GC34D
The Water-Energy Nexus: Data, Impacts, and Opportunities II

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3001 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Yaling Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Mohamad Issa Hejazi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, Dev Niyogi, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Ashlynn S. Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Chairs:  Yaling Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States and Ashlynn S. Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Mohamad Issa Hejazi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
16:00
Planning and the Energy-Water Nexus (Invited) (58588)
Vincent Carroll Tidwell1, Michael Bailey2, Katie Zemlick3 and Barbara Moreland1, (1)Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Western Electricity Coordinating Council, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
16:15
Fine-resolution Modeling of Urban-Energy Systems’ Water Footprint in River Networks (83532)
Ryan McManamay, Sujithkumar Surendran Nair, April Morton, Christopher DeRolph and Robert Stewart, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
16:30
Developing Water Resource Security in a Greenhouse Gas Constrained Context – A Case Study in California (81663)
Brian Tarroja1, Amir Aghakouchak2 and Scott Samuelsen1, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
16:45
Overview of the National Energy-Water System (NEWS) Assessment Framework Study (Invited) (81474)
Charles J Vorosmarty1, Ariel Miara2, Bernice Rosenzweig3, Nima Ehsani3, Fabio Corsi4, Michael Piasecki5, Paul Celicourt3 and Faye Duchin6, (1)CUNY Environmental Crossroads, New York, NY, United States, (2)CUNY City College, Environmental Crossroads Initiative, New York, NY, United States, (3)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (4)CUNY City College, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States
17:00
Minimizing water consumption when producing hydropower (70370)
Arturo S Leon, Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
17:15
An Assessment of the Value and Applicability of the Water-Energy Nexus Framework (Invited) (64923)
Peter Henry Gleick, Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA, United States
17:30
Well-to-Wheels Water Consumption: Tracking the Virtual Flow of Water into Transportation (65333)
David J Lampert, Amgad Elgowainy and Cai Hao, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
17:45
Thirst for Power: Energy, Water and Human Survival (Invited) (66212)
Michael Webber, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States