ANNOUNCE: Water Resource Policy Session at AGU

[Malczynski Leonard A lamalcz san]

Posted by ""Malczynski, Leonard A"" <lamalcz@sandia.gov> Vince Tidwell, Tom Lowry (both Sandia National Laboratories) and Suzanne Pierce (University of Texas) are convening a session entitled ""Numerical Modeling in Support of Water Resource Decision Making and Policy Implementation"", session number H61 (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm06/)
at the AGU (American Geophysical Union) conference. This is an annual conference held each year in San Francisco and runs from December 10th - 15th this year.

The session description is:

The field of water resource management is complicated by interdependencies, externalities, and causal feedback. As water demand approaches and in many cases, surpasses the available supply, the inclusion of this complexity in the decision making process becomes ever more important. Competing stakeholders, ecological impacts, and economic factors have put pressure on water managers to proceed cautiously yet effectively as water management plans are formed. As a result, numerical models that support the decision making process are increasingly being used as a tool to predict and compare different management and policy decisions. This session looks at cases where modeling is explicitly incorporated into the decision making process, either through a stakeholder negotiated process or through direct interaction with the decision makers. Broad integrated multi-system models to local-scale detailed decision support modeling studies are welcome, as are innovative approaches on how scientific information is transformed into knowledge for use in decision making.

The abstract deadline is Sept. 7 if submitted via the web, or Sept. 1 if submitted via mail.

Posted by ""Malczynski, Leonard A"" <lamalcz@sandia.gov> posting date Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:17:15 -0600