GC11G:
From Glacierized Watersheds to Global River Basins: Advances in Water Resources Management, Modeling, and Monitoring I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Nathalie Voisin, PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States, Katalyn Voss, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Daene C. McKinney, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Conveners:  Nathalie Voisin, PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-conveners:  Katalyn Voss, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Daene C. McKinney, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Optimizing Land and Water Use at the Local Level to Enhance Global Food Security through Virtual Resources Trade in the World
Ximing Cai, UIUC-Civil & Environ Engrg, Urbana, IL, United States, Xiao Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Tingju Zhu, Int''l Food Policy Res Inst, Washington, DC, United States
8:15 AM
 
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on the Performance of Major Water Projects over China
Qiuhong Tang, Xingcai Liu, Yuan Yuan Yin, Chi Zhang and Xuejun Zhang, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
8:30 AM
 
Assessing the impacts of climate change on agricultural production in the Columbia River basin: incorporating water management
Jennifer C Adam, Kirti Rajagopalan, Claudio O Stockle, Georgine Yorgey, Chad E Kruger, Kiran Chinnayakanahalli and Roger Nelson, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
8:45 AM
 
A spatial assessment of hydrologic alteration caused by dams in the Northeastern United States using a Neural Network based daily reservoir operation scheme
Nima Ehsani1,2, Charles J Vorosmarty1,2, Balazs M Fekete1,2, Bernice Rosenzweig2 and Zachary D Tessler2, (1)CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States, (2)CUNY Environmental Crossroads, New York, NY, United States
9:00 AM
 
A Multi-satellite Remote Sensing Product of Reservoir Storage, Elevation, and Surface Area in South Asia
Shuai Zhang1, Huilin Gao1 and Bibi S Naz2, (1)Texas A & M University, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
9:15 AM
 
Forecasting the Depletion of Transboundary Groundwater Resources in Hyper-Arid Environments
Annamaria Mazzoni, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Essam Heggy, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
9:30 AM
 
Water Resources and Groundwater in a Glaciated Andean Watershed (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)
Jeffrey M McKenzie1, Ryan Gordon2, Michel Baraer3, Laura Lautz2, Bryan G Mark4, Oliver Wigmore4, Daniel Chavez1 and Caroline Aubry-Wake1, (1)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)Ecole de Technologie Superieur, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)OSU-Byrd Polar Rsrch Ctr, Columbus, OH, United States
9:45 AM
 
Modelling Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: Key Considerations and Challenges Posed By Climatic Change
Matthew Westoby, Northumbria University, Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom; Aberystwyth University, Centre for Glaciology, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom