Environmental Mining and Sustainable Development Research Unit           Geostatistics Research Unit                

H.R.F.I -'Basic Research Project ''GEONE''          

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

28/4-3/5/2025  EGU 2025, Hyfroinformatics Chair

15/11//204 Kick Off Meeting Plan4cold

19-21/6/2024   Organization of geoENV2024

16/4/2024 Emmanouil Varouchakis continues as the chair of the hydroinformatics subdivision of the European Geosciences Union for the period 2024-2026

14/01/2024 Kick Off Meeting of Immersive virtual tours on critical minerals for clean energy transitions (IMMERSE) 02-05/04/2024

11/01/2024 Kick Off Meeting of GEONE Research Program

10/01/2024 DSS tool for groundwater modelling using surrogate models (Advanced Users)

20/11/2022  Special Issue "Geostatistics in the Life Cycle of Mines

1/6/2022 IGRAC, Groundwater monitoring country profile - Greece

4/2022 Emmanouil Varouchakis elected chair of the hydroinformatics subdivision of the European Geosciences Union for the period 2022-2024

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)

Geostatistics and Simulation Methods (Graduate-Spring Semester)

 

MSc Sustainable Technologies of Energy Resources and Raw Materials

Data science for Exploration and Exploitation (Graduate-Spring Semester)

EXPLORING DATA ANALYTICS (Graduate-Fall Semester)

 

MSc Geotechnology and the Environment

Time series analysis (Graduate-Fall Semester)

Probability & Statistics for Engineers (Undergraduate-Spring Semester)

Research projects

Scientific Coordinator


  • (Proof-of-Concept), GNΩSI, ''Χρηματοδότηση Λειτουργίας Δομών και Δράσεων Μεταφοράς Τεχνολογίας-Πολυτεχνείου Κρήτης'', Database preparation for the hydrplogical data of Crete,  2022-2023 (Completed)

  • Groundwater modelling of three aquifers in the context of the River Basin Management Plan update for the River Basin District of Crete (2022-2023 TUC Scientific Co-coordinator(Completed)

  • Uncertainty-aware intervention design for Mediterranean aquifer recharge Prince Albert II Foundation 2019-2022 (Completed)

 

Collaborative Researcher

  • GrEnMine Gravitational Energy storage in the post-Mine areas

  • REECOL Ecological rehabilitation of mining sites, 2023-2026
  • BioTrainValue: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions & Support to Experts A.3 – MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023-2026 (TUC group participant-Topic: Cost benefit analysis)
  • InTheMED “Innovative and Sustainable Groundwater Management in the Mediterranean” PRIMA-MED 2020-2023 (finished)
  • Sustain-COAST “Sustainable coastal groundwater management and pollution reduction through innovative governance in a changing climate” PRIMA-MED 2019-2022 (finished)

Publications 2024

Publications 2022

Publications 2025

Publications 2023

Distictions

President of geoENVIa Association

European Geosciences Union (EGU) Hydroinformatics division Officer (2022-2024 & 2024-2026) Chair of Hydroinformatics, EGU

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

Yulia Koroptsenko, Envisronmental Engineer, MSc

 

Maria Chrysanthi, graduate student, thesis topic: Multivariate geostatistics

Marianna Galanaki, graduate student, thesis topic: Geostatistics for Natural Resources evaluation

 

 

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

 

 

Highlights

SOM classification of Groundwater wells in Southern Europe and Crete