The department of Hydro- and Environmental Geology of the Estonian Geological Survey organized a seminar for project partners on 10th and 11th of November 2020. The aim of the meeting was to exchange good practices and start developing harmonized principles for groundwater status assessment. Due to the situation of COVID-19 virus spread the seminar took place in a hybrid format - partly in Rakvere at the GSE main office and virtually in the MS Teams environment.
The main purposes for the seminar was to share experiences and knowledge gained through the implementation of various groundwater management projects. An overview of methodologies and main outcomes for different steps in groundwater status assessment of quantity and quality process was presented by both countries. In discussions similarities and differences between countries were pointed out.
Agnese Priede from the Latvian Nature Conservation Agency talked about citizen science in collecting biodiversity data in Latvia. Jaanus Terasmaa from Tallinn University gave a presentation on a similar topic during the Kick-Off meeting, talking about voluntarily spring monitoring and introducing good examples from EU and Estonia.
Didzis Elferts from the University of Latvia introduced the possibilities of the R programming language for data processing and visualization. A training event for project partners is planned in 2021 to learn groundwater data analyses and visualization using R.
