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Dr.
Nesa Ilich is a professional water resources engineer with over twenty years of
consulting practice. His practical experience includes integrated multi-purpose
river basin management, hydraulics, hydrology, stochastic hydrology, and design
of drainage systems. He has expertise in applications of operations research
techniques in design and operation of water resources infrastructure, and he has
developed sophisticated simulation and optimization models that were applied in
various studies. His previous projects include the World Bank and ADB funded
river basin and irrigation planning studies in South East Asia, where he was
involved as a senior consultant. Other engagements in similar capacity include
projects with Transalta Utilities Corporation (a large electrical utility
corporation in the Province of Alberta, Canada), Brantas River Basin Management
Authority (PJT) in Indonesia, Canadian International Development Agency, and
Alberta Environment, a Provincial water management agency in Canada. Dr. Ilich
has significantly improved Alberta Environment’s Water Resource Management Model
(WRMM) through a series of contracts awarded to him since 1987 and exported its
use overseas. This model has been used in numerous multi-disciplinary studies
as a tool to aid assessments of water management and basin development issues
among a number of stakeholders, including hydro power producers, irrigators,
municipalities and various industrial consumers. Dr. Ilich has recently
developed a unique method for generating stochastic hydrologic time series at
multiple sites. He has also authored numerous reports and technical papers
published in conference proceedings and peer reviewed journals, and he has
received several academic scholarships as well as a professional award of
excellence by the Consulting Engineers of Alberta for his work on the Yellow
River Basin modeling done in cooperation with Golder Associates Ltd. Dr. Ilich
is Adjunct Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary where is
currently involved in several research initiatives (http://www.schulich.ucalgary.ca/resrch_civil/Civil_Ilich.htm).
He has numerous publications related to hydrology, water resources management
and operational research:
Ilich, N. and J. Despotovic.
2007. A Simple Method for Effective Multi-Site Generation of Stochastic
Hydrologic Time Series. Journal or Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk
Assessment, Feb./Mar. 2007.
Ilich, N. 2006.
Comments on “WEAP21 – A Demand-, Priority-, and
Preference-Driven Water Planning Model: Part 1” by David Yates, Jack Sieber,
David Purkey, and Annette Huber-Lee. Published in
Water International Volume 30, Number
4, December 2005: 501-512. A discussion paper published in Water International,
June 2006.
Ilich, N. and J. Despotovic.
2006. Recent Advances in Statistical Science for Multi-Site Generation of
Stochastic Hydrologic Time Series. Presented at the XIII International
Conference of Danubian Countires on the Hydrological Forecasting and
Hydrological Bases of Water Management, August 28-31, 2006, Belgrade, Serbia.
Ilich N. 2006. Limitations
of
Network Flow Algorithms and Linear Programming in River Basin Modeling.
Currently under review.
Ilich N. 2006. A Matching
Algorithm for Generation of Correlated Random Variables with Arbitrary
Distribution Functions. To be published in the European Journal of Operational
Research.
Ilich N., D. Long, H. Zhang,
W. Hangbin. 2005. An Evaluation of Potential WRMM Application to the Yellow
River Water Allocation Planning and Operation. Proceedings of the 2nd
International Yellow River Forum, Vol. II, Yellow River Conservancy Press,
Zhengzhou, China.
Ilich N. The Benefits of
Replacing LP Solvers in basin Allocation Models with a Generalized Non-Linear
Evolutionary Network Flow Solver (SFEP). Proceedings of the 2001 World
Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Florida, May 2001.
Ilich N. A Strongly Feasible
Evolution Program for Non-Linear Optimization of Network Flows. Ph.D. Thesis,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, September 2000.
Ilich N., Drury R, Godman P.
and Simonovic S. Operation of Bighorn/Brazeau Hydro Power System of Transalta
Utilities Corporation.
Proceedings of
the XIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources,
Calgary, June 2000, Balkema Publishers.
Ilich N., Simonovic S.P. and
Amron M. The Benefits of Computerized Real-Time River Basin Management in the
Malahayu Reservoir System, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, February 2000.
Ilich N., Simonovic, S.P. An
Evolution Program for Non-Linear Transportation Problems. Journal of Heuristics
7, P. 145-168, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachusetts, USA, March 2001.
Ilich N., Simonovic S.P.,
Evolutionary Algorithm for Minimization of Pumping Costs, American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Computing, Vol. 12, No.4, 1998.
Ilich N., and Simonovic S.,
Optimal Design of Water Resources in the Sustainable Development Framework with
the Lombok Case Study, presented at the Joint Seminar on Optimization of Water
Allocation for Sustainable Development by DGWRD-JICA-INACID, Jakarta, 16-17
January, 1996.
Ilich N., Water Resources
Management Model (WRMM) of Alberta Environment - Model Properties and
Capabilities, 15th Congress of the International Commission on Irrigation and
Drainage (ICID) in Hague, Netherlands, September 1993.
Ilich
N., Improvement of the Return Flow Allocation in the Water Resources Management
Model (WRMM) of Alberta Environment, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering,
August, 1993.
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Mr.
Jorge Dreher graduated in civil engineering in 1978 and obtained M.Sc. in
hydraulics and hydrology from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. He
has 27 years of professional experience as a
project manager,
planner, consultant, as well as an integrated river basin management expert.
Jorge has worked in hydrology, hydrogeology, groundwater flow and modelling, and
hydro-informatics. In recent years he participated in a number of projects that
included design and implementation of hydrometeorologic real-time monitoring
networks, hydrological modelling, flood forecasting, flood protection and
development of hydrological software. Jorge has extensive knowledge of the EIA
process and experience in institutional strengthening and policy implementation
within the framework of integrated river basin management. Jorge is fluent in
five languages. He has participated as author or co-author of more than 50
publications, some of which include:
Gunatilaka A.,
J.E. Dreher, 1996.
Use of early
warning systems as a tool for surface and ground water quality monitoring. Proc.
IAWQ and IWSA Symp. on Metropolitan Areas and Rivers. Rome, May 1996.
Gunatilaka , A.,
Dreher, J. E. 1998.
Continuous
surface and groundwater quality monitoring of the Danube – the use of early
warning systems. Proc. IAWQ Management of large river basins, 8th River Basin
Conference, Budapest, September 1988, 419 - 422.
Nhamucho, R., J. Dreher,
G. Pevny, 1999. Rede Telemétrica e Programa de Gestão da Bacia do Umbeluzi,
Mozambique. Proceedings of the IV Simpósio de Hidráulica e Recursos Hídricos dos
Países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa, SILUSBA. Coimbra, Portugal, May 1999,
(Proceedings in CD-Rom).
Dreher J., F.
Gampe, M. Kirchebner, G. Kubu, T. Nagler, H. Rott, R. Schmalfuß, M. Schönerklee,
G. Triebnig, Z. Wu, E.
Zeller,
2000.
Hydrological Services: The Need for the Integration of Space
Based Information. Proceedings of the International Symposium "Geomark 2000",
Paris, France, 10-12 April 2000 (ESA SP-458, August 2000), 119-127.
Dreher, J. 2002.
Real-time environmental monitoring – prospects for new horizons. In. Proc. Int.
IWA Symp on Automation in Water Quality Monitoring – Autmonet 2002, Vienna, May
21-22, 2002. (eds. N. Fleischmann, G. Langergraber & R. Haberl), p. 393-396.
Dreher,J., Fuchs,
M., Kruszewski, A., Niedbala, J., and Niwinski. J. 2002: A hydrological
monitoring, forecasting and warning system for Poland. Proc. Int. Symp.
‘Environmental Communication in the Information Society’ Enviro Vienna
2002, (Ed. Pillman, W. & Tochtermann, K.), 2002. p. 548-555.
Dreher J., E.
Barros, A. Gunatilaka, 2005. Integrated Groundwater Basin Management for
Ribeireta Basin, Cape Verde – a step towards sustainability. 2005 NGWA Ground
Water Summit 2005, San Antonio, Texas, USA. (Abstract).
Dreher,J., Fuchs,
M., A., Niedbala, J., and Niwinski. J. 2006: Modernization of the Hydrological
Forecasting System in Poland. Proc. of the 7th International Conference on
Hydroinformatics, HIC 2006, Nice, France. p. 8.
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