Winter SchoolOn
Research Tools for Evaluating
Availability and Safety ofSurface Water andGroundwater
DATE: FEBRUARY 6– 10, 2012

Hosted by
UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS
andINDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE, INDIA

Organised by
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, IISc&KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY

Course coordinators
S. Majid Hassanizadeh
M S Mohan Kumar

www.kscst.org.in

Winter School Overview

Winter school
Description

Water has a unique place of all the planet’s
renewable resources. Water is also one of the mostmanageable of the natural resources as it is capableof diversion, transport, storage, and recycling. The
surface water and groundwater resources of thecountry play a major role in agriculture, hydropower
generation, livestock production, industrial activities,forestry, fisheries, navigation, recreational activities.

This is a joint programme of IISc and Utrecht
University(UU) under their Winter school
programme. The target audience for winter school
will be young researchers (Senior PhD registrants /post PhD, young faculty members) drawn fromdifferent parts of India. This course is meant tostimulate research interests in youngsters inadvanced research topics in hydrology and waterresources. The course will give a detailed
conceptual and mathematical description andnumerical modelling of various topics along withfield / laboratory experiments, monitoring andanalysis

Water demand already exceeds supply in many
parts of the world and as the world population
continues to rise, so too does the water demand.
India's projected demand is expected to touch 1.5
trillion cubic metres by 2030AD while supply mightstay at the current level of 740 billion cubic metres.
Climate change and rapid urbanization also could
have significant impacts on water resources aroundthe world because of the close connections between
the climate, landuse and hydrological cycle, andsuch changes also could result in cycles of floodsand droughts.
It becomes imperative for Researchers to cometogether and share their experiences and tools andapply their knowledge to address local and regional
water challenges.

Location
The winter school will be held at Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore, the garden city of India. Thewinter school is scheduled for five days, from 6th to10th February 2012.

Numerical modelling is becoming an increasingly
important tools for analyzing complex problems
involving Surface and Groundwater flows. This
course is designed to familiarize participants withthe principles and mathematical analysis and theapplication of tools to such problems. The tools
used for field experiments as well as laboratory
experiments will be presented and discussed indetail.
Since there will be place for only limited
participants, there will be selection based on the
background of the participant who wants to attend
this course. This course is also being supported by
Department of Science and Technology,Government of India.

Registrants are expected to bring their own laptops for hands on exercises with minimum system requirements:
Operating Systems: Windows XP / Windows Vista (32 or 64bit) / Windows 7 (32 or 64bit), X86 CPU with 2 GHz, 2GB RAM, 10 GB total hard disk capacity with about 500 MB reserved for installation, Graphic card witha resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. No separate computational facility will be provided

Sessions
The course will cover following topicsi)

Modeling of physical, chemical and biologicalprocesses in the vadose zoneii) QMRAspot: A tool for quantitative microbial
risk assessment from surface water to potablewateriii) GWPcalc, the groundwater protection
calculator: a tool for determining the size ofgroundwater protection zonesiv) Remote sensing application in water resourcesv) Climate change and its impact on waterresourcesvi) Assimilation of remotely sensed soil moisture
into hydrological modelsvii) Coupling crop and groundwater models for
optimal groundwater irrigationviii) Regionalisation of rainfallix) Regional frequency analysis of floodsx) Multiphase flows in porous/ fractures mediaxi) Role of delivery systems in quantity and quality
control of potable waterxii) Chemistry and quality of groundwater
under geogenic and anthropogenic stressxiii) Environmental impact of mining on water
quality and remediation strategiesxiv) Long term monitoring of hydrological andgeochemical cycles in the critical zone: casestudy of small experimental watersheds in thetropicsxv) Pore network generation for porous media;
simulation of flowxvi) Pore network modeling of (reactive) transport
under (partially-) saturated conditionsxvii) Principles of mass transfer among phases inthe soilxviii) Transport of viruses in soil and groundwater

Registration FormCourse Presenters
Dr Amir Raoof , Researcher, Department ofEarth Sciences, Utrecht University, TheNetherlands
Dr S.M.Hassanizadeh, Professor, Department ofEarth Sciences, Utrecht University, TheNetherlands
Dr Jack Schijven, Expert, National Institute of
Public Health and the Environment, (RIVM), The
Netherlands
Dr Jean-Jacques Braun, Chairman, Indo –French Cell for Water Sciences, IISc
Dr. Jirka Simunek , Professor, Department ofEnvironmental Sciences, University of California,Riverside, USA
Dr M. S. Mohan Kumar , Professor, Department
of Civil Engineering, IISc
Dr D. Nagesh Kumar, Professor, Department ofCivil Engineering, IISc
Dr M Sekhar, Professor, Department of CivilEngineering, IISc
Dr V.V.Srinivas, Professor, Department of CivilEngineering, IISc
Dr S Subramanian, Professor, Department ofMaterials Engieneering, IISc
Dr M Sudhakar Rao, Professor, Department ofCivil Engineering, IISc
For any further assistance and / or for sending
Registration form please contact
N. Sashikumar
Karnataka State Council for Science andTechnology
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
Email: sashikumar.n@gmail.com
Mobile:+91 9845091083

Research Tools for Evaluating
Availability and Safety ofSurface Water andGroundwater
February 6 – 10, 2012
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Registration
No registration fee is charged. The interested
participants should write about their area of
research in 300 words and attach with the filled inregistration form. The selection of participants isbased on the background of the participant. The
course includes, lunch, evening tea / snacks andaccommodation
Travel cost to the venue has to be borne by theParticipant.

Registration form can also be downloaded atwww.kscst.org.inLast date to receive registration form along with write
up is 25th January 2012