Gabriele

Villarini

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

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Research interests: Flood hydrology, extreme events, hydroclimatology, and climate predictions and projections.

Flooded farmhouse with debris in the water in the foreground — A Nebraska neighborhood during 2011 flooding along the Missouri River. Photo by Diana Fredlund, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Helping engineers design for waterways on a changing planet

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Trees and street signs partially submerged in river water with a buildings standing in floodwater in the background. — Flooding in Fenton, Missouri, in 2008. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino, FEMA

Climate change likely to drive more floods in some parts of the U.S., fewer in others

Portrait of Professor Gabriele Villarini. — Gabriele Villarini. Photo by David Kelly Crow

Hydrologist Gabriele Villarini joins Princeton Engineering

A tug pushing river barges on a river with an industrial plant on the shore. — Researchers found that water levels have made navigation more difficult for barges like these, shown during a 2012 drought near St. Louis. Photo by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Navigation on the Mississippi has worsened for decades

Three students look closely at a model of an architectural structure.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fundamental insights into the built and natural environments, and interactions between the two

Princeton campus and Guyot Hall

High Meadows Environmental Institute