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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Future of Water Resources Systems Analysis: The Scie
 nce of Sustainable Water Management"
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Casey Brown\, Associate Professor\, Hydrosystems Research G
 roup\, Civil and Environmental Engineering\, University of Massachusetts\n
 Abstract:\nThis is a time of great opportunity for hydrology and water res
 ources research. Societal need for improved water management and concerns 
 for the long-term sustainability of water resources systems are prominent 
 around the world.  The continued susceptibility of society to the harmful
  effects of hydrologic variability\, pervasive concerns related to climate
  change and the emergent awareness of devastating effects of current pract
 ice on aquatic ecosystems all illustrate our limited understanding of how 
 water ought to be managed in a dynamic world. The related challenges of re
 solving the competition for freshwater among competing uses (so called “
 nexus” issues) and adapting water resources systems to climate change ar
 e prominent examples of the of sustainable water management challenges. In
  this presentation\, we argue that for research to improve water managemen
 t a new focus is required\, one that bridges disciplinary barriers between
  the water resources research focus on infrastructure planning and managem
 ent\, and the role of human actors\, and geophysical sciences community fo
 cus on physical processes in the absence of dynamical human response.   
 Examples drawn from climate change adaptation for water resource systems a
 nd groundwater management policy provide evidence of initial progress towa
 rds a science of sustainable water management that links improved physical
  understanding of the hydrological cycle with the socioeconomic and ecolog
 ical understanding of water and societal interactions.Short biography:\nDr
 . Casey Brown is Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Enviro
 nmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has 
 a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science from Harvard University and l
 ed the water team at the International Research Institute (IRI) for Climat
 e and Society at Columbia University. His research focuses on climate and 
 water resources\, and he has worked extensively on projects around the wor
 ld in this regard. He has a number of awards to his credit\, including the
  Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering\, the Nationa
 l Science Foundation CAREER award and the Huber Research Prize from the Am
 erican Society of Civil Engineers.
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