H51F:
Water, Energy, and Society in Urban Systems I


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Session ID#: 62527

Session Description:
Urbanization creates areas of intense hydrological and ecological anthropization leading to complex hydrologic flowpaths and altered energy balance dynamics, infrastructure stresses, and novel ecosystem configurations. A growing body of work is characterizing urban water and energy systems and links to society, economy, and public health. However, climate change, aging infrastructure, and material fluxes modify and complicate these coupled systems. Continued inquiry and synthesis reveals unexpected interactions and impacts present in urban systems. Understanding how urban water and energy systems - and their interdependencies - may be modeled and evolve across relevant spatial and temporal scales remains key to inform coordinated planning and management policies.
This session invites a diversity of research associated with process, impacts, management and mitigation in urban systems. Topics and applications could regard complex, multi-scale, relationships among hydrology, energy, ecology, climatic, society, and green infrastructure approaches, including demand-side management, emerging technologies informing water/energy management, and conservation strategies.
Primary Convener:  Claire Welty, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Dept. of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering and Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Prof. Andrea Cominola, Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Digital Water Systems, Berlin, Germany, Lauren E McPhillips, Pennsylvania State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States and Kelly Sanders, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claire Welty, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Dept. of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering and Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD, United States
Chairs:  Claire Welty, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Dept. of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering and Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD, United States and Kelly Sanders, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Andrea Cominola, Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Digital Water Systems, Berlin, Germany

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

HydroTrade-A New Concept for the Evolving Urban Water Infrastructure Model (Invited) (355382)
Newsha Khodatalab Ajami, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States and Patricia Gonzales, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Challenges and Opportunities of Multi-Scale Urban Energy and Water Data (385803)
Christopher Chini, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Ashlynn S Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
What Lies Behind Household Water Consumption? A Framework and Review of Heterogeneous Determinants of Household Water Consumption (401010)
Lucy Preiss1, Mark Andrew Thyer1, Holger Robert Maier1, Peter Prevos2, Rodney Stewart3, Andrea Castelletti4 and Prof. Andrea Cominola5, (1)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, (2)Coliban Water, Bendigo, VIC, Australia, (3)Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia, (4)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy, (5)Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Digital Water Systems, Berlin, Germany
Quantifying weather-driven differences in the hydrologic outcomes of low-impact practices for improved understanding of likely hydrologic behavior in different climatic settings (437781)
Carolyn Breden Voter, University of Delaware, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering; Department of Earth Sciences, Newark, DE, United States and Steven P Loheide III, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
Dynamic Aspects of Hydrological Processes in Urban Green Infrastructure (394547)
Bridget Wadzuk1, Ali Ebrahimian2 and Robert Traver2, (1)Villanova University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova, United States, (2)Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States
Spatial Considerations of Distributed Green Stormwater Infrastructure Implementation (424197)
Theodore Chao Lim, Virginia Tech, School of Public and International Affairs, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Claire Welty, Center for Urban Environmental Research, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, United States
Identifying Hydrologic Sensitivity to Infiltration-based Stormwater Management at the Watershed Scale (370010)
Anne Jefferson, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, United States and Pedro M. Avellaneda, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Managing Urban-use Pesticides with Enhanced Green Infrastructure on the Watershed Scale (423517)
Jordyn Wolfand1, Carolin Seller2, Colin D. Bell1, YeoMyoung Cho3, Karl Oetjen4, Terri S Hogue5 and Richard G Luthy6, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (2)EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (5)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hydrologic Science and Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (6)Stanford University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States

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