Environmental Mining and Sustainable Development Research Unit Geostatistics Research Unit
Contact Details
School of Mineral Resources Engineering
Technical University of Crete
Assistant Professor: Emmanouil Varouchakis
Tel: 00302821037642
Email: evarouchakis@tuc.gr
Technical University of Crete
Latest News
20/11/2022 Special Issue "Geostatistics in the Life Cycle of Mines
19/11/2022 EGU 2023 Hydroinformatics for Mineral Resources applications, Vienna, 23–28 May 2023
26/7/2022 Emmanouil Varouchakis took over the chair of the hydroinformatics subdivision of the European Geosciences Union for the period 2022-2024
1/6/2022 IGRAC, Groundwater monitoring country profile - Greece
5/7/2022 The 15th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications (geoENV2024) will take place in Chania on June 19-21, 2024
26/03/2022 Summer Course, Novel Topics in Geoinformatics, School of Mineral Resources Engineering & American Association of Geographers
Conferences
- EGU 2023 Hydroinformatics for Mineral Resources applications, Vienna, 23–28 May 2023 (Convener)
- Spatial Statistics 2023: Climate and the Environment, University of Colorado Boulder, USA 18 - 21 July 2023 (Scientific Committee)
- EGU 2022 Spatio-temporal and/or (geo)statistical analysis of hydrological events, floods, extremes, and related hazards, Vienna, 23–27 May 2022 (Convener)
- The 14th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Parma, June 22-24 2022 (Scientific Committee)
Maximum Entropy Method (Book chapter)
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Courses
Applied Geostatistics (Undergraduate-Fall Semester)
Time series analysis (Graduate-Fall Semester)
Probability & Statistics for Engineers (Undergraduate-Spring Semester)
Geostatistics and Simulation Methods (Graduate-Spring Semester)
Research projects
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Advanced geostatistical modelling for natural resources evaluation (HFRI - Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation) 2023-2025 (Scientific Coordinator)
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Immersive virtual tours on critical minerals for clean energy transitions (IMMERSE), ERASMUS+, 2023-2025 (TUC Scientific Coordinator)
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OurMED ''Sustainable water storage and distribution in the Mediterranean'' PRIMA-MED 2023-2026 (WP2 Leader)
- BioTrainValue: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions & Support to Experts A.3 – MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023-2026 (TUC group participant-Topic: Cost benefit analysis)
- (Proof-of-Concept), GNΩSI, ''Χρηματοδότηση Λειτουργίας Δομών και Δράσεων Μεταφοράς Τεχνολογίας-Πολυτεχνείου Κρήτης'' 2022-2023
- InTheMED “Innovative and Sustainable Groundwater Management in the Mediterranean” PRIMA-MED 2020-2023
- Uncertainty-aware intervention design for Mediterranean aquifer recharge Prince Albert II Foundation 2019-2022
- Sustain-COAST “Sustainable coastal groundwater management and pollution reduction through innovative governance in a changing climate” PRIMA-MED 2019-2022
Associate Editor and Guest Editor
- Special Issue "Geostatistics in the Life Cycle of Mines
- Hydrology Research Journal, Geostatistics
- Special Issue, Hydrogeology Journal, Application of geostatistics to hydrogeology, 2022-2023
- Special Issue, Entropy, Spatiotemporal Prediction and Simulation Methods at the Nexus of Statistical Physics, Spatial Statistics and Machine Learning, 2022
Software
Data non linear Gaussian transformation ''download Zenodo''
Publications 2023
- Modelling extreme precipitation data in a mining area, Mathematical Geosciences, accepted 11/2023
- Uncertainty Quantification in Geostatistical Modelling of Saltwater Intrusion at a Coastal Aquifer System, Mathematical Geosciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-023-10120-7
- Mapping steady-state groundwater levels in the Mediterranean region: The Iberian Peninsula as a benchmark, Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130207
- Cost–Benefit Analysis and Risk Assessment for Mining Activities in Terms of Circular Economy and Their Environmental Impact, Geosciences, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13100318
- Iterative geostatistical electrical resistivity tomography inversion, Hydrogeology Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-023-02683-w
- Geostatistical analysis of groundwater levels in a mining area with three active mines, Hydrogeology Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-023-02676-9
- A framework for assessing hazards related to pit lakes: application on European case studies, Environmental Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11045-4
- Reliability of the Non-linear Modeling in Predicting the Size Distribution of the Grinding Products Under Different Operating Conditions, Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42461-023-00793-3
- Evaluation of risks impeding sustainable mining using Fermatean fuzzy score function based SWARA method, Applied Soft Computing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2023.110220
- Combination of geostatistics and self-organizing maps for the spatial analysis of groundwater level variations in complex hydrogeological systems, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-023-02436-x
- An integrated method to study and plan aquifer recharge, Hydrology Research, https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2022.054
- Long-term wave energy potential estimation in the Aegean and Ionian seas using dynamic downscaling and wave modelling techniques, Applied Ocean Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2022.103446
Publications 2022
- Rough sets based Ordinal Priority Approach to evaluate sustainable development goals (SDGs) for sustainable mining, Resources Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.103049
- Sustainability of mining activities in the European Mediterranean region in terms of a spatial groundwater stress index, Spatial Statistics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2022.100625
- Spatiotemporal Geostatistical Analysis of Groundwater Level in Aquifer Systems of Complex Hydrogeology, Water Resources Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029988
- Site selection and system sizing of desalination plants powered with renewable energy sources based on a web-GIS platform, International Journal of Energy Sector Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJESM-04-2021-0018
- Estimation of Hydropower Potential Using Bayesian and Stochastic Approaches for Streamflow Simulation and Accounting for the Intermediate Storage Retention, Energies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041413
- Uncoupled Precipitation and Water Availability: The Case Study of Municipality of Sfakia, Crete, Greece, WATER, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14030462
- A decision support tool for optimising groundwater-level monitoring networks using an adaptive genetic algorithm, Journal of Hydroinformatics, https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2021.045
Distictions
European Geosciences Union (EGU) Hydroinformatics division Officer (2022-2024)
Team Members
Dr. Andreas Pavlidis, Mineral Resources Engineer, Postdoc Researcher, Geostatistics
Maria Koltsidopoulou, Electrical and Electronic Engineer, PhD candidate
Evangelos Machairas, Mineral Resources Engineer, PhD candidate, Cost–Benefit Analysis and Risk Assessment for Mining Activities
Maria Bolgkoranou, Mineral Resources Engineer, MSc, PhD candidate, Mining Geostatistics
Maria Chrysanthi, undergraduate student, thesis topic: Geostatistical analysis of groundwater data
Pispa Anna, undergraduate student, thesis topic: Geostatistical analysis of groundwater data in an area of mining activity
Antonia Spyridopoulou, undergraduate student, thesis topic: Geostatistics in Environmental Mining
Deligiannidis Christos, undergraduate student, thesis topic: Time series analysis
Former team members
Galanaki Marianna, undergraduate student, thesis topic: Geostatistical analysis of groundwater data in an area of mining activity
Kapsalis Ioannis-Anargyros, undergraduate student, thesis topic: Time series analysis
Evgenia Diamantopoulou, undergraduate student, thesis topic: Geostatistics in Environmental Mining
Blatzonis Konstantinos, thesis topic: Geostatistics in Petroleum Resources
Research Collaborations
National groundwater monitoring programmes, Groundwater monitoring country profile - Greece
Highlights
Environmental Mining and Sustainable Development Research Unit
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School of Mineral Resources Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Ε-mail: evarouchakis<at>isc.tuc.gr
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