AQUAGRID is the subsurface hydrology computational service of the Sardinian GRIDA3 infrastructure, designed to deliver complex environmental applications via a user-friendly Web portal. The service aims to provide to water professionals integrated modeling tools to solve water resources management problems and aid decision making for contaminated soil and groundwater. At the heart of the service are the computational models to simulate complex and large groundwater flow and contaminant transport problems and geochemical speciation. AQUAGRID is built on top of compute-Grid technologies by means of the EnginFrame Grid framework. Distributed data management is provided by the Storage Resource Broker data-Grid middleware. The resulting environment allows end-users to perform groundwater simulations and to visualize and interact with their results, using graphs, 3D images and annotated maps. The problem solving capability of the platform is demonstrated by means of several case studies deployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11983,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[],"class_list":["post-19722","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"title":"AQUAGRID - Idrologia e gestione delle risorse idriche (GRIDA3)","acronym":"GRIDA3 AQUAGRID (Obiettivo Realizzativo 4)","project_uuid":"c7e1dc12-6418-11e4-917d-127e8ddc4b30","start_date":"01\/07\/2006","end_date":"01\/01\/2010","funder":"MIUR, FAR D. Lgs. 297\/99","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
|---|---|---|
| Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universit\u00e0\u00a0 degli Studi di Cagliari<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Contractor<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| NICE<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","proj_website":"grida3.crs4.it","project_status":"Completed","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10249,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:33","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:33","post_content":"After a twenty-year career in scientific research, in 2010 Giuditta Lecca moved into the management sector, specializing on facilitating information exchange and collaboration between people. Since then, she is the Head of the Program \"Valorisation and Transfer of Knowledge\" (VALE) and, from September 2012 to October 2016, she was also serving as acting Director of the Sector \"Business Development\" (BD). Before she was a senior researcher in Environmental Sciences of the Energy and Environment Program. She holds a Civil Engineering degree (1991) from the University of Cagliari and a Master on Valorisation and Management of Human Resources from the Catholic University of Milan and Confindustria (2005). Her research is focused on computational hydrogeology and high-performance computing, and it is published in major journals and conferences. From 1998 to 2010 she was scientific responsible for 8+ R&D projects at the regional, national and european level and tutor of 10+ stagers and early-stage researchers. Since 2004 she has organized and chaired international workshops and conferences and taught advanced courses at universities on groundwater modeling. In 2007 she received in Maputo the IEEE Best Paper Award at the IST Africa Conference in Mozambique. She served extensively as reviewer for scientific international journals and, from 2007 to 2009, as Associated Editor of the Hydrogeology Journal edited by Springer. In the last 10 years she has focused her interests, either through professional practice that with professional certifications, on project management, intellectual property rights, funding policies and instruments, business intelligence and strategic leadership of scientific research and technological innovation.Professional certifications: Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills, University of Michigan, nov 2015; Intellectual Property Law and Policy (part 1-mar 2016, part 2-feb 2018) University of Pennsylvania; Private Equity and Venture Capital, Universit\u00e0 Bocconi, jul 2016; PM9001x: Project Management Life Cycle, Rochester Institute of Technology, apr 2017. Further information at the Linkedin personal page","post_title":"Giuditta Lecca","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"giuditta-lecca","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:11:41","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:11:41","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/giuditta-lecca\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":10183,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:26","post_content":"Pierluigi Cau holds a Laurea (M.Sc.) degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of Cagliari and works at CRS4 as a reasercher in the Environmental Sciences program of the Energy and Environment sector since 2000. His research topics are focused on computational hydrology, Geographical Information Systems and development of innovative WEB ICT tools for the management of water and soil resources. He organized international workshops\/conferences and taught advanced courses on hydrological (both superficial and groundwater) modeling at universities. He has tutored several stagers and early stage researchers.","post_title":"Pierluigi Cau","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pierluigi-cau","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:10:30","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:10:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/pierluigi-cau\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10311,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:51","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:51","post_content":"Fabrizio Murgia got a physics degree in 1998 and after some fellowships related to courses in computer sciences, since 2001 he works as researcher, expert researcher at the moment, at CRS4 where he has been involved in the research staff of many European and Italian research projects (FP6, MIUR, Interreg.). His versatile disposition drew him to collaborate in projects dealing with meteorology, knowledge-based techniques, geometric modeling, rapid prototyping, quantum computing, grid technologies, hydrology, deployment and capability upgrading of some stand-alone hydro-geological applications on grid infrastructures accessible through web portal, DSS development, development of pedagogical design for adult technology education, knowledge management, knowledge transfer, innovative technology in didactic activities. Currently is a component of VALE team and cooperates at RIALE-EU (RAS 2023) and RIALHE (ERASMUS+ 2023) projects respectively aiming at: enlarging the experience of RIALE project involving national and European laboratories, with the objective of strengthening the relationship between Sardinian schools and the international scientific world, moreover giving to schools in the rest of Italy the possibility to attend experiments carried out in laboratories in Sardinia; improving the accessibility and quality of scientific education linked to lab experiments, enriching the learning experience through remote online access and real-time interaction with demonstrating scientists. He is involved in a collaborative multidisciplinary Team headed by Carole Salis, to identify the framework based on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) activities in which the teacher experiences are to be developed.He worked on: \"RIALE\" (RAS 2022) that developed a multifunctional platform for innovative teaching applications through remote access to laboratory experiences, from which teachers and students develop learning scenarios; IDEA (RAS 2018) with the aim to enhance and promote the use of technological innovation in schools. guiding and supporting teachers as they experience new practices, new methods and tools, making a sensible use of digital technologies; \"Tutti a Iscol@ - linea B2\" (RAS 2015) project aiming to reduce early school-leaving and improve students skills and competencies, through extracurricolar laboratories; ANDASA project (funded by Region Sardegna tender: Azioni Cluster con Approccio Top Down (LdA 6.1.1.A del POR Sardegna FESR 2007\/2013 - ASSE VI COMPETITIVIT\u00c0 - \"Promozione e sostegno all'attivit\u00e0 di RSI dei Poli di Innovazione e dei progetti strategici\")) about the adaptation of a Web-based platform to the artistic, cultural and creative industries in order to fulfill some of their issues as knowing who works in each specific field of art, the artistic results and prodction, the actual local impacts on a specific territory, and how to link artistic productions potentially related; VOICES (EC - FP7) project, about the development of a mobile platform to support rural development in Sub-Saharian Africa; MOMAR project (Italy - France PO Maritime) about the development of an integrated system for monitoring and control of the marine environment; GRIDA3 (FAR D. Lg 297\/99), CYBERSAR (PON 2000-2006), DEGREE (EC - FP6 IST) projects about Grid Technology applications on Hydrology; \"PIATTAFORMA HW\/SW PER IL QUANTUM COMPUTING (PON CONV FESR RICERCA E COMPETITIVIT\u00c0 2000-2006)\", project about the development of a software platform for quantum computing; ViVa project (EU-1063, HPPC-SEA Chapter F) about the development of a system able to process three-dimensional (3D) datasets extracted from a Computer Tomography (CT) apparatus and print the corresponding 3d physical models. Was coordinator of local organization of SWAT International Conference 2015 (200 people) and Summer Schools (2013-2014 and 2015 edition - 50 people), and of Seminar Series 2016 (17 events and around 50 attendees each). Moreover cooperated with the IoT (Internet Of Things) schools regional network.He has co-authored various papers in scientific international journals and conference proceedings and attended as a speaker in various national and international meetings. He has contributed to the writing of project proposal at different levels (EC, national, regional). He has constantly shown the ability to establish and maintain good working relations with people from multicultural backgrounds and transnational environments. He is able of great understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and politeness in new and ongoing group settings. Colleagues said that he has a creative personality naturally interested in fostering social relationships, in making connections between seemingly unrelated ideas, in changing over new fields of research and in exploring challenging perspectives. Since June 2010 he has accepted the challenge of working as a member of Valorization and Transfer of Knowledge (VALE) team.","post_title":"Fabrizio Murgia","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"fabrizio-murgia","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:12:53","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:12:53","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/fabrizio-murgia\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10243,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:26","post_content":"M.Sc. in Computer Science Technologies (University of Cagliari - Italy), Ph.D in Computer Science (University of Compi\u00e8gne - France). With 16 years of experience, member of CRS4's ISOC (Informatoin SOCiety) group, since 2000. He spent the first couple of years working in the field of distributed applications. After that, he spent 4 years working for a research project (EU V FW IP) looking to understand the inclusion of visually impaired pupils in mainstream education. As side projects, he was involved in research on peer-to-peer systems and semantic distributed knowledge bases. In 2002, he started a collaboration with the UTC's Heudiasyc laboratory. Since then, he has been conducting independent and collaborative research in information retrieval, ontology engineering and Web of Data. He has been continuing along the same path, while extending his work to the study of Sensor Networks and IoT. In 2015 he spent one month as Visiting Researcher within the Department of Advanced Robotics at the CIT (Chiba Institute of Technology) in Japan, and in 2016, within the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS), University of Lincoln (United Kingdom), coducting research in the field of Semantic Sensor Networks and Robotics. In 2016 he applied for the Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship call, in conjuction with the University of Lincoln. The proposal has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence. He is leading several industrial collaborations with local SME and start-ups. He collaborates with the main public transport company based in Cagliari, CTM S.p.a. (Consorzio Trasporti e Mobilit\u00e0), on technology transfer activities. He serves as a reviewer in several major Computer Science conferences and journal scientific committees. He has been the initiator and developer of several software prototypes. Among them, \"Semantic Twitter\", an adapted Twitter interface able to post tweets with the concept of semantic hash tag, and \"Semantic IoT\", an architecture combining semantics and IoT based on Paraimpu, an IoT platform developed by a local start-up. He is member of DART International Workshop steering committee, on information filtering and retrieval, in collaboration with the University of Cagliari and the University of Bari. Home: http:\/\/www.cristianlai.it Keywords: Information Retrieval, Ontology Engineering, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Query Building, Network Distributed Applications, Linked Open Data (LOD), Analytics, IoT, Robotics","post_title":"Cristian Lai","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cristian-lai","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 19:11:35","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 17:11:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/cristian-lai\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n |