TIAC’88

Ignacio Morell Evangelista

Born in 1954. Doctor of Geological Science, University of Granada. His doctoral thesis (11 985) was made on "Hydrochemical characterization of seawater intrusion in Plana de Oropesa-Torreblanca (Castellón)." Geodynamics professor in University college of Castellón (University of Valencia), where he heads the Hydrology Research Unit which is  focused on the study of physical-chemical processes that accompanying seawater intrusion. The result of this research are numerous works related with coastal aquifers of the Valencian coast.

Emilio Ignacio Castillo Pérez

Degree in Geology, University of Granada in 1972. His thesis was made about Hydrogeology of Vega de Motril-Salobreña and its edges. From 1973 to 1976 he participated in the research project of the Lower and Middle Hydrogeological Júcar and from 1976 to 1980 in the Conservation and Management of Aquifers in the basin, both developed by the Geological Survey of Spain (IGME). In the last one, he has been involved among other things in: designing networks of marine intrusion control and advice made for the IV Iron and Steel Plant in Sagunto, with special emphasis on the problem of seawater intrusion. In 1980 he organized the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources INGEMISA and, from then until now he is the responsible for it, having coordinated the majority of hydrogeological research projects undertaken by the company. He has served on the organizing committees of various symposium and has presented about thirty communications, in congress and also in Spanish and internacional magazines.

Marc Goldman

In 1970 he received the title of Geophysical Engineering of the University of Novosibirsk, and in 1974 the Ph. D. in Geophysics of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences USSR (Siberian branch). From 1970-1979 he worked as geophysical engineer, junior scientist and senior scientist at the Siberian Institute of Geology, Geophysics and raw materials Research. He moved to Israel in 1979 and since then he works as a senior geophysicist at the Institute for Petroleum and Geophysics, Holon. During 1982 and 1983 was a visiting scientist at the Colorado School of Mines. Since 1982 he has lectured on electrical methods in geophysics at the University of Tel Aviv. He is member of SEG and EAEG.

Ángel Granda Sanz

Gets the title in 1975 in Mining Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. From this date he has been operating professionaly in General Drilling Company, Inc., as head of the Department of Geophysics.   He has headed two hundred projects of Applied Geophysics, branch of Mineral Exploration, Hydrogeology and Geotechnology, employing resistivity methods, electromagnetic, induced polarization, gravimeter, testing wells and seismic refraction.   Member of the European Association of  geophysicist Exploration, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Australian Society of Geophysicists Exploration and the Society of Professional Well Log Annalists. He has taken training courses in Madrid, Toronto, Tulsa, Paris and Algeria, attending numerous meetings of the EAEG and SEG companys . He has made more than twenty-five communications and publications in professional journals.

Roberto Gonfiantini

Born in 1932 in Pistoia, Italy. Graduated in 1985 in chemistry at the University of Pisa, and in 1967 obtained the "Libera Docenza" Nuclear Geophysics.   From 1958 to 1969 he worked at the Laboratory of Nuclear Geology, University of Pisa. His scientific activities were focused mainly towards the application of stable isotopes in various branches of earth sciences, including hydrology (effects of the isotopes in the evaporation of water), Glaciology (isotopic analysis in deep ice cores in Antarctica), geochemistry, Geothermics (geothermometry) and the origin of natural gas (isotope effects during migration). From 1970 to the present he has been working at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, at the Isotope Hydrology Section, which is Chief since 1987. In his work for the IAEA has had the opportunity to use isotope techniques in many applied hydrological research in several countries and regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

José Agustín Espejo Molina

BA in 1966 in Geology at the University of Madrid. In 1977 signed in the Geological Survey of Spain to engage in mining research.   Later on, he became part of the team which prepared the MAGNA PLAN and participated in the preparation of various geological sheets. During this period he made a course of Applied Hydrology, organized by FAO and ETSIM IGME.   In 1971 started to work at the Nacional Company Adaro of Mining research, SA. In 1974, with a French government scholarship obtains the photointerpretation and remote sensing in the French Petroleum Institute. Nowadays, he dedicates his activity exclusively to the wing of application and development of these techniques, both in the field of radiometry in the visible and infrared heat. In this last aspect carries out the assessment and inventory of thermal surface anomalies, in view of their energy use and detection of upwelling in the coastal waters of continental origin. He is the author of several publications and has participated actively in progress and congress.

María del Carmen Fernández-Luanco Martínez

Born in Malaga in 1941. In 1967 she obtained the BA in geology at the University of Granada. From that date until 1970 she joined the Geological Survey of Spain, where she works on projects related to Micropaleontology and Sedimentology.   In 1970, she starts to work for the National Company of Research Adaro Mining, SA, which carries out works of petrology of sedimentary rocks in relation to basic geological and mining research.   In 1980 she became actively involved in projects undertaken by ENADIMSA Remote Sensing, applications of thermal infrared study of surface thermal anomalies and the location of upwelling of continental origin in coastal areas.

Luis Linares Girela

In 1968 he obtained BA in Geology at the University of Granada. 1968 BA in Geology from the University of Granada. From 1968-1969 Assistant Professor of the professorship of geotectonic Section of Geology at the university.   He enter into the Geological Survey of Spain, Groundwater Division, where he serves as a hydrogeologist between 1969 and 1972.   In 1972 he joined to the Department of Hydrogeology of the National Research Adaro Mining, SA (ENADIMSA), carrying out various research works on geothermal resources, hydrogeological studies and diverse underground storage of hydrocarbons.   In 1978 he was appointed head of the Center for ENADIMSA in Albacete, where he participates in the hydrogeological study of the upper basin and the high Segura Júcar.   From 1980 to the present he has been responsible of ENADIMSA Center in Malaga, participating in the development of hydro-geological studies of several stipes. He has participated in numerous training courses, conferences and seminars. He has made several publications on topics of their specialty and gave clases in diferent courses. 

Abraham Mercado

Born in 1935. He studied at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA.   In 1972 he received the P h. D. Geoscience (Geochemistry and Hydrology).   From 1985 to nowadays, he has primarily developed his professional activity in TAHAL consulting, as Chief of the Division of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering.   From 1972-1985 he was Head of the Division of Water Quality, Department of Environmental Engineering, Hydrology Division.   His works in Israel are related to: Microbial contamination of wells, hydrochemical and salinization processes; in 1985 in Peru, about ground water quality for reuse of wastewater; in 1982 in Mexico, waste-water treatment; in 1980 in Mexico, impact drought in the exploitation of groundwater.   From 1972 to 1979 he has been Head of the Water Quality Unit, Division of Research and Development.   In 1977 in Brazil he worked in the control of pollution in Paraiba and Ribeirao Preto; from 1976 to 1977 he worked in Mexico, to give water supply to Monterey; in 1976 in the Philippines, he worked as a Consultant in Hydrology and Water Quality; in 1974 in Brazil, at the IAEA as expert in the use of isotopes in hydrology; in 1972 in Hawaii as Advisory Committee on Water Supply of Honolulu.   Between 1960 and 1971 he worked as a Hydrologist in a Project  of engineering in the Division of Hydrology.

Alberto Batlle Gargallo

Degree in Geology from the University of Barcelona, specialist in hydrogeology.   Eighteen years of experience in research, planning and management of groundwater resources.   He has worked in most Spanish River Basin, and in particular, in the Guadiana, Guadalquivir, Ebro, eastern Pyrenees and the Balearic Islands. This has allowed him to meet many of the Spanish coastal aquifers from Gerona to the province of Huelva, which has led numerous publication in journals and conferences, both national and international.   Experienced in public sector (IGME 1970-1973) and private sector (EDES 1969-1970, and 1974-1986 CGS). He is currently Head of the Department of Groundwater EPTISA.

Gerrit Jousma

Since 1984, European Director of the Office of the International Groundwater Modeling (IGWMC) in Delft, the Netherlands, whose activity in this field covers the aspects of information, training and research.   He received the M. Sc in the Technological University of Delft, where he specialized in hydrology.   He has worked since 1973 for the Institute of Applied Geoscience (TNO) in groundwater modeling and optimization of the network of national groundwater modeling in the Netherlands.   His extensive experience abroad (1975-1984), including consulting and management of water projects in South America and Pakistan.

Arnold Verruijt

Professor of Civil Engineering at the Technological University of Delft, the Netherlands, where he obtained his Ph. D. in 1969.   His main research focuses on numerical modeling of groundwater flow (finite element methods), and soil mechanics in coasts.   He has edited the proceedings of various conferences and has written about fifty research papers. He has been invited speaker at many meetings and courses.   His book "Theory of Groundwater Flow" (Macmillan) has reached great diffusion. He is coauthor (with Jacob BEAR), of the recently published book, "Modeling Groundwater Flow and Pollution (Reidel).

Bart Thorborg

Graduate in 1986 at the Delft University of Technology, specialized in Civil Engineering.   Currently working on his Ph. D. on flow models fresh and saline groundwater, with funding from the Netherlands Organization for Applied Science Research (TNO) 

Cayetano Lucena Bonny

In 1970 he obtained the degree in Mining Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.   His activity has been developed mainly in the field of mathematical models.   For nine years he worked in the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain.   Since 1981 he is Technical Director of Geomechanics and Water, SA.  He is Director of the Area of Mathematical Models in the introduction Course to the Applied Hydrogeology, organized by the IGME and the ETSIM.   He is Author of numerous scientific publications in his field of activity.

John William Lloyd

He has been Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Birmingham since 1973.   He previously worked as a geologist, hydrologist and hydrogeologist in British Guiana (1957-601, Jordan (1961-69) and Chile (1970-73).  He has international experience in 22 countries, from tropical to arid climate in evaluating groundwater resources, consultants and international agencies.  He has been advisor in the United Kingdom in environmental impact of radioactive waste, pollution, water flow and drainage in open pit mines and deep mines.  He is author of over eighty publications and two books. Its main lines of interest are those relating to evaluation of groundwater resources, interaction freshwater / saltwater, water flow problems in the mines and pollution of groundwater.

PUBLISHERS:

Juan Antonio López Geta

Gerardo Ramos González

Rafael Fernández Rubio

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TIAC’03

Rafael Fernández Rubio. Madrid Polytechnic University

Doctor in Mining Engineering. Senior Professor at the Mining Faculty (Madrid Polytechnic University). Founder member of the International Mine Water Association (IMWA). “Biosphere” prize winner. Outstanding Services Award (IMWA). World Ecology Award. Millennium Hydrogeologist (IAH). President of the Spanish Environmental Club. Honorary President of the IMWA. President of the Environmental Committee of the Spanish Engineering Institute. Author of 6 books and over 260 publications on water, mining and the environment. Expert advisor to FAO, UNESCO, UNEP and UNIDO. Professional experience in Mining, Water and the Environment in 36 countries. Invited professor at 29 foreign universities in 20 countries.        

Ignacio Morell Evangelista. Universidad Jaume I. Castellón

Doctor in Geological Science at the University of Granada. Presented his Doctoral Thesis on The hydrochemical characterization of marine intru sion at la Plana de Oropesa-Torreblanca (Castellón). He is Titular Professor of External Geodynamics at the Jaume I University of Castellón. His research activities are focused on the contaminant processes within groundwater, and he his work has been published in many scientific journals, both national and international. He has been the Spanish delegate on various European Union commissions (COST Actions) and has participated in research projects in several countries. He is currently working on the utilization of boron isotopes to discriminate between contaminant processes, and is an advisor on research projects in Irecé, Bahía, Brazil (FAO) and the Azores, Portugal (FCT). He was awarded the first prize for research work (2001) by the Social Council of the Jaume I University for his study Water in Castellón, a challenge for the 21st century.  

Marck Goldman. Instituto de Geofísica de Israel

Mark Goldman received his PhD in exploration geophysics from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch in 1974. His professional interests include a wide range of geophysical applications starting from theoretical research to conducting geophysical surveys and interpreting real data. During last 15 years, he participated in numerous projects studying groundwater salination mechanisms and, particularly, in detecting and monitoring sea water intrusion into coastal aquifers of Israel and all around the world. Dr. Goldman is lecturing geoelectric and EM geophysical techniques at the International Postgraduate Course in the Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew University and in the interuniversity summer school. He was a co-director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on hydrogeophysics held in Czech Republic in 2002. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Geophysics.  

Gualbert Oude Essink

He (1965) received his PhD in 1996 on the impact of sea level rise on groundwater flow regimes. His research theme concerns coupled groundwater flow, solute transport and heat transport in large-scale hydrogeologic systems. He is specialised in 3D numerical modelling of salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers. Fields of interest are the genesis of the present distribution of fresh, brackish and saline groundwater and the effect of human activities and climate change (e.g. groundwater extractions, land reclamation and land subsidence, sea level rise) on the salinity distribution. He constructed several 3D regional groundwater flow systems in the Netherlands. He is a partner in the EU-project CRYSTECHSALIN (Crystallisation technologies for prevention of salt water intrusion) and a member of the advisory board of the Polish Geological Survey. He teaches density dependent groundwater flow and numerical modelling at the Int. Inst. for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Eng. (IHE, Delft) and until recently the Utrecht University, Faculty of Earth Sciences.

Mª Dolores Fidelibus

Prof. Fidelibus was born in 1953 in Chieti, Italy and is married. She studied chemistry at the Universities of Bari. She transferred to the field of environmental engineering and started working at Faculty of Engineering in the Hydrogeology Laboratory in 1978.  She completed her qualification requirements doing research from 1978 to 2000. In 2001 she was appointed associated professor of Applied Hydrogeology and of Applied Geology at the Polytechnical University of Bari. Her research focused on the application of chemical, isotopic and physical (natural) tracers in the reconstruction of phenomenological and conceptual models of aquifers. Her current research interest is in seawater intrusion mechanisms, recognition of groundwater salinization origin in coastal karst and porous aquifers, relation of clay interstitial water characteristics to geotechnical behaviour. She participates in many national and international project dealing with seawater intrusion and is presently National Delegate in COST Action 621 (EC), “Groundwater management of karstic coastal aquifers” and Co-ordinator of Working Group on “Environmental Tracing”.

Luigi Tulipano. Universidad de Roma-La Sapienza

Prof. Tulipano was born in 1940 in Lero (Greece). His main qualifications and the associations to which he belongs are: Professor of Engineering Hydrogeology at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Italian delegate to the Technical Committee for the Environment of the European Commission. Italian delegate and President of COST Action 621 “Management of groundwater in coastal karstic aquifers”.  Italian delegate in COST Action 620 “Vulnerability and risk mapping in carbonate (karstic) aquifers”. Associate member of the LOICZ working group on “Groundwater flows in coastal areas”. Associate member of the IAH commission on “Karstic Areas”. Associate member of the IAH commission on “Hydrogeology of crystalline rocks”. Member of the IAH commission “Hydrogeology of coastal areas”. Member of the Italian committee of the IAH. His main research interests are concerned with karstic hydrogeology, saline intrusion by seawater into coastal aquifers, the temperature of groundwater in hydrogeology and geological engineering using remote sensing techniques. He is the author of more than 70 publications.

Antonio Pulido Bosch. Universidad de Almería

Doctor in Geology, specialising in Hydrogeology (1977). Hydrogeologist at EPTISA 1973-1977. Associate Professor at the University of Granada 1977-1997. At present, Senior Professor (Hydrogeology) at the University of Almería. Head of Research for numerous projects both in Spain and abroad. Author of over 250 publications. President of the Spanish Groundwater Club.

Terry L. Foreman. CH2M & HILL

Mr. Foreman is the Managing Director of Global Technology for Groundwater Resources for the CH2M HILL company, a multinational business active in the fields of engineering, construction and related services, with public-owned and private clients in numerous industries all over the world. He has over 25 years’ experience in the management of groundwater resources, and has been responsible for obtaining authorisation to utilise treated wastewater in injection boreholes; he has also headed an innovative project to create injection barriers to control the intrusion of seawater into the coastal plain of Los Angeles.

Juan José Durán Valsero. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España

Doctor in Geological Science, graduate in Geography and History and M.A. in Public Administration (Complutense University, Madrid). Specialist in Economics of the Environment and of Natural Resources (University of Alcalá). He is Titular Researcher at the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is currently Head of the Hydrogeological R&D Department at the Spanish Geological Survey. Editor-in-chief of the Geological and Mining Bulletin. He has participated in numerous hydrogeological research projects and is the author of over 100 scientific publications in books, journals and presentations to Spanish and international conferences.

PUBLICATIONS

PUBLISHERS:

Juan Antonio López Geta

Gerardo Ramos González

Luis Rodríguez Hernández

José Antonio de la Orden

Juan de Dios Gómez

Miguel Mejías

Volume I

STATE OF SEA WATER INTRUSION IN COASTAL AQUIFERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND TECHNIQUES OF ASSESSMENT.  

Volume II

CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STATUS OF SEA WATER INTRUSION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL AQUIFER.

TIAC’07

Mark Goldman

Mark Goldman received his PhD in exploration geophysics from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch in 1974. His professional interests include a wide range of geophysical applications starting from theoretical research to conducting geophysical surveys and interpreting real data. During last 15 years, he participated in numerous projects studying groundwater salination mechanisms and, particularly, in detecting and monitoring sea water intrusion into coastal aquifers of Israel and all around the world. Dr. Goldman is lecturing geoelectric and EM geophysical techniques at the International Postgraduate Course in the Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew University and in the interuniversity summer school. He was a co-director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on hydrogeophysics held in Czech Republic in 2002. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Geophysics.

Prof. Jacob Bear

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. BA, e.g., and M.Sc. degrees the Technion, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Univ of California at Berkeley (1960). All degrees are in civil engineering. First to receive (1977) the "Birdsall" to the Distinguished Lecturer in Hydrogeology, awarded by the Geological Society of America, Hydrological Division, Washington.   Honorary Doctorates in both Technological Sciences Delft Univ of Technology, Delft (1978), the Netherlands, for ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (1988). Member of the American Geophysical Union.   Award of the National Groundwater Association. (USA).   In 1998, he was awarded the Rothschild Prize in Engineering (Israel).   In 2003 he was awarded the Medal for Excellence in Education by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).   He was elected Boussinesq Speaker in 2006 by the Boussinesq Centre for Hydrology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.   In 1960 he joined the faculty of civil engineering at the Technion - Israel Inst of Technology, and was promoted to the faculty in 1970. He has served as the Vice President (1970-1972), Vice President for Academic Affairs (1972-1976), Dean of Graduate School (1984-1986), first Director of the S. Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (1978-1982), and Dean of Civil Engineering (1995-1997).  

Mohsen Sherif

Professor of Water Resources College of Engineering ", Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of the UAE.   Director of Water Resources Program at the University. Editor in chief of the Emirates Journal for Engineering Research (EXER).   Advisor to several international newspapers. Prior to joining the University, Dr. Sheriff was researcher at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Professor of Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cairo (Egypt) and Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge (USA.).   He received two Fulbright scholarships. Co-author of two manuals, reviser of six books and author of several chapters.   He has published over 110 papers in international journals and conferences in congress.   Tutor of 18 theses and 5 Ph. Doctor. groundwater.   He has conducted several research projects on a large scale and co-organizer of numerous international conferences and training courses worldwide.

Gualbert Oude Essink

In 1996 he received his doctorate on the impact of rising sea level on the systems of groundwater flow.   His research focuses on the association of groundwater flow and solute transport and heat in large-scale hydrogeological systems.    He specializes in 3D numerical models of salt water intrusion into coastal aquifers.   His fields of interest include the origin of the current distribution of fresh groundwater, brackish and saline, in addition to the effects of human activities and climate change (such as groundwater catchments, land use and subsidence, and rising sea levels) over the distribution of salinity.   In the Netherlands, he has built several regional 3D Systems of groundwater flow.   He is member of the advisory committee of the Polish Geological Survey.   He teach the flow of groundwater in relation to the density and numerical models in the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental (Int. Inst for infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Eng) in Delft and, until recently, the University of Utrecht, Faculty of Earth Sciences.

Tomás Rodríguez Estrella

Doctor in Geology from the University of Granada (1978).   He has worked on projects primarily of Hydrogeology in the IGME (1969-1972) and ENADIMSA (1972-1993), during his nearly 40 years devoted to groundwater aquifers investigated belonging to Murcia, Alicante and Albacete.   He is currently Professor of Hydrogeology at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.   He has published thirty books and over 150 articles.   He has given more than fifty papers and conferences.   Regarding coastal aquifers and desalination plants, has been researching 10 years and has participated in the desalination plants already built in the CR de Mazarrón, S. Pedro de Pinatar I and Eagles, in the construction of Alicante II and the projected Union Irrigation Aqueduct Tajo-Segura, Polaris World, CR COPE Marine and C.R. Lower Almazora.

PUBLICATIONS

PUBLISHERS:

Juan Antonio López Geta

Gerardo Ramos González

Antonio Pulido Bosch

Juan Carlos Rubio Campos

VOLUME I:

VOLUME II: