Mauro Coltelli

Mauro Coltelli received the B.S. degree in geological sciences from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1984. He is currently a Geologist with the Research Staff at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy, where he is also currently the Head of Volcanology and Geochemistry. He is responsible of monitoring and forecasting Etna volcanic plumes, and he is the point of reference for national and international civil aviation agency (ENAC and ICAO). He has coauthored more than 50 scientific papers, presented in international conferences, and published in international journals and books. His main research interests include physics of the eruptive processes, fallout processes from explosive eruptions, volcanological studies applied to continuous monitoring of Etna and Stromboli volcanoes, tephrostratigraphic reconstruction of high-energy explosive eruptions of basaltic volcanoes, thermal transfer, rheology, and lava flow rate measurement on Etna, physical and morphological features of lava surface, lava topography, and volume using GPS and geographic information system techniques, aerial photogrammetry and digital topography generation, and accuracy assessment.