Davide Poggi

Education:
  1. Laurea in Ingegneria Civile - Sezione Idraulica conseguita il 19 Dicembre 1998.
  2. Abilitazione alla professione di Ingegnere nella I sessione (maggio) dell'anno 1999.
  3. Inizio del Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Idraulica (XV ciclo)-1999
  4. Doctor of Philosophy in Hydraulic Engineering, May, 2002, Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti ed Infrastrutture Civili, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
  5. Post-Doc. Researcher, 2003-present, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences (with G.G. Katul) & Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (with J.D. Albertson), Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
  6. Post-Doc. Researcher, 2004-present, Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti ed Infrastrutture Civili, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Homepage at Polytechnic of Turin:
Research accomplishments at Politecnico di Torino:
    Note: Davide Poggi e' autore e coautore di numerose pubblicazioni pubblicate in riviste internazionali e presentate a congressi nazionali ed internazionali. I campi principali di ricerca sono: Influenza della dinamica della turbolenza nella interazione suolo-atmosfera; Dinamica della turbolenza di parete; Modelli stocastici di trasporto e diffusione; L'esperienza didattica di Davide Poggi include l'assistenza ai corsi di Meccanica dei Fluidi, Idraulica e Protezione idraulica del territorio.
  1. Poggi D, Porporato A, Ridolfi L, 2003, "Analysis of the small-scale structure of turbulence on smooth and rough walls", PHYS FLUIDS 15 (1): 35-46.
  2. Poggi D, Porporato A, Ridolfi L, 2002, "An experimental contribution to near-wall measurements by means of a special laser Doppler anemometry technique", EXP FLUIDS 32 (3): 366-375.
Research accomplishments at Duke University & Politecnico di Torino:
  1. Poggi, D., A. Porporato, L. Ridolfi, J. D. Albertson, and G.G. Katul, 2004, Interaction between large and small scales in the canopy sublayer, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 31, No. 5, L05102.
  2. Poggi, D., A. Porporato, L. Ridolfi, J. D. Albertson, and G.G. Katul, 2004, The effect of vegetation density on canopy sub-layer turbulence, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 111, 565-587.
  3. Poggi, D.,G.G. Katul, and J.D. Albertson, 2004, Momentum transfer and turbulent kinetic energy budgets within a dense model canopy, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 111, 589-614.
  4. Poggi, D.,G.G. Katul, and J.D. Albertson, 2004, A note on the contribution of dispersive fluxes to momentum transfer within canopies, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 111, 615-621.
  5. Katul, G. G., L. Mahrt, D. Poggi, and C. Sanz, 2004, One and two equation models for canopy turbulence, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 113, 81-109.
  6. Bohrer, G., H. Mourad, T. A. Laursen, D. Drewry, R. Avissar, D. Poggi, R. Oren, and G. G. Katul, 2005, Finite-Element Tree Crown Hydrodynamics model (FETCH) using porous media flow within branching elements - a new representation of tree hydrodynamics, Water Resources Research, VOL. 41, W11404, doi:10.1029.
  7. Katul, G.G., A. Porporato, R. Nathan, M. Siqueira, M. B. Soons, D. Poggi, H. S. Horn, and S. A. Levin, 2005, Mechanistic Analytical Models for Long-Distance Seed Dispersal by Wind, The american naturalist, vol. 166, no. 3, september. Press release from AmNat.
  8. Poggi, D., G.G. Katul, and J.D. Albertson, 2006, Scalar Dispersion within a Model Canopy: Measurements and Three-Dimensional Lagrangian Models, Advances in Water Resources , Advances in Water Resources 29, 326 - 335.
  9. Katul, G.G., J.J. Finnigan, D. Poggi, R. Leuning, and S. Belcher, 2006, The influence of hilly terrain on canopy-atmosphere carbon dioxide exchange, Boundary Layer Meteorology, 118, 189-216
  10. Cava, D., G.G. Katul, A. Scrimieri, D. Poggi, A. Cescatti, and U. Giostra, 2006, Buoyancy and the sensible heat flux budget within dense canopies, Boundary Layer Meteorology, 118, 217-240.
  11. Katul, G.G., D. Poggi, D. Cava, and J.J. Finnigan, 2006, The relative importance of ejections and sweeps to momentum transfer in the atmospheric boundary layer. Boundary Layer Meteorology, DOI 10.1007/s10546-006-9064-6
  12. Poggi, D. and G.G. Katul, 2006, Two-dimensional scalar spectra in the deeper layers of a dense and uniform model canopy, Boundary Layer Meteorology, 121, 267 - 281.
  13. Poggi, D., and G.G. Katul, 2007, The ejection-sweep cycle over gentle hills covered with bare and forested surfaces, Boundary Layer Meteorology, 122, 493-515.
  14. Poggi, D., G.G. Katul, J.D. Albertson, and L. Ridolfi, 2007, An experimental investigation of turbulent flows over a hilly surface, Physics of Fluids , 19, DOI: 10.1063/1.2565528
  15. Poggi, D., and G.G. Katul, 2007, Turbulent flows inside forested hilly terrain: the recirculation region, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133, 1027-1039.
  16. Poggi, D., and G.G. Katul, 2007, An experimental investigation of the mean momentum budget inside dense canopies on narrow gentle hilly terrain, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 144, 1-13
  17. Poggi, D., and G.G. Katul, 2008, The effect of canopy roughness density on the constitutive components of the dispersive stresses, Experiments in Fluids, 45, 111-121.
  18. Poggi, D., G.G. Katul, and M. Cassiani, 2008, On the anomalous behavior of the Lagrangian structure function similarity constant inside dense canopies, Atmospheric Environment, 42: 4212-4231
  19. Poggi, D. and G.G. Katul, 2008, Micro- and macro-dispersive fluxes in canopy flows, Acta Geophysica, 56: 778-800
  20. Poggi, D. and G.G. Katul, J.J. Finnigan, and S.E. Belcher, 2008, Analytical models for the mean flow inside dense canopies on gentle hilly terrain, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 134: 1095-1112
  21. Poggi, D. and G.G. Katul, 2008, Turbulent intensities and velocity spectra for bare and forested gentle hills: flume experiments, Boundary Layer Meteorology, 129: 25-46
  22. Katul, G.G., A. Porporato, and D. Poggi, 2009, Roughness effects on the fine-scale anisotropy and anomalous scaling in atmospheric flows, to appear, Physics of Fluids.
Book Chapters (peer-reviewed):
  1. Katul, G.G., D. Cava, D. Poggi, J.D. Albertson, and L. Mahrt, 2004, "Stationarity, Homogeneity, and Ergodicity in Canopy Turbulence", in Handbook of Micrometeorology: A Guide for Surface Flux Measurements, Kluwer Academic Press, ed. X. Lee, W. Massman, and B. Law, 161-180.
  2. Katul, G.G., C. Williams, M. Siqueira, D. Poggi, A. Porporato, H. McCarthy, and R. Oren, 2006, Spatial modeling of transgenic conifer pollen, in Landscapes, Genomics and Transgenic Conifers, ed. C. Williams, Springer, to appear. The results were presented at a workshop on Landscape Genomics and the paper received significant public attention. For example, the outcome of the model analysis were cited by the Global Justice Ecology Program in their press release Campaign Demands USDA Halt field releases of GE Trees.