About ...

I started to develop these pages while undertaking my Ph.D. at McGill University.
Currently, I'm a postdoctoral fellow at the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department of the University of Alberta, and was a Colosio Fellow from Sept. 2006 to Aug. 2007 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
My general interests are modelling of both groundwater flow and transport and their visualization, as well as coupling of surface hydrology with groundwater. I am interested in the integration of distributed hydrogeological modelling within Geographic Information Systems, in particular GRASS which is an Open Source GIS.

Dissertation

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. (2007). Spatio-temporal analysis of aquifer recharge and groundwater potentiometric levels in the Basin of Mexico through the development of a regional database and an open source tool for groundwater flow modelling. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Available here.

Typeset in Minion Pro and Myriad Pro using only Open Source Software: LaTeX (of course, what else could be used?), GIMP, Inkscape and the Generic Mapping Tools running on Fedora.

Publications

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2008). The Basin of Mexico Hydrogeological Database (BMHDB): Implementation, queries and interaction with open source software. Environmental Modelling and Software. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.02.012

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2008). Spatio-temporal analysis of potential aquifer recharge: Application to the Basin of Mexico. Journal of Hydrology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.02.012

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2007). The Basin of Mexico aquifer system: regional groundwater level dynamics and database development. Hydrogeology Journal, 15(8):1577-1590. DOI: 10.1007/s10040-007-0194-9

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2007). Spatio temporal analysis of daily precipitation and temperature in the Basin of Mexico. Journal of Hydrology, 336(3-4):231-249. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.12.021

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2006). The Groundwater Modelling Tool for GRASS (GMTG). Open Source groundwater flow modelling. Computers & Geosciences 32(3):339-351. DOI:10.1016/j.cageo.2005.06.018

Conference proceedings

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2007). Spatial dynamics of aquifer recharge in the Basin of Mexico. 32nd congress of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research, Venice, Italy. July 2007.

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2007). A regional Hydrogeological model for the Basin of Mexico. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol 9, 07853. European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. April 2007.

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S.J. (2006). Spatio-temporal distribution of potential aquifer recharge in the Basin of Mexico. Proceedings of MODFLOW and more 2006: Managing Groundwater Systems. Golden, CO.

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2004). A data management system for groundwater flow modeling in the basin of Mexico. In: Procceedings of XXXIII IAH 7th ALHSUD Groundwater flow understanding from local to regional scales, pp.1-4, Zacatecas City, Mexico, 11th-15th October, 2004.

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S.J. (2005). Geographic Information systems and Relational Database Management Systems in Groundwater flow Modelling: A framework. In: International Workshop: ``From data gathering and groundwater modelling to integrated management''. Alicante, Spain. October 2005.

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2004). GMT: A groundwater modeling tool for integrated water management. Proceedings of FEM-MODFLOW-2004, Kovar-Hrkal-Bruthans, eds., Karlovy, Vary, Czech Republic, September 15-19, 2004, pp.297-300.

Poster Presentations

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2006). Water Management in the Basin of Mexico: Current practices and possible improvements. 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, International Association of Hydrological Sciences. September 2006, Bochum, Germany. Made with Inkscape and The Gimp; available here

Carrera-Hernandez, J. J. and Gaskin, S. J. (2004). GMT: A groundwater modeling tool for integrated water management. FEM-MODFLOW-2004. Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Comments?

If you have any comments regarding the content of these pages, you can reach me at: jaime.carreraATmail.mcgill.ca-NOSPAM. Do not type in the -NOSPAM part.

Last updated: March 2008