Kajol Basnet, Mashood Ur Rahman, Julianne Quinn, Samarth Singh, and Aashutosh Aryal (pictured left to right) all presented research at AGU in New Orleans, LA the week of Dec 15-19.
Kajol presented a poster on creating a generalized hydrological error model that can be extrapolated to ungauged locations so that uncertainty is fully captured in coupled hydrological and hydrodynamic models, ensuring extreme flood probabilities aren’t underestimated.
Mashood presented a poster on his work assessing the economic and environmental value to the Eastern Interconnection of developing pumped storage hydropower in Appalachian Virginia.
Julie gave both a poster and oral presentation. Her poster illustrated how seasonal climate forecasts can be used to inform integrated supply and demand-side drought management through reservoir operations and fallowing payments, respectively, to increase the value of water use in the Colorado River Basin. Her oral presentation was on this published paper led by Samarth Singh on advancing hydropower system modeling by integrating water and energy systems models to inform improved reservoir operations, using the Columbia River Basin as a case study.
Samarth presented a poster on an extension of the above work, exploring what enables reservoir operating rules to be robust to changing climate conditions and energy mixes.
Finally, Aashutosh presented a poster on how integrating information on stormwater infrastructure into a deep learning emulator of TRITON-SWMM improves performance and reveals the role of said infrastructure on flood extremes.
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