Groundwater Modeling for Environmental Management
What you'll learn
- Assess the impact of contamination sources on groundwater
- Perform groundwater modeling for environmental management
- Use environmental pollution model in the sustainable decision-making process
- What is and how to use GWSDAT to perform a groundwater modeling (practical training)
- Understand groundwater and hydrogeology principles and concepts
- Understand and present the groundwater contamination results
- Use GWSDAT to create models to assess environmental impact and groundwater remediation status
Requirements
- No specific prior knowledge required
- Familiarity with GIS, groundwater contamination and hydrogeology concepts is helpful
Description
This course explains all the requirements to perform groundwater modeling with GWSDAT, an open-source, user-friendly, software application for modeling, visualisation and interpretation of groundwater monitoring data, developed by Shell Global Solutions and the University of Glasgow.
This is your course if you want to take your first steps with the groundwater model and:
You want to learn how to model groundwater flow and plume contamination and assess their impact on the aquifer.
You want to carry out environmental consulting in the field of groundwater remediation and impact assessment.
You want to learn how to estimate pollutant concentrations in groundwater in a site and know how to optimize your monitoring plan.
In this course, you will learn the fundamental concepts of groundwater, this will help you to understand every step needed to model using the GWSDAT software package. This tool is free for use during and after the course, and this course describes the three different ways for students to gain access to GWSDAT:
Excel Add-in Interface
GWSDAT R Package
Online Version
Practical training is one of the cores of this course so the lectures focus on practical examples and activities to present how to set up and run the tool. Therefore, the main objectives of the course are:
Provide a step-by-step walkthrough, in order to familiarize you with the software package, helping you to understand its main features and its outputs.
Prepare you with concise and comprehensive knowledge that will allow you to perform a complete groundwater modeling assessment, with a hands-on, real-world case study.
In the long term perspective, from this course, you get valuable condensed guidance that will help you during the implementation of groundwater modeling or just clarify any doubts you might have in the future.
In summary, the course presents practical explanations and examples, as well as a hands-on exercise for the implementation of groundwater Modeling using GWSDAT.
This is not a course from the institutions responsible for GWSDAT. Pictures by Vectorjuice from Freepik and FreeFunArt from Pixabay
Who this course is for:
- Environmental engineers
- Environmental managers
- Sustainability students and professionals
- Environmental technicians
- Regulatory authorities
- Groundwater professionals
- Geologists
Instructor
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- 9,362 Students
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The Environmental Academy is a project designed to bring relevant knowledge to environmental professionals, sharing practical information for those who work with the subject.
The project is an undertaking of Mateus Amorim, an environmental engineer, entrepreneur and experienced trainer who has been working in the environmental management field for over 8 years.
He has experience in quality management systems, licensing, environmental project execution and environmental pollution control.
He acts objectively in his projects, seeking to be practical, direct and efficient in his activities. He is enthusiastic about development and continuous improvement, bringing the characteristics of objectivity and practicality to the growth of himself, his team and his students.