INTRODUCTION

 

During the academic years of 2014/15 and 2015/16, the two classes involved in the Acqua*Morfosi_d’Ambiente project participated in the field trips listed below:

 

    * Val di Solda (BZ): 10-12 October 2014

    * Ponte di Legno, Temù, Vezza d’Oglio, Sonico (BS): 29-30 April 2015 and 30 August 2015

    * Sellero, Darfo Boario Terme, Pisogne (BS): 26 October 2015

    * Ponte di Legno, Vezza d'Oglio, Darfo Boario Terme (BS): 30 April 2016

 

As the time went by, it became increasingly clear how deep, hidden and complex is the net of relationships between the different types of data. Water and environment are indeed highly linked together. Therefore it is necessary to adopt a multi-discliplinary perspective in our research.

 

We have a double objective:

 

     * to study how water modifies the environment which it flows through;

     * to study the traces which the environment leaves in the water that runs through it.

 

The main difference between the objectives A and B is the subject of the action: in A we look at water, in all its forms, as one of the several aspects that can change the environment. On the contrary in B we are interested in the changes the environment can cause on water it contains.

 

In A we want to read the territory through the wide view of Fluvial Geomorphology.

In B we want to get a measure of water’s quality. In order to do so, our analysis considers different types of elements: biological, physical, chemical, geomorphological and, where it is possible, socio-economic factors.

 

Within such a vast and two-fold aim, we dedicated our attention to superficial waters. In particular, the starting points of our work are some sections of River Oglio, the longest river among those near Brescia.

 

The environmental legislation currently in force in Italy is noted down in the Italian Decree Law no 152 of 3 April 2006. In a specific way, documents annexes to part III deal with superficial waters, highlighting the important elements to analyse and providing qualitative and quantitative information on water status.

 

How to use collected data?

 

After collection, it’s necessary to find a way for the data to be interpreted, in order to build a prediction model.

Data have to be compared both separately in each different type of analysis and across all of them. This is the hardest part of the work.

 

There are two possibilities:

 

     * From the data to a model: starting from data itself to guess relationships between variables and to get to a

       prediction model.

 

     * From a model to data: building a prediction model by other means different from our data, to  test it on collected

       data.