- Lacy, Shaw and Ugalde, Fernando and Mao, Luca (2018) Invasive Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Are Not Affected by Different Land Uses in a Multi-Use, Mediterranean Climate Landscape. Fishes, 3 (37). ISSN 2410-3888
- Arrospide, F and Mao, L and Escauriaza, C (2018) Morphological evolution of the Maipo River in central Chile: Influence of instream gravel mining. Geomorphology, 306 . pp. 182-197. ISSN 0169555X
- Diodato, N. and Mao, Luca and Borrelli, P. and Panagos, P. and Fiorillo, F. and Bellocchi, G. (2018) Climate-scale modelling of suspended sediment load in an Alpine catchment debris flow (Rio Cordon-northeastern Italy). Geomorphology, 309 . pp. 20-28. ISSN 0169555X
- Iroume, A. and Ruiz-Villanueva, V. and Mao, Luca and Barrientos, G. and Stoffel, M. and Vegara, G. (2018) Geomorphic and stream flow influences on large wood dynamics and displacement lengths in high gradient mountain streams (Chile). Hydrological Processes, 32 (17). pp. 2636-2653. ISSN 0885-6087
- Khosravi, Khabat and Mao, Luca and Kisi, Ozgur and Yaseen, Zaher and Shahid, Shamsuddin (2018) Quantifying Hourly Suspended Sediment Load Using Data Mining Models: Case Study of a Glacierized Andean Catchment in Chile. Journal of Hydrology . ISSN 0022-1694
- Lacy, Shaw Nozaki and Di Giminiani, Piergiorgio and Mao, Luca (2018) What defines a river? Modelling the interplay between physical and social driving factors in characterising the waterways in Chile. The Geographical Journal . ISSN 0016-7398
- Mao, Luca (2018) The effects of flood history on sediment transport in gravel-bed rivers. Geomorphology . ISSN 0169-555X
- Mazzorana, B. and Ruiz-Villanueva, V. and Marchi, L. and Cavalli, M. and Gems, B. and Gschnitzer, T. and Mao, Luca and Iroumé, A. and Valdebenito, G. (2018) Assessing and mitigating large wood-related hazards in mountain streams: recent approaches. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 11 (2). pp. 207-222. ISSN 1753318X
- Rainato, R. and Mao, Luca and Picco, L. (2018) Near-bankfull floods in an Alpine stream: Effects on the sediment mobility and bedload magnitude. International Journal of Sediment Research, 33 (1). pp. 27-34. ISSN 10016279
- Ravazzolo, Diego and Luca, Mao and Cristian, Escuriaza and Pablo, Pasten and Mauricio, Montecino (2018) Rusty river: Effects of tufa precipitation on sediment entrainment in the Estero Morales in the central Chilean Andes. Science of the Total Environment . ISSN 0048-9697
- Alcayaga, Hernan and Mao, Luca and Belleudy, Philippe and UNSPECIFIED (2017) Predicting the geomorphological responses of gravel-bed rivers to flow and sediment source perturbations at the watershed scale: an application in an Alpine watershed. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43 (4). pp. 894-908. ISSN 01979337
- Ravazzolo, Diego and Mao, Luca and Mazzorana, Bruno and Ruiz-Villanueva, Virginia (2017) Brief communication: The curious case of the large wood-laden flow event in the Pocuro stream (Chile). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 17 (11). pp. 2053-2058. ISSN 15618633
- Rainato, Riccardo and Picco, Lorenzo and Cavalli, Marco and Mao, Luca and Neverman, Andrew J. and Tarolli, Paolo (2017) Coupling Climate Conditions, Sediment Sources and Sediment Transport in an Alpine Basin. Land Degradation & Development, 29 (4). pp. 1154-1166. ISSN 10853278
- Picco, L. and Comiti, F. and Mao, Luca and Tonon, A. and Lenzi, M.A. (2017) Medium and short term riparian vegetation, island and channel evolution in response to human pressure in a regulated gravel bed river (Piave River, Italy). CATENA, 149 . pp. 760-769. ISSN 03418162
- Belletti, B. and Rinaldi, M. and Bussettini, M. and Comiti, F. and Gurnell, A.M. and Mao, Luca and Nardi, L. and Vezza, P. (2017) Characterising physical habitats and fluvial hydromorphology: A new system for the survey and classification of river geomorphic units. Geomorphology, 283 . pp. 143-157. ISSN 0169555X
- Mao, Luca and Picco, L. and Lenzi, M.A. and Surian, N. (2017) Bed material transport estimate in large gravel-bed rivers using the virtual velocity approach. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42 (4). pp. 595-611. ISSN 01979337
- Mao, Luca and Ugalde, F. and Iroume, A. and Lacy, S.N. (2017) The Effects of Replacing Native Forest on the Quantity and Impacts of In-Channel Pieces of Large Wood in Chilean Streams. River Research and Applications, 33 (1). pp. 73-88. ISSN 15351459
- Rainato, R. and Mao, Luca and García-Rama, A. and Picco, L. and Cesca, M. and Vianello, A. and Preciso, E. and Scussel, G.R. and Lenzi, M.A. (2017) Three decades of monitoring in the Rio Cordon instrumented basin: Sediment budget and temporal trend of sediment yield. Geomorphology, 291 . pp. 45-56. ISSN 0169555X
- Mao, Luca and Dell'Agnese, A. and Comiti, F. (2016) Sediment motion and velocity in a glacier-fed stream. Geomorphology, 291 . pp. 69-79. ISSN 0169555X
- Mao, Luca and Carrillo, R. and Escauriaza, C. and Iroume, A. (2016) Flume and field-based calibration of surrogate sensors for monitoring bedload transport. Geomorphology, 253 . pp. 10-21. ISSN 0169555X
- Mao, Luca and Carrillo, Ricardo (2016) Temporal dynamics of suspended sediment transport in a glacierized Andean basin. Geomorphology, 287 . pp. 116-125. ISSN 0169555X
- Sitzia, T. and Picco, L. and Ravazzolo, D. and Comiti, F. and Mao, Luca and Lenzi, M.A. (2016) Relationships between woody vegetation and geomorphological patterns in three gravel-bed rivers with different intensities of anthropogenic disturbance. Advances in Water Resources, 93 . pp. 193-204. ISSN 03091708
- Ulloa, H. and Iroumé, A. and Picco, L. and Mohr, C.H. and Mazzorana, B. and Lenzi, M.A. and Mao, Luca (2016) Spatial analysis of the impacts of the Chaitén volcano eruption (Chile) in three fluvial systems. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 69 . ISSN 08959811
- Wilcox, A.C. and Escauriaza, C. and Agredano, R. and Mignot, E. and Zuazo, V. and Otárola, S. and Castro, L. and Gironás, J. and Cienfuegos, R. and Mao, Luca (2016) An integrated analysis of the March 2015 Atacama floods. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (15). pp. 8035-8043. ISSN 00948276
- Dell'Agnese, A. and Brardinoni, F. and Toro, M. and Mao, Luca and Engel, M. and Comiti, F. (2015) Bedload transport in a formerly glaciated mountain catchment constrained by particle tracking. Earth Surface Dynamics, 3 (4). pp. 527-542. ISSN 21966311
- Bertoldi, W. and Welber, M. and Gurnell, A.M. and Mao, Luca and Comiti, F. and Tal, M. (2015) Physical modelling of the combined effect of vegetation and wood on river morphology. Geomorphology, 246 . pp. 178-187. ISSN 0169555X
- Brardinoni, F. and Mao, Luca and Recking, A. and Rickenmann, D. and Turowski, J.M. (2015) Morphodynamics of steep mountain channels. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40 (11). ISSN 01979337
- Iroumé, A. and Mao, Luca and Andreoli, A. and Ulloa, H. and Ardiles, M.P. (2015) Large wood mobility processes in low-order Chilean river channels. Geomorphology, 228 . pp. 681-693. ISSN 0169555X
- Kaless, G. and Mao, Luca and Moretto, J. and Picco, L. and Lenzi, M.A. (2015) The response of a gravel-bed river planform configuration to flow variations and bed reworking: A modelling study. Hydrological Processes, 29 (17). pp. 3812-3828. ISSN 08856087
- Picco, L. and Sitzia, T. and Mao, Luca and Comiti, F. and Lenzi, M.A. (2015) Linking riparian woody communities and fluviomorphological characteristics in a regulated gravel-bed river (Piave River, Northern Italy). Ecohydrology, 9 (1). ISSN 19360584
- Ravazzolo, D. and Mao, Luca and Picco, L. and Sitzia, T. and Lenzi, M.A. (2015) Geomorphic effects of wood quantity and characteristics in three Italian gravel-bed rivers. Geomorphology, 246 . pp. 79-89. ISSN 0169555X
- Ulloa, H. and Iroumé, A. and Mao, Luca and Andreoli, A. and Diez, S. and Lara, L.E. (2015) Use of Remote Imagery to Analyse Changes in Morphology and Longitudinal Large Wood Distribution in the Blanco River After the 2008 Chaiten Volcanic Eruption, Southern Chile. Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography, 97 (3). ISSN 04353676
- Ulloa, H. and Iroumé, A. and Picco, L. and Korup, O. and Lenzi, M.A. and Mao, Luca and Ravazzolo, D. (2015) Massive biomass flushing despite modest channel response in the Rayas River following the 2008 eruption of Chaitén volcano, Chile. Geomorphology, 250 . pp. 397-406. ISSN 0169555X
- Wainwright, J. and Parsons, A.J. and Cooper, J.R. and Gao, P. and Gillies, J.A. and Mao, Luca and Orford, J.D. and Knight, P.G. (2015) The concept of transport capacity in geomorphology. Reviews of Geophysics, 53 (4). pp. 1155-1202. ISSN 87551209
- Penna, D. and Engel, M. and Mao, Luca and Dell'Agnese, A. and Bertoldi, G. and Comiti, F. (2014) Tracer-based analysis of spatial and temporal variations of water sources in a glacierized catchment. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18 (12). pp. 5271-5288. ISSN 10275606
- Bertoldi, W. and Welber, M. and Mao, Luca and Zanella, S. and Comiti, F. (2014) A flume experiment on wood storage and remobilization in braided river systems. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39 (6). pp. 804-813. ISSN 01979337
- Dell'Agnese, A. and Mao, Luca and Comiti, F. (2014) Calibration of an acoustic pipe sensor through bedload traps in a glacierized basin. Catena, 121 . pp. 222-231. ISSN 03418162
- Kaless, G. and Mao, Luca and Lenzi, M.A. (2014) Regime theories in gravel-bed rivers: Models, controlling variables, and applications in disturbed Italian rivers. Hydrological Processes, 28 (4). pp. 2348-2360. ISSN 08856087
- Mao, Luca and Dell'Agnese, A. and Huincache, C. and Penna, D. and Engel, M. and Niedrist, G. and Comiti, F. (2014) Bedload hysteresis in a glacier-fed mountain river. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39 (7). pp. 964-976. ISSN 01979337
- Moretto, J. and Rigon, E. and Mao, Luca and Delai, F. and Picco, L. and Lenzi, M.A. (2014) Short-term geomorphic analysis in a disturbed fluvial environment by fusion of LiDAR, colour bathymetry and dGPS surveys. Catena, 122 . pp. 180-195. ISSN 03418162
- Moretto, J. and Rigon, E. and Mao, Luca and Picco, L. and Delai, F. and Lenzi, M.A. (2014) Channel adjustments and island dynamics in the brenta river (Italy) over the last 30 years. River Research and Applications, 30 (6). pp. 719-732. ISSN 15351459
- Picco, L. and Mao, Luca and Rainato, R. and Lenzi, M.A. (2014) Medium-term fluvial island evolution in a disturbed gravel-bed river (Piave River, Northeastern Italian Alps). Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography, 96 (1). pp. 83-97. ISSN 04353676
- Ravazzolo, D. and Mao, Luca and Picco, L. and Lenzi, M.A. (2014) Tracking log displacement during floods in the Tagliamento River using RFID and GPS tracker devices. Geomorphology, 228 . pp. 226-233. ISSN 0169555X
- Schneider, J.M. and Turowski, J.M. and Rickenmann, D. and Hegglin, R. and Arrigo, S. and Mao, Luca and Kirchner, J.W. (2014) Scaling relationships between bed load volumes, transport distances, and stream power in steep mountain channels. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 119 (3). pp. 533-549. ISSN 21699011
Staff Directory
Dr Luca Mao
Senior Lecturer
School of Geography
College of Science
About Luca Mao
I am a fluvial geomorphologist, with expertise in processes related to sediment transport, channel changes due to floods, and human impacts on fluvial systems. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Padua (Italy) and completed a post-doctorate at the University of Hull. I moved from the Catholic University of Chile, where I worked for 6 years on topics related to the dynamics and recent changes of Andean rivers. I am broadly interested in fluvial geomorphology, and especially on sediment transport in rivers, river morphodynamics, eco-morphological interactions, and river management. I have joined the School of Geography in July 2018 as a Senior Lecturer.
Subject Specialism
River science; fluvial geomorphology; hydrology
Orcid ID
0000-0001-8619-5221
Research Interests
river science
hydrology
fluvial geomorphology