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
Rudy Rossetto - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
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
13:00—14:00 Lunch break
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
Rudy Rossetto - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
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
Enrico Guastaldi - GeoExplorer Impresa Sociale S.r.l.
13:00—14:00 Lunch break
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
Rudy Rossetto - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Day 3 - Wednesday, September 5th
09:00—11:00 Multivariate Geostatistical Models
Enrico Guastaldi - GeoExplorer Impresa Sociale S.r.l.
11:00—13:00 Developing hydrological modelling tools in QGIS
Iacopo Borsi - TEA SISTEMI S.p.A.
13:00—14:00 Lunch break
14:00—16:00 Programming Tutorial Part 1: implementing the model example in Python
language, and verification of its consistency
Iacopo Borsi - TEA SISTEMI S.p.A.
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
Iacopo Borsi - TEA SISTEMI S.p.A.
Day 4 - Thursday, September 6th
GWMod HydroInf HydroData InnoWaM
09:00—11:00 Application of groundwater flow and solute transport models: implementing a
real model part 1
Rudy Rossetto - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
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
14:00—16:00 Lunch break
13:00—14:00 Design and implementation of Python procedures for data quality assessment
of time-series from in-situ sensors
Massimiliano Cannata - Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana
16:00—18:00 Production of graphical representations and reporting of time-series data with
publication as Open Data
Massimiliano Cannata - Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana
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
GWMod HydroInf HydroData InnoWaM
09:00—11:00 Application of groundwater flow and solute transport models: implementing a
real model part 2
Rudy Rossetto - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
11:00—13:00 Overview of MODFLOW-OWHM
Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
13:00—14:00 Lunch break
14:00—16:00 Theory and Features of the Farm Process (FMP)
Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
16:00—18:00 Introduction into FMP class exercises
Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Day 8 - Wednesday, September 12th
09:00—11:00 Build an FMP example model (definition of farms, crops, wells, climate)
Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
11:00—13:00 Build an FMP example model (definition of features changing through time, effi-
ciencies, sw deliveries as non-routed deliveries)
Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
13:00—14:00 Lunch break
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)
Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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)
Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Day 9 - Thursday, September 13th
GWMod HydroInf HydroData InnoWaM
09:00—11:00 Examples & Applications and other new OWHM features
Wolfgang Schmid - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
11:00—13:00 Modelling seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers: physics and approaches
Giovanna De Filippis - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
13:00—14:00 Lunch break
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
Rudy Rossetto - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Day 10 - Friday, September 14th
GWMod HydroInf HydroData InnoWaM
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