H23F:
Water and Society: The Future of Coupled Water–Energy Systems Confronting Global Change II


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Session ID#: 63463

Session Description:
The impacts of long-term change on water systems often manifest themselves as short-term management challenges. Major trends affect water systems including changing precipitation and snowmelt timing influencing the seasonality of hydro availability; changing frequency of floods and droughts influencing both peak power demands and the operating conditions at dams,and the expanding role of wind and solar technologies. These trends create a range of challenges and opportunities for water system managers. This session focuses on moving beyond traditional uncertainty approaches to develop flexible physical systems that actively adapt and respond to new information. In this session, we solicit novel contributions on (1) climate adaptation; (2) uncertainty and sensitivity analyses for vulnerability assessments; and (3) reducing the impacts of nonstationary extreme events on energy, agricultural, and ecological systems.
Primary Convener:  Sean William Donald Turner, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan Lamontagne, Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, United States, Thomas Bernard Wild, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Julianne Quinn, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sean William Donald Turner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Chairs:  Sean William Donald Turner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Jonathan Lamontagne, Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sean William Donald Turner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1808 Dams [HYDROLOGY]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Role of Hydropower in a Changing Climate (Invited) (343807)
Peter Henry Gleick, BS, MS, PhD, Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA, United States
Planning for long-term climate effects on the water-energy infrastructure of the Western U.S. (Invited) (350654)
Nathalie Voisin1, Sean William Donald Turner2 and Tian Zhou1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Coupling Hydrologic and Network Constrained Unit Commitment Models to Understand the Water-Energy Nexus in Laos (403201)
A.F.M. Kamal Chowdhury, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, Dr. Thanh Duc Dang, PhD, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Pillar of Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore, Singapore and Stefano Galelli, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Balancing hydropower generation and forest protection in Cambodia (457196)
Mauricio Eduardo Arias, University of South Florida, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tampa, United States, Mohit Kaura, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States, Chantha Oeurng, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Thomas A Cochrane, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Immediate Risk and Long-Term Failure: Planning for the Future of Mexico City’s Water (466771)
Sarah Freeman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Adriana Palma Nava, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico CIty, Mexico, Jacob Tracy, University of Cincinnati, Environmental Engineering, Cincinnati, United States and Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States
Impact of Uncertainty Parameter Distribution in Robust Decision Frameworks (450554)
Julia Reis, Virginia Tech, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Julie Elizabeth Shortridge, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Good Dams, Bad Dams – Strategic Dam Planning and Contextual Operation Design Drive Hydropower Sustainability (Invited) (374005)
Andrea Castelletti, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy
Learning about climate change uncertainty to enable flexible water infrastructure planning (Invited) (387395)
Sarah Fletcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Megan Lickley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Kenneth M Strzepek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for transportation and logistics, Cambridge, United States

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