H23T:
Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World V Innovative Methods and Applications

Session ID#: 4958

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
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:

H23T-01
The Effects of Variations in El Niño and La Niña Patterns on World Food Markets (27316)
Patrick A Ray, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States, Richard Robertson, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States, Tingju Zhu, ZJU-UIUC Institute, International Campus, Zhejiang University, Haining, China, Scott Steinschneider, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States and Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
H23T-02
Ecological Decision Scaling: A Framework For Incorporating Ecological Principles in Water Management Decision Making (26206)
Ted Grantham, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, LeRoy Poff, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Caitlin Marie Spence, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States, John Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Margaret Palmer, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, United States, Kelly L Hondula, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States and Carlos Baeza Castro, University of Maryland, Annapolis, MD, United States
H23T-03
A Screening-Level Hydroeconomic Model of South Florida Water Resources System (23296)
Ali Mirchi1, David W Watkins Jr1, Michael Flaxman2 and Daniel Wiesmann3, (1)Oklahoma State University, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Stillwater, United States, (2)Geodesign Technologies Inc, San Francisco, CA, United States, (3)Geodesign Technologies Inc, San Francisco, United States
H23T-04
Cost Distribution of Environmental Flow Demands in a Large Scale Multi-Reservoir System (29310)
Guilherme Marques, Institute of Hydraulic Research UFGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Amaury Tilmant, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada
H23T-05
Collaborative Adaptation Planning for Water Security: Preliminary Lessons, Challenges, and the Way Forward for Maipo Basin Adaptation Plan, Chile (10753)
Sebastian Vicuna1, Christopher A Scott2, Sebastian Bonelli3, Eduardo Bustos4 and Francisco Meza1, (1)Centro de Cambio Global. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (4)Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
H23T-06
Enhancing Floodplain Management in the Lower Mekong River Basin Using Vegetation and Water Cycle Satellite Observations (30048)
John D Bolten1, Joseph Spruce2, Richard Wilson3, Kellan Strauch3, Thomas W Doyle4, Raghavan Srinivan5, Venkataraman Lakshmi6 and Dr. Manika Gupta, PhD7, (1)Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States, (2)Computer Sciences Corporation, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)USGS Nebraska Water Science Center, Mitchell, NE, United States, (4)USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States, (5)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (6)University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (7)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
H23T-07
Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Compelling Issues for Geophysical Research (9051)
Masih Akhbari1, Neil S. Grigg2 and Reagan Waskom1, (1)Colorado State University, Colorado Water Institute, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
H23T-08
Fully-Integrated Simulation of Conjunctive Use from Field to Basin Scales: Development of a Surface Water Operations Module for MODFLOW-OWHM (31346)
Ian M Ferguson1, Scott E Boyce2, Randall T Hanson2 and Dagmar Llewellyn3, (1)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (2)USGS California Water Science Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)United States Bureau of Reclamation, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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