During the course, students will learn: • Innovative and multi-disciplinary data acquisition, validation, processing and interpretation techniques for climate change evaluation, mitigation and adaptation; • How to merge and compare standard and innovative methods; • How to practically face climate change-related tasks, from problem setting and solving to dissemination of the results. After attending the course, students are expected to be able to: • Organize their individual/team work to face climate change-related topics; • Analyze these topics with multi-disciplinary and innovative approaches; • Design and manage a complete workflow to fulfill a task; • Select the most appropriate techniques for data acquisition and processing, according to the final purposes; • Validate and interpret the results and propose innovative solutions; • Return and disseminate their work by means of appropriate approaches and innovative facilities.

The students should have knowledge of the fundamentals of climate change evaluation/monitoring, adaptation and mitigation, as well as of applied geophysics and geomatics techniques.

Task 1 – Climate change evaluation and monitoring (20 h) • Introduction to multi-disciplinary innovative techniques for climate change evaluation and monitoring: study of glacial and periglacial environments as markers of climate change evolution with geophysics and geomatics, permafrost/snow/ice characterization with innovative techniques, monitoring of the ongoing processes, drone-borne vs. ground-based technologies for data acquisition, web platforms for data collection and restitution, correlation with hydro-meteorological time series and basic modeling of future scenarios. • Case study (team work): Data collection/acquisition, processing, interpretation. Merging of multi-methodological results, validation and interpretation. Organization of the work outcomes in a geographic information system and dissemination of the results. Proposal of innovative solutions. Task 2 – Climate change mitigation (20 h) • Introduction to multi-disciplinary innovative techniques for climate change mitigation: geophysics and geomatics for the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy applications (e.g. geothermal reservoir characterization), innovative data acquisition and processing methods, remote sensing and field monitoring, multi-methodological approaches, data integration, web platforms for data collection and restitution. • Case study (team work): Data collection/acquisition, processing, interpretation. Merging of multi-methodological results, validation and interpretation. Organization of the work outcomes in a geographic information system and dissemination of the results. Proposal of innovative solutions. Task 3 – Climate change adaptation (20 h) • Introduction to multi-disciplinary innovative techniques for climate change adaptation: innovation in geophysics and geomatics for monitoring and prevention of climate-change related natural hazards (e.g. water floods, landslides), management of water resources, analysis of infrastructures at risk, innovative data acquisition and processing methods, integration of multi-methodological approaches, web platforms for data collection and restitution. • Case study (team work): Data collection/acquisition, processing, interpretation. Merging of multi-methodological results, validation and interpretation. Organization of the work outcomes in a geographic information system and dissemination of the results. Proposal of innovative solutions.

The course is organized in a limited number of introductory lectures (20 h) and a dominant number of practical activities related to three tasks (40 h). Introductory lectures are aimed at providing the basics of the innovative methods applied in the tasks, through theory classes, analyses of literature case studies, technical notes preparatory to practical activities and presentation of dissemination strategies. During practical activities, students are required to work in teams to solve a case study related to one of the three modules of the course, involving lab and field activities, and organize the results in a final group project. All the teams will eventually contribute to the works of the other groups, by critical discussion on the results and proposal of alternative/innovative solutions. Lab/field activities may be subject to changes and reduction for A.A. 2020/2021. If the course will be held online, data for the development of the team works will be directly made available to the students (no data acquisition) and the acquisition details will be described and discussed with online supplementary material. Students will be required to organize their team activities with remote collaboration and web platforms for team working and data sharing.

• Lecture notes and slides presented during classes. • Scientific literature and supplementary material for task solving. • Commentaries on Climate, AGU Commentaries: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-9208.COMOC1

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Group project;

The final examination will consist in an oral interview aimed at evaluating knowledge and skills acquired by the students, with discussion on the group project related to one of the three tasks and on the topics covered during the course. It will be divided in two main parts: 1. discussion on practical team work activities and final group project (vote/30) 2. theoretical questions and discussion on innovative methods for climate change evaluation/monitoring, mitigation and adaptation (vote/30) The final grade is a weighted average of the results of the 2 previous evaluations, with weights: P1=0.50, P2=0.50. In particular, part 1 is aimed at evaluating the ability of the students to organize their team work to face climate-related topics and to critically analyze, process and intepret the available data with proper multi-methodological approaches and methods. Part 2 is devoted to the individual evaluation of the acquired theoretical and methodological aspects covered during the introductory lectures. The above rules are the same for both onsite and online exams. In the online mode, oral individual exams will be carried out in BBB platform. If BBB platform will be unavailable at the time of the exam, the teachers can organize the exam in an alternative platform familiar to the students (e.g. Skype, Zoom, Webex...). The exam calendar will be published on the course webpage after the deadline for exam enrollment. Students will be asked to show an identification document that will be compared with the personal data and photo available in the university database. A witness (not member of the board of examiners) will be present during the exam. Students will be asked to declare that they are alone in the room and not using any aid or support tool, they might be asked to share their screen for the discussion of the group project during the exam.

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Group project;

The final examination will consist in an oral interview aimed at evaluating knowledge and skills acquired by the students, with discussion on the group project related to one of the three tasks and on the topics covered during the course. It will be divided in two main parts: 1. discussion on practical team work activities and final group project (vote/30) 2. theoretical questions and discussion on innovative methods for climate change evaluation/monitoring, mitigation and adaptation (vote/30) The final grade is a weighted average of the results of the 2 previous evaluations, with weights: P1=0.50, P2=0.50. In particular, part 1 is aimed at evaluating the ability of the students to organize their team work to face climate-related topics and to critically analyze, process and intepret the available data with proper multi-methodological approaches and methods. Part 2 is devoted to the individual evaluation of the acquired theoretical and methodological aspects covered during the introductory lectures. The above rules are the same for both onsite and online exams. The exam calendar will be published on the course webpage after the deadline for exam enrollment and students will be asked to choose between online/onsite exam mode before the final schedule. In the online mode, oral individual exams will be carried out in BBB platform. If BBB platform will be unavailable at the time of the exam, the teachers can organize the exam in an alternative platform familiar to the students (e.g. Skype, Zoom, Webex...). Students will be asked to show an identification document that will be compared with the personal data and photo available in the university database. A witness (not member of the board of examiners) will be present during the exam. Students will be asked to declare that they are alone in the room and not using any aid or support tool, they might be asked to share their screen for the discussion of the group project during the exam.