ASU Flow 2024 was held this past Monday, October 21, at the SRP PERA Club in Tempe. This is the second time AHS and ASU’s Center for Hydrologic Innovations (CHI) have partnered to bring the water community together to celebrate the start of the water year.
During the event, ASU students and researchers had the opportunity to meet practitioners from the private sector, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. Dr. Enrique Vivoni, CHI’s Director and the Fulton Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering, along with Mike Hulst, president of the Phoenix chapter, welcomed participants and introduced our keynote speaker, Leslie Meyers, Associate General Manager and Chief Water Resources and Services Executive of Salt River Project.
Graduate students and researchers put together an exciting poster session with 22 contributions, including two posters placed near the SRP CrossCut Canal, highlighting recent work on estimating evaporation from canals and climatic and water cycle dynamics in urban land covers.
This was followed by five nicely executed lighting talks, informing around 110 participants about applied innovation projects and other efforts addressing water resilience and cutting-edge research from both ASU and the UA.
ASU Flow is here to stay, and AHS and CHI look forward to working with partners in 2025.
The best presenters received awards during an exquisite networking dinner with water practitioners joining from over 20 companies and agencies, along with ASU faculty, students and postdocs.
Award Winners
Posters
- Karem Abdelmohsen — Declining Freshwater Availability in the Colorado River
- Kshitij Dahal — A Deep Learning Based Streamflow Forecasting Using CAMELS Dataset
Lightning Talks
- Wren Raming — Enhancing Water Resource Predictions: Streamlining the TIN-based Real-time Integrated Basin Simulator (tRIBS) with Innovative Tools
- Krista Lawless — Policy Analysis of Rural Groundwater Management in Arizona: Voter-Driven Policy Change
Thanks to Our ASU Flow 2024 Sponsors
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Thanks to Our Organizers
Many thanks to the staff from AHS, SRP, and the CHI who planned and executed the event, including Mike Hulst, Nancy Riccio, Lacey James, Alexa Bolla, Callahan Stormer, Efrain Vizuete, Alonso Haros, Vivian Hobbins, and Enrique Vivoni.
And thanks to Milan Calendine, who took incredible photographs of the event! Enjoy the slide show below, or see them all on our SmugMug site.