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

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

• 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)

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Extreme Hydrological Events

Maximum Entropy Method (Book chapter)

Scientific Coordinator

• Plan4Cold project, ‘’Supporting South Europe municipalities in the definition of Sustainable Local Heating and Cooling Plans’’ under the LIFE Clean Energy Transition (LIFE-2023-CET) program  (TUC Scientific Coordinator) 2024-2026

• 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)

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

• 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)

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

Collaborative Researcher

• 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)

DSS tool for groundwater modelling using surrogate models (Advanced Users)

Data non linear Gaussian transformation ''download Zenodo''

• The IMMERSE Project: Virtual Excursions on Critical Raw Materials for the Clean Energy Transition, Mining Report, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85213527494&partnerID=40&md5=1abbb8fefa36f564b78559a868dcd576

• A risk assessment methodology for supporting decision making on the climate proofing of electricity distribution networks, Enerfy Reports, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2024.11.070
• Geostatistical Analysis of Groundwater Data in a Mining Area in Greece, Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology11070102

• Assessing adoption barriers to digital technology in the natural gas supply chain using an spherical fuzzy RAFSI model, Resources Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105103

• Development of stochastically reconstructed 3D porous media micromodels using additive manufacturing: numerical and experimental validation, Scientific Reports, 14(1), 9375. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-60075-w.

• Modelling extreme precipitation data in a mining area, Mathematical Geosciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-023-10126-1
• Uncertainty Quantification in Geostatistical Modelling of Saltwater Intrusion at a Coastal Aquifer System, Mathematical Geosciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-023-10120-7
• Carboxylic Acid-Assisted Leaching of Critical Elements from Coal Fly Ash: Experimental and Simulation Studies, Global NEST Journal, https://doi.org/10.30955/gnj.06013

• 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

• Cost–benefit analysis through stochastic risk assessment on mining waste management considering the circular economy's requirements, Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144388
• Minimization of CO₂ Emissions in Openpit Mines by Using Stochastic Simulations, Circular Economy and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-024-00491-2

Department of Mining Engineering

Department of Earth Science and Engineering

CERENA

Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering, ERASMUS+

Water Resources and Environment

Federation of European Mineral Programs

IHE-DELFT hydroinformatics chair group

National groundwater monitoring programmes, Groundwater monitoring country profile - Greece