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

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Gregory W Characklis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Casey M Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Patrick M. Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and Greogory W Characklis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Kaveh Madani, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
California’s Drought – Stress test for the future
Jay R Lund, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
8:15 AM
 
Municipal Water in Drought-Stricken California: Thinking Outside the Box
Hugo A Loaiciga, Univ of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
8:30 AM
 
EBMUD Drought Planning Put to the Test in 2014
Ben S Bray, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA, United States
8:45 AM
 
Economic Gains from Groundwater Management in California and Use of Remote Sensing
Josue Medellin-Azuara1, Richard E Howitt1, Duncan MacEwan2 and Jay R Lund1, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)ERA Economics, Davis, CA, United States
9:00 AM
 
Toward a Drought Cyberinfrastructure System for Improving Water Resource Management and Policy Making
Amir AghaKouchak, David Feldman, Stanely Grant, Alireza Farahmand, Navid Nakhjiri and Farshad Momtaz, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
9:15 AM
 
Allocating shortage amongst riparian and appropriative water right holders in California's drought
Benjamin Lord and Jay R Lund, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
9:30 AM
 
Better Redd than Dead: Optimizing Reservoir Operations for Wild Fish Survival During Drought
L.E. Adams, Jay R Lund and Rebecca Quiñones, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
9:45 AM
 
Estimating Natural Flows into the California’s Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta
Guobiao Huang, Tariq Kadir and Francis I Chung, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States
 
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