Francisco Javier
Alcalá García
(GI-REACT)
The Research Group Water Resources and Related Ecosystems in the framework of Climate and Global Change
Code: 133100
Scientific Vice Direction
Summary
REACT group was created in 2021. It consists of 11 members. The objective is to study the state, vulnerability and resilience of water resources and associated ecosystems, and to analyze sustainable management strategies. Monitoring, modelling and analysing water resources systems at different scales, with special emphasis on groundwater, are the main fields of works. Historical periods and feasible future scenarios are studied to evaluate adaptation strategies in order to reduce the possible impacts of climate and/or global change. Multidisciplinary work is carried out integrating existing information into models to improve knowledge of the system and assess management strategies. The main achievements of the group are the leadership in numerous national and international competitive research projects, management assignments with the Government of Spain and Agreements with Hydrographic Demarcations and regional governments.
Working areas
- Information, knowledge and models from different fields (hydrogeology-hydrology, water quality and pollution, climatology, ecology, agronomy, economics, systems analysis, geostatistics, etc)
- Fundamental research (eg. new solutions or algorithms for modeling) and applied research (study of specific WRS)
- Technology transfer (development of user friendly software for use by administrations and companies related with the water sector)
Research and technical lines
- Monitoring climatic and hydrological variables through field work, satellite and citizen science.
- Generation of future local scenarios to analyze potential impacts of climate change on water resources.
- Physical, conceptual and machine learning modelling.
- Analysis of sustainable management strategies, and their resilience capacity and adaptation to climate change and global change.
Outreach activities
The team has had a significant involvement in dissemination activities:
- Organization of Conferences and Workshops (e.g., IAH Conference in 1st Scientific- Technical Conference of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain-National Center (IGME, CSIC) Granada, 2019).
- Invited speakers in international and national Conferences and seminars (e.g., COP25).
- Contributions to international (more than 30) and national conferences (more than 20).
- Digital media (e.g., more tan 50 appearances in the Media (Le Monde, El País, RTVE, El Mundo and others related to the problem of eutrophication of the Mar Menor and the implication of the coastal aquifer).
- Social network (Facebook, Twitter, websites) to involve the citizens to monitoring climate change though a citizen initiative in Sierra Nevada.
Link of interest:
- News item in iagua.es about the workshop of SIGLO-AN project. Link to the news section in iagua.es showing the workshop attended under the SIGLO-AN project (RTI2018-101397-B-I00) by Plan Estatal del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.
- Webpage swow monitoring in Sierra Nevada (SIGLO-AN project) Link to the webpage created to disseminate the citizen initiative about snow monitoring in Sierra Nevada under the SIGLO-AN project (RTI2018-101397-B-I00) by Plan Estatal del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.
- Facebook swow monitoring in Sierra Nevada (SIGLO-AN project) Link to Facebook profile to disseminate the citizen initiative about snow monitoring in Sierra Nevada under the SIGLO-AN project (RTI2018-101397-B-I00) by Plan Estatal del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.
- Twitter swow monitoring in Sierra Nevada (SIGLO-AN project)(SIGLO-AN). Link to Twitter account created to disseminate the citizen initiative about snow monitoring in Sierra Nevada under the SIGLO-AN project (RTI2018-101397-B-I00) by Plan Estatal del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.
Training activities
The team has also an extensive participation in training activities.
- Six PhD thesis advised by members of the groups, some of them have been also awarded.
- Teaching activities in official programs. For example, J. L. Arostegui is Assistant Professor of Hydrology in the Department of Ecology and Hydrology (University of Murcia) since 2013. He is teaching hydrology and hydrogeology in Environmental Sciences Degree and in master courses. D. Pulido has been also assistant professor in UCAM University since 2013 to 2018, teaching master courses about Water Resources management.
- Training courses (e.g., J. Grima within the IGME training program or JM. Fornés and A. de la Hera in courses organized with the AECID).
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