Online One Day Masterclass: Fog collection for water management and sustainable forestry (February 15, 2019)
Register here to the masterclass, to be held on February 15, 2019 between 13.00 and 18.30 CET.
(Registered participants will receive login details by email.)
Fog is the sole source of water for many communities and ecosystems in arid areas of the planet. Research has shown that fog collection, and fog-forest interaction management is a viable way to fight drought, combat land degradation and overcome climate change in such arid areas.
But how to do this practically? How to build a fog collection unit? Where best? How to manage it? How to link it with the restoration of arid landscapes? We need to upscale the full potential of these technologies at an operational level.
MetaMeta, the Water Harvesting Lab of University of Florence, and the Centre for Microclimate Management offer a free online Masterclass to explain the strategies and practicalities of fog collection on February 15, 2019. The Masterclass consists of four sessions, spread over a single day.
A certificate will be provided by the Water Harvesting Lab of Università degli Studi di Firenze to those attending the full master class.
Session Recordings
1. Introduction to fog water collection
Elena Bresci, Fabio Salbitano, Giulio Castelli, Water Harvesting Lab
2. How to set up a fog project
Nicolas Zanetta, technical expert and practitioner from FogQuest
3. Fog collection systems and atmospheric phenomena
Giorgia dall’Osteria, UNESCO Chair in Engineering for Human and Sustainable Development, University of Trento
Where do advection fogs occur in the world? How are linked to macro- and meso- climate, and where we can expect to collect fog water? Ms. dall’Osteria, young expert from the University of Trento discusses this.
4. Social Impact of fog collection
Dr. Jamila Bargach, Anthropologist, Executive Director, Dar Si Hmad Association
Fog collection can support local communities around the World. The Moroccan NGO Dar Si Hmad, running the largest Fog Collection Project in the World, presents its outstanding results in terms of social impact.
Related Resources:
- World’s largest functioning fog collection project: http://darsihmad.org/fog/
- Article: Fog collection as a strategy to sequester carbon in drylands: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.038
