Groundwater modelling poses many challenges – both conceptual and practical. For example:
- How can modelling best inform the decisions that need to be made at a particular site?
- How can information that is resident in historical measurements of system states and fluxes be harvested with minimum risk of predictive bias?
- Does a numerical model need to be complex, or can a simple model provide better decision-support?
- What are the costs and benefits of complexity/simplicity?
- What is the best way to parameterize a groundwater model?
- What is the best way to undertake history matching and uncertainty analysis?
Sometimes it is good to talk to someone about these things, as it is easy to be overpowered by the pressures and expectations of peers and clients.
If you think this would help you, then contact us. SYMPLE offers you a conversation with John Doherty and other SYMPLE personnel on modelling issues that are important to you. Then, if you feel you need more help, SYMPLE can provide that too, at very reasonable consulting rates – or even for free if you qualify.
This service is good for us and good for you. Development of SYMPLE and PEST software and teaching material needs to be relevant to real world problems. What we learn from talking to you can help us in our work. Meanwhile, a conversation with us may help you in your work.
