CIOLFI MARCO

Position: TECNOLOGO

Type: T.I.

Phone: 0763-374933

Location: Porano (TR)

Research Lines: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecological processes

Research technologist, full-time permanent position.

Spatial and spatiotemporal modeling – Remote sensing – Geostatistics – Software development – Complex ecological systems analysis, survey design and field data collection – Stable isotopes and Isoscapes – Photogrammetry – GPS – GIS.

PhD in Sciences and Technologies for Forest and Environmental Management – Environmental Indices and Indicators – Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy.

Master Degree (Laurea) in Physics – Quantum Mechanics and Mathematical Physics – La Sapienza University, Roma, Italy.

 

Production

Latest articles:

  • Pace R, Endreny T A, Ciolfi M, Gangwish M, Saha S, Ruehr N, Grote R, Mitigation potential of urban greening during heatwaves and stormwater events: a modeling study for Karlsruhe, Germany. Scientific reports (2025) 15:5308. doi:10.1038/ s41598-025-89842-z.
  • Guidolotti G, Zenone T, Endreny T, Pace R, Ciolfi M, Mattioni M, Pallozzi E, Rezaie N, Bertolini T, Corradi C, Calfapietra C, Impact of drought on cooling capacity and carbon sequestration in urban green area, Urban Climate (2025) 59. doi:10.1016/ j.uclim.2024.102244.
  • Pace R, Chiocchini F, Sarti M, Endreny T A, Calfapietra C & Ciolfi M: Integrating Copernicus land cover data into the i-Tree Cool Air model to evaluate and map urban heat mitigation by tree cover, European Journal of Remote Sensing (2022), doi:10.1080/22797254.2022.2125833.
  • Ciolfi M, Chiocchini F, Pace R, Russo G, Lauteri M: Timescape: a novel spatiotemporal modeling tool, Earth 3:259-286 (2022), ISSN:2673-4834 doi:10.3390/earth3010017.

Software:

  • Toffee (2024) — Trees outside forest finding via Earth Engine – Toffee exploits the ease of Sentinel-2 imagery manipulation offered by Google Earth Engine to identify the TOF through optical indices and classify them by means of image segmentation techniques. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10986525.
  • Timescape (2020) Python3 release rev 1.1 GNU-GPL3.0 License, includes both projected and geographical coordinates – https://github.com/ciolfis/timescape.

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