ICGW BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA -

2019
Miércoles 20 de Noviembre de 2019
Auditorio Benjamín Alvarado Biester Hall
Servicio Geológico Colombiano
Diag. 53 N.° 34-53
Hora: 1:00 p.m a 7:00 pm

Darcy Lecture CHARLAS EN INGLÉS

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 JOHN DOHERTY, PHD.

John Doherty, Ph.D., is the author of PEST, a software package that is widely used for groundwater model calibration and uncertainty
analysis. He has worked for more than 35 years in the water industry, first as an exploration geophysicist and then as a modeler.
Doherty been employed by both government and industry, and has also worked at numerous universities where he undertook
research and supervised postgraduate students. Currently he works for his own company, Watermark Numerical Computing, doing
consulting, research, programming, and education, mainly on issues related to model deployment in support of environmental
management and impact assessment.
Doherty will offer the lecture “DANCING WITH MODELS - THE IMPORTANCE OF MODEL PARTNER SOFTWARE” at the Darcy Lecture -
ICGW 2019:

Numerical simulators of groundwater flow and transport cannot fulfill their decision-support potential on their own. Instead, they must
be used in partnership with equally sophisticated software that links models to data acquired at sites that they simulate - and that links
models to the decisions that they are intended to support. As they “dance” with a model, these software packages can accomplish
tasks such as history-matching, uncertainty analysis, predictive hypothesistesting, sensitivity analysis, management optimization, and
JOHN DOHERTY, PhD. optimization under uncertainty. The importance of model partner software is not nearly as widely appreciated in the groundwater
Company Watermark Numerical Computing industry as it should be. Model developers often design input/output protocols that make linkage to partner software difficult or
NGCRT (Australia) impossible. Model users often build models that are unnecessarily complex, take too long to run, and have questionable numerical
health. Education in model-value -adding numerical algorithms is rarely offered to modelers by universities. Graphical user interfaces
do not provide comprehensive support for the wide range of ancillary tasks that decisionsupport modeling requires.
This lecture will explore how models can best serve the decision-making process. In doing so, it demonstrates the indispensable role that model-value-adding software
should play in this process. It also addresses some currently available packages, as well as an easy-to-use, public domain, parallel model run manager with a
nonintrusive model interface that allows rapid development of model partner software by any programmer.
 La serie de conferencias distinguidas Henry Darcy
sobre ciencias del agua subterránea fomenta el interés
y la excelencia en la ciencia y la tecnología del agua
subterránea desde el año de 1986. Su nombre es en
Honor a Henry Darcy quien estableció en 1856 la base
física sobre la cual se ha estudiado la hidrogeología
desde entonces.

Cada año un panel de científicos invita a un

destacado profesional de aguas subterráneas a
compartir su trabajo con sus compañeros y
estudiantes a través de esta serie de conferencias.
 AGENDA
TIME PRESENTATIONS SPEAKER(S)

1:00 pm Registration

Sesión 1: Chair Professor

1:50 pm Welcome Address Leonardo Donado
2:00 pm Dancing With Models - The Importance of Model Partner Software John Doherty
3:00 pm Calibration of urban rainfall-runoff model for stormwater management assessment Néstor Mancipe
3:20 pm The Principle of Simplicity for solving groundwater problems Carlos Molano
3:40 pm Laboratory Experiments to Evaluate the Joint E ect Between Heterogeneity and Head Fluctuation Eduardo Castro
on Mixing, Effective Porosity and Tailing
4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:20 pm Numerical Simulation of Flow Processes in insular aquifers Nathalia Tinjaca
4:40 pm Synthetic Fracture networks to analyses groundwater inflows during tunnels drilling Diego Cortés
5:00 pm Numerical particle tracking as a tool for desbribing multi scale processes in sediment deposition Antonio Preziosi
within porous media
5:20 pm Pilot-Points Impact in Determination of Hydraulic Properties in a Tropical Basin Cristina Arenas
5:40 pm Heuristic algorithms in the calibration of groundwater flow problems Adriana Piña
6:00 pm Starting From The Problem And Working Backwards John Doherty