H31O
Water Resources, Climate Change, and Sustainability: Breakthroughs in Process Understanding, Data Availability, and Impact Assessment I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3020 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Ali Nazemi, Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Casey M Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and Robert Wilby, Loughborough University, Department of Geography, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Ali Nazemi, Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada and Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
08:00
Welcoming Remarks
08:01
Introductory Remarks
08:04
Drivers And Uncertainties Of Increasing Global Water Scarcity (78437)
Stephan Pfister and Laura Scherer, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
08:20
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability Accounting for Human-Induced Water Stress (Invited) (60627)
Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
08:36
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Large-Scale Soil Moisture, its Temporal Variability and Associated Drought-Flood Risks (82899)
Georgia Destouni, Stockholm University, Physical Geography & Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden and Lucile Verrot, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
08:52
Spatiotemporal Groundwater-Level Change for the Evaluation of Groundwater Use and Dynamics (Invited) (60987)
Kenneth C Carroll, Spencer Willman, Alexander Fernald and Steven Archambault, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States
09:08
Salinization of Freshwater-Dependent Coastal Ecosystems: Understanding Landscapes in Transition Along the Leading Edge of Climate Change (81081)
Ryan E Emanuel, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
09:24
Climate change adaptation in a highly urbanized snowmelt dominated basin in Central Chile (80584)
Sebastian Vicuna, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
09:40
Groundwater Resource Vulnerability for Small Island Developing States (80455)
Shannon Holding and Diana M Allen, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
09:56
Concluding Remarks
 
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