Expertise

Expertise

WHAT WE DO
We want to provide technical, affordable and sustainable solutions to water-related challenges that address the current social context and improve knowledge of science and technology in collaboration with all stakeholders involved.
  • Water Resources (surface and subsurface) allocation in a sustainability framework.
  • Integration of ecologic, irrigation, population and energy water demand in land use planning
  • Saltwater intrusion in aquifers
  • Wastewater Management
  • Strategies for water consumption minimization
  • Erosion control
  • Territorial and urban flooding
  • Ecological status of water bodies
  • Aquatic ecosystems conservation
  • Fishways
  • Assessment of pressures and impacts on water bodies
  • Environmental flows
  • River restoration
    • Impact of climate change on water availability and on aquatic species
    • Ecohydraulics
    • Hydraulic simulation of technical and climate scenario
    • Numerical simulation of flow and transport in porous media
    • Modelling of aquifers
    • Integrated surface-water groundwater modelling
    • Numerical simulation of water floods by rivers using freeware
    • Wastewater Treatment Technologies for the disinfection and elimination of organic pollutants
    • Industrial processes improvement to prevent pollution
    • Application of DTS and fiber optic cable, satellite images, low cost sensors  for the management and monitoring of water resources in agroecosystems
    • LIDAR application to riparian vegetation analysis
    • Thermal monitoring of rivers
    • Smart cities: techniques and criteria for sustainable urban storm water management and for designing Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS).
    • Environmental and economical optimization of hydropower production

    • Hydropower certification production: improving clean energy

    • Hydropower integration, aeolian energy and irrigation

      Marine energies

    NEWS and EVENTS