H21N:
Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World IV Coping with California's Record Drought

Session ID#: 4957

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3020 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States and Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Convener:  Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada
Co-conveners:  Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States and Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, Chapel Hill, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Richmond Hill, Canada
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H21N-01
California’s Drought – Stress test for the future (27273)
Jay R Lund, Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
H21N-02
Municipal Water in Drought-Stricken California: Thinking Outside the Box (6354)
Hugo A Loaiciga, Univ of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
H21N-03
EBMUD Drought Planning Put to the Test in 2014 (27116)
Ben S Bray, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA, United States
H21N-04
Economic Gains from Groundwater Management in California and Use of Remote Sensing (16936)
Josue Medellin-Azuara, University of California, Merced, Water Systems Management Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States, Richard E Howitt, University of California Davis, Agricultural Economics, Davis, CA, United States, Duncan MacEwan, ERA Economics, Davis, CA, United States, Jay R Lund, Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Economic Analysis of the 2014 California Drought
H21N-05
Toward a Drought Cyberinfrastructure System for Improving Water Resource Management and Policy Making (24755)
Amir AghaKouchak1, David Lewis Feldman2, Stanely Grant3, Alireza Farahmand4, Navid Nakhjiri3 and Farshad Momtaz3, (1)University of California, Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, California, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
H21N-06
Allocating shortage amongst riparian and appropriative water right holders in California's drought (28362)
Benjamin Lord, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Jay R Lund, Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
H21N-07
Better Redd than Dead: Optimizing Reservoir Operations for Wild Fish Survival During Drought (27207)
L.E. Adams1, Jay R Lund2 and Rebecca Quiñones1, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
H21N-08
Estimating Natural Flows into the California’s Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta (24934)
Guobiao Huang, Tariq Kadir and Francis I Chung, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States
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