SARIB

Partner No.2: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Chair of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering: UL FGG KSH

No of participants in the group: 5
Dr. Mitja Brilly, mbrilly@fgg.uni-lj.si
Dr. Lidija Globevnik, lidija.globevnik@guest.arnes.si
Dr. Matjaž Mikoš, mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si
Andrej Vidmar, M.Sc., avidmar@fgg.uni-lj.si
Andrej Kryžanowski, M.Sc., andrej.kryzanowski@savske-el.si

Role and Contribution in SARIB project

The group will contribute to SARIB as follows:
- Collection of DPSIR relevant data and information referenced to the Sava river basin, existing at national levels, ICPDR expert groups and other most relevant international bodies (EC, EEA, OECD, Eurostat); the group will organise and support all consorcium partners to collect/obtain relevant data from all countries, that extents over the Sava river catchment (Slovenia, Croatia, B&H, Serbia and Montenegro)
- Collection of detailed data on the Sava river (water, sediment, channel) control and management structures (power plants, regulation dams, channels, water out(in)take control equipment, embankments..), river morphology dynamics sampling and modelling, sediment and water transport/flow characteristics
- Basic expert information system development: meta data description, analysis of data relevance and accurancy; harmonisation and integration of all available data and information into one system, based on GIS platform and organised into DPSIR framework;
- Collaboration with all WPs of the SARIB project to incorporate needs of scientific research, modelling, public needs and dissimination of findings and results into information system of the SARIB project
- Development of analytical tools and models for evaluation of pollution, determination of hot spots, analysis of past and present socio economic drivers, modeling pressures-state-impact relations in all countries with the same methodological approach(es);
- Analysis of socio economic and water/ river management drivers (past and present); formation of socio economic information data for scenario modelling and risk asssessment, that will be promoted by WP 4.
- Hydrologic and hydraulic modelling to support scenario modelling and risk asssessment
- Modelling of sediment transportation potential along the river for different scenarios
- Advanced expert information system (SARIB Information System: SARIB IS) development: incorporation of analytical and modelling results into the basic expert information system and integration of support decision tools as will be developed by other WPs.

Company profile:

The University of Ljubljana was established in 1911. At present, the University comprises 20 faculties, 3 academies of arts and 3 university colleges. It is the biggest university in the Republic of Slovenia. The University of Ljubljana has nearly 50000 students, more than 5000 employees and 1800 teachers. The University also offers a wide selection of postgraduate studies, with MSc and PhD degrees offered in over 250 fields. The University departments collaborate closely with the various research institutes, where both students and university professors are engaged in research. The Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering has more than 1200 students, and offers study programs leading to the university degrees in civil, geodetic and sanitary engineering, professional degrees in civil and geodetic engineering, masters and PhD degrees. The Chair of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering (KSH) has been founded in 1946 and is one of 18 units of the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (FGG) of University of Ljubljana (UL), founded in 1919. At present, the staff of KSH teaches and is active in research and consulting in the fields of theoretical and applied hydrology, and hydraulic engineering, including water resources management, flood control, hydro power plants, river regulation, torrent control, and erosion control.

The KSH FGG UL participated in several research projects, financed by national and international organisations. Recently completed research projects supported by the European Commission are:
- ENV4-CT96-0293, Applied Research on a Transferable Methodology, Devoted to Flood Awareness and Mitigation, Helping the Decision and Negotiation Processes, Adapted to a Changing Environment and Respecting the Water Resources - FLOODAWARE
- ENV4-CT96-0247, EROSLOPE II - Dynamics of Sediments and Water in Alpine Catchments - Processes and Prediction
- Project 10039- CP-OO 1-B_ERASMUS-ETN ETNET- 21 ENVIRONMENT WATER European Thematic Network of Education and Training for Environment-Water

NATO Projects
NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) – Transboundary Water Resources management in the Balkans
NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) – Linking Science in Electronic Network to Protect Danube River Basin Resource

Key researchers:

Dr. Lidija Globevnik, leader of the WP 2, was born in 1962 in Slovenia. She has started her professional carreer as a hydrologist at Water Management Institute in Ljubljana.She is a leader of water management planning division at the same institute and researcher at UL FGG KSH. She is an expert in GIS tools implemention in water management, water information system (development of data base systems in GIS environment, data collection, harmonization and integration into DPSIR framework), methodological aspects of sustainable indicators, environmental impact studies and development of catchment management plans in Slovenia. Her research fields are catchment hydrology, erosion, river morphology and land use impacts to surface water flows. In the period 1993-1995 she lead Slovene teams in two EC research programme PECO 1993 (ERBCIPDCT930057, ERBCIPDCT930009). In the period 1997 - 2000 she has been a national co-ordinator in a preparation of Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for the Mediterranean, a consultant to R Slovenia in METAPIII programme, collaborated with MAP/ MCSD/Blue Plan office in developing and testing indicators for sustainable development in the Mediterranean region and involved into development of integrated coastal zone management plan in Slovenia. In the period 1998 - 2001 she has participated in two international programmes, co-ordinated by the European Environmental Agency: Phare Topic Link on Inland Waters (as an extension of European Topic Link on Inland Water: water quality and management) and Strengthening Capacity in PHARE Accession Countries in Environmental Reporting (lead by ETC/IW). Through those activities, she worked on the implementation of EEA water information system Eurowaternet in Slovenia, Bosna and Hercegovina and Albania. She developed the concept of the Slovenian water information system on WEB (http://nfp-si.eionet.eu.int/). In the period 1999-2001 she coordinated Slovene part of EU Phare project 'Transboundary cooperation in nature conservation and wetland management for the Danube river basin', collaborated in the EU Phare project ‘Water Quality Enhancement in the Danube River Basin' and working in a steering committee for Phare DISAE SLO 111 project (Technical Assistance in the Development of an Implementation Programme for Integrated River Basin Management, 1999/2000). Temporarly she is involved into WFD implementation in Slovenia, being a programme leader of scientific and technical part in national water (catchment) management planning.

Dr. Mitja Brilly is a professor of hydrology and water management and head of the Chair of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering. He obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. in civil engineering at the University of Belgrade, and Ph.D. at the University of Ljubljana. From 1970 to 1977 he was a young researcher in the Institute for water management "Jaroslav Cerni" in Belgrade. In 1977 he started an academic career at the University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, teaching hydrology, hydraulic engineering and water resources management. His research is devoted mainly to numerical modelling and field measurement of processes in the groundwater pollution, surface water flow modelling and water information management. He is a member of following professional organisations: IAHR, AGU, IAHS, NAAW, EH, EWPCA, IWRA and IEEE. He participated on more then 70 investigations in hydrology, hydraulic engineering and environment and published more than 40 publications. Dr. Brilly was Slovenian co-ordinator of several European projects “Floods, storms and radar hydrology”, “Hydromet”, and “Floodaware”.
Dr. Matjaž Mikoš is an associate professor in the field of applied hydrology and hydraulic engineering (torrent control, watershed management, river engineering, river hydraulics, and soil erosion). Currently, he is Vice-Dean for research at FGG UL. Before joining the KSH FGG UL in the 1994, he worked as research scientist at the Water Management Institute in Ljubljana, and as a PhD Candidate at the Laboratory of Hydrology, Hydraulics and Glaciology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He is also a registered professional civil engineer and holds a title EurIng. He is Chairman of the INTERPRAEVENT Scientific Committee, Deputy Co-ordinator of the Working Group IUFRO Unit 8.04.01 Torrent and Erosion Control, IAHS National Representative, IAHS ICCE National Correspondent, Member of the Commission on Snow Avalanches and Member of different committees on rehabilitation of large landslides in Slovenia (appointed by the Slovenian Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning). He is a member of numerous professional and scientific societies, like ASCE, DVWK-ATV, NYAS, IAHS, IAHR, IAS, and BGRG. Dr. Mikoš has a long experience in applied hydrology studies in alpine environment. He has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed literature and proceedings of international conferences, and lectured at universities and research institutes in Europe and USA. He was member of scientific committees and keynote speaker at several international conferences, and has invited lectures at the universities and institutes in his field of work around the world. He is editor-in-charge and chief editor of Acta hydrotechnica, professional and scientific journal on water management issued by the Hydraulics Division of the FGG in Ljubljana. Dr. Mikoš was Slovenian co-ordinator of two European research projects “EROSLOPE I” and “EROSLOPE II”, and was recently principal investigator of different Slovenian applied research and R&D projects on “Nitrate Leaching”, “Torrent Hydraulics”, and “Principal Research Goals in the Field of Water Management in Slovenia”.
M.Sc., Andrej Vidmar is a researcher at Chair for Hydrology and Hydraulic engineering and PhD candidate. He obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. in civil engineering at University of Ljubljana. From 1989-1999 he was Counsellor of the Director at Slovenian Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Water management department and adviser on all aspects on organisation and management of information system and information and telecommunications at the ministry. In 1999 he got a research position at the University of Ljubljana - Faculty for Civil and Geodetic Engineering. He is an expert in water quality modelling and spatial data and information management and modelling: GIS modelling, digital terrain modelling, water flow modeling... From 1990 he has participated in several investigations in hydraulic engineering and environmental protection. He has developed technical and organisational platform for the Slovenian water information system on WEB (http://nfp-si.eionet.eu.int/).
M.Sc. Andrej Kryžanovski graduated in 1986 at Universtiy of Ljubljana as a civil engineer and got a master of science degree at hydrotechnical department in 1991. From 1986 he is a lecturer assistant at University of Ljubljana for undergraduate course “Hydrotechnical constructions”. For 10 years, he is employed by “Sava power utility” company in Ljubljana and is a responsible person for an investment and development section. In the period 1994 – 1996 he worked in a project team for preparation of technical and financial documents for an utilisation of the Sava river in Slovenia for electrical production (“the Sava river hydropower chain”). Next four years he was a project leader for remediation activities of three water accumulation basins in Slovenia (Moste, Zbilje, Završnica). At the same time, he prepared methodologies for environmental impact assessment studies and environmental cost and benefit analysis for (re)constructions of existing and planned hydropower plants on the Sava river. In 2001 he was a programme leader for evaluation and quantification of environmental impacts of hydrotechnical infrastucture to the Sava river in Slovenia and remediation programme for the river section between two accumulation reservoirs (Moste, Mavčiče). In organising all necessary expertise and supervising preparation of above mention technical documents, he gain a broad knowledge of technical, financial, environmental, institutional and political considerations for utilisation of water power at one side and environmental protection at the other.

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