The Department of Agronomy of the UCO holds the virtual seminar "Current and future challenges for water management and users" on July 15 at 11 a.m
In a global context of water scarcity in which the effects of climate change and its impact on sectors such as agriculture are visible, it is essential to have sustainable water management techniques. Research in the field of water resources studies the use of tools to face current and future challenges of water management in sectors as important as agroforestry, in this global context of scarcity and climate change.
Research and innovation in this field are two of the main pillars of the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence - Department of Agronomy of the University of Córdoba (DAUCO) which organises, on July 15, the seminar "Current and future challenges for water management and users” to address the challenges that arise in water management.
During the seminar, which will begin at 11 a.m. on July 15, will last 2 hours, the postdoctoral researchers hired at DAUCO Rafael González and Andrés Peñuela will show their lines of research accompanied by the professor from the University of Castilla La Mancha Miguel Ángel Moreno and professor at the University of Bristol Francesca Pianosi, who will share the latest advances in mathematical models applied to water management and tools to improve their use and development.
People interested in learning about the latest advances in this field, which aim to support decision-making in the agricultural and water resources management sectors, will be able to attend online either by visiting the virtual room where they will be able to listen to the experts' presentations and share their comments and questions or in person at the Campus of Rabanales. Additionally, the seminar can be followed live on YouTube.
The seminar will start with the presentation of Professor Miguel Ángel Moreno from UCLM on “Holistic models for precision irrigation” that serve as support for decision-making for precision agriculture applications. DAUCO researcher Rafael González will continue with "Predictive systems of water demand in irrigation communities through Artificial Intelligence" in which he will analyse the practical application of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data techniques to forecast the water demand in irrigation communities.
For his part, DAUCO researcher Andrés Peñuela will focus his intervention on improving the accessibility of hydrological and water resource management models with “An open-source package with interactive Jupyter Notebooks to enhance the accessibility of water resource management modelling”. To finalise, Professor Francesca Pianosi from the University of Bristol will talk about how to improve the development and use of water resource management models in “Towards robust construction, evaluation and use of mathematical models for water resource management”.
Registration to attend the event both virtually and in person can be done using this link.
The seminar will also be broadcast live on the DAUCO YouTube channel.