Florida Water & Climate Alliance Workshop
Workshop 16
The Florida Water and Climate Alliance (FloridaWCA) brings together interested stakeholders (public water supply utilities, local governments, water management districts and academic institutions) to increase the relevance and usability of climate change and variability data and tools to the specific needs of public water supply utilities and resource managers and planners. Initiated in 2010 by the UF Water Institute, in partnership with the Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC), Florida Climate Institute and the UF IFAS Center for Public Issues Education, six major public water supply utilities and three water management districts, the group continues to expand. Detailed information on the FloridaWCA is available the FloridaWCA website.
The 16th workshop since the FloridaWCA was initiated, it was hosted by Tampa Bay Water, Clearwater, Florida, and attended by 22 participants.
Workshop Goal: Provide an environment for stakeholder-scientist exchange of current research and tools to address climate variability and change issues. Focus on topics that that may help inform scientists’ research that would result in an actionable science of use to practitioners.
Workshop Objectives
- Present recent methods and data that are available and how they might be useful to local planning.
- Consider potential relevance and applicability of methods and data to local situations.
- Inform FloridaWCA to provide stakeholder-scientist exchange and ensure network sustainability.
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The workshop featured the following presentations and speakers:
- Florida Water & Climate Alliance – Introduction to Workshop #16: Lisette Staal, Water Institute, University of Florida.
- Tampa Bay Water: Using Data & Models in Local and Regional Modeling Effort: Tirusew Asefa, Manager, Planning & System Decision Support, Tampa Bay Water.
- Quantifying the relative uncertainties of changes in climate water demand for water supply planning: Seungwoo Chang & Wendy Graham, University of Florida.
- Challenges of linking science and action and the role, network and impact of Florida WCA: Tracy Irani, Professor and Department Chair, Family Youth and Community Science, University of Florida/IFAS.
- Remote Sensing for Water Resource Management: A Few Available Products: Chris Martinez, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida.
- Florida Monsoon? Implications for past reconstructions and future projections: Vasu Misra, Associate Professor of Meteorology, Center for Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Florida State University.
- Hypertemporal and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Applications for Regional Water Quality Assessments: Aditya Singh, Assistant Professor, Remote Sensing, Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida.
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