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1st International LIFE REWAT

Summer School

Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling September 3rd—14th, 2018

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Pisa, Italy

OBJECTIVES

Rebalancing the water budget of the hydrologic system by means of innovative concepts (such as those of water-related

agroecosystem services and Nature-Based Solutions - NBS) is the main objective of the LIFE REWAT project.

Five demonstration measures (river restoration; managed aquifer recharge; reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation; high

irrigation efficiency scheme; leakage management in water distribution systems) are set in place for promoting water re-

source management, along with capacity building and participatory actions in a changing climate setting.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT; sen-

sors and software use) are widely used in order to monitor

the impact of such actions and to monitor quantitative and

qualitative status of the groundwater resource.

Taking steps from the LIFE REWAT activities, the Summer

School aims at proposing innovative ideas on water resour-

ce management by focusing on the concept of water-

related agro-ecosystem services and on NBS and blue infra-

structures. Digital tools (software applications) constitute

the other pillar of the Summer School, aiming at preparing

the participants to develop the skills for dealing with the

management and analysis of water-related spatial data by

using state-of-the-art ICT.

The Summer School Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling is organized within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project (sustainable WATer management in the lower Cornia valley through demand REduction, aquifer REcharge and river REstoration;

www.liferewat.eu).

The LIFE REWAT project takes place in the coastal Cornia plain (Tuscany, Italy). There, the aquifer system provides the only

source of water for drinking, irrigation, industrial purposes and it also contributes to the water needs of the nearby Elba

island. Since 60 years, intensive exploitation of groundwater resulted in consistent head lowering and water balance deficit,

causing subsidence, reduction of groundwater dependent ecosystems, and salinization of freshwater resources.

The Summer School is designed for early career scientists (MSc students, PhD students or post-doc), technicians from pu-

blic authorities (water authorities, river basin authorities, environmental protection agencies) and geo-environmental com-

panies, water utilities operators with at least a 1st level degree or an MSc degree in engineering, environmental sciences,

earth sciences, agricultural engineering, physics, mathematics, informatics.

As the Summer School will be held in English, applicants must have an advanced knowledge of the English language.

Because of the need of keeping ICT applied laboratory small, enrolment will be limited to a maximum of 24 participants.

The Summer School will be activated with a minimum of 12 participants.

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

Module I

Innovation in water

resource management:

water-related agroeco-system services and

nature based

solutions

The Summer School is structured in:

8 days of class lectures and practical exercises (software application);

a one-day Technical Trip at the innovative pilot schemes designed and

realized in Val di Cornia (Tuscany region, Italy) within the framework of

the EU LIFE REWAT project;

a one-day International Workshop where up-to-date application of the water-related agroecosystem services and

NBS concepts will be showcased by speakers drawn from relevant EU and international projects.

Class lectures and exercises are divided in four modules:

The teaching activities will make use of an extremely interdisciplinary approach granted by the diverse competences of the

key staff members. Theoretical and applied lectures will make use of real data collected at the Val di Cornia coastal plain

within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project.

The Summer School programme capitalises also on the experience of the FP7 MARSOL (www.marsol.eu) and H2020

FREEWAT (www.freewat.eu) projects.

Free and Open Source Software will be used for applied lectures. QGIS (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/) will be used as a GIS

desktop. The FREEWAT platform will be used in Module IV.

STRUCTURE AND TEACHING METHODS

Module II

Data management,

spatial data analysis

and geostatistics

Module III

Hydroinformatics:

introducing

programming to water resource

management Module IV

Numerical modelling

of groundwater flow

in aquifers

Applicants shall submit their application on-line through the website http://www.santannapisa.it/diwat/application no later

than July 17th 2018 at 12:00 AM (GMT).

The online application requires a registration and login procedure.

Applicants are required to attach:

an up-to-date CV in .pdf file

a presentation and motivation letter (500 words maximum)

other documents considered of interest (e.g., scientific publications,

awards, etc.)

a scanned copy of a valid passport/ID card

A Committee will evaluate the documents submitted by each applicant and will select the candidates eligible to attend the

Summer School, by producing a ranking list. Successful candidates will be notified by e-mail with an admission notice.

HOW TO APPLY

The Summer School enrolment fee amounts to € 400,00. It includes: attendance to all the lessons, lectures ’ handouts and

the canteen facility (lunch and dinner) during the 10 Summer School days (including the Technical Trip and the Internatio-

nal Workshop). Any other expense – such as visa, accommodation and travel costs, etc. – is to be covered by the partici-

pants.

The first 12 eligible students in the ranking list will benefit of a reduced fee of € 260,00 and free accommodation. The ac-commodation consists in a double room for 13 nights (from Sunday 2nd September to Saturday 15th September) in an apartment in a residence 15 minutes walking from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna premises.

ENROLMENT FEE

Participants are required to use their own laptop.

A final assessment test is foreseen at the end of the Summer School.

The acknowledgement of 5 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is envisaged for students attending

90% of the whole Summer School programme and passing the foreseen learning test. Training credits are foreseen for Ita-

lian engineers, geologists, agronomists on the basis of specific agreements signed with the respective professional bodies

in Italy.

Further information can be retrieved consulting the Summer School call for application (https://www.santannapisa.it/en/

education/advanced-education-courses).

Write to Rudy Rossetto ([email protected]) or Giovanna De Filippis ([email protected]) to get further

information on the Summer School programme and modules.

FURTHER INFO, ONLINE RESOURCES AND CONTACTS

CREDITS

LIFE REWAT project partners

LIFE REWAT project co-financers

This event is organised within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project. The REWAT project has received funding

from the European Union's Life Programme LIFE 14 ENV/IT/001290.

This leaflet reflects only the authors' views and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the

information contained therein.

Patronage

Supported by

1st International LIFE REWAT

Summer School

Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling September 3rd—14th, 2018

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Pisa, Italy

Programme of the Summer School - draft v.2

GWMod

Module III

Hydroinforma-

tics: introducing

programming to water

resource management

Module II

Data management,

spatial data analysis

and geostatistics

HydroData

Module I

Innovation in water

resource management:

water-related agroeco-

system services and

nature based solutions

InnoWaM

HydroInf

Module IV

Numerical modelling

of groundwater flow

in aquifers

09:00—11:00 Welcome and course introduction. The LIFE REWAT project

Rudy Rossetto - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

11:00—13:00 Nature Based Solution for Water and Sanitation: main typologies and applications

Fabio Masi - IRIDRA S.r.l.

13:00—14:00 Lunch break

14:00—16:00 Green Infrastructures for Sustainable Urban Drainage

Fabio Masi - IRIDRA S.r.l.

16:00—18:00 Data needs for effective coastal aquifer management - monitoring issues


Day 1 - Monday, September 3rd

09:00—11:00 Principles, advancements and standards in hydrogeological and environmental

data management

Ezio Crestaz - Joint Research Centre/EC

11:00—13:00 Design and Python development of simple tools to manage data workflow, from

data cleaning to data uploading to spatio-temporal database

Ezio Crestaz - Joint Research Centre/EC


14:00—16:00 The good and bad of agriculture: pharmaceutical removal from wastewaters and

N losses through leaching

Laura Ercoli - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

16:00—18:00 Managed Aquifer Recharge as a solution to drought and water scarcity


Day 2 - Tuesday, September 4th

GWMod HydroInf HydroData InnoWaM

09:00—11:00 Statistics and geostatistics with R

Enrico Guastaldi - GeoExplorer Impresa Sociale S.r.l.

11:00—13:00 Geostatistical Analysis of Spatial Data



14:00—16:00 Phytoremediation of inorganic and organic xenobiotics

Luca Sebastiani - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

16:00—18:00 The FREEWAT platform for simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport in

aquifers


Day 3 - Wednesday, September 5th

09:00—11:00 Multivariate Geostatistical Models


11:00—13:00 Developing hydrological modelling tools in QGIS

Iacopo Borsi - TEA SISTEMI S.p.A.


14:00—16:00 Programming Tutorial Part 1: implementing the model example in Python

language, and verification of its consistency


16:00—18:00 Programming Tutorial Part 2: building a GUI to run the model directly in QGIS,

using spatial data as input and output


Day 4 - Thursday, September 6th


09:00—11:00 Application of groundwater flow and solute transport models: implementing a

real model part 1


11:00—13:00 Introduction to Open Science principles and JupytherLab, from open data to re-

producible research

Massimiliano Cannata - Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana


13:00—14:00 Design and implementation of Python procedures for data quality assessment

of time-series from in-situ sensors


16:00—18:00 Production of graphical representations and reporting of time-series data with

publication as Open Data


Day 5 - Friday, September 7th

International workshop - Digital water and nature based solutions: innovative tools for sustainable water management

Aula Magna, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, h. 9:00 - 16:00

Dedicated programme on a separate sheet

Day 6 - Monday, September 10th

Field trip to LIFE REWAT innovative demonstrators

Val di Cornia (Tuscany), whole day

Dedicated programme on a separate sheet

Day 7 - Tuesday, September 11th


09:00—11:00 Application of groundwater flow and solute transport models: implementing a

real model part 2


11:00—13:00 Overview of MODFLOW-OWHM

Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation


14:00—16:00 Theory and Features of the Farm Process (FMP)


16:00—18:00 Introduction into FMP class exercises


Day 8 - Wednesday, September 12th

09:00—11:00 Build an FMP example model (definition of farms, crops, wells, climate)


11:00—13:00 Build an FMP example model (definition of features changing through time, effi-

ciencies, sw deliveries as non-routed deliveries)



14:00—16:00 Advancements to the FMP example model (build and add in SFR, add diversion

and semi-routed deliveries, change FMP-wells to MNW wells)


16:00—18:00 Advancements to the FMP example model (add a MAR storage pond and recovery

well field, add in unsaturated zone flow, add subsidence)


Day 9 - Thursday, September 13th


09:00—11:00 Examples & Applications and other new OWHM features


11:00—13:00 Modelling seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers: physics and approaches

Giovanna De Filippis - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna


14:00—16:00 Exercise: seawater intrusion in the Cornia plain coastal aquifer

Giovanna De Filippis - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

16:00—18:00 Course wrap up - final test


Day 10 - Friday, September 14th


SUMMER SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS

Fabio Masi is R&D Manager and Technical Director of the Italian engineering company IRIDRA Srl, since

1998 and Vice-President of Global Wetland Technology (companies association) since 2012. His back-

ground is a PhD in Environmental Sciences and a MSc in Environmental Chemistry. He’s the former Chair

of the IWA SG on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control. He is the project co-author for over 450

Designs of Constructed Wetlands worldwide and author of more than 90 scientific papers. He has been

consulting for Sustainable Water Management projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. He is

involved in EC funded projects in the FP5, FP7, MEDA, ENPI-CBCMED, Horizon202, Interreg and Life+ pro-

grams.

Module I

Innovation in water resource management: water-related agroecosystem services and nature based solutions

InnoWaM

Laura Ercoli is employed as Associate Professor of Agronomy and Field Crops and is Coordinator of the

PhD Course in AgroBioSciences at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy (http://www.santannapisa.it/

it/laura-ercoli). During her career she carried out research focusing on the study of relationships between

land use, cultural practices, climate, soil, and crop yield and quality, integrating knowledge from biology,

chemistry, soil science, ecology and genetics. She has also studied the role of soil for the disposal of in-

dustrial, urban and agro-food industry wastes by focusing on heavy metals as well as, more recently, on

emerging pollutants. In the latest years, she has broadened her interests on innovative practices of use of

microorganisms in agriculture and on communication between plant and microorganisms. She has au-

thored 175 national and international scientific papers, book chapters and editorships.

Luca Sebastiani is the Director of the Institute of Life Sciences at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa. He is a

professor in Arboriculture and Forest Systems and has published over 130 journal articles, reports, book

chapters, and a books. He is studying since 30 years the physiology of plant under abiotic stresses such

as drought, salinity, inorganic and organic xenobiotics. He serve as Associate Editor in Agricultural Water

Management, and is also active in the Editorial Board of Plant Growth Regulation and South African Jour-

nal of Botany.

Rudy Rossetto is Researcher at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the Summer School Coordinator. Rudy

deals with surface and subsurface hydrology and he holds a MSc in Earth Science from Uni. of Pisa (IT), a

MSc in Geoenvironmental Engineering from Cardiff Uni. (UK), and a PhD in Engineering Geology from Uni.

of Siena (IT). Main research fields are development and application of GIS integrated groundwater and

solute transport numerical models to water management issues (special focus on the Mediterranean

environment) and the analysis of functionalities of blue infrastructures (phyto-treatment plants and Man-

aged Aquifer Recharge schemes) for the provision of water related agro-ecosystem services. Rudy coordi-

nated the recently funded EU HORIZON 2020 FREEWAT project (FREE and open source software tools for

WATer resource management www.freewat.eu)) and WP8 leader in EU FP7 MARSOL (Managed Aquifer

Recharge as a solution to drought and water scarcity www.marsol.eu) Sant’Alessio induced riverbank

filtration case study. Coordinator of the Italian - Israeli bilater project PHARM-SWAP MED (removal of

PHARMaceuticals from the Soil-WAter-Plant continuum in MEDiterranean Environment) and technical

coordinator of the EU LIFE REWAT project (www.life-rewat.eu). Since 2012 he is Co-Editor in Chief of Ac-

que Sotterranee-Italian Journal of Groundwater (http://www.acquesotterranee.online/index.php/acque).

More info at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rudy_Rossetto

HydroInf

Ezio Crestaz is a geologist, holding also MSc in GIScience and Computer Science awarded by Manchester

and Hertfordshire Universities, UK. He has been working as geophysicist, groundwater modeler and geo-

spatial analyst at various ENI companies, since 1986. Operating in the geothermal, mining, water manage-

ment, environmental protection and remediation fields, he contributed to both local and regional scale

corporate and internationally funded (OLADE, UNDP, EC, World Bank) projects, in Italy and abroad. Fol-

lowing a one year Post-Doc position, he is currently working as Contract Agent at the JRC (Joint Research

Centre) of the European Commission, mainly focusing on WEFE (Water-Energy-Agriculture-Ecosystems)

nexus assessment in sub-saharian Africa (ACEWATER2 project). He has been contract professor in

groundwater hydrology (Camerino Un., 2006-2007) and GIS (Urbino Un., 2016), and guest lecturer in GISc

(Birkbeck College/UCL, London, 2010-2013). He (co)authored various scientific contributions in groundwa-

ter hydrology, spatial analysis, spatial databases and geospatial applications design and development.

Enrico Guastaldi is currently Project Manager at GeoExplorer Impresa Sociale Srl, an innovative start-up

of CGT - Center for GeoTechnologies of University of Siena in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy, and head the

Geophysics and Hydrogeology sector at CGT. He received the PhD in Earth Sciences at University of Siena

after his Master of Sciences in Mineral Resources and Environmental Geostatistics at the school of Pro-

cess, Environmental and Materials Engineering, Department of Mining Engineering, University of Leeds

(England), after his master degree in engineering geology at the university of Siena (Italy). He's working in

several environmental project all around the world at both local and regional scale, funded by private and

public bodies, concerning spatial data analysis, geostatistics, hydrogeology, geophysics, geology, that

constitute his main fields of interest. Enrico has almost 20 years of experience of applied projects in Eu-

rope and Africa and Caribbean where he conducts various activity, such as fieldwork, data analysis and

training and capacity building.

Module II

Data management, spatial data analysis and geostatistics

HydroData

Iacopo Borsi is an applied mathematician with more than 16 years of experience on modeling industrial

and environmental processes, with emphasis on physical modelling. Specific skill in flow in porous media

description, single and multi-phase, with particular interest in hydrological/hydrogeological processes

(groundwater flow and solute transport). Expertise in software tools, GIS modeling and programming

languages. Teaching experience at national and international level. Author of one monograph and more

than twenty-five papers in international journals. Reviewer for international journals on applied and in-

dustrial mathematics, environmental and chemical engineering. Since 2012, Co-editor in chief of Acque

Sotterranee-Italian Journal of Groundwater. Since 2013, Member of Managing Board of SIMAI (Italian Soci-

ety for Applied and Industrial Mathematics). Member of IAH and IAMGS (International Association for

Mathematical Geosciences). Iacopo is currently employed as Senior Environmental Modeler at TEA Sis-

temi SpA, an Italian private company delivering research and consultancy services in energy and environ-

ment sector.

Massimiliano Cannata is professor in Geomatics at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of South-

ern Switzerland (SUPSI) and head the division of geomatics within the Institute of Earth Sciences (IST-

SUPSI). He received the PhD in Gedoesy and Geomatics after his master degree in environmental engi-

neering at the Politecnico di Milano. He's currently active in the Open Source community (OSGeo Charter

Member, FREEWAT PSC, ZOO-project PSC, istSOS PSC) and his interests are mainly related to (i) monitor-

ing systems and data managements; (ii) GIS embedded environmental modeling; (iii) geospatial Web ser-

vices development; (iv) natural hazards assessment. Massimiliano has over 15 years of experience of

projects in Europe, Asia and Caribbean where he conduct both applied research projects, mainly funded

by Swiss National Science Foundation or European research programmes, and consultancy, mostly fund-

ed by Swiss Administration or World Bank.

Module III

Hydroinformatics: introducing programming to water resource management

GWMod

Wolfgang Schmid is a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial

Research Organisation (CSIRO). During his time at CSIRO, Dr Schmid has worked on (a) Sustainable water

management in Western Australia, (b) Integrated basin modelling projects in South Asia, (c) Bioregional

Assessments of the impacts of Coal Seam Gas and coal mining development on water resources, (d) Di-

rect, indirect and cumulative impacts of coal seam dewatering and related land subsidence, and (e)

Groundwater pathway analysis to assess impact of fraccing chemicals. Prior to joining CSIRO in 2012, Dr

Schmid worked as Assistant Research Professor and Research Hydrologist at the University of Arizona

mainly on computational solutions of water resources management in arid and semi-arid areas. He and

Randy Hanson from the USGS are the original authors of ‘The Farm Process’ for MODFLOW now integrat-

ed by the USGS California Water Science Center into MODFLOW-OWHM (http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/

modflow-owhm). Before that, Dr Schmid worked as Hydrogeologist in consultancies in Germany and the

United Arab Emirates for the German companies GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) and Dornier-

Consulting (subsidiary of EADS Germany) with emphasis on groundwater exploration, groundwater mod-

elling, and contaminant hydrogeology.

Giovanna De Filippis is post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Life Science at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

(Pisa, Italy). She holds an MSc degree in physics and a PhD in Earth Sciences from. Since 2012, she has been

dealing with numerical modelling applied to groundwater flow and related processes (e.g., solute transport,

conjunctive use of ground- and surface-water, crop growth modelling, density-dependent flow, sensitivity

analysis and model calibration). She holds digital skills related to the application of ICT software tools for

water resource management (GIS and programming languages). Since 2016, she has been collaborating to

relevant EU-funded projects (e.g., FP7 MARSOL, H2020 FREEWAT, LIFE REWAT). Teaching experience at na-

tional and international level. Co-author of about ten indexed and peer-reviewed scientific papers and

about forty national and international conference papers. Member of the IAH Association and co-chair of

the ECHN-Italy group since 2017. National Representative for the YHS group. Associate Editor of Acque

Sotterranee-Italian Journal of Groundwater.

Module IV

Numerical modelling of groundwater flow in aquifers

CREDITS

LIFE REWAT project partners

LIFE REWAT project co-financers

This event is organised within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project. The REWAT project has received funding

from the European Union's Life Programme LIFE 14 ENV/IT/001290.

This leaflet reflects only the authors' views and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the

information contained therein.

Patronage

Supported by

1st Summer School Digital water management and water ... · earth sciences, agricultural engineering, physics, mathematics, informatics. As the Summer School will be held in English,

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