Department of Agriculture
Hellenic Mediterranean University

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Education (2011) Doctoral Degree, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Doctoral Thesis: “Uncertainty Assessment in Water Resources Management at Watershed Level with the Use of a Meteorological Radar” Supervisor: Professor Ioannis K. Tsanis (2005) MASc Diploma in Water Resources, McMaster University Canada, Department. of Civil Engineering. Master Thesis: “Groundwater Level Forecasting Using Artificial Neural Networks” Supervisor: Professor Paulin Coulibaly (2003) Engineering Diploma, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Diploma Degree: 7.7/10 Research interests Water, Energy and Food Security nexus Extreme weather events (floods, droughts); Food security; Salinisation; Water footprint of agricultural processes; Invasive species; Climate change impacts on water, energy and food security at various scales; Soil moisture dynamics; People-Hydrology nexus Opportunities and challenges for water, energy and food security with stakeholder involvement and public participation. Remote Sensing Weather-radar hydrology; Supervised and unsupervised algorithms for interpretation of remote sensing products; Stereo-vision for DEM production; Vegetation index applications. Interdisciplinary Application and development of state-of-the-art spatiotemporal tools such as data mining and forecasting with the use of machine learning (e.g. Artificial Neural Networks; Random Forests); Optimization algorithms (e.g. Genetic Algorithms), Dealing with stochastic processes and uncertainty (e.g. Bayesian Belief Networks; Monte Carlo simulations; Markov chains). Teaching experience (Τ09) Lecturing (36 hours) and compilation of educational material for the 4th year course “Water Resources Management” at the Technical University of Crete, School of Environmental Engineering (spring 2017-2018) (Τ08) Lecturing (36 hours) and compilation of educational material for the course “Water Resources Management” for the Postgraduate Program “Applied Science and Technology in Agronomy”, Technological Educational Institution of Crete, Department of Agriculture (winter 2017-2018) (Τ07) Co-lecturing (34 hours) and compilation of educational material for the course “Environmental Resource Management and Ecology” for the Postgraduate Program “Applied Science and Technology in Agronomy”, Technological Educational Institution of Crete, Department of Agriculture (spring 2016-2017) (Τ06) Lecturing (22 hours) and compilation of educational material for the course “Environmental Resource Management and Ecology” for the Postgraduate Program “Applied Science and Technology in Agronomy”, Technological Educational Institution of Crete, Department of Agriculture (winter 2016-17) (Τ05) Co-lecturing (34 hours) and compilation of educational material for the course “Environmental Resource Management and Ecology” for the Postgraduate Program “Applied Science and Technology in Agronomy”, Technological Educational Institution of Crete, Department of Agriculture (spring 2015-16) (Τ04) Lecturing (36 hours) and compilation of educational material for the course “Environmental Resource Management and Ecology” for the Postgraduate Program “Applied Science and Technology in Agronomy”, Technological Educational Institution of Crete, Department of Agriculture (winter 2015-16) (T03) Teaching assistantship for the 3rd year course “Environmental Hydraulics”, Technical University of Crete, Department of Environmental Engineering (2005). (T02) Teaching assistantship for the 4th year course “Storm-water management”, McMaster University Canada, Department of Civil Engineering (2004). (T01) Teaching assistantship for the 2nd year course “Fluid Mechanics”, McMaster University Canada, Department of Civil Engineering (2004). Research Project Participation (R13) SOilless culture UPgrade – SOUP: Utilizing Robotic Systems and Computational Intelligence Technologies to Reduce Costs and Inputs in Hydroponic Cultures (ΕΔΚ1) (3/2019-2/2021) (R12) A2UFood: Avoidable and Unavoidable Food Wastes: A Holistic Managing Approach for Urban Environments (UIA02-115) (3/2019-2/2021) (R11) SOILCARE: Soil Care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe (H2020-SFS-2015-2) (writing group) (R10) RECARE: Preventing and Remediating degradation of soils in Europe through Land Care (Collaborative Large Integrated Project, FP7-ENV.2013.6.2-4) (11/2013-10/2018) (R09) CASCADE: CAtastrophic Shifts in drylands; how CAn we prevent ecosystem DEgradation (Collaborative Large Integrated Project, FP7-ENV-2012) (5/2012-6/2017) (R08) SIMFLOOD: High Resolution Satellite Imagery for Floodplain Mapping, European Space Agency (5/2011-4/2012) (R07) COMBINE: Comprehensive Modelling of the Earth System for better climate prediction and projection (Integrated Project), FP7-ENV-2008-1 (4/2011-5/2011) (R06) WATCH: WATer & global CHance (Integrated Project) Sixth Framework Programme – Global Change and Ecosystems Priority – 4th Call Paragraph II.1.1 Global Water Cycle, Water Resources and Droughts) (11/2010-3/2011). (R05) SCENES: Water Scenarios for Europe and for Neighboring States (Integrated Project), Sub-Priority 6.3 – Global Change and Ecosystems, Sub-priority research area – II.4 Scenarios of water demand and availability, Topic – II.4.1 Water scenarios for Europe and for neighbouring countries (5/2009-10/2010) (R04) HYDRATE: Hydrometeorological data resources and technologies for effective flash flood forecasting Sixth Framework Programme – Global Change and Ecosystems Priority – 4th Call Paragraph II.1.2 “Flash Flood forecasting (4/2008-8/2009) (R03) Flash Flood Forecasting with the Use of C-Band Radar in the Island of Crete: General Secretariat for Research and Technology, International S & T Cooperation Directorate – Bilateral Relations Division, Scientific and Technological Cooperation between RTD Organizations in Greece and RTD Organizations in USA & Canada (11/2006-3/2008) (R02) HarmoniRiB: European Community EC-RS (Energy, environment and sustainable development Key Action 1: Sustainable Management and Quality of Water, Harmonized Techniques and Representative River Basin Data for Assessment and Use of Uncertainty Information in Integrated Water Management (4/2005-9/2006) (R01) Environmental Database for Chania Prefecture: Web-Site Development, Local Authority of Municipalities of Chania, Crete (9/2002-6/2003). Publications Scopus: Citations: 1205; h-index: 14 Google Scholar: Citations: 1781; h-index: 16; i10-index: 21 ORCID: 0000-0001-9333-4963 (J33) Okpara, U., Luuk Fleskens, L., Stringer, L., Hessel, R., Felicitas Bachmann, F., Daliakopoulos, I., Berglund, K., Blanco Velazquez. F.J.; Dal Ferro, N., Keizer, J., Kohnova, S., Lemann, T., Quinn, C., Schwilch, G., Siebielec, G., Skaalsveen, K., Tibbet, M., Zoumides, C. 2020. Selecting and applying appraisal tools that help stakeholders to mitigate soil threats: Researchers’ experiences from across Europe. Journal of Environmental Management 257, 110005. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.110005. (J32) Daliakopoulos, I.N., and Saskia Keestra, 2020. TERRAenVISION: Science for Society. Environmental Issues Today. Journal of Environmental Management, 236, 466-480. Science of the Total Environment, 704, 135238, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135238. (J31) Rahmati, O., Golkarian, A., Keesstra, S., Trent Biggs, Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2019. Land subsidence hazard modeling using GARP and MaxEnt: Machine learning to identify predictors and the role of human activities. Journal of Environmental Management, 236, 466-480. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.020. Cited 11 times (J30) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Apostolakis, A., Wagner, K., Deligianni, A., Koutskoudis, D., Stamatakis, A., Tsanis, I.K., 2018. Effectiveness of Trichoderma harzianum in soil and yield conservation of tomato crops under saline irrigation. Catena 175,144-153. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2018.12.009. Cited 3 times. (J29) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2019. A SIFT-based DEM extraction approach using GEOEYE-1 satellite stereo-pairs. Sensors, 19, 1123. doi:10.3390/s19051123. Cited 2 times. (J28) Moustakas, A., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Benton, T.G., 2019. Data-driven competitive facilitative tree interactions and their implications on nature-based solutions. Science of the Total Environment,651 (2) 2269-2280 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.349. Cited once. (J27) Cuevas, J., Daliakopoulos, I.N., del Morala, F., Huesoc, J.J., Tsanis, I.K, 2019. A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization. Agronomy 2019, 9(6), 295; doi.org:10.3390/agronomy9060295 Cited 4 times (J26) Moustakas, A., Evans, M.R., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Markonis, Y., 2018. Abrupt events and population synchrony in the dynamics of Bovine Tuberculosis. Nature Communications 9:2821, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04915-0 (J25) Riva, M.J., Baeza, J., Bautista, S., Christoforou, M., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Hadjimitsis, D., Keizer, J.J., Liniger, H., Quaranta, G., Ribeiro, C., Salvia, R., Tsanis, I.K., Urgeghe, A., Valdecantos, A., Schwilch, G., 2017. How does land management contribute to the resilience of Mediterranean forests and rangelands? A participatory assessment. Land Degradation & Development29:3721–3735, doi: 10.1002/ldr.3104. (J24) Schwilch, G., Lemann, T., Berglund, Ö., Camarotto, C., Cerdà, A., Daliakopoulos I.N., Kohnová, S., Krzeminska, D., Marañón, T., Rietra, R., Sibielec, G., Thorsson, J., Tibbett, M., Valente, S., van Delden, H., van den Akker, J., Verzandvoort, Vrînceanu, N.O., Zoumides C. and Hessel, R., 2018. Assessing impacts of soil management measures on Ecosystem Services. Sustainability, 2018, 10(12), 4416, doi: 10.3390/su10124416. Cited 5 times. (J23) Alexakis, D.D., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Panagea, I., Tsanis, I.K., 2016. Assessing Soil Salinity with the use of WorldView-2 Multispectral Images in Timpaki, Crete. Geocarto International, 61 (15) 2763-2774. DOI:10.1080/10106049.2016.1250826. Cited 9 times (J22) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Panagea, S.I., Tsanis, I.K., Grillakis, M.G., Koutroulis, A.G., Hessel, R., Mayor, A.G., and Ritsema, C.J., 2017. Yield Response of Mediterranean Rangelands under a Changing Climate. Land Degradation & Development, 28 (7) 1962-1972. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2717. Cited 14 times. (J21) Grillakis, M.G., Koutroulis, A.G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2017. A method to preserve trends in quantile mapping bias correction of climate modeled temperature. Earth System Dynamics 8(3), pp. 889-900 DOI:10.5194/esd-8-889-2017. Cited 12 times (J20) Riva, M.J., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Eckert, S., Hodel, E., Liniger, H., 2017. Assessment of Land Degradation in Mediterranean Forests and Grazing Lands using a Landscape Unit Approach and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. Applied Geography 86:8-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.06.017. Cited 17 times. (J19) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Katsanevakis, S., Moustakas, A., 2017. Spatial Downscaling of Alien Species Presences using Machine Learning. Frontiers in Earth Science 5:60. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00060. Cited 6 times. (J18) Alexakis, D.D., Mexis, P.D., Vozinaki, A.E.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2017. Soil moisture content estimation based on Sentinel-1 and auxiliary earth observation products. A hydrological approach. Sensors 17 (7) DOI: 10.3390/s17061455. Cited 26 times. (J17) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis I.K., Koutroulis, A., Kourgialas N., Varouchakis, E., Karatzas P., Ritsema C., 2016. The Threat of Soil Salinity: a European scale review. Science of the Total Environment. 574, 727-739. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.177. Cited 83 times. (J16) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis I.K., 2016. Comparison of an Artificial Neural Network and a Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Model in the Simulation of Ephemeral Streams. Hydrological Sciences Journal DOI:10.1080/02626667.2016.1154151. Cited 14 times. (J15) Daliakopoulos I.N., Pappa, P., Grillakis, M.G., Varouchakis, E.A., Tsanis, I.K., 2016. Modelling soil salinity in greenhouse cultivations under a changing climate with SALTMED: Model modification and application in Timpaki, Crete. Soil Science, 181 (6), 241-251. DOI: 10.1097/SS.0000000000000161. Cited 9 times. (J14) Grillakis, M.G., Koutroulis, A.G., Papadimitriou, L.V., Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis, I.K., 2016. Climate induced shifts in global soil temperature regimes. Soil Science 181 (6), 264-272. DOI: 10.1097/SS.0000000000000156. Cited 13 times. (J13) Panagea I.S., Daliakopoulos I.N., Tsanis, I.K., Schwilch, G., 2016. Evaluation of promising technologies for soil salinity amelioration in Timpaki (Crete): a Participatory Approach. Solid Earth, 7, 177-190. DOI: 10.5194/se-7-177-2016. Cited 16 times. (J12) Apostolakis, Α., Wagner, Κ., Daliakopoulos, Ι.Ν., Tsanis, Ι.Κ., 2016. Greenhouse Soil Moisture Deficit under Saline Irrigation and Climate Change. Procedia Engineering 166, 537–544 DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.11.098. Cited 5 times (J11) Koutroulis, A. G., Grillakis M.G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis I.K., and Jacob D., 2015. Cross sectoral impacts on water availability at +2 °C and +3 °C for east Mediterranean island states: the case of Crete. Journal of Hydrology 532, pp. 16-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.11.015. Cited 24 times. (J10) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2014. Climate Induced Catastrophic Shifts in Pastoralism Systems Managed Under the Maximum Sustainable Yield Model. International Journal of Operational Research 14 (2) pp. 177-188. DOI:10.1007/s12351-014-0156-7. Cited 3 times (J09) Tsanis, I.K., Seiradakis, K.D., Daliakopoulos I.N., Grillakis, M.G., Koutroulis, A.G., 2013. Assessment of Geoeye-1 Stereo-Pair Generated DEM in Flood Mapping of an Ungauged Basin. Journal of Hydroinformatics 16 (1) pp. 1–18. DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2013.197. Cited 15 times. (J08) Koutroulis, A.G., Tsanis, I.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Jacob, D., 2012. Impact of climate change on water resources status: a case study for Crete Island, Greece. Journal of Hydrology 479 (4) pp. 146-158. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.11.055. Cited 59 times. (J07) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2012. A weather radar data processing module for storm analysis. Journal of Hydroinformatics 14 (2) pp. 332-344. DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2011.118. Cited 6 times. (J06) Tsanis, I.K., Koutroulis, A.G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Jacob, D., 2011. Severe climate-induced water shortage and extremes in Crete. Climatic Change 106 (4), pp. 667-677. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0048-2. Cited 43 times (J05) Koutroulis, A.G., Tsanis, I.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2010. Seasonality of floods and their hydrometeorologic characteristics in the island of Crete. Journal of Hydrology 394 (1-2), pp. 90-100. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.04.025. Cites 46 times (J04) E. Gaume, V. Bain, P. Bernardara, O. Newinger, M. Barbuc, A. Bateman, L. Blaškovičová, G. Blöschl, M. Borga, A. Dumitrescu, I. Daliakopoulos, J. Garcia, A. Irimescu, S. Kohnova, A. Koutroulis, L. Marchi, S. Matreata, V. Medina, E. Preciso, D. Sempere-Torres, G. Stancalie, J. Szolgay, I. Tsanis, D. Velasco, A. Viglione, 2009. A compilation of data on European flash floods. Journal of Hydrology 367 (1-2), pp. 70-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.12.028. Cited 364 times. (J03) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Grillakis, E.G., Koutroulis, A.G., Tsanis, I.K., 2009. Tree crown detection on multispectral VHR satellite imagery, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 75 (10), pp. 1201-1211. DOI: 10.14358/PERS.75.10.1201. Cited 24 times. (J02) Tsanis I.K., Coulibaly, P., Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2008. Improving groundwater level forecasting with a feedforward neural network and linearly regressed projected precipitation. Journal of Hydroinformatics 10 (4) 317–330. DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2008.006. Cited 32 times. (J01) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Coulibaly, P., Tsanis, I.K., 2005. Groundwater Level Forecasting Using Artificial Neural Networks, Journal of Hydrology, 309, 229 – 240. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.12.001. Cited 339 times. Submitted in Peer Reviewed Journals (SJ4) Erik van den Elsen, Lindsay C. Stringer, Cecilia de Ita, Rudi Hessel, Sonia Kéfi, Florian D. Schneider, Susana Bautista, Angeles G. Mayor, Mara Baudena, Max Rietkerk, Alejandro Valdecantos, Victoriano R. Vallejo, Nichola Geeson, C. Jane Brandt, Luuk Fleskens, Lia Hemerik, Panos Panagos, Sandra Valente, Jan Jacob Keizer, Gudrun Schwilch, Matteo Jucker Riva, Diana Sietz, Michalakis Christoforou, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Christiana Papoutsa, Giovanni Quaranta, Rosanna Salvia, Ioannis K. Tsanis, Ioannis Daliakopoulos, Peter C. de Ruiter. Advances in understanding and managing sudden ecosystem shifts in Mediterranean drylands. Journal of Environmental Management (in review). (SJ3) Moradi, E., Marco da Silva, A., Terol, E., Mora, G., Rodrigo-Comino, J., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Khosravi, H., Pulido Fernández, M., Cerdà, A. Quantifying Soil Compaction in Persimmon Plantations in Eastern Spain using ISUM and Core sampling method. Environmental Indicators (in review). (SJ1) Stolte, J., Tesfai, M., Hessel, R., Anaya-Romero, M., Borrelli, P., Bruggeman, A., Berglund,K., Berglund, Ö., Camera, C., Daliakopoulos,I.N., Geissen, V., Siebielec, G., Keizer, J.J., Kirkby, M.J., Morari, F., Frelih Larsen, A., Madejón, P., Marañón, T., Panagos, P., Ritsema, C.J., Schjønning, P., Schwilch, G., Szolgay, J., Tibbett, M., Tsanis, I.K., Van Delden, H., Jan J.H. van den Akker, Verheijen, F.G.A., Olimpia Vrinceanu, N., Øygarden, L., 2018. “Evaluation of soil threats in Europe: drivers and effects on soil functions”. Environmental Science and Policy (in review) Discussion Papers (DJ2) Grillakis, M.G., Koutroulis, A.G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2016. Addressing the assumption of stationarity in statistical bias correction of temperature. Earth System Dynamics Discussions. doi:10.5194/esd-2016-52. (DJ1) Panagea I.S., Daliakopoulos I.N., Tsanis, I.K., Schwilch, G., 2015. Evaluation of soil salinity amelioration technologies in Timpaki, Crete. Solid Earth Discussions. 2015, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p2775-2805. doi:10.5194/sed-7-2775-2015. Chapters in books (B02) Falah, F., Rahmati, O., Rostami, M., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, 2018. “Artificial Neural Networks for Flood Susceptibility Mapping in Data-Scarce Urban Areas” in “Spatial Modeling in GIS and R for Earth and Environmental Sciences” Editors: Pourghasemi, H.R. and Gokceoglu, C., ISBN: 9780128152263, Elsevier (B01) Tsanis, I.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Koutroulis, A., Karatzas, P., Varouchakis, E., Kourgialas, N., 2015. “Soil Salinization” in “Soil threats in Europe: Status, methods, drivers and effects on ecosystem services” Editors: Stolte, J., Tesfai, M., Øygarden, L., Kværnø, S., Keizer, J., Verheijen, F., Panagos, P., Ballabio, C., Hessel, R. EUR 27607 EN; doi:10.2788/488054 (print); doi:10.2788/828742 (online), Luxembourg Submitted Book Chapters (SB1) Alexakis, D.D., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2018. “Monitoring soil salinity with means of field spectroscopy and Earth Observation data. Case studies in Crete, Greece.” In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Climate Change and Soil Dynamics: Threats and Challenges. Editor: Abderazzak Bannari, 11-12 April 2018, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. Other scientific publications & reports (P10) Cuevas, J., Hueso, J.J., del Moral, F., Tsanis, I., and I. Daliakopoulos “Soil-improving cropping systems for soil salinization” in SOILCARE D2.1 “A review of soil- improving cropping systems”, eds O. Oenema, M. Heinen, R. Rietra, R. Hessel., 2017. SOILCARE H2020, October 2017. (P09) Tsanis, I.K. and Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2015. “State of Degradation & Conservation in the RECARE Case Study Sites: Case Study descriptions”, Deliverable 3.1 in “RECARE: Preventing and Remediating degradation of soils in Europe through Land Care” FP7 Project, ENV.2013.6.2-4- Sustainable land care in Europe. Grant agreement no: 603498. (P08) Tsanis, I.K. and Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2015. “Drivers of Change in the CASCADE Study Sites”, Deliverable 2.2 in “CASCADE: Catastrophic shifts in drylands: how can we prevent ecosystem degradation?” FP7 Project, ENV.2011.2.1.4-2 – Behaviour of ecosystems, thresholds and tipping points. Grant agreement no: 283068 (P07) Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis, I.K., 2014. “Greece: Agro-pastoral over-exploitation and its implications in Messara Valley (Crete)” in CIHEAM Watch Letter No28 “Land Issues in the Mediterranean Countries”, CIHEAM, Paris. (P06) Tsanis, I.K. and Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2014. “Historical evolution of dryland ecosystems”, Deliverable 2.1 in “CASCADE: Catastrophic shifts in drylands: how can we prevent ecosystem degradation?” FP7 Project, ENV.2011.2.1.4-2 – Behaviour of ecosystems, thresholds and tipping points. Grant agreement no: 283068. (P05) Tsanis, I.K., A.G. Koutroulis, I.N. Daliakopoulos. “Water Assessment Report for Crete Basins” WATCH FP6, PRIORITY 1.1.6.3, Global Change and Ecosystems. Deliverable 6.4.2a., Work Block 6. Translating the global water cycle system to basins for water resources applications. (P04) Tsanis, I.K., Koutsogiannaki I.G., Daliakopoulos I.N. and Koutroulis A.G. 2008. Report on development of protocols for assessing data uncertainties variability and feedbacks, SCENES Deliverable 1.2, Work Package 1. Driving Forces and Policy Measures, Task 1.5.4, Technical University of Crete, Crete, Greece”. (P03) Tsanis, I.K., A.G. Koutroulis, I.N. Daliakopoulos, 2006. “Geropotamou basin, Greece – A Harmonib Case Study” Intermediate Report, Harmonized Techniques and Representative River Basin Data for Assessment and Use of Uncertainty Information in Integrated Water Management (HarmoniRiB), European Community EC-RS (Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Key Action 1: Sustainable Management and Quality of Water, (3 reports). (P02) Tsanis, I.K., Koutroulis, A.G., Seiradakis, K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2005. “Geographical Information Systems via Internet” Diastasi, Technical Chamber of Greece, Western Crete Division, 29, 38 –45. (P01) Tsanis, I.K., Koutroulis, A.G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Stratakis, A., Lykos, S. 2003. “Online use of Geographical Information System of Chania” Diastasi, Technical Chamber of Greece, Western Crete Division, 21, 35 –43. Conference Proceedings (C46) Fuchs, P, Hadlaczky, S, Hafner, G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Manios, T., Kranert, M., 2019. Food waste management in the Mediterranean hospitality sector-pilot study in Heraklion, Greece. European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings 2019, Pages 148-151, 27th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, EUBCE 2019; Lisbon; Portugal; 27 May 2019 through 30 May 2019; Code 228929 (C45) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Daskalakis, G., Markakis, N., Paparastefanakis, N., Manios, T., 2019. Automatic Monitoring of a Community Backyard Composting Program. TerraEnVision 2019 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2-6 September, 2019. (C44) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Papadimitriou, D.M, Matsoukas, T., Zotos, N., Moysiadis, T., Anastasopoulos, K., Mavrogiannis, I., Manios, T., 2019. Development and Preliminary Results from the Testbed Infrastructure of the DRIP Project. TerraEnVision 2019 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2-6 September, 2019. (C43) Papadimitriou, D.M., Kontaxakis, E., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Manios, T., Savvas, D., 2019. Effect of N:K Ratio and Electrical Conductivity of Nutrient Solutionon Growth and Yield of Hydroponically GrownGolden Thistle (ScolymushispanicusL.). TerraEnVision 2019 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2-6 September, 2019. (C42) Chroni, C., Lasaridi, K., Stylianidis, N., Velonia, K., Manios, T., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsompanidis, C., Hafner, G., Skarvelakis M., Drosou., R., 2019. The A2UFood Project – Avoidable and Unavoidable Food Wastes: A Holistic Managing Approach for Urban Environments. TerraEnVision 2019 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2-6 September, 2019. (C41) Christoforidi, I., Kollaros, D., Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2019. Soil Moisture and Temperature Induced Facilitation of Urban Endogean Fauna in Two Shrub Hedges. TerraEnVision 2019 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2-6 September, 2019. (C40) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Panagea, I., Brocca, L., van den Elsen, E., 2019.Soil Water Balance and Vegetation Dynamics in a Semi-arid Mediterranean Ecosystem. TerraEnVision 2019 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2-6 September, 2019. (C39) Alexakis D.D., Mexis, F-D.K., Vozinaki A-E.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., Estimating Soil Moisture Content with means of Earth Observation and Artificial Neural Networks. TerraEnVision Conference, Barcelona, Spain, January 29 – February 2, 2018. (C38) Fotopoulou A., Telemeni P., Volakakis N., Daliakopoulos I.N., Kollaros D. and Kabourakis E. 2019. First data on Endogaean fauna of olive orchards in Crete, Greece. 14th International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions (ICZEGAR), 27 – 30 June 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece. (C38) Telemeni, P., Fotopoulou, A., Daskalakis, G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Manios, T., and Kollaros, D., 2019. Collembola, Acari, and Other Endogaean Fauna Presence in Three Different Composts. 14th International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions (ICZEGAR), 27 – 30 June 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece (C37) Telemeni, P., Fotopoulou, A., Christoforidi, I., Daliakopoulos, I.N., and Kollaros, D., 2019. Comparison of Urban Endogaean Facilitation by Two Shrub Hedges in Crete, Greece. 14th International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions (ICZEGAR), 27 – 30 June 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece (C36) Alexakis, D.D., Daliakopoulos, I.N., and Tsanis, I.K., 2018. Monitoring soil erosion with means of sediment fences and Earth Observation in Crete, Greece, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-10668, Vienna, Austria, 9–13 April 2018 (C35) Stavrou, N., Makaroglou, G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., and Tsanis, I.K., 2018. Chlorophyll Response to Salinity Stress in Tomato Plants, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-16370-1, Vienna, Austria, 9–13 April 2018 (C34) Alexakis D.D., Mexis, F-D.K., Vozinaki A-E.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., Estimating Soil Moisture Content with means of Earth Observation and Artificial Neural Networks. TerraEnVision Conference, Barcelona, Spain, January 29 – February 2, 2018. (C33) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Soil Moisture Variability as a Driver of Vegetation Dynamics in the Mediterranean Rangelands. TerraEnVision Conference, Barcelona, Spain, January 29 – February 2, 2018. (C32) Petousi, I., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Matsoukas, T., Zotos, N., Mavrogiannis, I., Manios., T. 2018. DRIP: Development of an Advanced Precision Drip Irrigation System for Tree Crops. TerraEnVision Conference, Barcelona, Spain, January 29 – February 2, 2018. (C31) Erik van den Elsen, Rudi Hessel, Ioannis Tsanis, Ioannis Daliakopoulos, Peter de Ruiter, Angeles Garcia Major, Susana Bautista, Alejandro Valdecantos, Ramon Vallejo, Sonia Kefi, Gudrun Schwilch, Luuk Fleskens, Lindsay Stringer, Nicky Geeson, 2017. The CASCADE Project – Understanding and Prevention of Sudden Ecosystem Shifts in Mediterranean Drylands. Second Circular Wageningen Soil Conference, 27-31/8, Wageningen, The Netherlands (to appear). (C30) Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis, I.K., 2017. “Assessing the Influence of Precipitation Variability on the Vegetation Dynamics of the Mediterranean Rangelands using NDVI and Machine Learning”, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 19, EGU2017-15605, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 April 2017 (C29) Apostolakis, A., Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis, I.K., 2017. “Effectiveness of T. harzianum and Humate Amendment in Soil Salinity Restoration”, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 19, EGU2017-15797, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 April 2017 (C28) Mayor, A.G., Morcillo, L., de Ruiter, P., Keizer, J., Valdecantos, A., Quaranta, G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Christoforou, M., 2016. Rainfall-exclusion experiments: to roof or not to roof controls? 4th International BioHydrology Conference, 13-16 September, Almeria, Spain. (C27) Daliakopoulos, Ι.Ν., Quinn, C.H., Tsanis, Ι.Κ., 2016. Bayesian Belief Network Analysis of Soil Salinisation Management Strategies. 158th EAAE International Seminar “Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: Policies, Sustainability, Marketing and Trade”, 8-9 September, Chania, Greece. (C26) Apostolakis, A., Koutskoudis, D., Deligianni, A., Nevras, C., Wagner, K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Stamatakis, A., Tsanis, I.K., 2016. Effect of Saline Water Drip Irrigation on Tomato Yield and Quality Characteristics under Mediterranean Greenhouse Conditions. 158th EAAE International Seminar “Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: Policies, Sustainability, Marketing and Trade”, 8-9 September, Chania, Greece (C25) Apostolakis, Α., Wagner, Κ., Daliakopoulos, Ι.Ν., Tsanis, Ι.Κ., 2016. Greenhouse Soil Moisture Deficit under Saline Irrigation and Climate Change. 2nd EWaS International Conference, June 1-4, Chania, Greece (C24) Alexakis, D.D., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Panagea, I.S., Tsanis, I.K., 2016. Assessing Soil Salinity with the use of WorldView-2 Hyperspectral Images in Timpaki, Crete. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-15418. (C23) Mexis, P.D., Alexakis, D.D., Daliakopoulos I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2016. Using Sentinel-1 and Landsat 8 satellite images to estimate surface soil moisture. An Artificial Neural Network approach. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-13782. (C22) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Wagner, K., Grillakis, G.M., Apostolakis, A., Tsanis, I.K., 2016. An Open-source Low-cost Portable Apparatus for Soil Fauna Sampling. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-16745-2. (C21) Wagner, Κ., Apostolakis, Α., Daliakopoulos, Ι.Ν., Tsanis, Ι.Κ., 2016. Can Tomato Inoculation with Trichoderma Compensate Yield and Soil Health Deficiency due to Soil Salinity? Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-1007. (C20) Daliakopoulos I.N., Grillakis, E.G., Tsanis, I.K., 2015. Observed and Projected Aridity Trends in the CASCADE Project Mediterranean Drylands. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-10497. (C19) Pappa P., Daliakopoulos I.N., Tsanis, I.K., Varouchakis E.A., 2015. Impact Assessment of Salinization Affected Soil on Greenhouse Crops using SALTMED. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-950. (C18) Panagea I.S., Daliakopoulos I.N., Tsanis, I.K., Schwilch, G., 2015. Evaluation of Soil Salinity Amelioration Technologies in Timpaki, Crete. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-533. (C17) Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis I.K., 2014. Comparison of SIFT and SURF based DEM extraction approaches on a GEOEYE-1 satellite stereo-pair. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-14598. (C16) Chochlidakis, C., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis I.K., 2014. Comparison of a Neural Network and a Conceptual Model for Rainfall-Runoff Modelling with Monthly Input. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-3905. (C15) Tsanis I.K. and Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2013. Assessment of a SIFT-based DEM extraction approach using GEOEYE-1 satellite stereo-pairs in flood mapping of an ungauged basin. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings: Vol. 2013, EEP 020. (C14) Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis I.K., 2013. Catastrophic Shifts in Mismanaged Grazing Systems under a Changing Climate. 133rd EAAE Seminar, MAICH, Chania, Greece. (C13) Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis I.K., 2013. GEOEYE-1 Satellite Stereo-Pair DEM Extraction Using Scale-Invariant Feature Transform on a Parallel Processing Platform. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-4482, 2013. (C12) Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis I.K., 2012. Reducing weather radar measurement uncertainty with the use of digital data filtering. ERAD 2012, Toulouse France (C11) Daliakopoulos, I.N. and Tsanis I.K., Uncertainty in precipitation field estimations from radar and raingauge measurements. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-5817, 2011. (C10) Tsanis I.K., I.N. Daliakopoulos, K.G. Seiradakis, Koutroulis A.G., Improving flood risk assessment using a satellite stereo-pair high resolution DEM. EGU2011-5905. NH1.2/AS4.7/HS12.6. Hydrometeorological modeling and Earth observations under extremes: issues of scale, dependence and robust frameworks for collective risk assessment. (C09) Tsanis, I.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Koutroulis, A.G., Jacob, D., 2010. Future Trends of Water Availability in the Island of Crete. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-9488 (C08) Tsanis, I.K., Koutroulis, A.G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Grillakis, E.G., 2010. Studying the hydro-meteorological extremes. The benefits from the European Flash Flood research oriented HYDRATE project. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-8744 (C07) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Tsanis, I.K., 2010. Radar data pre-processing for reliable rain field estimation. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-10365 (C06) Papastefanakis, N.M., Tsanis, I.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., 2009. Post event flash flood analysis in ungauged watersheds. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-5111-1, 2009 (C05) Tsanis, I.K., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Koutroulis, A.G., 2008. Flash flood reconstruction in an ungauged watershed: the case of Almyrida basin, Crete, Greece. Floodrisk, Oxford, UK (C04) L. Marchi, E. Gaume, V. Bain, M. Sangati, A. Bateman, L. Bonnifait, M. Borga, B. Boudevillain, F. Comiti, V. Craciuenscu, I. Daliakopoulos, G. Delrieu, A. Gobbi, O. Horvat, L. Mao, V. Medina, L. Picco, J. Podolinska, N. Pogačnik, E. Preciso, K. Seiradakis, G. Stancalie, 2008. Methods of Post Flood Field Investigation: Lessons learned from trial on Selščica Sora River, Slovenia. Oral presentation at the European Geophysical Union 2008 General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. (C03) Tsanis, I.K., Koutroulis, A.G., Daliakopoulos, I.N., Michaelides, S., 2008. Storm analysis and precipitation distribution of the flash flood in Almyrida basin, Crete. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-09498 (C02) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Koutroulis, A.G., Tsanis, I.K., 2006. Uncertainty assessment in historical precipitation time series. Vol. 8, EGU06-A-03034. (C01) Daliakopoulos, I.N., Coulibaly, P., Tsanis, I.K., 2004. Groundwater Level Forecasting Using Artificial Neural Networks. Poster presentation in the American Geophysical Union 2004 Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada. Editorships Editor: Cogent Environmental Science Member of the Editorial Board: Land (MDPI) Guest Editor: Virtual Special Issue TerraEnVision in Science or the Total Environment Review Editor: Section Hydrosphere of Frontiers in Earth Science and Frontiers in Built Environment; Section Environmental Informatics of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Marine Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics and ICT. Ad hoc Reviewer: Performed 29 reviews for journals including Land Degradation and Development, The Science of the Total Environment, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Hydrology, Water Resources Management, Pedosphere, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Journal of Hydro-Environment Research, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Geocarto International and PeerJ; placing in the 92nd percentile for verified review contributions on Publons (publons.com/a/463160/). Expert Reviewer of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (2019). Thesis supervisions Member of Master Thesis committee (MC1) Tsoni, A., Manios, T., 2018. Design and operation of source-separation system for food waste from hospitality services, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece. Member of Undergraduate Diploma Thesis committee (UC6) Makaroglou, G., Tsanis, I.K, 2018. Mitigation of soil salinity using biological soil amendments under greenhouse conditions, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (UC5) Stavrou, N., Tsanis, I.K, 2018. Effect of soil salinity on chlorophyll content of tomato plants with biological methods. Technical University of Crete, Greece. (UC4) Nevras, N., Tsanis, I.K, 2018. Cost-benefit analysis of a rainwater harvesting investment for greenhouse irrigation. Technical University of Crete, Greece. (UC3) Koutskoudis, D., Tsanis, I.K, 2016. Monitoring of yield and quality in a greenhouse tomato crop under the effect of saline irrigation and T. harzianum, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (UC2) Deligianni, A., Tsanis, I.K, 2016. Effect of saline irrigation and T. harzianum in soil quality characteristics of a greenhouse crop, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (UC1) Wagner, K., Tsanis, I.K, 2016. Installation of experimental greenhouse tomato crop and assessment of the effect of symbiotic fungus T. harzianum under salinity, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Master Students (co-supervision) (M04) Apostolakis, A., Tsanis, I.K, 2017. Simulation of Greenhouse Tomato Crop using SALTMED: Scenarios of Irrigation Quality and Climate Change, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (M03) Panagea, I., Tsanis, I.K, 2016. Impact of drought in the Mediterranean pasturelands under climate change, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (M02) Pappa, P., Tsanis, I.K, 2015. Irrigation assessment of saline soil greenhouse cultivation, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (M01) Grillakis E.G, Tsanis, I.K, 2006. Using remote sensing and development of algorithms for hydrological purposes, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Undergraduate Students (co-supervision) (U06) Chochlidakis, C., Tsanis, I.K, 2014. Comparison of Neural Network and conceptual rainfall-runoff models on a monthly basis in the region of Crete, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (U05) Falegkas C., Tsanis, I.K, 2014Using meteorological radar rainfall in short-term forecasting, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (U04) Papantou D., Tsanis, I.K, 2011. Spatio-temporal analysis of drought in Greece, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (U03) Tsitsilonis S.K., Tsanis, I.K, 2006. Analysis of the water balance of the basin Keritis with modern study of surface and subsurface runoff, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (U02) Athanasakis E., Tsanis, I.K, 2006. Determination of land use on river basin Keritis using GPS technology and satellite imagery, Technical University of Crete, Greece. (U01) Grillakis E.G., Tsanis, I.K., 2007. Design and simulation of runoff of river basin Keritis using field data, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Professional experience (PC7) Consulting contracts for the development of tailor made software development services (PC6) Consulting contract with Landco S.A. for the R&D project “DRIP: Development of an Advanced Precision Drip Irrigation System for Tree Crops” (8/2018 – 4/2021) (PC5) Consulting contract with Plasis S.A. for the R&D project “SolarGas; Solar Drying as an Economic and Environmental Tool Optimization of Anaerobic Digestion Units Residues” (5/2018 – 4/2021) (PC4) Consulting contract with Dialynas S.A. for the R&D project “ACU – Autonomous Composting Units” (5/2018 – 4/2021) (PC3) Consulting contract with Dialynas S.A. for the R&D project “Developing a low-cost central home composting unit for apartment buildings and small/medium size hotels” (10/2012 – 9/2014) (PC2) Consulting contract with the Municipal Corporation of the Municipality of Mousouron Chania for the installation of photovoltaic panels yielding a total of 620 KW (5/2008) (PC1) Consulting contract with NOISIS Development Consultants for the environmental assessment of further developing two Greek Olympic Properties (Weightlifting and Equestrian Stadium) (4/2005) Grants (G3) Elected candidate for teaching the 4th year course “Water Resources Management” at the School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete under the EU-Greece co-funded action “Acquiring Academic Teaching Experience in New Scientists Holding Ph.D.”, Crete, Greece, 2017-2018. (G2) European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) ES1306: Connecting European Connectivity Research. COST Local Organizer Support (LOS) Grant for organizing a partner meeting under the title “The Hydrological and Erosional Cycles in Karstic Terrains” in Chania, Greece, 14-17 March 2018. (G1) European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) ES1104: Arid Lands Restoration and Combat of Desertification: Setting Up a Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub. Short-term scientific missions (STSM) Grant, Bern, 21-27 April 2013. Honors J01 and J03 have received enough citations to place them in the top 1% of the academic field of Environmental Science articles of the same age and document type (Source: Scopus). J06 is cited in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report “Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Part B: Regional Aspects – Europe” J23 is cited in the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report “Global Warming of 1.5 °C” J17 is cited in the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report “Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems”. Memberships 2019-today: Member of the Management Committee and Science Communication Manager for FIRElinks COST Action CA18135 Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG) European Geosciences Union (EGU) European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Hellenic Zoological Society Language skills English: Certificate of Proficiency in English, Cambridge University. English: Certificate of Proficiency in English, Translation from & into Greek, Cambridge University. French: Delf 1, Athens French Institute Computer Skills Operation Systems: Windows, Linux Office Suites: MS Office, Openoffice Mathematical Programming: Matlab, R Programming Languages: VB, C#, PHP, SQL, FORTRAN Engineering Design Packages: AutoCAD, Draftsight, Solidworks GIS Packages: ArcView, ArcMap, ArcIMS Satellite imagery processing software: ERDAS Environmental Software: MIKE-11/SHE, GMS-MODFLOW, HEC-HMS/RAS, QUAL2E, SWMM, EPANET, WEAP, SALTMED