AGU Fall Meeting 2017 Participation

Several researchers from the PIRE participating institutions attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, held in New Orleans on 11-15 December 2017, and presented their work on Food and Water Security in Ethiopia.

Sarah Alexander, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, gave a poster presentation on the development and evaluation of season-ahead precipitation and streamflow predictions for sectoral management in western Ethiopia. Co-authors of this work are Paul Block and Shu Wu.

Meijian Yang, a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, gave poster presentation on the simulation and prediction of cereal crop yields in Ethiopia.  This work is co-authored by Guiling Wang, Kazi Farzan Ahmed, Michael Eggen, Berihun Adugna and Emmanouil Anagnostou.

Zoi Dokou gave a poster presentation on the development of a groundwater model for the Lake Tana region using multi-year reanalysis-derived recharge rates. This work is co-authored by Mohsen Kheirabadi, Efthymios Nikolopoulos, Semu Moges, Amvrossios Bagtzoglou and Emmanouil Anagnostou.

Emad Hasan gave presentation on the assessment of lake level variability and water availability in Lake Tana using a groundwater flow model and GRACE satellite data. Co-authors of this work are: Zoi Dokou, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, Aondover Tarhule, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Amvrossios Bagtzoglou and Yang Hong.

Meijian Yang presenting his work on crop yield modeling Zoi Dokou presenting her work on groundwater modeling

 

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Published: January 12, 2018