Maria Chiara Lippera

Field and research interests

• Development of methodologies and tools for water infrastructures planning in sustainable water management of urban and peri-urban environments
  
  
• Improvement of operational efficiency in managed aquifer recharge (MAR) sites and development of tools to support their implementation in Europe
  
  
• Innovative strategies for water resources management in climate change conditions
  

Professional Experience and Education

Publication list

2023

• Lippera, M. C., Werban, U., and Vienken, T. (2023). Application of physical clogging models to Managed Aquifer Recharge: a review of modelling approaches from engineering fields. Acque Sotterranee-Italian Journal of Groundwater, 12(3), 9-20 ⇒ https://doi.org/10.7343/as-2023-681

• Lippera, M.C., Werban, U., Rossetto R., and Vienken, T. (2023) Understanding and predicting physical clogging at managed aquifer recharge systems: A field-based modeling approach. Advances in Water Resources, 177, 104462 ⇒ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2023.104462

2022

• Lippera, M.C., Werban, U. and Vienken, T. (2022): Improving clogging predictions at managed aquifer recharge sites: a quantitative assessment on the vertical distribution of intrusive fines. - Hydrogeology Journal, 2022, 15 p. ⇒ doi.org/10.1007/s10040-022-02581-7
  

2019

• Cesari De Maria S., Rienzner M., Lippera M.C., Facchi A., and Gandolfi C. (2019) Prediction of climate change effects on irrigation water requirements in the Lombardia plain. Conference Paper: Convegno in memoria del Professor Giovanni TournonVolume: Idronomia Montana 36

Conferences

2022

• Lippera, M.C., Werban, U., Vienken, T., "Detection of clogging factors to enhance MAR operations" Oral presentation at Achieving Sustainable Groundwater Management: Promising Directions and Unresolved Challenges (Sustain2022), 06-08 Oct. 2022, Valencia (Spain)
  
  
• Lippera, M. C., Werban, U., Rossetto, R., and Vienken, T., "Development of a novel approach to assess the risk of physical clogging at managed aquifer recharge sites" EGU General Assembly 2022, 23–27 May 2022, Vienna (Austria) https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5036, 2022.

2021

• Lippera, M.C., Werban, U., Vienken, T., “Development of modelling tools to predict physical clogging and enhance groundwater management” Oral presentation at the XV National Congress of the Italian Geological Society GIT-Geosciences and Information Technologies, 21st December 2021, Ripatransone (Italy)
  
  
• Lippera, M.C., Werban, U., Grün, H., Vienken, T., “Towards a better understanding of physical clogging processes encountered at MAR sites” Poster presentation at 48th IAH Conference “Inspiring Groundwater”, 5-10th Septemeber 2021, Brussels (Belgium) https://iah2021belgium.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IAH-2021-Book-of-Abstracts.pdf

2019

• Lippera M.C., Cesari De Maria S., Rienzner M. and Gandolfi C. "Supporting policies for irrigation adaptation to climate change through distributed agro-hydrological model simulations" EGU General Assembly 2019,  Vienna (Austria) https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-5921.pdf
  

Communication activities

• Seminar “Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR): Techniques to enhance groundwater quantity and quality” Webinar Groundwater: research and methodologies for the sustainable management of the resource organized by Italian National Research Council, Department of Earth System Sciences and Technologies for the Environment (CNR-IGAG), 15th March 2022, online.
  
  
• Lecture “Modelling for decision-support”, MARSoluT Workshop Modelling MAR – Challenges and Opportunities, 22nd February 2022, Faro (Portugal);
  
  
• Lecture “Introduction to Hydrogeology” at Technical University of Munich - TUM Campus Straubing, October 2020, Straubing (Germany)
  
  
• Lecture “Planning a field campaign”, MARSoluT Workshop Site Investigation and MAR Monitoring, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, July 2020, online.