Water is an essential ingredient for the prosperity, health, and sustainability of a continually changing, complex, and globally-linked society.

These changes and complexities create fundamental limits to prediction that necessitate a risk-based, integrated, and quantitative approach. Now more than ever, decisions to meet environmental and societal challenges in the coming decades must be informed by integrated, socio-economic and science-based predictions.

The workshop welcomes participants to engage in an interactive dialogue with the team of water-resource researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change. Featured presentations and ensuing discussions will highlight key elements of our active research and explore opportunities for our researchers & sponsors to pursue frontiers in critical research arenas.

Agenda

9:15a - Global Water Models: Historical Perspective, Comparison, and Capabilities

10:00a - Modeling, Limits-to-Prediction, and Projecting Risk from Change

11:00a - Decision-Making for Water Resources Under Uncertainty

1:00p - Focus Areas of Water Research: Water Stress/Scarcity/Availability

1:30p - Focus Areas of Water Research: Water Quality

2:00p - Focus Areas of Water Research: Water for Energy

2:30p - Focus Areas of Water Research: Water for Agriculture

3:00p - Mitigation and Adaptation Amidst Changes in Water-Energy-Food Nexus

3:45p - Open Discussion: Recognizing Challenges, Setting Priorities, and Supporting Research and Investment Opportunities

Featured MIT researchers:

Dr. Ken Strzepek • Dr. C. Adam Schlosser • Dr. Brent Boehlert • Sarah Fletcher • Dr. Xiang Gao • Dr. Niven Winchester

Detailed agenda, speaker profiles & location map

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