Dr Edoardo Daly - Researcher Profile

Biography

Edoardo 's research focuses on the understanding and modeling of the hydrological processes that determine the temporal and spatial soil water dynamics and related biogeochemical processes both in rural and urban environments. Since these dynamics are strongly nonlinear and deterministically unpredictable, part of his research is dedicated to the study of general nonlinear dynamical systems and stochastic processes that can find applications in hydrology.

Related Links:

• American Geophysical Union
• National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training

Keywords

Stochastic soil-moisture dynamics, eco-hydrology, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, land-atmosphere interaction

Qualifications

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING

Institution: Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

Year awarded: 2005

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Institution: Polytechnic of Turin

Year awarded: 2000

Publications

Book Chapters

Daly, E., Katul, G.G., Porporato, A., 2007, Ecohydrology: Water, carbon and nutrient cycling in the soil-plant atmosphere continuum, in The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering, eds Jacques W. Delleur, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL USA, pp. 1-42.

Journal Articles

Daly, E., Deletic, A., Hatt, B.E., Fletcher, T., 2012, Modelling of stormwater biofilters under random hydrological variability: a case study of a car park at Monash University, Victoria (Australia), Hydrological Processes [E], vol 26, issue 22, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK, pp. 3416-3424.

Orellana, F.A., Verma, P., Loheide, S.P., Daly, E., 2012, Monitoring and modeling water-vegetation interactions in groundwater-dependent ecosystems, Reviews of Geophysics [P], vol 50, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC USA, pp. 1-24.

Perona, P., Daly, E., Crouzy, B., Porporato, A., 2012, Stochastic dynamics of snow avalanche occurrence by superposition of Poisson processes, Proceedings Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences [P], vol 468, issue 2148, The Royal Society, London UK, pp. 4193-4208.

Verma, P., Yeates, J., Daly, E., 2011, A stochastic model describing the impact of daily rainfall depth distribution on the soil water balance, Advances in Water Resources [P], vol 34, issue 8, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 1039-1048.

Porporato, A., Kramer, P., Cassiani, M., Daly, E., Mattingly, J., 2011, Local kinetic interpretation of entropy production through reversed diffusion, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [P], vol 84, issue 4, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 1-11.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2010, Effect of different jump distributions on the dynamics of jump processes, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [P], vol 81, issue 6, American Physical Society (APS), USA, pp. 1-10.

Suweis, S., Rinaldo, A., Van der Zee, S., Daly, E., Maritan, A., Porporato, A., 2010, Stochastic modeling of soil salinity, Geophysical Research Letters [P], vol 37, American Geophysical Union, USA, pp. 1-5.

Daly, E., Zinger, Y., Deletic, A., Fletcher, T.D., 2009, A possible mechanism for soil moisture bimodality in humid-land environments, Geophysical Research Letters [P], vol 36, American Geophysical Union, USA, pp. 1-5.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2009, Correlation-anti-correlation transition by state-dependent Poisson noise, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena [P], vol 238, issue 2, Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 170-174.

Daly, E., Palmroth, S., Stoy, P.C., Siqueira, M.B., Oishi, C.A., Juang, J., Oren, R., Porporato, A., Katul, G.G., 2009, The effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen amendments on subsurface CO2 production and concentration dynamics in a maturing pine forest, Biogeochemistry [P], vol 94, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 271-287.

Daly, E., Oishi, C.A., Porporato, A., Katul, G.G., 2008, A stochastic model for daily subsurface CO2 concentration and related soil respiration, Advances in Water Resources, vol 31, issue 7, Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 987-994.

Botter, G., Daly, E., Porporato, A., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., Rinaldo, A., 2008, Probabilistic dynamics of soil nitrate: Coupling of ecohydrological and biogeochemical processes, Water Resources Research, vol 44, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington DC USA, pp. 1-15.

Viola, F., Daly, E., Vico, G., Cannarozzo, M., Porporato, A., 2008, Transient soil-moisture dynamics and climate change in Mediterranean ecosystems, Water Resources Research, vol 44, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington DC USA, pp. 1-12.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2007, Intertime jump statistics of state-dependent Poisson processes, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [P], vol 75, American Physical Society (APS), USA, pp. 1-6.

Porporato, A., Rigby, J.R., Daly, E., 2007, Irreversibility and fluctuation theorem in stationary time series, Physical Review Letters, vol 98, American Physical Society (APS), USA, pp. 1-4.

Katul, G.G., Porporato, A., Daly, E., Oishi, C.A., Kim, H., Stoy, P.C., Juang, J., Siqueira, M.B., 2007, On the spectrum of soil moisture from hourly to interannual scales, Water Resources Research, vol 43, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington DC USA, pp. 1-10.

Botter, G., Porporato, A., Daly, E., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., Rinaldo, A., 2007, Probabilistic characterization of base flows in river basins: Roles of soil, vegetation, and geomorphology, Water Resources Research, vol 43, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington DC USA, pp. 1-17.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2006, Impact of hydroclimatic fluctuations on the soil water balance, Water Resources Research, vol 42, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington DC USA, pp. 1-11.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2006, Probabilistic dynamics of some jump-diffusion systems, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [P], vol 73, American Physical Society (APS), USA, pp. 1-7.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2006, State-dependent fire models and related renewal processes, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [P], vol 74, American Physical Society (APS), USA, pp. 1-9.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2005, A review of soil moisture dynamics: From rainfall infiltration to ecosystem response, Environmental Engineering Science, vol 22, issue 1, Mary Ann Liebert Inc, USA, pp. 9-24.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2005, Some self-similar solutions in river morphodynamics, Water Resources Research, vol 41, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC USA, pp. 1-5.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2004, A note on groundwater flow along a hillslope, Water Resources Research, vol 40, American Geophysical Union, USA, pp. 1-5.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., 2004, Coupled dynamics of photosynthesis, transpiration and soil water balance. Part I: Upscaling from hourly to daily level, Journal of Hydrometeorology, vol 5, American Meteorological Society (AMS), USA, pp. 546-558.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., 2004, Coupled dynamics of photosynthesis, transpiration and soil water balance. Part II: Stochastic analysis and ecohydrological significance, Journal of Hydrometeorology, vol 5, American Meteorological Society (AMS), Boston MA USA, pp. 559-566.

Daly, E., Porporato, A., 2004, Similarity solutions of nonlinear diffusion problems related to mathematical hydraulics and the Fokker-Planck equation, Physical Review E, vol 70, American Physical Society (APS), USA, pp. 1-8.

Porporato, A., Daly, E., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., 2004, Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change, American Naturalist, vol 164, University of Chicago, Chicago ILL USA, pp. 625-632.

Conference Proceedings

Zhang, K., Filip, S., Chandrasena, K.K.G., McCarthy, D.T., Daly, E., Pham, T., Kolotelo, P.A., Deletic, A., 2012, Micro-pollutant removal in stormwater biofilters: a preliminary understanding from 3 challenge tests, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design, 21 February 2012 to 23 February 2012, Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-8.

Lintern, A., Daly, E., Deletic, A., 2012, Verifying a stormwater biofiltration model, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling Belgrade 2012, 4 September 2012 to 6 September 2012, Faculty of Engineering University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia, pp. 1-11.

Other

Ross, A.E., Kouyi, G., Fletcher, T., Molle, P., Chocat, B., Calla, M., Daly, E., Deletic, A., 2011, Hydraulic modelling of constructed reed-bed wetlands for stormwater treatment, Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Urban Drainage, Acqua Consultoria, Brazil.

Lintern, A., Daly, E., Duncan, H., Hatt, B., Fletcher, T., Deletic, A., 2011, Key design characteristics that influence the performance of stormwater biofilters, Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Urban Drainage, Acqua Consultoria, Brazil.

Teaching Commitment

CIV2263 - Water Systems

CIV2207 - Computing and Water Systems Modelling

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Development of a Model for Soil Salinity and its Interaction with Vegetation.

Supervisors:

Daly, E (Main), Pauwels, V (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Examining the environmental impacts of gas extraction on groundwater in Australia.

Supervisors:

Mudd, G (Main), Daly, E (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Groundwater and surface water interaction in a coastal setting - East Gippsland, Victoria..

Supervisors:

Cartwright, I (Main), Daly, E (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Impacts of climate variability and climate change on water availability for vegetation at a river basin scale.

Supervisors:

Daly, E (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Integration of stormwater harvesting and baseflow restoration measures to restore catchment low flow hydrology..

Supervisors:

Fletcher, T (Main), Beringer, J (Associate), Daly, E (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Investigation and modeling of groundwater dependent ecosystem.

Supervisors:

Daly, E (Main), Cartwright, I (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Application of Remote Sensing in Soil Moisture Monitoring.

Supervisors:

Walker, J (Main), Rudiger, C (Associate), Daly, E (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Kabir, M.

Program of Study:

Long-term impact study for climate change in the shallow unconfined groundwater recharge in Ranger uranium mine. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Mudd, G (Main), Daly, E (Associate).

Student:

Niculescu, A.

Program of Study:

Water and soil CO2 fluxes in a biofiltration system. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Daly, E (Main), Deletic, A (Associate), Beringer, J (Associate).

Student:

Orellana Martinez, F.

Program of Study:

Estimation and Modelling of the Water Balance in Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Daly, E (Main), Cartwright, I (Associate).