Presentation

 The course will address different issues related to water resources management in catchments were water use is intensive and water pollution problems are the main concern.  Emphasis on special needs related to the Bogota River watershed will be presented considering in detail the management, regulatory, urban, rural and socio-economic environments. The course will introduce Geographical Information Systems, Watershed, Hydraulic and Water Quality models as support tools applied during the design, operational and management processes of water resources engineering at the catchment scale. The course will include field visits and measurements.

Guest Lecturers

1. Professor James L. Martin, Mississippi State University, College of Engineering, USA.
2. Professor Jairo N. Díaz, Mississippi State University, College of Engineering, USA.

3. Graduate Research Assistant John J. Ramirez, Mississippi State University, College of Engineering, USA.

4. Professor Carlos A. González, National University of Colombia, Bogotá
5. Professor Luis A. Camacho, National University of Colombia, Bogotá

Course Intensity and schedule

The complete course consists of 4 academic credits, 64 hours lectures, including 4 computational laboratories and one field visit (4 hours). Four modules will be lectured during four weeks from 6^th of July until 29^th of July (One module per week). External non-student participants can take the complete course or selected modules. During weeks 1, 3 and 4, four hours lectures will be given during four days from 8 am until 12 pm, with a 20 minutes coffee-break in between. During week 2, four hours lectures will be given during five days from 8 am until 12 pm, also with a coffee-break. The field visit will be carried on Tuesday 27^th. Please note that the 20^th of July is a free day in Colombia (Independence Day).

Course Evaluation

The course evaluation for regular MSc and undergraduate students will consist on weekly course-works (60%), one final team project (20%) and a final exam (20%).

JAMES LENIAL MARTIN, Ph.D., P.E., D. WRE, F. ASCE

James L. Martin has over 30 years of experience in conducting and managing water quality modeling projects.  Previously, he conducted studies while a Research Civil Engineer with the Water Quality and Contaminant Modeling Branch with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (WES), while a Research Environmental Scientist with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency at its Large Lakes Research Station, and while Vice President and Director of Engineering with AScI Corporation.  For five years he provided contract support to the U.S. EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling through model development, providing technical assistance to the EPA, state and local agencies, and through model application.  He has authored/co-authored over 100 technical reports and publications, including E.P.A. guidance documents and model user documentation.  He is the former Editor of the ASCE Journal of Energy Engineering, former Chair of the Executive Committee, ASCE Energy Division, and presently member of the ASCE Technical Activities Committee (TAC).  He has been involved in the development of a number of hydrodynamic and water quality models in common usage and is senior author of the textbook Hydrodynamics and Transport for Water Quality Modeling and senior editor and author of Energy Production and Reservoir Water Quality.  He is a Diplomate, Water Resources Engineering, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers and Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers. He is presently a Professor and Kelly Gene Cook, Sr. Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mississippi State University.

JAIRO N. DIAZ RAMIREZ, Ph.D.

I hold a BS in Agricultural Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Palmira campus) and Universidad del Valle. From 1998 to 2000 developed and taught Soil and Water Conservation, Watershed Management, and Hydrology in the Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA) in Buga, Colombia. I have more than nine years experience in researching and applying hydrology, instream, and watershed models to address water resources problems across Puerto Rico and US Southeast region. I started Master’s Studies in January 2001 in Water Resources Engineering at University of Puerto Rico. My master thesis studied flow, soil erosion, and sediment transport using the Hydrologic Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) in a small watershed in Puerto Rico. After finishing my Master’s degree in June 2004 I decided to improve my research skills by starting Ph.D. studies in Water Resources Engineering at MSU in July 2004. My dissertation research examined how uncertainty in model parameters and spatial variability of rainfall data propagate through HSPF flow simulations.  This work evaluated variability of rainfall data using historical rainfall radar data collected on a watershed in Alabama and Mississippi. Monte Carlo and Harr’s probabilistic point estimate methods were used to propagate parameter and rainfall uncertainty through the simulated flows. From June 2007 to February 2009 I extended my water resources research skills as a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE) at MSU.  My research duties were simulate the Mobile River system using the HSPF model, analyze tools to model fate and transport of mercury at the watershed level, model upland and coastal watersheds using the 2D GSSHA model, evaluate the SWMM model in an urban watershed in Mississippi, and generate research proposals. Since March 2009 I have been a Research Professor over MSU CEE. I have more than 50 publications including: five peer-reviewed research papers, 10 conference proceedings, 10 research reports, one MS thesis, one PhD dissertation, and 32 presentations & posters around U.S., Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Colombia. My ultimate research goals are to develop sustainable environmental and water resources engineering alternatives and implementation strategies for rural and urban systems.

JOHN J. RAMIREZ AVILA

John J. Ramirez Avila graduated with a BS in Agricultural Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a MS in Soil Science from the University of Puerto Rico. John is a Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Engineering with focus on Water Resources Engineering and serves as Research Assistant in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. Prior to his university position, he worked as a Researcher in the Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria in Colombia, and as a Research Associate in the University of Puerto Rico. His research work experience has included soil and water conservation engineering, suspended sediment transport, nutrient transport, nutrient management, best management practices, streambank erosion and channel and watershed modeling. John has been a volunteer for the Earth Team Volunteer Program of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Puerto Rico and recently in Mississippi, supporting research, technical assistance and technology transference in the evaluation and establishment of best management practices on agricultural fields to reduce sediment and nutrient effects on stream water quality. For the last two years, he has been engaged in research on the contribution of upland and streambank erosion on stream water quality including impairment from sediment and nutrients, assisted by researchers of the National Sedimentation Laboratory from Oxford, MS. This research was funded by the Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) and awarded the Kenneth E. Grant Research Scholarship presented by the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) in 2008. John J. Ramirez Avila is author and coauthor of 5 technical handbooks, 5 peer-reviewed papers, and over 30 conference presentations and proceedings on his research interest areas. He recently won the National Student Paper Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Environmental Water Research Institute awarded at the 2010 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress.

LUIS A. CAMACHO BOTERO, Ph.D.

Doctor Camacho has a PhD degree and an MSc degree in Hydrology for Environmental Management from Imperial College in London. Also he has an MSc degree in Hydraulic Resources and a Civil Engineer degree from los Andes University at Bogotá. Dr. Camacho is an Associate Lecturer at the Civil and Agriculture Engineering Department of the National University of Colombia at Bogotá. He teaches graduate courses of water quality modeling, hydrodynamics, urban hydrology and integrated drainage systems, and applied hydrology, and he teaches the undergraduate courses of fluid mechanics, hydraulics and hydrology. Author of peer-reviewed research papers published in the Journal of Hydrology, Water Resources Research, Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences, and the Journal of Hydroinformatics, ans also in the local papers the Revista Ingeniería, and Avances en Recursos Hidráulicos. Dr. Camacho is active in research and applied engineering projects in the field of flow and water quality modeling and urban hydrology. He has been the director of the following projects: “Dynamic water quality modeling of the Bogotá River” (2009 - ), “Design of the water quality monitoring network for the Bogota Rviver” (2008), “Methodologies for the estimation of the self-cleansing capacity of Colombian mountain rivers” (2006-2007), “Water quality modeling of the Magdalena River and wastewater characterization of Girardot city” (2004-2005), “Water quality modeling of the Rio Grande de Tárcoles River - Costa Rica” (2003) and “Water quality modeling of the Bogotá River” (2001-2003). He also was involved as research engineer in the project “Hydrological and environmental instrumentation of an urban subcatchment in Bogotá” in collaboration with the Water Utility of Bogotá city, Empresa de Acueducto de Bogotá, and Los Andes University.

CARLOS GONZÁLEZ