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

 

 

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

  • Advanced geostatistical modelling for natural resources evaluation (HFRI - Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation) 2023-2025​ (Scientific Coordinator)

  • Immersive virtual tours on critical minerals for clean energy transitions (IMMERSE), ERASMUS+, 2023-2025 (TUC Scientific Coordinator)

  • 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

Software

Data non linear Gaussian transformation ''download Zenodo''

Publications 2023

Publications 2022

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

 

 

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