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Giulio Castelli

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Assistant Professor in water resources management at University of Florence | cercachi.unifi.it/p-doc2-0-0-A-3f2b…

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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
First paper published in our Special Issue on "Water Management in Times of Disasters and Conflicts" Emerging hotspots of groundwater conflicts during droughts in Germany" www.cell.com/iscience/ful... More information www.cell.com/iscience/spe... @cellpress.bsky.social #WaterMangement #Conflicts
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Emerging hotspots of groundwater conflicts during droughts in Germany
earth sciences; environmental science; environmental monitoring
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Opening soon in Milan! Photo exhibition “Caring for Water in the Desert: Ancestral Knowledge and Sustainable Management in the Oasis of Douiret-Sbâa, Morocco”. www.centraleacquamilano.it/mostra-custo... #oases #cocreation #water #traditionalirrigation
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🌊 The program of the IAHS - International Association of Hydrological Sciences - European Geosciences Union (EGU) Alexander von Humboldt #conference 𝑯𝒀𝑫𝑹𝑶𝑳𝑶𝑮𝒀 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑨𝑳𝑳 - 𝑪𝑶-𝑪𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑻𝑨𝑩𝑳𝑬 𝑾𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑶𝑳𝑼𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺 is online! cocreatewater.sciencesconf.org/program?lang... @iahs-aish.bsky.social @egu.eu
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🌱 New paper: “𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐬,” in 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘥 & 𝘈𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, published by Taylor & Francis Group. 🔗 Read the full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #foodsystems #sustainability #resilience
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology @politicalgeography.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology
This article theorizes the deliberate starvation of Gaza as “food-as-necropolitics” and argues that this forced famine clarifies the analytical stakes…
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New Instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/Dcbbw3UjJm... Pictures from the house of my family. #agriculture and #waterharvesting in #Marche region
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A new international study that examines how colonial histories continue to shape the field and explores what a more inclusive approach to water science might look like. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2026/0...
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York researcher advances more equitable water science across the world - YFile
Assistant Professor Adeyemi Olusola contributed to an international study exploring the colonial legacies embedded in hydrology and how the field can become more equitable, inclusive and locally relev...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Water Network Extension Campaign – Reviving Gaza
Across southern Gaza, existing water pipelines pass close to many displacement camps. However, the smaller connecting pipelines needed to bring water into these camps are missing or have been damaged.
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“The most striking thing about the drought of 2026 is therefore not that it is unprecedented. It is that, despite decades of climate projections warning us that such summers would become more frequent and more severe, we are still treating them as surprises.” blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
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Drought in Europe
Many of us are experiencing it right now: Europe is suffering from a long lasting large scale drought (Fig. 1), with record heat and low-flow levels that probably nobody of us has seen before; and cur...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thanks to @egu.eu for this great interview! @iahs-aish.bsky.social @natalieceperley.bsky.social
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#Bolognola #Apennines #AreeInterne
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Call for Input: Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems (IPKS) and Local Knowledge Systems (LKS) for the IPCC AR7 Assessment Report weadapt.org/forum/call-f... #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateAdaptation
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Call for Input: Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Systems (IPKS) and Local Knowledge Systems (LKS) for the IPCC AR7 Assessment Report - weADAPT
Authors contributing to the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) across all three Working Groups are seeking source materials related to Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems (IPKS), Local Knowledge S...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This year I will be at the @agu.org #AGU26 conference in #SanFrancisco Thanks Jonathan Paul and colleagues for inviting me to the session "Best practice in incorporating place-based, citizen science into broader hydrological research" There is still time for an abstract www.agu.org/annual-meeting
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AGU26 Annual Meeting | AGU
AGU’s annual meeting, the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, convenes 20,000+ attendees from 100+ countries to share research, connect, collaborate, and inspire one another. Join us for...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
During the 5th International Conference on African Rivers, held in Rabat, Morocco, one outcome was the Rabat Declaration on the Future of African Rivers, which highlights 10 recommendations. #AfricanRivers #WaterFuture #Rabat #IAHS @iahs-aish.bsky.social
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧: 𝐇-𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐛 A Horizon Europe-funded initiative implemented by UNIMED to support Palestinian researchers in and from #Gaza through a 9-month virtual collaboration scheme. 📅 Application deadline: 31 July 2026 Full call & apply: h-gaza.eu/hub
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#NewPaper A novel approach for planning small #waterharvetsing reservoirs: Piemontese et al., 2026: A statistical modelling approach to site suitability of small agricultural reservoirs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A statistical modelling approach to site suitability of small agricultural reservoirs
Agricultural production increasingly relies on irrigation to withstand droughts, precipitation variability or support agricultural intensification. Sm…
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New paper out! An advanced hydrological approach for the characterization of the Water Scarcity Footprint at the sub-basin level Discover more at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #waterfootprint #hydrologicalmodelling @danielepenna.bsky.social
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
One more step towards #OpenScience! The Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID) was included in the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH). www.jaeid.it/index.php/ja... @craft-oa.bsky.social ddh.edch.eu/en/journals/...
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Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development | Diamond Discovery Hub
Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development ISSN: null, eISSN: 2240-2802. Università degli Studi di Firenze
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📣 The call for abstracts is on! 🌍 IAHS - EGU Alexander von Humboldt Conference: HYDROLOGY FOR ALL - CO-CREATING EQUITABLE WATER SOLUTIONS cocreatewater.sciencesconf.org @iahs-aish.bsky.social @hs.egu.eu @egu.eu 📅 Deadline for abstract submission: 3/7/2026 23:59 CET
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New paper: 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚-𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍-𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒉𝒚𝒅𝒓𝒐(𝒈𝒆𝒐)𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑶𝒂𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒂, 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Community-led small-scale managed aquifer recharge can slow drought propagation: Sociohydro(geo)logical evidence from Oaxaca, Mexico - Hydrogeology Journal
This research assesses the role of small-scale managed aquifer recharge (s-MAR) in the attenuation of meteorological drought propagation. Human activity can induce or aggravate the drought cascade, th...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Publish or perish? Or is publishing perishing? Reflections from a Great Debate at EGU26
There’s a particular kind of energy you get in a conference room when something is about to matter. You can feel it before anything starts: chairs filling quickly, people sitting closer than usual, no...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#SaveTheDate! @iahs-aish.bsky.social IAHS HELPING / EGU Alexander von Humboldt Conference: HYDROLOGY FOR ALL - CO-CREATING EQUITABLE WATER SOLUTIONS From 9-11 November 2026
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New paper out: 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘩𝘺𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺: 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 @plos.org #Water #Sociohydrology #Colonialism #Decolonization #transdisciplinarity #cocreation #hydrology #water
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New paper out! Villani L, et al. (2026). Neglecting plant physiology: systematic overestimation of drought projections. Environmental Research: Climate @iopp-environment.bsky.social @ioppublishing.bsky.social #Drought #vegetation #WaterResources iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Neglecting plant physiology: systematic overestimation of drought projections
Neglecting plant physiology: systematic overestimation of drought projections, Villani, Lorenzo, Piemontese, Luigi, Castelli, Giulio, Borgo, Andrea, Ghilain, Nicolas, Van Schaeybroeck, Bert, Lucca, Enrico, Aslam, Muhammad Faizan, Debolini, Marta, Bouizrou, Ismail, Yimer, Estifanos Addisu, Baudewyn, Miriam, Jaramillo, Fernando, Trabucco, Antonio, van Griensven, Ann, Penna, Daniele, Bresci, Elena
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New post: Bedouin #waterharvesting in #Wadirum, Jordan www.instagram.com/p/DXxJHwKDOs...
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Warid on Instagram: "In the hyper-arid valley of Wadi Rum, in Jordan, precipitation does not exceed 50-70 mm per year. When rainfall occurs, flash floods are triggered. This does not stop local Bedou...
3 likes, 0 comments - warid.research on April 30, 2026: "In the hyper-arid valley of Wadi Rum, in Jordan, precipitation does not exceed 50-70 mm per year. When rainfall occurs, flash floods are trigge...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
www.dagri.unifi.it/vp-882-onlin...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
New post on #Warid Instagram page: In the small island of Marettimo, Sicily, remnants of historical dry stone wall terraces still exist and can be recovered to reverse land degradation: www.instagram.com/p/DXScHIvjLq...
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Warid on Instagram: "Small islands in the Mediterranean are a hotspot of climate change, but they host some remarkable examples of soil and water, and water harvesting structures. In the small island...
0 likes, 0 comments - warid.research on April 18, 2026: "Small islands in the Mediterranean are a hotspot of climate change, but they host some remarkable examples of soil and water, and water harvest...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New paper! Special issue: Advances in #hydrologicalscience in #LatinAmerica Disentangling a century of #waterharvesting development in the Paraguayan dry #Chaco flatlands @iahs-aish.bsky.social @hsj-iahs.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Disentangling a century of water harvesting development in the Paraguayan dry Chaco flatlands
Improving water harvesting in flat drylands is one of the great challenges that humanity will face in the coming years. Based on a remote sensing approach, we mapped and determined the drivers of w...
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EUniWell @euniwell.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Join the EUniWell Centre for Advanced Studies Third Symposium on Decolonizing Environment and Well-Being-Oriented European Approaches 🌍 📍 Florence 📅 6–8 July 2026 ⚠️ In person 👉 Register by 22 May to take part in the conversation. 🔗Register here: shorturl.at/Q51c0 #CAS #HigherEducation
Banner for the EUniWell Centre for Advanced Studies Third Symposium titled “Decolonizing Environment and Well-Being-Oriented European Approaches.” The event will take place at the University of Florence from 6–8 July 2026. The design features a blue header with the symposium title and a stylized tree on the right, with pink leaves and blue roots symbolizing growth and interconnected knowledge.
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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Are you coming to #EGU26? and Motivated for the Co-creation of water knowledge #ccwk? We have a full day for you with a short course, splinter meeting, poster, and oral session! #iahs #helping We look forward to meeting and thinking with you! @giuliocst.bsky.social
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID), published by Florence University Press, is inviting applications to join its Editorial Board. For more iinformation: www.jaeid.it/index.php/ja...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Image of the day Torres del Paine National Park, Chile @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @copernicusland.bsky.social www.copernicus.eu/en/media/ima...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Seminar: Characterizing and Quantifying Groundwater Recharge (GWR) in Data-Scarce and Semi-Arid Regions of North Africa: Multi-Method Approaches and Water Resource Implications March 9th, 2026, 16:00 CET Registrations: forms.gle/DvkGkSZB2UPX...
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iScience @cp-iscience.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
iScience Special Issue on "Water Management in Times of Disasters and Conflicts" is open for submissions! 📢💧 🌍 More info: www.cell.com/iscience/spe... #WaterDiplomacy #WaterGovernance #WaterResources
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Cell Press: iScience
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
IAH 2026 Conference - @iahgroundwater.bsky.social Session ““Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Groundwater Management” 📅 Deadline: 28 February 2026 🔗 Submit your abstract here: iah2026budapest.com/call-for-abs... #IAH2026 #Groundwater #Hydrogeology #NatureBasedSolutions #WaterSecurity
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Call for abstract | IAH 2026 Budapest Congress
Join IAH 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, from 14–18 September 2026. Explore Budapest’s unique connection to water, while networking with global hydrogeology experts.
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Are you working on #WaterManagement, #conflicts, or #disasters? Please consider our Special Issue on @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/spe...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 17/02/2026
A United Nations committee empowered to review complaints against the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has dismissed allegations of antisemitism against Francesca Albanese as being based on disinformation.
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Panel rebukes EU nations for seeking ouster of UN’s Albanese over Israel-Gaza remarks
Review committee says the antisemitism allegations against the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories are “rooted in disinformation.”
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
How a Remote Valley in #Chile Was Protected for the Future: #Cochamó Forever! | #Patagonia www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii0v...
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How a Remote Valley in Chile Was Protected for the Future: Cochamó Forever! | Patagonia
YouTube video by Patagonia
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I am on a technical mission to #Liwa Oasis, in the #Emirates. Liwa is a crescent-shaped oasis that sits atop a freshwater mound on the edge of the #EmptyQuarter Desert and is one of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi’s two high-quality and shallow aquifer systems. www.instagram.com/p/DUvFzugj-e...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We are proud to share the outcome of a long and inspiring international collaboration: Our article “Global dataset of sand dams: location, characteristics and geospatial attributes” is now published in @nature.com's Scientific Data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I am delighted to join the amazing effort to develop the #Water #Ecomuseum of Douiret-Sbâa in Morocco, together with Global Network of Water Museums (UNESCO-IHP) and the Douiret-Sbâa Association for Local Development. Discover more at: www.watermuseums.net/network/ecom...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📣 Call for Abstracts | IDRA 2026 (Napoli, 9–11 September 2026) Session S2-05 — Multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary approaches for water resources management. Abstract deadline: 15 February 2026   Submit via the official conference platform:  www.convegno-idra.it/convegno-2/
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Convegno - IDRA 2026 - Napoli
Nel periodo compreso tra il 9 e l’11 settembre 2026 si svolgerà a Napoli, presso il Centro Congressi della Stazione Marittima, il XL Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche IDRA 2026....
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I am happy to join the #ScientificCommittee of the 5th International Conference on African Rivers - icar2026.org - in #Rabat, #Morocco. Deadline for submission is March 30th, 2026: lnkd.in/dRqzZJns
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The 5th International Conference on African Rivers, Rabat
The 5th International Conference on African Rivers: Research, Development, and Innovation. Join us on Rabat, Morocco, from July 6 to 8, 2026.
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A new post on #Terracedlandscapes in #Zaghouan, #Tunisia 🇹🇳, on #Warid www.instagram.com/p/DUG-6M6DHF...
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Nature Water @natwater.nature.com · 28/01/2026
Our January 2026 issue is released. www.nature.com/natwater/vol...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Great to see Italian hydrologists active on @bsky.app!
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Jacobin Italia @jacobinitalia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Pubblichiamo il discorso che Tomaso Montanari, rettore dell’Università di Siena per stranieri, ha pronunciato in occasione della Giornata della Memoria jacobinitalia.it/ricordare-pe...
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Ricordare, per l’Olocausto e per tutto - Jacobin Italia
Pubblichiamo il discorso che Tomaso Montanari, rettore dell’Università per stranieri di Siena, ha pronunciato in occasione della Giornata della Memoria
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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World Enters “Era of Global Water Bankruptcy” UN Scientists Formally Define New Post-Crisis Reality for Billions
Flagship report calls for fundamental reset of global water agenda as irreversible damage pushes many basins beyond recovery
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Our #waterharvesting Lab has a LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/company/wate... Follow us for information on our projects!
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Water Harvesting Lab - UNIFI | LinkedIn
Water Harvesting Lab - UNIFI | 18 followers on LinkedIn. The water for food security hub at the University of Florence | The Water Harvesting Lab (WHLab) of the Department of Agriculture, Food, Enviro...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I have some new posts on the Instagram page #Warid #Warid it is just a side project that I use to archive pictures of #Waterharvesting and #traditionaltechnologies, just like a photo dump. Feel free to have a look and follow it: www.instagram.com/warid.blog/
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