Managing the world's water resources requires professionals to have multidisciplinary knowledge and an integrated approach, involving the management of surface water, groundwater and river hydraulics.
Today, there is a need for professionals that can deal with many types of software and programming codes that allow them to build numerical models for developing comprehensive evaluations of the current and future conditions of the water resources.
In this opportunity, Hatarilabs provides the Diploma of Numerical Modeling of Water Resources using open source software that will help all the professionals interested in developing their knowledge and skills in water resources assessment and modelling and develop changes towards a sustainable management.
This diploma is developed in asynchronous mode that allows students to be more flexible in their schedule and enjoy of instructional materials during 06 months.
Note: This diploma is available since March 2022
Objective
Our main objective is to train the participants in the different tools for modelling water resources through the use of open source software.
Description of the Diploma content
The diploma is divided into 6 modules.
Module 1: GIS in Water Management
Teacher: Marycarmen Martinez Cd. pHD.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a powerful platform to develop solutions in water resources such as the estimation of water quality, the status of groundwater and their management at the regional and local scales. This course is theoretical and practical, designed to get to know the different tools of GIS and its applications to the management of water resources. No prior knowledge of GIS is required and is based on free software programs such as QGIS.
Content course: https://hatarilabs.com/cu-en/online-course-gis-in-water-management-with-qgis
Module 2: Python in Hydrology
Teacher: Saul Montoya M.Sc.
This course is focused on how to use the different packages related to numerical tools, data analysis, representation of graphs, and others. Many of these tools are applicable to the field of Hydrology in the preparation of data for hydrological models, statistical analysis of hydrological parameters and model result representation.
Content course: https://hatarilabs.com/cu-en/online-course-python-for-hydrology
Module 3: Hydrological Modeling with HEC-HMS
Teacher: Marycarmen Martinez M.Sc.
The Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) is a free program developed by the US Corps of Engineers that implements a series of hydrological methods to represent several physical processes of the water cycle. HEC-HMS also includes procedures necessary for continuous simulation including evapotranspiration, infiltration, hydrological routing and soil moisture accounting. The tools and options of HEC HMS make it a very versatile and powerful software for the hydrological simulation of different scenarios such as extreme events in arid regions, or water balances in wet climates.
Content course: https://hatarilabs.com/cu-en/online-course-hydrological-modeling-with-hec-hms
Module 4: Hydrological Modeling with SWAT+ & QGIS
Teacher: Saul Montoya M.Sc.
SWAT + allows simulating various physical processes in watersheds such as dividing watersheds into sub-watersheds, and dividing sub-watersheds into Hydrological Response Units, which are created based on the properties of land use, soil, and terrain topography. Model calibration is the most important and complicated part of the development of hydrological models and it is performed by carefully comparing simulated data vs observed data.
Content course: https://hatarilabs.com/cu-en/online-course-hydrological-modeling-with-swat-qgis
Module 5: Hydraulic Modeling with HEC-RAS
Teacher: Marycarmen Martinez M.Sc.
HEC-RAS is a software designed to perform hydraulic 1D and 2D calculations on river channels either natural or man constructed. It allows steady flow, unsteady flow, sediment transport and water quality modelling. It was developed by the US army corps of engineers, US Department of defence and it is openly available software. The HEC-RAS steady flow is based on a one dimensional energy equation, while for the unsteady flow, HEC-RAS uses an implicit, finite difference method to solve the fully dynamic Saint-Venant equations.
Content course: https://hatarilabs.com/cu-en/online-course-hydraulic-modeling-with-hec-ras
Module 6: Modeling Aquifers with MODFLOW 6 and ModelMuse
Teacher: Saul Montoya M.Sc.
This course develops the main functions and applications of the latest version of the MODFLOW 6 groundwater modeling code through the ModelMuse interface, both developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). This version includes innovative tools for the construction and simulation of hydrogeological models, mainly highlighting the incorporation of the discretization option for discretized vertex grids.
More information on this link. https://hatarilabs.com/cu-en/online-course-groundwater-modelling-using-modflow6-and-model-muse-2szwm
Trainers
Saul Montoya M.Sc.
Hydrogeologist - Numerical Modeler
Mr. Montoya is a Civil Engineer graduated from the Catholic University in Lima with postgraduate studies in Management and Engineering of Water Resources (WAREM Program) from Stuttgart University – Germany with mention in Groundwater Engineering and Hydroinformatics. Mr Montoya has a strong analytical capacity for the interpretation, conceptualization and modeling of the surface and underground water cycle and their interaction.
He is in charge of numerical modeling for contaminant transport and remediation systems of contaminated sites. Inside his hydrological and hydrogeological investigations Mr. Montoya has developed a holistic comprehension of the water cycle, understanding and quantifying the main hydrological dynamic process of precipitation, runoff, evaporation and recharge to the groundwater system.
Over the last 9 years Saul has developed 2 websites for knowledge sharing in water resources: www.gidahatari.com (Spanish) and www.hatarilabs.com (English) that have become relevant due to its applied tutorials on groundwater modeling, spatial analysis and computational fluid mechanics.
Marycarmen Martinez cd pHD.
Environmental Engineer - Sciences and Geosciences.
Miss Martinez is an Environmental Engineer from the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla (UPAEP) - Mexico with post-graduate studies in Science in Geosciences from James Cook University - Australia. Ms. Martinez has great analytical capacity to identify impacts based on GIS focused on the environment. She has extensive experience in risk and environmental impact, developing maps and models. She has participated in sustainable projects for rural communities and projects for the conservation and sustainable use of water and soil.
She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate of Science at the University of Monash-Australia where she is dedicated to researching the present and future distribution of coastal wetlands based on spatial analysis. In addition to her research, Marycarmen is actively involved in teaching GIS at the university as a teaching assistant.
Methodology
Mode: Asynchronous
Some details of the diploma methodology:
Registered participants are provided with credentials to login during 06 months.
Manuals, input files and exercises will be delivered.
The teaching part is developed by videos in our elearning platform.
Online support for questions regarding the course content.
Digital certificate available at approval of the final exam in each module and oficial diplomas at the end.
Cost and payment method
Price: $1250
Registry
After payment with Paypal, fill out the following registration form including the information related to your payment. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your registration.
For any other information please write to: saulmontoya@hatarilabs.com
