Courses
Tools for Sustainable Management of Lakes, Catchments and Estuaries
This course covers the basic concepts of the leading physical-chemical and biological processes occurring in water bodies like lakes, reservoirs and estuaries. The concepts presented include hydrodynamics, forcing agents, internal waves, transport and nutrient cycles, algae growth and their limiting factors, numerical modeling and related numerical topics. Due to the fact that all these processes are directly influenced by the processes occurring at the basin scale, the course also presents topics like pollutant loads and their measurement, diffusive pollutant loads, pollutant loads due to agricultural activities, among others. Finally, the course presents some tools used in lake management such as numerical models for physical, chemical and biological processes (patogens) and topics like real time lake management and self learning tools in lake management. All these topics for lake management will be illustrated by several applications to real life cases. The course will be lectured by a group of Colombian and international experts.
Coordinator:
Profesor Asociado
Escuela de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente
Facultad de Minas
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín
Civil Engineer of the School of Mines of the National University of Colombia, M.Sc and Ph.D. in Hydroscience and Engineering of the University of Mississippi, USA . Researcher and full time professor for more than 20 years in the areas of mathematical modeling in hydrodynamics and water quality in reservoirs and estuaries. Member of the research groups of PARH (Group A in COLCIENCIAS) and OCEANICOS (Group C in COLCIENCIAS). Main Research-er in more than 10 projects in the areas of numerical modeling and develop-ment of pedagogic tools supported by COLCIENCIAS and other Colombian agencies. Professor Toro has active academic contacts with international research centers like the CWR (Centre for Water Research) of the University of Western Australia and the CORELAB (Coastal Research Laboratory) at the University of Kiel, Germany. Academic Director of more than 20 Master of Science Thesis and 3 Ph.D. Dissertations, and with more than 40 technical papers in international indexed magazines like the Journal of Hydroinforma-tics, the Journal of Water Research, Ingeniería Hidráulica en México,and several national magazines, and in more than 15 technical events, national and international. Professor Toro has been awarded support by international agencies like the DAAD (Germany ) and the Gledden Senior Visitor Fellowship of the University of Western Australia.
Guest Speakers:
Director Técnico
Centro de Investigaciones del Agua (CWR)
Universidad de “Western Australia”
Professor Antenucci graduated as Environmental Engineer from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1997 and graduated as a Ph.D. in Environ-mental Engineering in 2001 from UWA, also. Today, he is acting as Deputy Director of the Centre for Water Research (CWR) at UWA. His main research areas include Environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics; conceptual and numerical modeling of physic, biogeochemistry and ecology in aquatic environ-ments; and Reservoir management strategies. During the past 7 years he has participated in a number of projects in Australia , Italy, Indonesia, USA, Singa-pore, Germany, Colombia, Kenya , Brasil, Israel, Argentina, Chile and Laos, all of them in his research areas. His academic activities in the past 7 years are summarized in more than 15 technical papers published in specialized maga-zines like Limnology and Oceanography , Fresh Water Biology, Journal of the American Water Works Association, International Journal of River basin Management, Ecological Modeling; also in this period he has presented a number of papers in more than 15 international events. Hi has received two major academic awards like the Australian Water Association S.A Branch Award in 2003 and the FS Shaw Memorial Postgraduate Award for Applied Mechanics 1999-2000.
Profesor Asistente
Escuela de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente
Facultad de Minas
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín
Civil Engineer and Master in Management of Hydraulic Resources from the National University of Colombia, Medellín campus. PhD from the University of Western Australia. Assistant Professor at the National University of Colombia since August 2006. Researcher in Hydrodynamics Modeling and Physical Limnology. Lecturing experience at several engineering faculties in Medellín and workshops on Water Quality Modeling in Colombia, México, Argentina and Bolivia .
Profesor Asociado
Facultad de Ingeniería
Universidad de Antioquia
Professor Palacio is a Biologist from the Universidad de Antioquia and a Ph. D. from the University of Ruhr in Bochum , Germany . His research areas include Environmental Biology, Marine Biology, Sanitary Hydrobiology, Animal Ecolo-gy, Applied Limnology, and Ecotoxicology. Professor Palacio is the Director of the research group GAIA of the Universidad de Antioquia (research group type A in Colciencias). He has participated as a main researcher and as a co-researcher in more than 25 projects supported by Colciencias and other Colombian agencies. He has published more than 20 papers in indexed national and international magazines, and has supervised more than 15 Master of Science thesis and 3 Ph.D. Dissertations. As a researcher he has active contacts with other research groups like the PARH of the National University of Colombia, and the research team in Biology of the "Justus Liebig" University of Giessen, Germany. Among the different administrative positions he has occupied, it is important to mention the current position he has in Colciencias as a specialized advisor in science and technology.
Profesor Asociado
Facultad de Ingeniería
Universidad de Antioquia
Professor Aguirre has his Bachelor´s degree in Biology and Chemistry from the Universidad de Caldas, in Manizales, Colombia. He obtained his Master of Science in Biology from the Universidad de Antioquia and this Ph.D. from the University "Justus Liebig" in Giessen , Germany . His areas of interest are Limnology, Hydrobiology, and Water Quality. Professor Aguirre is a member of the research group GAIA of the Universidad de Antioquia (research group type A in Colciencias) who has participated in several projects supported by Colciencias and other Colombian agencies. He has more than 20 papers in national and international specialized magazines. As a researcher he has active contacts with other research groups like the PARH of the National University of Colombia, and the research team in Biology of the "Justus Liebig" University of Giessen, Germany.
Profesor Asociado
Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Agrícola
Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Bogotá
Civil Engineer (1989), Master of Science in water resources engineering (1991), Master of Science in hydrology for environmental engineering (1996), and PhD in water quality modelling (2000). Posgraduate lecturer in water quality modelling, hydrodynamics, urban drainage systems, and applied hydrology and undergraduate lecturer in fluid mechanics, hydraulics and hydrology. Active in research and applied engineering projects of flow and water quality modelling and urban hydrology. Director of the following projects : "Methodologies to estimate the self-cleansing capacity of colombian mountain rivers" (2006-2007), "Water quality modelling of the Magdalena River and wastewater characterization of Girardot city" (2004-2005), "Water quality modelling of the Rio Grande de Tárcoles River - Costa Rica" (2003) and "Water quality modelling of the Bogotá River" (2001-2003).
Avenida Carrera 30 N° 45-03
Conmutador (57)(1) 3165000 ext 13338
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