First students graduate from the Master's degree in Environmental meteorology
Where: this is an online event
When: 4:30 pm
The first students of the international double degree in environmental meteorology, launched in 2018, are about to graduate.
The programme of study is offered jointly by the Universities of Trento and Innsbruck. At UniTrento, the academic departments involved are the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Physics, and the Agriculture Food Environment Center (C3A), established in 2017 as a collaboration between the University of Trento and Fondazione Edmund Mach. The number of students taking the admission tests and enrolling in the programme has increased constantly. The programme lasts two years: students attend the first year in Trento and the first semester of the second year in Innsbruck; in the second semester they start working on their thesis, in Trento, Innsbruck or elsewhere. All courses are taught in English, and students are required to write their master's thesis in English.
The programme of study fills a historical void in education in our country, where there weren't any university options in meteorology before this one.
The programme provides students with skills in meteorology (use of instrumentation for atmospheric measurements, data processing and analysis, use of models and formulation of forecasts) and knowledge in environmental systems and processes: monitoring and forecasting of the various components of the water cycle, air quality monitoring and management, services for agriculture, evaluation and management of renewable energy resources.
About the first graduates
The first students to graduate from the new master's programme are Michele Giurato and Tiziano Tasini.
Michele Giurato, with a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Milan, has written his master's thesis in collaboration with Milan-based Epson Meteo on improving the performance of a meteorological model to forecast storms.
Tiziano Tasini, with a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering from the University of Trento, focused his thesis on late frosts, analyzing data collected in the measurement campaigns of the GePri (Gelate Primaverili, spring frosts) project, carried out at the Maso delle Part experimental farm, which is part of Fondazione Edmund Mach.
The event will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering
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