The paper analyses Leonardo’s main studies concerning the navigability of Milan waterways in order to contextualize and highlight his original contributions. Not only do outline actual situation such waterways, they also include new projects innovations. Even though these are not always ascribable Leonardo, he certainly drew examined them himself. analysis is based on study transformations wate...

Xavier Bellsolà Olba is a PhD Candidate at the Delft University of Technology since January 2014. Prior to his current position, he obtained a 5-year Bachelor and MSc equivalent degree in Civil Engineering (2011) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain. As part of his studies he participated in an international semester exchange program at the Chalmers University o...

Atlantic coast estuaries recently have experienced fish kills and fish with lesions attributed to Pfiesteria piscicida and related dinoflagellates. Human health effects have been reported from laboratory exposure and from a 1997 Maryland fish kill. North Carolina has recorded Pfiesteria-related fish kill events over the past decade, but human health effects from environmental exposure have not ...