Instructor Profile: Silvio J. Gumiere
Silvio J. Gumiere
Ph.D.
Professor Environmental Modelling
Dep. of Soil Sciences, Laval University
Professor Gumiere studied mechanical engineering with a major in fluid and thermodynamics.
He obtained a master’s degree in hydrological sciences from Sao Paulo University in 2003. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in hydrological and erosion modelling from the SupAgro, Montpellier, France. In 2011, he became a professor at the Department of Soil Sciences at Laval University. He teaches soil physics, hydrology and drainage, and solute transport in porous media. Since 2006, he has worked on various aspects of soil erosion, hydrology and soil physics, and the development of modelling tools for water and soil management in agricultural systems.
His research projects go from increasing crop water efficiency to understanding the impact of agricultural activities on the hydrological processes of watersheds and soil erosion modelling at various scales, including particle tracking and image processing. All these processes include applying R-based numerical, statistical and geostatistical methods, such as time series analyses, image and signal processing, erosion modelling and spatial hydrology and spatial interpolation methods.
He is a Guest Editor for several special issues on hydrological modelling and machine learning techniques for solving applied science problems in hydrology, soil sciences, soil hydrology and environmental journals.
