • Assessing short- and long-time displacements in the Venice coastland by synthetic aperture radar interferometric point target analysis

    Pietro Teatini;Tazio Strozzi;Luigi Tosi;Urs Wegmüller

  • Peat land oxidation enhances subsidence in the Venice watershed

    Giuseppe Gambolati;Mario Putti;Pietro Teatini;Matteo Camporese

  • Interaction between Climate Changes, Eustacy and Land Subsidence in the North Adriatic Region, Italy

    Laura Carbognin;Luigi Tosi

  • Geochemical characteristics of phosphorus in surface sediments of two major Chinese mariculture areas: The Laizhou Bay and the coastal waters of the Zhangzi Island

    Wen Zhuang;Xuelu Gao;Yong Zhang;Qianguo Xing

Frequent Co-Authors

Pietro Teatini
Pietro Teatini University of Padua
Tazio Strozzi
Tazio Strozzi Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)
Massimo Zecchin
Massimo Zecchin National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Urs Wegmüller
Urs Wegmüller Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)
Mario Putti
Mario Putti University of Padua
Giuseppe Gambolati
Giuseppe Gambolati University of Padua
Charles Werner
Charles Werner University of Zurich
Marco Taviani
Marco Taviani Schmidt Ocean Institute
Georg Umgiesser
Georg Umgiesser National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
P. Montagna
P. Montagna National Institute for Nuclear Physics

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