Event
Early Career Scientist Collaborative Discussion on Food-Energy-Water Nexus (Part 3 Focus: Water)
Monday, December 7, 2015
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Thurgood Marshall Room Stamp Student Union
Cathy Stephens
301-405-6346
csteph5@umd.edu
http://cone.umd.edu/index.php/calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2015/10/26/863/-/cone-early-career-exchange-brown-bag
The Council on the Environment is hosting a Brown Bag series for early career scientists which will focus on the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. The Food-Energy-Water Nexus is a unifying theme that spans most UMD schools and colleges.
The NSF has recognized that many factors - including changing land-use practices; increased urbanization; population growth and distribution; changing demand and consumer preferences; water contamination; and climate variability - create stresses on water, energy, and agriculture resources and systems in multiple and sometimes unexpected ways. In addition, the U.S. Global Change Research Program as well as NOAA and other federal agencies have identified the Food-Energy-Water nexus as a key societal benefit area. It is anticipated that future proposal calls will focus on this priority. Specific foci include the availability and use of energy, water, and land resources and the ways in which they interact focusing on vulnerability as well as adaptation and mitigation. Other questions include how land-use and land-cover changes affect local, regional, and global climate processes; population and migration and emission reduction.
For these reasons, the Council on the Environment invites you to attend a round table discussion to kick-start ideas and to foster collaboration across the university for those already engaged in these areas of environmental research.
Why should you attend?
- Meet others from different schools/colleges working on similar problems
- Exchange ideas in collegial setting
- Establish partnerships to prepare for upcoming interdisciplinary grants from federal agencies
- Begin to build analytic quantitative approaches that address the complex interactions among water, energy and food
This second session will focus on the “Water” aspect of the Food-Energy-Water nexus.
Please RSVP to Cathy Stephens (csteph5@umd.edu; 301-405-6346) at the Council on the Environment to express your interest in attending and/or presenting.
