A5012421568- Water resources management and optimization
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Formal Methods in Verification
- Logic, programming, and type systems
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
- Security and Verification in Computing
- Embedded Systems Design Techniques
- Interconnection Networks and Systems
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Environmental Science and Water Management
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
2023
Global Water Partnership
2023
Corvallis Environmental Center
2021-2022
Center for Urban Waters
2019
Conservation International
2011-2017
International Water Institute
2017
World Bank
2017
Sandia National Laboratories California
2014
World Wildlife Fund
2009-2010
Galois (United States)
2006-2009
Abstract Renewable energy system development and improved operation can mitigate climate change. In many regions, hydropower is called to counterbalance the temporal variability of intermittent renewables like solar wind. However, using integrate these affect aquatic ecosystems increase cross-sectoral water conflicts. We develop apply an artificial intelligence-assisted multisector design framework in Ghana, which shows how hydropower’s flexibility alone could enable expanding by 38% but...
As processor performance continues to improve, more emphasis must be placed on the of memory system. In this paper, a detailed characterization data cache behavior for individual load instructions is given. We show that by selectively applying line allocation according characteristics instructions, overall can improved both and This approach improve some aspects as much 60 percent existing executables.
Reliance on “hard,” human-engineered structures—“gray” infrastructure—has been the conventional way to manage water needs for economic development. But building dams, piping water, and constructing protective barriers is capital intensive may address only a few problems ( 1 ). Gray infrastructure often damages or eliminates biophysical processes necessary sustain people, ecosystems habitats, livelihoods. Consequently, there renewed focus “green” infrastructure, which can be more flexible...
Investment decisions about capital-intensive, long-lived infrastructure are challenging due to uncertainty their future performance, particularly if the performance is sensitive climate change. Such investments, like those made for water infrastructure, rarely evaluated over total operational lifetime, during which socio-economic and environmental changes can cause potential lock-ins reduced options choices that lead high costs transfer other options. We propose an economic evaluation...
The COVID-19 pandemic has already triggered global health, economic, and social crises, clouding the sky of achieving 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by United Nations (UN) in 2015 to improve human lives while protecting nature. Water, vital all forms life, is essential public health well-being smooth path ending poverty through food energy security. Hence, we argued that water security can serve as a shining star guide policymakers overwhelming task UN Development, currently...
Abstract Wetlands in arid landscapes provide critical habitat for millions of migratory waterbirds across the world and throughout their annual cycle. The scope scale understanding avian use these wetlands conjunction with changes climate are daunting yet to address lest we lose continent-wide pathways. Here, assess waterbird North America’s Pacific Flyway Great Basin by examining water availability trends over past 100 years. We found recent (1980–2015) warming has significantly reduced...
Resilience is increasingly recognized as an imperative for any prospect of sustainable development, it relates to our ability sustain human well-being and progress under the planetary societal changes that we face now into future. Yet, are ill-prepared meet this challenge. We neither fully understand nor manage consistently resilience natural systems must steward through extraordinary change. A unifying approach common currency would help us uncertain futures. Water essential, defining...
Traditional approaches to water resource engineering have sought maintain a static, optimized state of system performance in providing reliable supplies, energy, and flood protection. However, delivery these services has been associated with the disruption freshwater ecosystem functioning, driving global-scale declines biodiversity loss services. Climate change is presenting new challenges for managers alike. Yet, climate also creating opportunities consider ecological resilience design...
Summary 1. Tracking insect migration at continental scales is intractable using exogenous markers because of tiny body size and high improbability recapture. Naturally occurring endogenous isotopic markers, such as tissue δ 2 H 18 O, are a means assigning origins to both vertebrate invertebrate populations, but the success depends upon derivation robust algorithm linking measured isotope values with large‐scale geospatial patterns (isoscapes) in terrestrial hydrosphere. 2. We derived North...
As processor performance continues to improve, more emphasis must be placed on the of memory system. In this paper, a detailed characterization data cache behavior for individual load instructions is given. We show that by selectively applying line allocation according characteristics instructions, overall can improved both and This approach improve some aspects as much 60 percent existing executables.
Modern microprocessors require an immense investment of time and effort to create verify, from the high level architectural design downwards. We are exploring ways increase productivity engineers by creating a domain specific language for specifying simulating processor architectures. believe that structuring principles used in modern functional programming languages, such as static typing, parametric polymorphism, first class functions, lazy evaluation provide good formalism language, have...
Ecologists and economists have long talked past each other, but climate change presents similar threats to both groups. Water may serve as the best means of finding a common cause building new vision ecological economic sustainability, especially in developing world.
Ensuring resilient food systems and sustainable healthy diets for all requires much higher water use, however, resources are finite, geographically dispersed, volatile under climate change, required other vital functions including ecosystems the services they provide. Good governance is a necessary precursor to deciding on solutions, sourcing finance, delivering infrastructure. Six attributes that together provide foundation good reduce future risks proposed. These dovetail in their dual...
Abstract Anthropogenic climate change and increased human water use are widely expected to place great stress on available resources across Africa Madagascar, but the effects of these changes freshwater biodiversity have only begun be considered. We used a comprehensive species database global hydrologic model examine exposure discharge runoff alterations Madagascar. Our results show that by 2050s, ecoregions containing over 80% fish several outstanding ecological evolutionary phenomena...
Abstract Climate shifts are not new in the experience of humans and other species, but capacity potential evolutionary ecological responses to climate change has been reduced through widespread human modifications natural ecosystems. The magnitude, duration timescales altered threats require multigenerational strategies for adaptation. In many places terrestrial aquatic species livelihoods limited by availability freshwater resources. Current adaptation practice great faith ability models...
Environmental flows continue to shift conceptually from a utilitarian means of protecting 'environmental' needs – often equated with specific fish species economic and/or conservation value within the water resources planning and management cycle process underpinning adaptive, sustainable social-ecological aquatic systems for multiple benefits at scales. We explore some ways in which environmental are clearly transitioning discipline designed mainly conserve species, through improved...
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being considered as an option to reduce societies’ vulnerability natural hazards, creating co-benefits while protecting ecosystem services in a context of changing climate patterns with more frequent and extreme weather events. The reinsurance insurance industries cited sectors that can play role help manage risks, by improving disaster risk reduction (DRR) loss prevention. This paper investigates how the (re)insurance industry could support...
A review of ecological, social, engineering, and integrative approaches to define apply resilience thinking is presented comparatively discussed in the context watershed management. Knowledge gaps are identified through an assessment this literature compilation a set research questions stakeholder engagement activities. We derive proposed agenda describing key areas inquiry such as variables their interactions; leveraging natural properties, processes, dynamics facilitate enable resilience;...