Prof. J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández

Parma, 2-6 May 2022

General info
The course is organized in remote video-lessons that the attendant can follow by alone in an accessibility period of three days.  Every two/three lessons, practice sessions and tutoring held in presence at the Campus of the Parma University by the teacher will be carried out. In presence sessions will be held on 3, 5, 6 May 2022.

Link to the registration form
The Registration is free of charge. Meals are not included.
Participation is limited to a total of 30 students.
Language: English
The green pass is mandatory and the current legislation on Covid-19 will be respected.

Venue
The lessons in presence will take place at the Campus of the University of Parma, in the S. Elisabetta Conference Center on Tuesday 3, Thursday 5, Friday 6 2022.
Address: Parco Area delle Scienze, 43124, Parma, PR

Contents
This short course aims at introducing the basic and theoretical concepts of Geostatistics, its main applications in estimation processes, uncertainty modelling and stochastic simulations.
The course combines theory and practice, with the hands-on analysis of a case study. The attendees will be introduced to the open-source geostatistical package SGeMS (Stanford geostatistical modelling software) that will be used during the practical exercises.
The course is organized in remote video-lessons that the attendant can follow by alone in an accessibility period of three days.  Every two/three lessons, practice sessions and tutoring held in presence at the Campus of the Parma University by the teacher will be carried out. In presence sessions will be held on 3, 5, 6 May 2022.

Detailed Program

Monday 2 May - morning
SESSION 1 VIRTUAL. Introduction. Recall of univariate and bivariate statistics. The need of spatial statistics. 4 hours.

Monday 2 May - afternoon
SESSION 2 VIRTUAL. Characterization of spatial continuity. The variogram. Variogram models. 4 hours.

Tuesday 3 May – in-person at S. Elisabetta Conference center -10:00-12:00 
SESSION 3 IN-PERSON. Q&A on Session 1. Introduction to SGeMS. Hands-on exercise on basic statistics calculation and variogram modeling. 2 hours.

Tuesday 3 May – afternoon
SESSION 4 VIRTUAL. Modeling spatial continuity. The random function model. Stationarity and ergodicity. The multiGaussian random function model. 2 hours. Tuesday afternoon.

Wednesday 4 May – morning and afternoon
SESSION 5 VIRTUAL. Estimation. Ordinary kriging. Other flavors of kriging. 6 hours.

Thursday 5 May – in-person at S. Elisabetta Conference center -10:00-13:00 
SESSION 6 IN-PERSON. Q&A on Sessions 3 and 4. Hands-on estimation exercise. 3 hours.

Thursday 5 May – afternoon
SESSION 7 VIRTUAL. Modeling local uncertainty. MultiGaussian kriging. Indicator kriging. Modeling global uncertainty. 3 hours.
SESSION 8 VIRTUAL. Stochastic simulation. Sampling from a random function model. Sequential simulation. 3 hours.

Friday 6 May – in-person at S. Elisabetta Conference center -10:00-13:00
SESSION 9 IN-PERSON. Q&A on Sessions 6 and 7. Hands-on simulation exercise. 3 hours.

Syllabus

Recommended texts:

• Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists, 2nd Edition, Richard Webster, Margaret A. Oliver, Wiley Ed., ISBN: 978-0-470-02858-2, November 2007.
• Multivariate Geostatistics: An Introduction with Applications, Hans Wackernagel, ISBN: 978-3-662-05294-5, Springler, 2003. 

Course Lecturer
Professor J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández received his Civil Engineering Degree from Universitat Politècnica de València on 1983, then he continued his studies at Stanford University where he got an MS. Sc. in Applied Hydrogeology on 1988 and a Ph. D. in Geostatistics on 1991. Upon his return to Spain, he joined the faculty of the School of Civil Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de València where he became full professor of Hydrogeology in 2000. Currently, he is the head of the Hydrogeology Group of the Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering.
His research has focused in the fields of geostatistics, upscaling, stochastic simulation, inverse modeling, nuclear waste disposal, uncertainty quantification and stochastic hydrogeology.
His list of publications can be consulted in Google Scholar (user=PBHrWdMAAAAJ), Orcid (0000-0002-0720-2196) or Scopus (7005555097).
H-index: 39 (according to Google Scholar)
Number of cites: 5800 (according to Google Scholar)
He has served as associate editor for the Journal of Hydrology, Hydrogeology Journal, Mathematical Geology and Spatial Statistics, currently belongs to the Editorial Board of Mathematical Geosciences, Advances in Water Resources, and Springer Nature Applied Sciences.
He has served as Secretary of the Hydrology Section of the European Geophysical Society; he has been Vicerrector of the Universitat Politècnica de València in two occasions and he has been Director General for Scientific and Technological Infrastructures for the Valencian Regional Government. Currently, he is President of the Geostatistics for Environmental Applications International Association (geoENVia). He has organized the 1988 and 2012 Conference on Geostatistcs for Environmental Applications, the 2010 IAHR Groundwater Symposium, the 2016 10th International Congress on Geostatistics, the 2019 Interpore Annual Congress, the 2019 AIH Annual Congress, and the 2019 AGU Chapman Conference on Aquifer sustainability. He received the Spanish Ministry of Education award to best civil engineer graduate of the class of 1983; he has been recognized as Excellent Reviewer, by the Editorial Boards of Water Resources Research and Advances in Water Resources, and as a Sentinel of Science in Environmental Science by Publons. He received the Centennial Prize to Teaching Assistants by Stanford University, and the Prize for Research in Waste Disposal by the Valencian Government.
In 2021 he was the Groundwater prize winner of the prestigious award Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water. In 2022 he is the winner of the Pioneer in Groundwater Award of the American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE).