SWAT
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN SARDINIA 2015
INVITATION
CRS4 and Sardegna Ricerche in collaboration with the Grassland, Soil & Water Research Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) and with AgriLife Research of Texas A&M University System co-organize the third SWAT Sardinian Summer School, which will be held in Pula, Sardinia - Italy from June 22nd to 23rd, 2015.
The event, organized as a highly practical summer school in four parallel courses, is open to professionals, graduate and post-graduate students, who use or wish to use SWAT in order to investigate hydrologic and water quality issues in watersheds and rivers.
Each course (ARCSWAT, SWAT-CUP, QSWAT, EPIC/APEX) will take place only if a minimum number of 15 participants is reached.
The number of participants for each course is limited to 30 people.
The official language of the SWAT events is English.
Location
The Summer Schools will be held at Sardegna Ricerche - Building 2 (Lesson rooms), Science and Technology Park of Sardinia in Pula (Italy).
If you plan to stay at the Hotel Flamingo Resort, mention the SWAT Conference in your reservation.
Please also let us know by emailing conference-isw@crs4.it
Payment (updated in April, the 14th 2015)
Payment is required at the time of registration.
To attend the conference fill in the form at: https://ssl-pay.tamu.edu/conferences/italy2015 .
Register online by April the 30th, to receive the early discount.
Note: The Euro fees value is just indicative, it changes according to the actual conversion rate between euro and dollars. The starting value indicated has been calculated september the 1st 2014, the other one april the 13th 2015.
Fees (updated in April, the 14th 2015)
The registration fee includes participation to the summer school, course materials, lunches.
Early bird fee (up to April, the 30th 2015) - CLOSED
Standard fee (from May, the 1st 2015)
Cancellation policies
Cancel by March 31, 2015, receive 70% of registration fee. Cancel after March 31, receive 25% of registration fee. No refunds for cancellations after May 1, 2015
SWAT Model
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a public domain model jointly developed by the USDA-ARS and AgriLife Research, part of The Texas A&M University System. SWAT is a small watershed to river basin-scale model to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and ground water and predict the environmental impact of land use, land management practices, and climate change. SWAT is widely used in assessing soil erosion prevention and control, non-point source pollution control and regional management in watersheds. For further details, read the SWAT official page.
Acknowledgements
The event is organized by CRS4 and Sardegna Ricerche in collaboration with the Grassland, Soil & Water Research Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) and AgriLife Research of the Texas A&M University System. The collaboration of the Water Research Institute of the National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari, of the Basin Authority of Autonomous Region of Sardinia is also acknowledged.
