Tsunamis and meteotsunamis

Sea level variations and trends, Adriatic seiches and surges, impacts on the coastal infrastructure

Kinematics and dynamics of the water masses in the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas

Hydrological trends, thermohaline circulation and climate fluctuations

Coastal oceanography

Interdisciplinary marine research, biogeochemical cycle and fisheries

New mathematical methods in oceanography

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS, CITATIONS AND REVIEWING

About 125 original peer-review scientific papers indexed in Web of Science

13 other peer-review scientific papers

More than 100 conference proceedings and presentations

About 2360 citations (ISI Web of Science), h-index = 28

Reviewer to several tens of papers for journals: Nature, Nature Communications, Global and Planetary Change, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Marine Chemistry, Marine Geology, Fisheries Oceanography, Deep-Sea Research, Continental Shelf Research, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Science of the Total Environment, Philosophical Transactions A, Ocean Science, Geophysical Model Development, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Frontiers in Marine Science, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Regional Environmental Change, Applied Ocean Research, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, Scientia Marina, Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Acta Adriatica, Geofizika, Journal of Geological Research, Advances in Meteorology

Guest Editor for special issues Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (2009) and Natural Hazards (2014, 2020) on meteorological tsunamis and Pure and Applied Geophysics (2018) on meteorology and climatology of the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

Reviewer of the projects for MMinistry of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS), USA National Science Foundation (NSF), Estonian Science Foundation (ETAG), Croatian Foundation for Science (HRZZ), Unity Through Knowledge Fund (UKF), Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space
 

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Italy (Miroslav Gacic, Giuseppe Civitarese, Simone Cosoli)

CNR-ISMAR - Trieste Unit, Italy (Fabio Raicich)

CNR-ISMAR – Venezia Unit, Italy (Sandro Carniel, Andrea Bergamasco)

University of Ancona, Italy (Aniello Russo)

University of Bologna (Stefano Tinti)

Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies - IMEDEA, University of Balearic Islands, Spain (Sebastian Monserrat, Marta Marcos, Gabriel Jorda, Damia Gomis)

Puertos del Estado, Spain (Begona Perez)

National Oceanographic Centre, UK (Mikis Tsimplis, Phil Woodworth)

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Nedjeljka Žagar)

Desert Research Institute, USA (Darko Koračin)

Office of Naval Research, USA (Jeff Book, Paul Martin)

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre, USA (Paul Whitmore)

Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada (Isaak Fain, Richard Thomson)

RAS Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia (Alexander Rabinovich)
 

CURRENT PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES (LEADERSHIP BOLDED)

2017-: The Adriatic decadal and interannual oscillations: observations, modelling and consequences (ADIOS), Croatian Science Foundation, Principal Investigator

2016-: BLUEMED, Horizon 2020 project, Coordinated and Support Action, IOF coordinator

2015-: Meteotsunamis, destructive long ocean waves in the tsunami frequency band: from observations and simulations towards a warning system (MESSI), UKF Fund project, researcher

2015-: Sclerochronology as a tool for detecting long-term Adriatic environmental changes (SCOOL), Croatian Science Foundation, researcher

2014-: Bio-tracing Adriatic water masses (BIOTA), Croatian Science Foundation Installation Grant, consultant

2013-: Towards an alliance of European research fleets (EUROFLEET-II), FP7 project, researcher

 

FINISHED PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES (LEADERSHIP BOLDED)

2015-2017: Praćenje potencijalno opasnih oscilacija razine mora i njihov doprinos poplavama obalnih područja u budućoj klimi (POZOR), Fund for Environment and Energetic Efficiency, researcher

2013-2015: Strengthening common reaction capacity to fight sea pollution of oil, toxic and hazardous substances in Adriatic Sea (HAZADR), IPA CBC Adriatic project, researcher

2011-2015: Policy-oriented marine environmental research for the Southern European Seas (PERSEUS), FP7 project, researcher

2013-2015: Interpreting and forecasting Adriatic surface currents by an artificial brain (NEURAL), UKF Fund project, Principal Investigator

2007-2013: Investigations and monitoring systems for the unusual Adriatic dynamics, national research grant 001-0013077-1122, project leader

2007-2013: The role of the planktonic communities in the energy and substance cycles in the Adriatic Sea, national research grant 001-0013077-0845, researcher

2011-2013: Towards a meteotsunami warning system along the U.S. coastline (TMEWS), NOAA/NWS USA Department of Commerce grant NA11NWS4670005, Principal Investigator

2006-2011: Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Changes (SESAME), EU FP6 project, researcher

2009-2010: Application of advanced algorithms in operational oceanography (IP-OCEAN), national IT project, project manager

2007-2008: North Adriatic Surface Current Mapping (NASCUM), Croatian-Italian project Interreg IIIa, researcher

1998-2008: Project ADRIATIC, national monitoring programme, researcher

2005-2007: Internal Tidal Hydrodynamics and Ambient Characteristics of the Adriatic (ITHACA) - bilateral USA-Croatian project, researcher

2003-2006: Atmosphere-Adriatic system, national research grant 0119330, researcher

2004-2006: Structural and trophic changes in the Adriatic shelf pelagial, national research grant 0001001, researcher

2005-2006: ADRICOSM EXTension, multilateral project of the Adriatic countries, researcher 2001-2005: European Sea Level Service – Research Infrastructure (ESEAS-RI), EU FP5 funded project, researcher and coordinator for Hydrographic Institute

2004-2005: Weather and climate of the Adriatic Sea, national IT project, project manager

2003-2004: A course in oceanography, national IT project, project manager

2001-2004: East Adriatic Circulation Experiment (EACE) – bilateral American-Croatian project, researcher

2001-2002: Adriatic sea level and tides on-line, national IT project, project leader

2000-2001: Sea level in the northern Adriatic - phenomenological aspects and modelling, bilateral Italian-Croatian project, researcher

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES AND ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES

Meteotsunamis and High-Frequency Sea-Level Phenomena of Meteorological Origin, AGU Fall Meeting Session, San Francisco, USA, 3-7 December 2012, Lead Convener

International Symposium on 80th Anniversary of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries: Towards the Excellence in Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, 21-22. listopad 2010, Organisation Committee member

International Symposium on Meteotsunamis: 30th Anniversary of the Great Flood of Vela Luka on 21 June 1978, Vela Luka, Croatia, 19-21 June 2008, Chair of the Organising Committee

Sea Level Variations: Towards an Operational European Sea Level Service, Final Workshop of ESEAS-RI project, Split, 5-6 October 2005, Chair of the Organising Committee

Sea Level in Europe: Observation, Interpretation and Exploitation, Final Workshop of COST40 Action, Dubrovnik, 19-21. rujan 2001, Organisation Committee member

Tide tables - eastern Adriatic coast, annual publication of the Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia, editor 1995-2003

Report on sea level measurements along the eastern Adriatic coast, annual publication of the Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia, editor 1995-2003