Profile of Andrea Rinaldo.
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By 1985, Andrea Rinaldo was losing interest in fluid mechanics. The newly appointed full professor of hydrodynamics at Italy’s University of Trento had excelled in studying the intricacies of eddies, vortices, and fluid flow through porous media. But Rinaldo, lacking excitement, yearned for new avenues of research, seeking, he says, his road to Damascus. As part of his quest, Rinaldo attended a lecture at the University of Genoa, on the Mediterranean coast, a short drive from Trento’s mountain campus. The lecture, by Venezuelan hydrologist Ignacio RodriguezIturbe, caught Rinaldo’s attention with its intriguing title: “Chaos in Rainfall.” At the time, Rinaldo’s experience with hydrology consisted of one unremarkable undergraduate class, but the idea of applying the complex nonlinearity of chaos to something as basic as rainfall sparked his interest. Rodriguez-Iturbe’s lecture provided the excitement, novel research opportunities, and complexity in simple natural phenomena that Rinaldo sought. In the 28 years that have followed, Rinaldo and Rodriguez-Iturbe, both members of the National Academy of Sciences, have joined together to investigate how water moves through and influences landscapes and populations. Rinaldo’s work has focused on the fractal nature of river networks and the water-borne vectors of cholera. His foray into hydrology, commenced at that fortuitous lecture in 1985, has become a lifelong journey.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 111 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014