{"id":1267,"date":"2020-03-24T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/manna-piero\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:20:44","slug":"manna-piero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/en\/manna-piero\/","title":{"rendered":"Manna Piero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2610\" src=\"https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIERO-MANNA-immagine-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIERO-MANNA-immagine-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIERO-MANNA-immagine-779x1024.jpg 779w, https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIERO-MANNA-immagine-768x1010.jpg 768w, https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIERO-MANNA-immagine-1168x1536.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIERO-MANNA-immagine-1558x2048.jpg 1558w, https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIERO-MANNA-immagine-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/isafom.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIERO-MANNA-immagine-scaled.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong> Researcher<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>email:<\/strong> piero.manna@cnr.it<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Tel<\/strong> :+\u00a0 39 081.0624.<em>(int.568<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Education<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Degree in Agricultural Science and Technology, Ecological-Environmental track, final grade 110\/110, University of Naples Federico II, Faculty of Agriculture, Portici, 19 February 2002. Thesis on resistance to Phytophthora infestans in Solanum tuberosum and wild Solanum accessions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">PhD. in \u201cDevelopment and Management of Agro-Forestry Resources,\u201d carried out at DiSSPAPA (Department of Soil, Plant and Environmental Sciences), Faculty of Agriculture, Portici, in collaboration with CNR-ISAFOM, Ercolano. Research area: Applied Pedology. Thesis: \u201cNew approaches to Land Evaluation: a case study in the Lodi area.\u201d Degree awarded 16 February 2006.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Advanced training course \u201cTerritorial Analysis of Natural and Agricultural Resources,\u201d University of Naples Federico II, academic year 2002\u20132003. Topics: basic and advanced GIS, remote sensing, modelling, multivariate analysis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">European Summer School on Soil Survey, Institute for Environment &amp; Sustainability, JRC, Ispra, 21\u201325 July 2003.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Course on Applied Geostatistics for Soil Studies (basic module), University of Naples Federico II, 24\u201328 November 2003.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Seminars on Hydrological Models (CropSyst) applied to the soil-plant-atmosphere system, University of Milan, 3\u201313 November 2003.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Course on Soil Hydrology (basic module), University of Naples Federico II, 23\u201327 February 2004.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Course on Soil Hydrology (advanced module), University of Naples Federico II, 20\u201323 September 2005.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Intensive course \u201cMerging GIS and Spatial Statistics,\u201d University of Naples Federico II, 29 January\u20133 February 2007.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">MATLAB course (basic module), CNR-ISAFOM, 4 June\u20133 July 2008.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Distance-learning course \u201cSpatial Decision Support Systems,\u201d ITC (Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation), October\u2013November 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">ISPRA national seminar \u201cSoil and Biodiversity: opportunities for the new millennium.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Main Research Interests<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Applied Land Evaluation, with innovative and integrated approaches aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of the agri-food system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Hydrological modelling of the soil-plant-atmosphere system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Development of geospatial Decision Support Systems (DSS) for the management of soil, landscape and agricultural crops.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Viticultural zoning and terroir characterization.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Soil degradation and land degradation assessment at landscape and regional scale.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Soil contamination and precision remediation of potentially contaminated sites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Integration and validation of pedological and hydrological data within soil databases in support of soil-water process modelling and ecosystem services assessment.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Field and Laboratory Activities<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Soil sampling campaigns and field pedological and hydrological surveys, including profile description and field data-sheet compilation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Chemical and physical-hydrological analyses on soil samples.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Chemical analyses on soil samples by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Processing and analysis of pedological, hydrological and chemical field and laboratory data in support of Land Evaluation and modelling applications.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Current research on microplastics as soil pollutants, including the development and application of extraction methods for their isolation and characterization.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Current research on soil characterization by mid-infrared Fourier-Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, aimed at defining soil spectral signatures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">ORCID:<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0574-0465\"> https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0574-0465<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">IRIS CNR: <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.cnr.it\/simple-search?query=Piero+Manna\">https:\/\/iris.cnr.it\/simple-search?query=Piero+Manna<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">SCOPUS: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=25640030600\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=25640030600<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Projects links:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">LANDSUPPORT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landsupport.eu\/\">https:\/\/www.landsupport.eu\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">BENCHMARKS: <a href=\"https:\/\/soilhealthbenchmarks.eu\/\">https:\/\/soilhealthbenchmarks.eu\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">SOILS4MED: <a href=\"https:\/\/mel.cgiar.org\/projects\/1866\">https:\/\/mel.cgiar.org\/projects\/1866<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">TAIE:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/taieproject.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> https:\/\/taieproject.eu\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher email: 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