Dr. Anna Costa
Dr. Anna Costa
Lecturer at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
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Additional information
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2024
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 102-0528-01L | Experimental and Computer Laboratory (Year Course) |
Education
- PhD student, ETH Zurich, Chair of Hydrology and Water Resources Managment - SNF Sinergia SEDFATE Project “Sediment fate in a changing watershed during the Anthropocene”, 2014 - 2018
- Master of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Water Resources, ETH Zurich - 2013
- M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Trento (Italy) - 2006
Research Interests
My main interests are in hydrology and basin-scale sediment dynamics, with a focus on the impacts of climate and human activities on sediment sources and sediment fluxes in mountainous regions. I am interested in hillslope and glacier erosion, and high-elevation geomorphology. My current research focuses on the effects of hydroclimatic forcing and hydropower plants on spatial and temporal patterns of sediment fluxes in large Alpine catchments.
Publications
- Silva T.A., Girardclos S., Stutenbecker L., Bakker M., Costa, A., Schlunegger, F., Lane S.N., Molnar P., J.-L. Loizeau, The sediment budget and dynamics of a delta-canyon-lobe system over the Anthropocene timescale: the Rhone River Delta, Lake Geneva, Sedimentology, under review.
- Costa A., Anghileri D., Molnar P., external pageHydroclimatic control on suspended sediment dynamics of a regulated Alpine catchment: a conceptual approach, HESSD, doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-5.
- Bakker M., Costa A., Silva T.A., Stutenbecker L., Girardclos S., Loizeau J.-L., Molnar P., Schlunegger F., and Lane S.N., external pageCombined flow abstraction and climate change impacts on an aggrading Alpine river, Water Resour. Res. Accepted Author Manuscript, doi:10.1002/2017WR021775.
- Stutenbecker L., Delunel R., Schlunegger F., Silva T.A., Segvic B., Girardclos S., Bakker M., Costa A., Lane S.N., Loizeau J.-L., Molnar P., Akar N., Christl M., external pageReduced sediment supply in a fast eroding landscape? A multi-proxy sediment budget of the upper Rhne basin, Central Alps, Sediment. Geol., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.12.013.
- Costa A., Molnar P., Stutenbecker L., Bakker M., Silva T. A., Schlunegger F., Lane S. N., Loizeau J.- L., and Girardclos S., external pageTemperature signal in suspended sediment export from an Alpine catchment, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. (accepted), https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-2.
- Stutenbecker L., Costa A. and Schlunegger, F., external pageLithological control on the landscape form of the upper Rhone Basin, Central Swiss Alps, Earth Surf. Dynam., 4, 253-272, doi:10.5194/esurf-4-253-2016.
Conference Contributions
2017
- Costa A., Molnar P., Schmitt R.J.P. (Dec. 2017) Flow regulation in the Swiss Alps: a river network modelling approach to investigate the impacts on bed load and grain size distribution. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA (Presentation)
- Stutenbecker L., Costa A. (presenter), Anghileri D., Bakker M., Lane S.N., Molnar P., Schlunegger F.,(Dec. 2017) Combining sediment fingerprinting and a conceptual model for erosion and sediment transfer to explore sediment sources in an Alpine catchment. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA (Presentation)
- Costa A., Molnar P., Schmitt R.J.P. (Nov. 2017) River network bedload model: a tool to investigate the impacts of flow regulation on bed load and grain size in a large Alpine basin. 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Davos, Switzerland (Presentation)
- Costa A., Molnar P. (Apr. 2017) River network bedload model: a tool to investigate the impact of flow regulation on grain size distribution in a large Alpine catchment. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (Poster)
- Costa A., Anghileri D., Molnar P. (Apr. 2017) A spatially distributed conceptual model for estimating suspended sediment yield in Alpine catchments. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (Presentation)
2016
- Costa A., Anghileri D., Molnar P. (Dec. 2016) A Novel Process-Based Sediment Rating Curve to Explain Changes in Fine Sediment Yield in the Rhone Basin. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (Poster)
- Costa A., Stutenbecker L., Silva T.A., Bakker M., Molnar P., Schlunegger F., Girardclos S., LoizeauJ.-L., Lane S.N (Nov. 2016) Temperature signal in ne sediment dynamics of the Upper Rhone basin. 14th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland (Presentation)
- Costa A., Molnar P., Stutenbecker L., Schlunegger F., Lane S.N., Bakker M. (Apr. 2016) Climatebase analysis of spatial and temporal distribution of ne sediment sources in an Alpine environment. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (Poster)
2015
- Costa A., Molnar P., Schlunegger F., Stutenbecker L., Lane S.N., Bakker M., (Nov. 2015) The relation between suspended sediment loads and climate in a regulated Alpine catchment. 13th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Basel, Switzerland (Presentation)
- Costa A., Molnar P., Lane S.N., Bakker M. (Apr. 2015) Impact of river regulation on potential sediment mobilization and transport in an Alpine catchment. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (Poster)
2014
- Costa A., Molnar P., Lane S.N., Bakker M., (Nov. 2014) Impact of river regulation on potential sediment mobilization. 12th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland (Poster)