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

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

1:40 PM
 
The Effects of Variations in El Niño and La Niña Patterns on World Food Markets
Patrick A Ray1, Richard Robertson2, Tingju Zhu3, Scott Steinschneider4 and Casey M Brown1, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Int''l Food Policy Res Inst, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northampton, MA, United States
1:55 PM
 
Ecological Decision Scaling: A Framework For Incorporating Ecological Principles in Water Management Decision Making
Ted Grantham1, LeRoy Poff2, Caitlin Marie Spence3, John Matthews4, Casey M Brown5, Margaret Palmer6, Kelly L Hondula7 and Carlos Baeza Castro6, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, Corvallis, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)University of Maryland, Annapolis, MD, United States, (7)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
2:10 PM
 
A Screening-Level Hydroeconomic Model of South Florida Water Resources System
Ali Mirchi1, David W Watkins Jr1, Michael Flaxman2 and Daniel Wiesmann2, (1)Michigan Technological University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)Geodesign Technologies Inc, San Francisco, CA, United States
2:25 PM
 
Cost Distribution of Environmental Flow Demands in a Large Scale Multi-Reservoir System
Guilherme Marques, Institute of Hydraulic Research UFGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Amaury Tilmant, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada
2:40 PM
 
Collaborative Adaptation Planning for Water Security: Preliminary Lessons, Challenges, and the Way Forward for Maipo Basin Adaptation Plan, Chile
Sebastian Vicuna1, Christopher A Scott2, Sebastian Bonelli3, Eduardo Bustos3 and Francisco Javier 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
2:55 PM
 
Enhancing Floodplain Management in the Lower Mekong River Basin Using Vegetation and Water Cycle Satellite Observations
John D Bolten1, Joseph Spruce2, Richard Wilson3, Kellan Strauch3, Thomas Doyle4, Raghavan Srinivan5, Venkataraman Lakshmi6 and Manika Gupta1, (1)NASA GSFC, 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 National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States, (5)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (6)Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
3:10 PM
 
Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Compelling Issues for Geophysical Research
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
3:25 PM
 
Fully-Integrated Simulation of Conjunctive Use from Field to Basin Scales: Development of a Surface Water Operations Module for MODFLOW-OWHM
Ian M Ferguson1, Scott E Boyce2, Randall T Hanson2 and Dagmar Llewellyn1, (1)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (2)USGS California Water Science Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
 
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