H54E:
Hydrology and Earth Sciences in Data Scarce Regions: Research and Education Methods from Remote Sensing to In Situ and Crowd-Sourcing Approaches II


Session ID#: 10590

Session Description:
This session will highlight research and education opportunities and challenges of using innovative data collection and integrated modeling approaches to finding hydrologic and earth sciences solutions in data scarce regions. This session includes: 1) Locally appropriate and scientifically valid data collection and instrumentation methods, 2) Use of remote sensing and global weather datasets for hydrologic modeling, 3) Problem driven approaches to addressing critical environment, development and health challenges, 4) Use of information technology to uptake research findings, 5) Hydrologic problems and solutions specific to developing world communities, and 6) Unique education and research approaches in partnership with developing world communities.
Primary Convener:  Michele Minihane, Bureau of Indian Affairs (contractor), Lakewood, CO, United States
Conveners:  Naga Manohar Velpuri, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka, Gabriel B Senay, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Fort Collins, United States and Veena Srinivasan, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India
Chairs:  Veena Srinivasan, Organization Not Listed, Bangalore, DC, India, Naga Manohar Velpuri, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka, Michele Minihane, Bureau of Indian Affairs (contractor), Lakewood, CO, United States and Gabriel B Senay, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Fort Collins, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Naga Manohar Velpuri, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
Index Terms:

0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1899 General or miscellaneous [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Inexpensive, Open-Source, Internet of Things-Enabled Sensing Stations for Environmental Parameter Measurements (60569)
Peter M. Marchetto1, Kathryn Hofmeister2 and Todd Walter1, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, MI, United States
Robot-Assisted Measurements in Data Sparse Regions (Invited) (61147)
Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Sierra Noelle Young, Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States, Gopal Penny, National University of Singapore, Department of Geography, Singapore, Singapore, Sally E Thompson, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States and Veena Srinivasan, Organization Not Listed, Bangalore, DC, India
On the use of satellite data to implement a parsimonious ecohydrological model in the upper Ewaso Ngiro river basin (77533)
Guiomar Ruiz-Pérez, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Research Group of Hydrological and Environmental Modelling (GIHMA), Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Utility of Satellite Data to monitor drought and floods in India (Invited) (77913)
Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India
Rainwater Harvesting in South India: Understanding Water Storage and Release Dynamics at Tank and Catchment Scales (85000)
Nandita B Basu1, Kimberly Van Meter2, Daniel L Mclaughlin3 and Michael Steiff2, (1)University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, United States
North-South Partnership in Water Resource Education and Research – Lessons learnt from U.S.-Ethiopia Partnership (Invited) (81136)
Prof. Mekonnen K Gebremichael, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
Using a Smart-phone for Collecting Discharge Data in Irrigation Furrows in Tanzania. (77859)
Salvador Peña Haro1, Beat Lüthi1, Thomas Philippe1, Robert Mario Naudascher2 and Tobias Siegfried2, (1)photrack AG, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)hydrosolutions GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

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