Professional/Research Short Description and Keywords

Dr. Stefano Bagli has more than 10 years of experience in environmental and human health risk assessment (RBCA and USPEA methodologies), food-chain and exposure assessment models, spatial modelling, physical predictive modelling with emphasis on fate and transport modelling of pollutants (air, water, groundwater, soil), terrain modelling, GIS modelling in physical geography, Spatial Decision Support System, environmental impact assessment (incinerators, power plants), strateguic environmental assessment, coupling GIS and agro-pedo-climatological data and models.

He had research experience at Joint Research Centre (European Commission) on remote sensing and image processing for Automatic Feature Extraction with particular emphasis to Image Analysis techniques using morphological operators .

Actually he is Administrator and Senior Engineer at GECOsistema srl (www.gecosistema.it) a Spin-Off Engineering company specialized in GIS, Remote Sensing and Environmental Modeling.  

Education And Research Experience

·         2004 Marie Curie Fellowship (Marie Curie Conference and Training Courses) : ECO-IMAGINE Permanent Conference “ Coastal Governance, Planning and Design and GI”;

·         2002-2004 Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Joint Research Centre – European Commission – Institute for Environment and Sustainability – Land Management Unit:

o        Agro-pedo-climatological homogeneous zoning of Italy: Developing a GIS Methodology for the definition of crop yield homogeneous zones over Italy.  

o        http://agrienv.jrc.it/publications/ECpubs/

o        Automatic Feature Extraction from Landsat Image2000 (http://image2000.jrc.it/) : automatic clouds and shadows removal, coastline and lake boundaries extraction, river network delineation using Morphological Image Analysis (MIA). DEM and SRTM processing, automatic mosaicing procedure.

·         2002 - Professional Course on Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology – Princeton Groundwater; San Francisco, CA, USA,;

·         1998-2001- PhD fellowship, University of Bologna, School of Engineering (Department of Chemical Engineering, Mining and Environmental Technologies – DICMA);

o        Dissertation title: EHHRA-GIS: A Geographical Information System for Human Health Risk Assessment.

o        Relevant applied research implementations during PhD: decision support systems, integration of environmental fate and transport models in GIS DSS, groundwater transport modelling, food-chain and exposure models,  (details about research topics and publications available upon request);

·         1991-1997- School of Engineering and final degree Master of .Science .in Environmental Engineering;

o        dissertation title: “Dioxin Human Health Risk Assessment. Case Study for the Venice Lagoon.”;

o        Supervisor: Prof. Foraboschi, Department of Chemical Engineering, Mining and Environmental Technologies; final score 100/100

·         1986-1990: scientific school (Liceo Sciemtifico): final score 58/60

Professional Experience

·         2001-now Administrator and Project Engineer for GECOsistema srl a startup consulting company founded in september 2001 with the aim of turning advanced research level expertise in the field of environmental and geographic decision support systems into an affordable consulting service which can be exploited in many real world decision making processes such as:

• Renewable Energy (wind farm, mini-hydro power plant development)
• civil protection: hydraulic risk, wildfires risk, industrial risk
• Air Dispersion Modeling
• water resource management at the catchments scale
• hydraulic networks modeling
• Landfills, contaminated sites and Human Health Risk Assessment
• environmental impact studies (EIS)
• GIS, remote sensing and image processing
• Developing of Spatial Decision Support System

·         2000-2006 Province of Rimini – Italy – Project Manager

o        Functionary for Environmental Impact Assessment studies

o        Developing of Web-GIS interoperable system (SITUA) for sharing geographic feature on the web

o        Energy Planning, Renewable Energy potential assessment using GIS

o        Off-Shore Wind Farm Project Manager

·         1997-2001 – Consulting engineer in Rimini – Italy on following main project:

o        Environmental Impact Assessment.

o        Air dispersion modeling for industrial emission sources (USEPA-ISC3, CALPUFF).

o        Human Health Risk Assessment, RBCA for contaminated site

o        Developing and implementation of a GIS based decision support system coupling GIS and environmental modeling

Registration

·         Engineer License Number 618 at Provincia di Rimini

Computer Skills

Operating system: LINUX-UNIX, MSWindows

GIS:

o        Arcview-ArcGIS-ArcInfo-ArcIMS SDERaster Advanced User –

o        Advanced Programmer in AVENUE and AML

o        GRASS, QUANTUM GIS and IDRIS User

DataBase: Oracle and SQL programming

Image Processing: ENVI and IDL, Morphological Image Analysis tool

Programming Languages: Visual Basic, LISP, C++, SQL (ORACLE)

Modeling Software

Air dispersion modeling codes: ISC3-USEPA, CALPUFF, AERMOD, CAMx, CALGRID, CALINE, DIMULA

Groundwater models: Modflow, MT3D, HSSM, UTCHEM, VLEACH, EPIC

Water Quality models: WASP, QUAL2E

Human Health Risk Assessment: RBCA, CalTOx, HWIR, 3MRA;

Agro-Pedologica Models: CGMS (Jrc), WOFOST

Languages

Italian mother tongue

English good written and spoken

Basic of Spanish and French.

1.             Pubblication

2. . L. Morselli, F. Grassi, S. Bagli ” LCI APPLICATA AGLI INCENERITORI DI RIFIUTI SOLIDI URBANI OPERANTI NELLA REGIONE EMILIA ROMAGNA E CORRELAZIONE CON LA REALTA' NAZIONALE”, Abstract per il Congresso Nazionale "La Chimica per l'Ambiente, 1999
3. S. Bagli, G. Spadoni “A decision support system for environmental and human health risk assessment on GIS”, proceedings of 4th International Congresss ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, Rome September 20-24/1999;
4. S. Bagli, G.Spadoni, “EHHRA-GIS: Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment using GIS”, FORESIGHT and PRECAUTION proceedings of ESREL 2000, Edinburgh 14-17 May 2000;
5. S. Bagli, G.Spadoni, “A Decision Support System for Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment using GIS”, 3th SETAC World Congress, Brighton May 21-25 2000;
6. S. Bagli, A. Pistocchi, “ A method for map-based advection-dispersion modelling:the integration of environmental models in spatial decision support systems “, proceedings of 4th International Conference on Itegrating GIS and Environmental Modeling, Banff (Canada) September 2-8, 2000;
7. S. Bagli, G. Spadoni “A multimedia, multiple pathway exposure and risk assessment using EHHRA-GIS: a real case of contamination due to an industrial facility””, proceedings of 2nd International Conference on  COMPUTER SIMULATION IN RISK ANALYSIS AND HAZARD MITIGATION, Bologna October 11-13/2000.
8. Bagli, S. Spadoni, G., (2000) “EHHRA-GIS: Un sistema di valutazione del rischio per la salute umana ”, Atti del Convegno VGR2K, Pisa, (I);
9. Bagli, S. Tesi di Dottorato “EHHRA-GIS: Un sistema informativo geografico di valutazione del rischio per la salute umana”
10. Bagli, S., J.M. Terres, F.J. Gallego, A. Annoni, J.F. Dallemand (2003): Agro-Pedo- Climatological Zoning of Italy. Definition of homogeneous suitable agro-pedoclimatic zones. Application to grain maize, durum wheat, soft wheat, spring barley, sugar beet, rapeseed, sunflower, soybean, tomato. Report EUR 20550 EN. 218 p.
11. Bagli S., Soille. P, “Morphological Automatic Extraction of Pan-European coastline from Landsat ETM+ images”. COASTGIS03 Fifth international symposium on GIS and computer cartography for coastal zone management. Integrating information in coastal zone management. Genova 16-18 october 2003;
12. Bagli S., Morra P, Spadoni G. “The EHHRA tool: a decision support system for assessing and managing human health risk from industrial activities”. 11th International Symposium Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries Loss Prevention 2004 31 May - 3 June 2004 * Praha * Czech Republic
13. P. Morra, S. Bagli, G. Spadoni. “Valutazione del rischio per la salute umana: uno strumento georeferenziato di calcolo e le sue potenzialitá illustrate in un caso di studio di un sito” Atti del convegno VGR 2004  (19-21 ottobre 2004)
14. P. Morra, S. Bagli, G. Spadoni “The Analysis Of Human Health Risk With A Detailed Procedure Operating In A Gis Environment” Submitted for publication in :ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL (editore Elsevier) (2005)
15. S. Bagli, Fonti Rinnovabili e Pianificazione Energetica GIS based: una applicazione per la Provincia di Rimini. ESRI USER CONFERENCE Rome 2005
16. P. Morra, S. Bagli, G. Spadoni .Valutazione del rischio per la salute umana: uno strumento georeferenziato di calcolo e le sue potenzialitá illustrate in un caso di studio di un sito Atti del convegno VGR 2004  (19-21 ottobre 2004)
17. P. Morra, S. Bagli, G. Spadoni .The Analysis Of Human Health Risk With A Detailed Procedure Operating In A Gis Environment Submitted for publication in :ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL (editore Elsevier) (2005)
18. S. Bagli, P. Morra, G. Spadoni. “A GIS based approach to map human health risk related to landfill disposal and incineration of wastes.” SETAC 16^th European Annual Meeting, The Hague 7-11 may 2006
19. D. Geneletti, S.Bagli, P. Napolitano, A. Pistocchi “Spatial decision support for strategic environmental assessment of land use plans. A case study in southern Italy” EIA Review's special issue of data and scale for SEA (in press), 2007