Applied hydrogeological modelling services: successful conclusion of the course financed by the Sicilian Region and run by Rudy Rossetto, researcher at the Institute of Crop Science of the Sant'Anna School
Training for technical staff to develop skills in the field of groundwater management and to provide support for numerical modelling in the Hydrographic District of Sicily
The course on applied hydrogeological modelling promoted by the Sicilian Region and implemented by the Sant'Anna School in cooperation with the Basin Authority of the Hydrographic District of Sicily within the framework of the Operational Plan Environment FSC 2014-2020 - Axis 2 - Line of Action 2.3.1, financed by the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea, has been successfully concluded.
The course, held by Rudy Rossetto, assistant professor at the Institute of Crop Science of the Sant'Anna School, was aimed at training technical staff to create skills in groundwater management and provide support for the numerical modelling of the flow of specific water bodies, and was attended not only by officials of the Basin Authority, but also by PhD and PhD students, research fellows, and research assistants from the Universities of Palermo, Catania and Messina.
The training activity is part of the Project financed by the Sicilian Region on Interventions for the improvement of the quality of water bodies, in which the Sant'Anna School is collaborating in Line of Intervention L4 - Strengthening, adaptation and implementation of the quantitative monitoring network of groundwater bodies - definition of conceptual models. The project aims to produce a synthesis of the available information on the hydrogeology of the Sicilian territory, by means of numerical models of aquifer flow, and to carry out further in-depth studies on the problems related to the management of groundwater resources.
The title of the course has been inspired by the activities developed by the Sant'Anna School as coordinator of the European project FREEWAT ‘FREE and open source software tools for WATer resource management’, financed within the Horizon 2020 Programme, and of the subsequent PRIMA NEXUS-NESS project in which the Sant'Anna School is a partner, financed within the PRIMA European Programme.
