Trevor Amestoy

Trevor Amestoy

PhD Candidate at Cornell University studying water resource systems under deep uncertainty

Reed Group Research at the AGU 2024 Conference

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Our group is currently preparing to head to Washington D.C. for the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference.

I wanted to give an overview of the working being shared in this conference, and encourage you to come find us if you will be attending. This also will serve as a general snapshot of what our group has been involved with and focused on recently.

The Reed Group research will largely be shared in three thematic Sessions:

  • Multisector Dynamics: Science and Modeling for Societal Transformation
  • Water and Society: Water Resources Management in a Changing World
  • Integrated Hydroterrestrial Modeling: Interagency and Multisector Progress and Opportunities in Implementing Community Test Beds

Note that I also include some Reed Group Alumni in the lists below (Prof Hadjimichael, Prof. Gold, Dr. Singh) but they as well as all the Reed group alum and so great… so why not.

Multisector Dynamics Sessions

MultiSector Dynamics research is focused on how human and natural systems interact, depend on each other, and evolve together over time. This involves examining the connections among various sectors and infrastructures, as well as applying socio-economic methods, risk analysis, and decision theory to better inform earth system science. A key focus is the creation of interoperable data, modeling, and analysis tools that can be integrated into flexible modeling frameworks.

GC21E/L/D - Multisector Dynamics: Science and Modeling for Societal Transformation Salon G (Convention Center) Tuesday, 10 December 2024

GC31V: Multisector Dynamics: Science and Modeling for Societal Transformation IV Poster Wednesday 08:30-11:20am Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)

  • Dr. Sai Veena Sunkara - Exploratory Modeling to Better Understand How Climate and Socio-economic Changes in the Colorado’s West Slope Basins Shape Multi-sectoral Water Shortages (GC31V-0111) Link

  • Trevor Amestoy - A Probabilistic Streamflow Reconstruction Method to Support Coupled Human-Natural Systems Evaluations in Data-Scarce Reservoir Systems (GC31V-0105) Link

  • Dr. Rohini Gupta - A Multi-site Hidden Markov Model-Based Synthetic Streamflow Generator to Evaluate Multisectoral Drought Vulnerability in Colorado’s West Slope Basins (GC31V-0104)

  • Prof. Antonia Hadjimichael - Scenario storyline discovery for complex multi-actor human-natural systems (GC31V-0122) Link

Water and Society

The Water and Society sessions span a range of topics and focal points, but are broadly concerned with feedbacks in the human-water system. There is focus on both the technical side of water management practices and the engagements with stakeholders at different levels in the decision-making process.

H51I - Water and Society: Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World Oral I Friday 8:30 - 10:00 Ballroom B (Convention Center)

  • Prof. David Gold - Exploring the Spatially Compounding Multi-sectoral Drought Vulnerabilities in Colorado’s West Slope River Basins (H51I-04) Link

  • Dr. Rohini Gupta - Stress Testing California’s Water System using an Exploratory Ensemble Analysis Conditioned on the Late Renaissance Megadrought and Climate Change (H51I-05) Link

H130: Water and Society: Adaptive Management of Coupled Human-Natural Systems Confronting Change Monday 13:40 - 17:30 Convention Center, Hall B-C (Poster Hall)

  • Lillian Lau - WaterPaths TRAILS: A diagnostic framework for Time-varying Regional Assessment of Infrastructure Pathways for the Long- and Short-term (Poster) Link

Integrated Hydroterrestial Modeling

Multiple US Federal agencies (USGS, USACE, NOAA, DOE, NSF) have come together in recent years to organize the Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling (IHTM) effort. The goal of the IHTM collaboration is broadly to improve national environmental modeling and prediction capabilities, to support risk assessments and improve decision making.

A key focus in this project is brining together different agencies and bridging various modeling tools, datasets and expertise. In these sessions, you are likely to hear details on various case study projects, how researchers have utilized large national datasets, and lessons that can help improve future studies.

H14E - Integrated Hydroterrestrial Modeling: Interagency and Multisector Progress and Opportunities in Implementing Community Test Beds II Oral Monday, 9 December 2024 16:00 - 17:30 145 B (Convention Center)

  • Prof. Patrick Reed - Advancing Multi-sectoral Stress Testing in Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling: An Example for Colorado’s West Slope River Basins (H14E-03) Link

H11S - Integrated Hydroterrestrial Modeling: Interagency and Multisector Progress and Opportunities in Implementing Community Test Beds I Poster Monday, 9 December 2024 08:30 - 12:20 Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)

  • Marilyn Smith - A Diagnostic Analysis of the Effects of Data Scarcity in Modeling the Delaware River Basin’s Reservoir Network (H11S-0937) Link

I’m excited to see familiar faces and learning from the wider research community at AGU 2024. If you are attending, we hope you will take the time to join our sessions, view our posters, and chat with us during the coffee breaks. Safe travels.

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