The recent developments related to the current coronavirus have a large impact on our work as educational institutes. Many institutes have shifted their face-to-face educational activities to the virtual world. The IHE Delft partnership programme, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, supports several activities related to online education development and take this opportunity to actively share experiences gained with online education. To further support this initiative dr. Hans van der Kwast and Saul Montoya will host a webinar on ‘Open education perspectives for water resources - examples from GIS and Hydrogeology’.
Description
During this webinar Hans van der Kwast and Saul Montoya will share their experiences creating online educational resources, developing business models and dealing with challenges. Hans van der Kwast will start with a presentation on his experience converting his knowledge and teaching material into YouTube video tutorials on GIS. After his presentation a short Q&A session will follow. Saul Montoya will then continue with a presentation on his experience creating websites for knowledge sharing in water resources: www.gidahatari.com (Spanish) and www.hatarilabs.com (English), followed by a short interview. The webinar will end with the speakers answering questions from the audience.
To join the webinar please follow this link.
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About the speakers
Dr. Hans van der Kwast
Dr. Hans van der Kwast is Senior Lecturer in Ecohydrological Modelling at the Water Resources and Ecosystems Department at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. He finished a Master in Physical Geography at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2002 with a specialization in GIS and Remote Sensing.
In 2002 he was appointed at the Faculty of Geosciences of Utrecht University as a junior lecturer in GIS, lecturing theory and concepts of GIS and Remote Sensing to MSc students. In 2009 he finished his PhD at Utrecht University on the integration of remote sensing in spatial dynamic modelling of soil moisture using open source software and open data. During his previous work at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) in Belgium he participated in projects related to water quality, land-use change modelling and the use of remote sensing for urban applications.
Since April 2012 he is appointed as a lecturer at IHE Delft. In his teaching and capacity-development projects he actively promotes the use of open source tools and open data by young professionals from the water sector in the Global South. For this purpose he has developed free and commercial educational products and is coordinating eLearning with partners of IHE Delft. He is a QGIS certified lecturer and co-authored the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications. Furthermore he is a board member of the Dutch QGIS User Group.
Hans van der Kwast is coordinating elearning projects with IHE Delft partners.
Saul Montoya M.Sc.
Saul Montoya M.Sc. is a Hydrogeologist and 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.
