H52G:
Water, Energy, and Society in Urban Systems II


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Session ID#: 62533

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:  Lauren E McPhillips, Pennsylvania State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States and Kelly Sanders, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kelly Sanders, University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States

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:

Cloudburst risk and resilience in cities: Case studies from the Urban Resilience to Extremes (UREx) Network (Invited) (461265)
Bernice Reya Rosenzweig, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States and Urban Resilience to Extremes (UREx) Network - Urban Flooding Task Force
The location and expanse of green and cool roofs strongly modify their cooling potential (412776)
Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Jiachuan Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Understanding Urban Evapotranspiration Changes Due to Redevelopment and Infill through Remote Sensing Analysis in Denver, Colorado (399961)
Kyle Blount, University of Illinois, Springfield, School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability, and Public Health, Springfield, United States, Colin D. Bell, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Katie Spahr, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States and Terri S Hogue, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hydrologic Science and Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Regional Aridity Drives Urban Nighttime Vegetation Derived Air Cooling (458768)
Peter Ibsen1, Darrel Jenerette2, Mary V Santelmann3, Hattie Greydanus4, David Hondula5, Mary Wright6, Chris Swan7, Dorothy Borowoy7, Michael C Sukop8, Tyler Dell9 and Thomas Meixner10, (1)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (2)University of California Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Riverside, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (5)Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (7)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (8)Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, United States, (9)Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (10)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States
Leveraging ancillary benefits with stormwater management from urban greenspace (363363)
Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Matthew Hopton, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning under Cost and Performance Uncertainty Using Bayesian-Based Optimization – A Case Study in Philadelphia, PA (387464)
Fengwei Hung1, Benjamin F. Hobbs2, Xiaoting Chen2 and Arthur E McGarity3, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Swarthmore College, Engineering, Swarthmore, PA, United States
Landforms of Urban Watersheds (368961)
Dustin Herrmann, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Adam Berland, Ball State University, Department of Geography, Muncie, IN, United States, Amy G Prues, Pegasus Technical Services, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ahjond Garmestani, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States and William Shuster, USEPA, Cincinnati, United States

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