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Marco Petitta is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Environmental Science. Within these fields, Petitta's work delves into specialized subfields including Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main research topics cover Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Karst Systems and Hydrogeology. Additional areas of interest include Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, Seismic Waves and Analysis, and Groundwater and Watershed Analysis.

Marco Petitta has frequently collaborated with researchers such as Marino Domenico Barberio, Maurizio Barbieri, Chiara Sbarbati, Francesca Gori, and Valeria Lorenzi. These collaborations have contributed to a consistent output of scholarly articles across multiple journals.

The scientist has published in several notable venues, with recurring contributions to:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Acque Sotterranee-Italian Journal of Groundwater
  • Hydrogeology Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Recent publications include:

  • Tracking flowpaths in a complex karst system through tracer test and hydrogeochemical monitoring: Implications for groundwater protection (Gran Sasso, Italy), 2024, Heliyon
  • Climate change and its effect on groundwater quality, 2021, Environmental Geochemistry and Health
  • Changes in groundwater trace element concentrations before seismic and volcanic activities in Iceland during 2010-2018, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • HydroQuakes, central Apennines, Italy: Towards a hydrogeochemical monitoring network for seismic precursors and the hydro-seismo-sensitivity of boron, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • New observations in Central Italy of groundwater responses to the worldwide seismicity, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Stable isotope (2H, 18O and 87Sr/86Sr) and hydrochemistry monitoring for groundwater hydrodynamics analysis in a karst aquifer (Gran Sasso, Central Italy)

    Maurizio Barbieri;Tiziano Boschetti;Marco Petitta;Marco Tallini

  • Climate change and its effect on groundwater quality.

    Maurizio Barbieri;Marino Domenico Barberio;Francesca Banzato;Andrea Billi

  • Interaction between shallow and deep aquifers in the Tivoli Plain (Central Italy) enhanced by groundwater extraction: A multi-isotope approach and geochemical modeling

    Valentina Carucci;Marco Petitta;Ramon Aravena

  • Hydrogeochemical changes before and during the 2016 Amatrice-Norcia seismic sequence (central Italy).

    Marino Domenico Barberio;Maurizio Barbieri;Andrea Billi;Carlo Doglioni;Carlo Doglioni

  • Interaction between deep and shallow groundwater systems in areas affected by Quaternary tectonics (Central Italy): a geochemical and isotope approach

    Marco Petitta;Paolo Primavera;Paola Tuccimei;Ramon Aravena

  • Long-term trend and fluctuations of karst spring discharge in a Mediterranean area (central-southern Italy)

    Francesco Fiorillo;Marco Petitta;Elisabetta Preziosi;Sergio Rusi

  • Water-table and discharge changes associated with the 2016-2017 seismic sequence in central Italy: hydrogeological data and a conceptual model for fractured carbonate aquifers.

    Marco Petitta;Marco Petitta;Lucia Mastrorillo;Elisabetta Preziosi;Francesca Banzato

  • Italy's renewable water resources as estimated on the basis of the monthly water balance

    Luca Salvati;Marco Petitta;Tomaso Ceccarelli;Luigi Perini

  • Chemical and isotopic (δ18O‰, δ2H‰, δ13C‰, 222Rn) multi-tracing for groundwater conceptual model of carbonate aquifer (Gran Sasso INFN underground laboratory – central Italy)

    Raffaele Adinolfi Falcone;Antonella Falgiani;Barbara Parisse;Marco Petitta

  • Earthquakes trigger the loss of groundwater biodiversity

    Diana M. P. Galassi;Paola Lombardo;Barbara Fiasca;Alessia Di Cioccio

  • Impact of the 6 April 2009 L'Aquila earthquake on groundwater flow in the Gran Sasso carbonate aquifer, Central Italy

    Antonella Amoruso;Luca Crescentini;Marco Petitta;Sergio Rusi

  • Groundwater mixing in the discharge area of San Vittorino Plain (Central Italy): geochemical characterization and implication for drinking uses

    Maurizio Barbieri;Angela Nigro;Marco Petitta

  • Changes in groundwater trace element concentrations before seismic and volcanic activities in Iceland during 2010-2018.

    Maurizio Barbieri;Stefania Franchini;Marino Domenico Barberio;Andrea Billi

  • Human alteration of groundwater-surface water interactions (Sagittario River, Central Italy): Implication for flow regime, contaminant fate and invertebrate response

    Mariachiara Caschetto;Maurizio Barbieri;Diana M. P. Galassi;Lucia Mastrorillo

  • Long-term spatio-temporal hydrochemical and 222 Rn tracing to investigate groundwater flow and water-rock interaction in the Gran Sasso (central Italy) carbonate aquifer

    Marco Tallini;Barbara Parisse;Marco Petitta;Michele Spizzico

  • Nitrate source and fate at the catchment scale of the Vibrata River and aquifer (central Italy): an analysis by integrating component approaches and nitrogen isotopes

    Tiziana Di Lorenzo;Mauro Brilli;Dina Del Tosto;Diana M. P. Galassi

  • Application of isotopic and geochemical tools for the evaluation of nitrogen cycling in an agricultural basin, the Fucino Plain, Central Italy

    Marco Petitta;Domenico Fracchiolla;Ramon Aravena;Maurizio Barbieri

  • Tracking flowpaths in a complex karst system through tracer test and hydrogeochemical monitoring: Implications for groundwater protection (Gran Sasso, Italy)

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  • Sustained post‐seismic effects on groundwater flow in fractured carbonate aquifers in Central Italy

    Lucia Mastrorillo;Michele Saroli;Stefano Viaroli;Francesca Banzato

  • Tracing deep fluid source contribution to groundwater in an active seismic area (central Italy): A combined geothermometric and isotopic (δ13C) perspective

    M. Barbieri;T. Boschetti;M.D. Barberio;A. Billi

  • Changes on groundwater flow and hydrochemistry of the Gran Sasso carbonate aquifer after 2009 L’Aquila earthquake

    Raffaele Adinolfi Falcone;Valentina Carucci;Antonella Falgiani;Mauro Manetta

  • The gravitational slope deformation of Mt. Rocchetta ridge (central Apennines, Italy): geological-evolutionary model and numerical analysis

    M. E. Discenza;C. Esposito;S. Martino;M. Petitta

  • Hydrodynamic and isotopic investigations for evaluating the mechanisms and amount of groundwater seepage through a rockslide dam.

    Marco Petitta;Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza;Maurizio Barbieri;Gianluca Bianchi Fasani

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolò Colombani
Nicolò Colombani University of Ferrara
Ramon Aravena
Ramon Aravena University of Waterloo
Micòl Mastrocicco
Micòl Mastrocicco University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Andrea Billi
Andrea Billi National Research Council (CNR)
Carlo Doglioni
Carlo Doglioni National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Diana M. P. Galassi
Diana M. P. Galassi University of L'Aquila
Salvatore Martino
Salvatore Martino Sapienza University of Rome
Henning Prommer
Henning Prommer University of Western Australia
Jing Sun
Jing Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Miguel A. Mariño
Miguel A. Mariño University of California, Davis

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