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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) - 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
Innovations at the Nexus of Food,
Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS)
2018 Principal Investigators Workshop

National Science Foundation
Alexandria, VA

May 16-18, 2018
Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) - 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
INFEWS Workshop Planning Committee:
                                                                                                           NSF Membership
                                                                                                           Lara Campbell, OD, Office of International Science and Engineering
                                                                                                           David Campbell, EHR, Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings
                                                                                                           Jennifer Carroll, EHR, Office of the Assistant Director
                                                                                                           David Corman, CISE, Division of Computer and Network Systems
                                                                                                           Charles Estabrook, OD, Office of International Science and Engineering
                                                                                                           Bruce Hamilton, ENG, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
                                                                                                           James W. Jones, ENG, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
                                                                                                           Ryan Locicero, CISE, Office of the Assistant Director
                                                                                                           Chungu Lu, GEO, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
Workshop Objectives                                                                                        Greg Meyer, ENG, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
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      oster a community of science around Food-Energy-Water (FEW) systems and continue                    Stephen Mulkey, EHR, Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings
     dialogue with Principal Investigators (PIs) regarding their project results and plans;                Leah Nichols, OD, Office of Integrative Activities
                                                                                                           Bob O’Connor, SBE, Division of Social and Economic Sciences
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      ather PI input on project constraints, program challenges, examples of success, and best
     practices to aid National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Agriculture National        Anne-Marie Schmoltner, MPS, Division of Chemistry
     Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) in future solicitation development;                     Brandi Schottel, ENG, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
                                                                                                           Thomas Torgersen, GEO, Division of Earth Sciencess
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      ollect posters, talks, videos, and other materials from PIs that illustrate FEW system-of-systems
     research, which NSF and USDA can use to communicate with the broader scientific community             Timothy VanReken, OAD, Office of Integrative Activities
     about FEW research.                                                                                   Deborah Winslow, SBE, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

                                                                                                           INFEWS Workshop Planning Committee:
                                                                                                           USDA-NIFA Membership
                                                                                                           Nancy Cavallaro, Division of Global Climate Change
                                                                                                           Jim Dobrowolski, Division of Environmental Systems
                                                                                                           Rachel Melnick, Institute of Bioenergy, Climate, and Environment

                                                                                                           Meridian Institute Facilitation Staff
                                                                                                           Molly Mayo, Senior Partner
                                                                                                           Annie Shapiro, Project Associate
                                                                                                           Brad Spangler, Senior Mediator and Program Manager
                                                                                                           Danielle Youngblood, Senior Project Coordinator

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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) - 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
                                                        AGENDA                                                                                         National Science Foundation | Alexandria, VA | May 16-18, 2018

                                           WEDNESDAY MAY 16                                                               10:30 am                                                      1:45 pm
                                                                                                                          Panel: New Directions in FEW Social                           INFEWS Grantee Lightning Talks, Round 2
     7:30 am
                                                                                                                          Science Research                                              Molly Mayo and Brad Spangler, Meridian Institute
     Badging, Registration, Networking,                                                                                   Moderator: Deborah Winslow, Program Director,                 Second round of 2-minute talks by participating
                                                                                                                          Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, NSF            INFEWS grantees.
     and Poster Set-Up
                                                                                                                          Mark Moritz, Associate Professor, Ohio State University       1. Immersive Educational Game Simulations to
     All participants should allow at least 30 minutes for                                                                Jia Li, Economist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
     building entry and registration.                                                                                                                                                      Enhance Understanding of Corn-Water-Ethanol-
                                                                                                                          Kathryn Grace, Assistant Professor, University of                Beef System Nexus (1639478, T4)
                                                                                                                          Minnesota, Twin Cities                                        2. S trategic FEW and Workforce Investments to
     8:30 am                                                                                                              Amy Stein, Professor, Levin College of Law,                      Enhance Viability of Controlled Environment
     Welcoming Remarks                                                                                                    University of Florida                                            Agriculture in Metropolitan Areas (1739163, T3)
     Jim Jones, Program Director, Division of Chemical,                                                                   Human activity is at the core of the food, energy, and        3. A
                                                                                                                                                                                            dvancing Technologies and Improving
     Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport                                                                         water nexus. This panel will expose PIs to the latest            Communication of Urine-Derived Fertilizers for
     Systems, NSF                                                                                                         advancements in anthropology, economics, social                  Food Production within a Risk-Based Framework
     Rachel Melnick, National Program Leader, Institute                                                                   geography, and law and to how those developments                 (1639244, T3)
     of Bioenergy, Climate and Environment, USDA-NIFA                                                                     can be integrated in FEW research. PIs will have the          4. M anaging Energy, Water, and Information Flows for
     Luis Tupas, Deputy Director for Bioenergy, Climate,                                                                  opportunity to engage with academic and federal                  Sustainability across the Advanced Food Ecosystem
     and Environment, USDA-NIFA                                                                                           experts to explore critical research gaps and innovative         (1639529, T3)
                                                                                                                          directions of social science research.                        5. Innovations for Sustainable Food, Energy, And
     8:45 am                                                  4. iFEWCoordNet – A Secure Decision Support System
                                                                                                                                                                                           Water Supplies in Intensively Cultivated Regions:
                                                                  for Coordination of Adaptation Planning Among
     Review of Workshop Objectives, Agenda                        FEW Actors in the Pacific Northwest (USDA NIFA, T2)     11:45 pm | Lunch (on own – see back of program for options)      Integrating Technologies, Data, And Human
     and Logistics                                            5. Reducing Household Food, Energy and Water
                                                                                                                                                                                           Behavior (1739191, T3)
                                                                                                                          1:00 pm                                                       6. S ustainable Agriculture in the Nexus of Food,
     Molly Mayo, Senior Partner, Meridian Institute               Consumption: A Quantitative Analysis of
                                                                                                                          Keynote Presentation: Feeding, Watering,                         Energy, Water and Nutrient on National and Global
                                                                  Interventions and Impacts of Conservation
                                                                                                                                                                                           Scales (1739823, T2)
     9:00 am                                                      (1639342, T3)                                           and Powering a World of 10 Billion
                                                                                                                                                                                        7. A
                                                                                                                                                                                            Multi-Scale Platform for Technology Evaluation
     Plenary Presentation: INFEWS Initiative Status           6. Social-Ecological-Technological Solutions to           Tom Torgersen, INFEWS Co-Chair (Introduction)                    and Decision-Making in the Dairy-Water-nergy
     and Look Ahead                                                Waste Reuse in Food, Energy, and Water Systems         William Easterling, Assistant Director, Directorate for          Nexus (USDA NIFA, T3)
                                                                   (ReFEWS) (1639524, T3)                                 Geosciences, NSF (Featured Speaker)
     Tom Torgersen, INFEWS Co-Chair                                                                                                                                                     8. D eveloping Pathways Toward Sustainable Irrigation
                                                              7. Reducing Resource Use at the Seafood-Energy-
     Brief presentation on the vision, goals, status, and                                                                 Keynote presentation followed by questions and                   across the United States Using Process-based
                                                                   Water Nexus: Focus on Efficient Production and
     anticipated direction of the INFEWS initiative.                                                                      answers with participants.                                       Systems Models (SIRUS) (USDA NIFA, T1)
                                                                   Waste (USDA NIFA, T3)
     Questions, answers, and feedback from participants.                                                                                                                                9. S ustaining California’s Food Production Through
                                                              8. Understanding Multi-Scale Resilience Options for
                                                                                                                                                                                           Integrated Water and Energy Management (USDA
                                                                  Climate-Vulnerable Africa (1639214, T1)
     9:30 am                                                                                                                                                                               NIFA, T1)
                                                              9. Rethinking Dams: Innovative Hydropower
     INFEWS Grantee Lightning Talks, Round 1                                                                                                                                            10. Impacts of Deglobalization on the Sustainability
                                                                  Solutions to Achieve Sustainable Food and
                                                                                                                                                                                              of Regional Food, Energy, Water Systems
     Molly Mayo and Brad Spangler, Meridian Institute             Energy Production, and Sustainable Communities
                                                                                                                                                                                              (1739909, T1)
     First round of 2-minute talks by participating INFEWS        (1639115, T3)
                                                                                                                                                                                        11. Scarcity Amid Abundance: Understanding
     grantees. Other workshop participants are encouraged     10. Increasing Regional to Global-Scale Resilience in
                                                                                                                                                                                              Trade-offs in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the
     to visit the presenters during the poster session to           Food-Energy-Water Systems Through Coordinated
                                                                                                                                                                                              Willamette River Basin (1740082, T1)
     discuss specific questions.                                    Management, Technology and Institutions
                                                                                                                                                                                        12. A Modeling Framework to Couple Food, Energy,
                                                                    (1639458, T1)
                                                                                                                                                                                              and Water in the Teleconnected Corn and Cotton
     1. The
           INFEWS-ER: A Virtual Resource Center Enabling    11. Cyber-based Decision Support Strategies to
                                                                                                                                                                                              Belts (1639327, T1)
         Graduate Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy,         Achieve Consensus for FEW System Sustainability
                                                                                                                                                                                        13. Intensification of the World’s Largest Agricultural
         and Water Systems (1639340, T4)                            using Incentive and Policy Structures (1739551, T2)
                                                                                                                                                                                              Frontier: Integrating Food Production, Water Use,
     2. Towards Resilient Food-Energy-Water Systems in       12. Advancing FEW System Resilience in the Corn Belt
                                                                                                                                                                                              Energy Demand and Environmental Integrity in a
         Response to Drought Impacts and Socioeconomic              by Integrated Technology-Environment-Economics
                                                                                                                                                                                              Changing Climate (1739724, T1)
         Shocks (1739835, T1)                                       Modeling of Nutrient Cycling (1739788, T1)
     3. M esoscale Data Fusion to Map and Model the U.S.                                                                                                                               2:30 pm | Break
         FEW system (INFEWSion) (1639529, T1)                 10:15 am | Break

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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) - 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
                                                       AGENDA                                                                                              National Science Foundation | Alexandria, VA | May 16-18, 2018

     2:45 pm                                                      performance computing, precision agriculture,                  Energy, Nutrient, and Water Recovery from                 innovations in their projects, and help NSF identify
     Panel: FEW Data Science Frontiers:                           hydrologic prediction, data repositories, networking,          Biowastes (1739884, T3)                                   mechanisms for connecting INFEWS research with
     Harnessing the Data Revolution for                           low-cost/-energy sensors, drones, machine vision,           8. C
                                                                                                                                  oupling Infrastructure Improvements to Food-            users to achieve the broader impacts of NSF research
                                                                  and machine learning. It will provide an opportunity           Energy-Water System Dynamics in Small Cold                investments. This session will highlight the importance
     FEW Systems
                                                                  for PIs to engage with panelist on “the state of the art”      Region Communities: MicroFEWS (1740075, T3)               of public-private collaborations as an important
     Moderator: Ryan Locicero, American Association               and “the future” of DSFEW research.                         9. S
                                                                                                                                  olar-Powered Integrated Greenhouse (SPRING)             mechanism that contributes to a broader workshop
     for the Advancement of Science Technology                                                                                   Systems Using Wavelength Selective Photovoltaics          theme of “Mainstreaming INFEWS Research”.
     & Policy Fellow, NSF                                         4:00 pm                                                        for Complete Solar Utilization (1639429, T3)
                                                                  Poster Session                                              10. L inking Current and Future Hydrologic Change to        11:45 pm | Lunch (on own – see back of program for options)
     Speakers:                                                                                                                     Hydropower, Human Nutrition, and Livelihoods in
         R anveer Chandra, Principal Researcher, Microsoft       PIs will discuss and answer questions about their work
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                                                                                                                                   the Lower Mekong Basin (1740042, T1)                    1:00 pm
         Research, Washington State University                    in an informal poster session format.
                                                                                                                              11. Advanced Energy Efficient Greenhouse Systems            Instructions and Transition to
     n  B askar Ganypathysubramanian, Associate Professor,                                                                       Employing Spectral Splitting and Solar Water            Small Group Sessions
         Iowa State University                                    5:30 pm
                                                                                                                                   Purification (USDA NIFA, T3)
         J eremy Leifker, Solution Owner, John Deere
     n                                                          Day 1 Wrap Up and Plan for Day 2                            12. M onitoring and Managing Food, Energy, and              Molly Mayo and Brad Spangler, Meridian Institute
     n  C ynthia Parr, Technical Information Specialist, USDA   Molly Mayo, Meridian Institute                                   Water Systems Under Stress: California
         Agricultural Research Service                            Summarize Day 1 highlights and review Day 2 agenda,              (1639318, T1)                                           1:15 pm
     n  S hashi Shekhar, McKnight Distinguished University      including the plan for small group sessions.                                                                             Small Group Session 1
         Professor, Computer Science and Engineering,                                                                         9:30 am | Break                                              Workshop participants will have an opportunity to
         University of Minnesota                                  5:45 pm                                                                                                                  participate in a small group discussion on a topic of
     n  D avid Tarboton, Professor of Civil and Environmental   Informal Networking                                         9:45 am                                                      their choice.
         Engineering, Utah State University                                                                                   Panel: Exploring Pathways for INFEWS
                                                                  Daniel O’Connell’s Irish Restaurant & Bar                                                                                  T aking Stock: Impacts of INFEWS on Science and
                                                                                                                              Research to Impacts
                                                                                                                                                                                           n
     This panel will expose INFEWS researchers to                 112 King St, Alexandria, VA 22314                                                                                            Engineering
     academics, industry, and federal experts who have                                                                        Moderator: Barry Johnson, Director, Division of              n  D
                                                                                                                                                                                                omestic and International FEW Research Priorities
     experience in Data Science for Food, Energy,                                                                             Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, Directorate for      n  I
                                                                                                                                                                                               dentifying and Addressing FEW Systems Data
     and Water (DSFEW) systems, including high                                                                                Engineering, NSF                                                 Challenges
                                                                                                                                                                                           n  C
                                                                                                                                                                                                onvergence Research: Managing Interdisciplinary
                                                                                                                              Speakers:
                                                                                                                                                                                               Team Dynamics
                                            THURSDAY MAY 17                                                                   n  A
                                                                                                                                   lison Adams, Principal Water Resources Engineer,
                                                                                                                                  INTERA Geoscience and Engineering Solutions
                                                                                                                                                                                           n  P
                                                                                                                                                                                                ublic-Private Partnerships: Exploring Small Business
                                                                                                                                                                                               Innovation Research and Other Models
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                                                                                                                                   oger Buelow, Chief Technical Officer, AeroFarms
                                                                                                                              n  

     8:00 am                                                      1. Reducing the Environmental Impacts of FEW               n  E
                                                                                                                                   llen Hanak, Director, Public Policy Institute
                                                                                                                                                                                           2:15 pm
     Badging, Registration, and Networking                            Systems in and Around Cities (1739676, T1)                  of California
                                                                  2. Flexible Model Compositions and Visual                  n  R
                                                                                                                                   obin Lougee, Research Industry Lead - Consumer         Transition to Small Group Session 2
     All participants should allow at least 30 minutes for
                                                                      Representations for Planning and Policy Decisions           Products, Business Solutions and Mathematical
     building entry.
                                                                      for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus (1639227, T2)               Sciences, IBM Research                                   2:30 pm
     8:30 am
                                                                  3. The Sustainability-Productivity Tradeoff: Water         n  M
                                                                                                                                   illie Knowlton, Senior Account Manager, Tesla Energy   Small Group Session 2
                                                                      Supply Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Opportunities     n  B
                                                                                                                                   ill Ritter, Director, Center for the New Energy
     Reflections on Day 1 and Review Day 2                                                                                                                                                 Second session of small group discussions.
                                                                      in California’s Coupled Agricultural and Energy             Economy, Colorado State University
     Molly Mayo, Meridian Institute                                   Sectors (1639268, T2)                                                                                                  T aking Stock: Impacts of INFEWS on Science and
                                                                                                                              This panel will expose INFEWS PIs to industry and
                                                                                                                                                                                           n

     Brief reflections on the Day 1 proceedings and review        4. Decision Support for Water Stressed FEW Nexus                                                                            Engineering
                                                                                                                              policy representatives who have led efforts to
                                                                      Decisions (DS-WSND) (1739977, T3)                                                                                    n  D
                                                                                                                                                                                                omestic and International FEW Research Priorities
     of the Day 2 agenda, including locations for the                                                                         incorporate innovative research on food, energy,
     afternoon small group sessions.                              5. WaterSmart: A Cyberinfrastructure-based Integrated                                                                   n  I
                                                                                                                                                                                               dentifying and Addressing FEW Systems Data
                                                                                                                              water (FEW), and associated cyber systems into
                                                                      Agro-geoinformatic Decision-Support Web Service                                                                          Challenges
                                                                                                                              their business activities and policies. For example,
                                                                      System to Facilitate Informed Irrigation Decision-                                                                   n  C
                                                                                                                                                                                                onvergence Research: Managing Interdisciplinary
     8:45 am                                                                                                                  the panel will address questions like how and when
                                                                      Making (1739705, T2)                                                                                                     Team Dynamics
     INFEWS Grantee Lightning Talks, Round 3                                                                                  academic researchers working on FEW System models,
                                                                  6. Critical Nutrient Recovery and Reuse: Nitrogen and                                                                   n  P
                                                                                                                                                                                                ublic-Private Partnerships: Exploring Small Business
     Molly Mayo and Brad Spangler, Meridian Institute                                                                         technologies, and social and policy dimensions should
                                                                      Phosphorus Recycling from Wastewaters as Struvite                                                                        Innovation Research and Other Models
     Third round of 2-minute talks by participating                                                                           plan to interact with public and private partners to
                                                                      Fertilizer (1739473, T3)
     INFEWS grantees.                                                                                                         ensure that their research will achieve the envisioned
                                                                  7. Closing the Loop: An Integrated, Tunable, and                                                                        3:30 pm | Break
                                                                                                                              impacts. It will provide an opportunity for INFEWS
                                                                      Sustainable Management System for Improved
                                                                                                                              researchers to better understand the marketplace for
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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) - 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
AGENDA                                                                                                    WORKSHOP PANELISTS

                                                                                                                             Keynote Presentation: Feeding, Watering,                          New Directions in FEW Regional Planning,
     3:45 pm                                                                                                                 and Powering a World of 10 Billion                                Policy, and Economics
     Poster Session
     PIs will discuss and answer questions about their work                                                                  William E. Easterling, III                                        Deborah Winslow
     in an informal poster session format.                                                                                                                                                     Panel Moderator
                                                                                                                                              Dr. William E. Easterling, III was
                                                                                                                                                                                               Program Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive
                                                                                                                                              appointed Assistant Director of
     5:00 pm                                                                                                                                                                                   Sciences, NSF
                                                                                                                                              Geosciences at the National Science
     Day 2 Wrap Up and Plan for Day 3                                                                                                         Foundation on June 1, 2017.
     Molly Mayo, Meridian Institute                                                                                                           A Fellow of the American Association             Kathryn Grace
     Summarize Day 2 highlights and review Day 3 agenda                                                                                       for the Advancement of Science, he was           Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
                                                                                                                                              previously the dean of the College of Earth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Kathryn Grace’s research fits squarely within
     5:15 pm                                                                                                                 and Mineral Sciences and professor of geography and earth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  the field of Population Geography. Her
     Adjourn                                                                                                                 system science at Penn State. He was trained as an economic
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  research highlights the role of context in
                                                                                                                             geographer and climatologist and earned a Bachelor of Arts
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  various aspects related to maternal and
                                                                                                                             degree in geography and history, a Master of Arts degree in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  child health—primarily reproductive health
                                                                                                                             geography-industrial location economics, and a doctorate
                                                    FRIDAY MAY 18                                                            in geography-climatology, all from the University of North
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  and family planning decision-making. Her
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  geographic training (PhD geography) and
                                                                                                                             Carolina at Chapel Hill.
                                                                                                                                                                                               quantitative background (M.A. statistics, MSPH biostatistics)
     8:00 am                                                      Simply stated, the target audience must be identified      Before joining the Penn State faculty in 1997 as an associate     enable her to bring a unique perspective to spatial
                                                                                                                             professor of geography and earth system science, he held          demography through her use of a quantitative, mixed-
     Badging, Registration, and Networking                        so the message can be tailored for the audience.
                                                                  The best science will emerge when the question and         posts at the Illinois State Water Survey, Resources for the       disciplinary approach to the examination of the way that
     All participants should allow at least 30 minutes for                                                                   Future, Inc., and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is a    individual, family, or household outcomes are conditioned
                                                                  the context are well informed and the fundamentals of
     building entry.                                                                                                         faculty affiliate in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’   by place; including both the culture and the natural
                                                                  convergent science are applied (https://www.nsf.gov/
                                                                                                                             Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and a member of         environment.
                                                                  od/oia/convergence/index.jsp). The goal of this session
     8:30 am                                                                                                                 The Graduate School. Before his appointment as dean in July
                                                                  to illustrate how best to package your message and
     Review Day 3 Agenda                                          personalize the story for multiple audiences; how to
                                                                                                                             2007, he served as the founding director of the Penn State
                                                                                                                             Institutes of Energy and the Environment from 2001 to 2007.       Jia Li
     Molly Mayo, Meridian Institute                               communicate effectively; and how to get the most out                                                                         Economist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                                                                  of your “sound bites”, still photos and video interviews   He is an internationally recognized expert on how climate
     8:45 am                                                      via your web presence.                                     change likely will affect the Earth’s food supply and was                          Dr. Jia Li is an environmental economist at the
                                                                                                                             nominated by the White House to serve as a convening                               U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s
     Panel: Mainstreaming FEW Systems Science                                                                                lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate                              Climate Change Division. Jia has worked
     and its Impact                                               10:30 am | Break                                           Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report’s Chapter on Food,                          on energy, climate change and air quality
     Moderator: Tom Torgersen, INFEWS Co-Chair                                                                               Fibre, Forestry, and Fisheries. The lead authors of the IPCC                       policy with research institutions, international
                                                                  10:45 am                                                   Assessment Report were co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace                             and environmental organizations, and the
     Speakers:                                                    Plenary Discussion: Forming FEW                            Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.                                          US government in the past 20 years. Her
                                                                  Research Networks                                                                                                            current work focuses on the policy, economics and integrated
                                                                                                                             In the area of food and climate, he has testified before
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           ark Miano, Former Executive Editor, NBC Learn                                                                                                                                      modeling of climate change, including on mitigation,
                                                                                                                             Congress, given invited briefings to committees and sub-
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                                                                  Lara Campbell, Program Manager, Office of                                                                                    adaptation, climate impacts and vulnerability, and technology
          J ames Thebaut, Chief Executive Officer, President,   International Science and Engineering, NSF                 committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives,
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                                                                                                                                                                                               adoption, at global, national and subnational levels. Jia is a
           and Executive Producer, The Chronicles Group                                                                      delivered numerous invited presentations and keynote
                                                                                                                                                                                               co-chair of the Social Science Coordinating Committee of the
                                                                  Interactive discussion about practical strategies and      speeches, and authored more than 80 refereed scientific
                                                                                                                                                                                               U.S. Global Change Research Program and has been working
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           runo Basso, Foundation Professor,                     next steps for forming research networks among FEW         publications. He has chaired or served on various
                                                                                                                                                                                               on interdisciplinary research efforts and integration of social
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          Department of Earth and Environment                     researchers in the United States and internationally.      international and national committees, including those of the
                                                                                                                                                                                               and behavioral sciences in climate change assessments and
          Sciences, Michigan State University                                                                                United Nations, National Research Council, National Science
                                                                                                                                                                                               research programs to inform societal decisions. Between
                                                                  11:45 am                                                   Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and many other
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           artha Conklin, Professor of Engineering, University                                                                                                                                2013 and 2014, she served as the Deputy Associate Director
                                                                                                                             federal agencies.
                                                                  Wrap Up and Next Steps
     n
                                                                                                                                                                                               for Energy and Climate Change at the White House Council
          of California-Merced
                                                                                                                                                                                               on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Jia has a Ph.D. in agricultural
     n    Laurie Howell, Audio/Video Producer, Office of                                                                                                                                     and resource economics from the University of Maryland,
            Legislative and Public Affairs, NSF                   12:00 pm | Adjourn                                                                                                           College Park and M.S. in environmental management and
                                                                                                                                                                                               policy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
     This panel focuses on communicating with the
     stakeholders, the public and K12 via multiple means.

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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) - 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
                                               WORKSHOP PANELISTS                                                                                                      National Science Foundation | Alexandria, VA | May 16-18, 2018

     Mark Moritz                                                       Data Science Frontiers: Harnessing the                             Baskar Ganypathysubramanian                                       Cynthia Parr
     Associate Professor, The Ohio State University                                                                                       Associate Professor, Iowa State University                        Technical Information Specialist, USDA ARS
                                                                       Data Revolution for FEW Systems
                       Mark Moritz is an Associate Professor                                                                                                  Baskar directs a scientific computing lab                        Cynthia Parr is a program manager at the
                       in Anthropology at the Ohio State               Ryan Locicero                                                                          that uses applied mathematics and high-                          National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the
                       University and has conducted research           Panel Moderator                                                                        performance computing to model, design                           U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville,
                       with pastoralists in the Far North Region       American Association for the Advancement of Science                                    and control complex systems. From the                            Maryland. She leads the Ag Data Commons
                       of Cameroon since the early nineties.           Technology & Policy Fellow, National Science Foundation                                application point-of-view, his group is                          research data catalog and repository and
                       His interdisciplinary research focuses on                                                                                              particularly interested in food, energy                          works on public access and open data policy
                       management of common-pool resources,                               Ryan Locicero, Ph.D., PE, is an American                            and environment related phenomena. His                           for USDA. Previously she served as the Chief
     ecology of infectious diseases, and regime shifts in coupled                         Association for the Advancement of Science      group develops mathematical techniques and computational          Scientist and Director for Species Pages for the Encyclopedia
     human and natural systems.                                                           (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy            tools — model reduction, multiscale frameworks, multiphysics      of Life (EOL) at the National Museum of Natural History of the
                                                                                          (S&TP) Fellow at The National Science           simulators , control algorithms, data-driven methods —            Smithsonian Institution. She recently concluded three years as
                                                                                          Foundation (NSF) in the Directorate for         to efficiently model these systems. Whenever possible,            Chair for the Biodiversity Information Standards organization
     Amy Stein                                                                            Computer and Information Science and            they seek to validate techniques using the expertise of           (Taxonomic Database Working Group, TDWG). She has
     Professor of Law, University of Florida                                              Engineering’s (CISE) Office of the Assistant    experimental collaborators. In recent years, these workflows      conducted research in evolutionary ecology, ornithology,
                                                                       Director (OAD). He contributes to CISE research and                have been used by plant breeders and geneticists to               behavior, molecular systematics, community ecology,
                         Amy L. Stein is a Professor of Law at the     education activities, including cross-cutting initiatives such     efficiently extracting traits for accelerated breeding and crop   information visualization, semantic web, and social networks.
                         University of Florida Levin College of Law,   as Smart and Connected Communities (NSF 16-610 and                 management. Baskar has a PhD from Cornell University, and
                         nationally recognized for her research on     NSF 18-520), Cyber Physical Systems (NSF 17-529 and NSF            is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology. He is an
                         energy policy, particularly with respect      18-538), Innovations at the Nexus of Food Energy Water (NSF        NSF CAREER awardee.                                               Shashi Shekhar
                         to federalism, the regulatory process,        17-530 and NSF 18-545), and Signals in the Soil (NSF 18-047).                                                                        McKnight Distinguished University Professor,
                         and administrative law. Professor Stein’s     Dr. Locicero received a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering,                                                                          University of Minnesota
                         recent scholarship focuses on the complex     M.E. in Environmental Engineering Sciences, and B.S. in            Jeremy Leifker
     governance issues associated with regulation of an evolving       Civil Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF),                                                                                           Shashi Shekhar is a Mcknight Distinguished
                                                                                                                                          Solution Owner, John Deere
     electric grid composed of more diverse and distributed            University of Florida, and USF respectively.                                                                                                            University Professor and a Distinguished
     energy resources, including solar, energy storage, and                                                                                                 Jeremy Leifker is the Solution Owner for                           University Teaching Professor at the University
     electric vehicles. She has also explored impacts on the                                                                                                John Deere Operations Center – a set                               of Minnesota (Computer Science faculty).
     reliability of the electric grid and the intersection of energy   Ranveer Chandra                                                                      of online tools for farmers globally that                          He has a distinguished academic record that
     and environmental law. She teaches in the areas of energy         Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research                                             provides information about their farm                              includes 300+ refereed papers, a popular
     law, environmental law, climate change, and torts. She                                                                                                 when they need it, where they need it. As                          textbook on Spatial Databases (Prentice Hall,
     has presented her energy work across the country and                                 Ranveer Chandra is a Principal Researcher at                      the Solution Owner for Operations Center,       2003), an authoritative Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer, 2nd Ed.
     internationally, in both academic and policy forums. She                             Microsoft Research where he is leading an                         Jeremy leads the future direction of the        2017) and a perspective article on Spatial Computing in the
     serves as the Chair of UF Law’s Sustainability Committee and                         Incubation on IoT Applications. His research    system with a keen eye on helping farmers improve their           Communications of the ACM (Jan. 2016). Shashi is serving as
     the Faculty Senate’s University-wide Sustainability Committee                        has shipped as part of multiple Microsoft       farming operation with technology that enables greater            the President of the University Consortium for GIS (2017-18),
     Her published scholarship focuses on the intersection of                             products, including VirtualWiFi & low power     efficiencies and return on crop yield.                            the Chair of the Board of Directors of the SSTD (Symposium on
     energy and environmental issues. Professor Stein began                               Wi-Fi in Windows since 2009, Energy Profiler                                                                      Spatial and Temporal Databases) Endowment (2014-2019), and
                                                                                          in Visual Studio, and the Wireless Controller   Prior to his current role, Jeremy has experience leading the
     her academic career at George Washington University Law                                                                                                                                                a member of the board of directors of the Computing Research
                                                                       Protocol for XBOX One. Ranveer is leading the FarmBeats,           Product Strategy and Marketing group for John Deere’s
     School and Tulane Law School. She is a member of the                                                                                                                                                   Association (CRA) (2016-2019).
                                                                       battery research, and TV white space projects at Microsoft         Digital Agriculture products, and has led the Global Dealer
     District of Columbia, Illinois, and California state bars and a
                                                                       Research. He has published over 80 papers, and filed over          Channel IT Strategy helping dealers more effectively run their    In the early 1990s, Shashi’s research developed core
     graduate of the University of Chicago (AB) and the University
                                                                       100 patents, with over 80 granted by the USPTO. He has won         business in serving farmers.                                      technologies behind in-vehicle navigation devices as well as
     of Chicago Law School (JD).
                                                                       several awards, including best paper awards at ACM CoNext                                                                            web-based routing services, which revolutionized outdoor
                                                                                                                                          Jeremy has a passion for helping farmers run successful
                                                                       2008, ACM SIGCOMM 2009, IEEE RTSS 2014, USENIX ATC                                                                                   navigation in urban environment in the last decade. His
                                                                                                                                          businesses. Particularly in the intersecting space where
                                                                       2015, and Runtime Verification 2016 (RV’16), the Microsoft                                                                           recent research results played a critical role in evacuation
                                                                                                                                          people, technology, machinery and soil meet to produce
                                                                       Research Graduate Fellowship, the Microsoft Gold Star Award,                                                                         route planning for homeland security and received multiple
                                                                                                                                          a better outcome.
                                                                       the MIT Technology Review’s Top Innovators Under 35, TR35                                                                            recognitions including the CTS Partnership Award for
                                                                       (2010) and Fellow in Communications, World Technology                                                                                significant impact on transportation. Shashi received a Ph.D.
                                                                       Network (2012). Ranveer has an undergraduate degree from                                                                             degree in Computer Science from the University of California
                                                                       IIT Kharagpur, India and a PhD from Cornell University.                                                                              (Berkeley, CA) and an undergraduate degree from the I.I.T.
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Kanpur (India).

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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) - 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
                                                 WORKSHOP PANELISTS                                                                                                     National Science Foundation | Alexandria, VA | May 16-18, 2018

      David Tarboton                                                     Alison Adams, PhD, PE                                            both government and the private sector. Roger previously          the largest society in the world for professionals in the field
      Professor, Utah State University                                   Principal Water Resources Engineer, INTERA Geoscience            served as CTO of Energy Focus (a publicly traded company)         of operations research, management science and analytics,
                                                                         and Engineering Solutions                                        for ten years leading their R&D, Engineering, and Operations      Chair of the INFORMS Computing Society, and President
                         David will discuss, HydroShare, a system for                                                                     to refit the U.S. Navy with LEDs, develop lights that help        of the Fora of Women in ORMS. She was awarded the 2016
                         sharing hydrologic data and modeling aimed                        Alison Adams, Ph.D., P.E. is formerly the      regulate sleep cycles, and to set the world’s record for most     INFORMS George E. Kimball Medal and 2014 INFORMS
                         at giving hydrologist the cyberinfrastructure                     Chief Technical Officer at Tampa Bay           efficient solar cell. In addition, Roger has been the principal   Impact Award. Robin earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences
                         needed to manage data, innovate and                               Water, the largest wholesale public water      investigator on over a dozen federally funded research            from Clemson University in 1993.
                         collaborate in research to solve water                            supplier in the state of Florida. Dr. Adams,   contracts spanning military and civilian technologies and
                         problems. He will argue for innovative                            a water resources engineer, has worked         holds over 20 patents covering a wide array of technologies.
                         combinations of data and models, including                        in Florida on large-scale water supply         Roger has brought over 50 products from concept, through          Millie Knowlton
      the interoperability between data repositories to support                            and management problems for over 35            R&D, into engineering and then onto the open market.              Senior Account Manager, Tesla Energy
      work across disciplinary boundaries. David will also provide       years. As Tampa Bay Water’s Chief Technical officer, she was     Roger has a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Systems and
      insights from his research on improving hydrologic prediction      responsible for permitting and regulatory compliance, water      Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University,                           Millie is a Senior Account Manager at Tesla
      and its implications for the FEW nexus, including the use          supply planning and demand forecasting at multiple time          Cleveland, Ohio.                                                                    for the development and deployment of
      of hydrologic, Geographic Information System, and digital          scales, and decision support for risk, reliability and source                                                                                        solar energy, energy storage, and electric
      elevation models that take advantage of spatially distributed      allocation and the Agency’s Information Technology group.                                                                                            vehicle fleet investments in the Commercial
      information for hydrologic prediction.                                                                                                                                                                                  and Industrial sector. In this role she ensures
                                                                         Dr. Adams also directed research into climate variability        Ellen Hanak
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              projects address relevant policy, design,
                                                                         and climate change and the effects on supply reliability         Director, Public Policy Institute of California
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              finance, procurement, and operational
                                                                         for the Tampa Bay region and management strategies to
      Exploring Pathways for INFEWS Research                             mitigate these effects. Dr. Adams represented Tampa Bay
                                                                                                                                                             Ellen Hanak is director of the PPIC Water      issues in a quickly changing industry. Tesla is a leader in
                                                                                                                                                             Policy Center and a senior fellow at the       producing and installing electric vehicles, EV charging, and
      to Impacts                                                         Water as the chair of the Water Utility Climate Alliance. She
                                                                                                                                                             Public Policy Institute of California. Under   energy storage products, with a mission to accelerate the
                                                                         co-founded the Florida Water and Climate Alliance with the
                                                                                                                                                             her leadership, the center has become a        world’s transition to sustainable energy.
      Barry Johnson                                                      University of Florida and co-managed a project with the
                                                                                                                                                             critical source of information and guidance
      Panel Moderator                                                    University of Florida and the Southeast Climate Consortium                                                                         Millie is also a Mayoral appointee to the DC Sustainable
                                                                                                                                                             for natural resource management in
      Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, Directorate    on downscaling global climate model output for use in the                                                                          Energy Utility Advisory Board and a Member of the Board
                                                                                                                                                             California. She has authored dozens
      for Engineering, National Science Foundation                       agency’s integrated hydrologic model. She directed the                                                                             of Directors for the Conservation Voters of South Carolina.
                                                                                                                                          of reports, articles, and books on water policy, including
                                                                         agency’s efforts on defining supply reliability under climate                                                                      She received a Master’s degree in Environmental Change
                                                                                                                                          Managing California’s Water. Her research is frequently
                        Barry W. Johnson is the Division Director        uncertainty. Dr. Adams was responsible for implementing                                                                            and Management from the University of Oxford.
                                                                                                                                          profiled in the national media, and she participates in
                        for the Division of Industrial Innovation        programs which project long-term water demand for the
                                                                                                                                          briefings, conferences, and interviews throughout the nation
                        and Partnerships at the National Science         agency’s service area, optimize Tampa Bay Water’s water
                                                                                                                                          and around the world. Her other areas of expertise include
                        Foundation (NSF). Prior to joining NSF, he       supply, and maximize environmental protection across the
                                                                                                                                          climate change and infrastructure finance. Previously, she
                        was the Senior Associate Dean in the School      region. Currently Dr. Adams is a Principal Engineer with
                                                                                                                                          served as research director at PPIC. Before joining PPIC, she
                        of Engineering and Applied Science at            INTERA Incorporated, focusing on water supply planning
                                                                                                                                          held positions with the French agricultural research system,
                        the University of Virginia where one of his      and resiliency projects for utility and water manager clients.
                                                                                                                                          the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and the World
      responsibilities was strategic partnerships. In 1998, he was a                                                                      Bank. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of
      founder of Privaris, Inc., a biometrics security company. While                                                                     Maryland.
      on leave from the University of Virginia from 2002 to 2006, he     Roger Buelow
      served as Chairman and CEO of Privaris, Inc. Prior to joining      Chief Technology Officer, AeroFarms
      the University of Virginia, he worked as a research engineer                         Roger Buelow leads AeroFarms’ innovation       Robin Lougee
      for Harris Corporation in their Government Aerospace                                 and capabilities team and works closely        Research Industry Lead - Consumer Products & Agriculture,
      Systems Division. He is the author of two books, nine book                           with R&D and Business Development.             IBM Research
      chapters and more than 150 journal and conference articles.                          AeroFarms has been recognized as a
      He is also an inventor on 34 issued patents and more than 30                                                                                         Robin Lougee is the IBM Research Lead for
                                                                                           Circular Economy 100 company, was listed
      applications currently pending.                                                                                                                      Consumer Products & Agriculture. She is an
                                                                                           on Fast Company’s 2018 global list of Most
                                                                                                                                                           industrial research scientist with a strong
      Dr. Johnson received the B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees                               Innovative Companies and Inc. Magazine’s
                                                                                                                                                           track record of delivering innovation to
      in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia,         list of the 25 Most Disruptive Companies. AeroFarms also
                                                                                                                                                           IBM and its customers. Robin serves as the
      Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his      received the New Jersey Governor’s Award for Environmental
                                                                                                                                                           Head of the Steering Committee for the
      contributions to fault-tolerant computing. He is also a Fellow     Excellence and was voted as the Best Growth Company to
                                                                                                                                                           CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Platform and
      of the National Academy of Inventors for his contributions         invest in at the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference
                                                                                                                                          a working committee member for the National Academy of
      to invention and innovation in computer system safety and          in addition to being a finalist for The Circular Awards at The
                                                                                                                                          Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Science Breakthroughs
      security including biometric-based identity verification.          World Economic Forum. David is also the founder of Hycrete,
                                                                                                                                          2030: A strategy for food and agriculture research study.
                                                                         Inc., a nanotechnology cleantech company.
                                                                                                                                          She is the founding chair of the Syngenta Crop Challenge
                                                                         As an industry leading LED innovator and Engineering             Award in Analytics and the INFORMS Professional
                                                                         Technologist, Roger brings over 20 years of experience in        Colloquium. Robin was elected to the Board of INFORMS,

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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) 2018 Principal Investigators Workshop
                                                  WORKSHOP PANELISTS                                                                                                      National Science Foundation | Alexandria, VA | May 16-18, 2018

                                                                                                                                             Laurie Howell                                                    Jim Thebaut
      Bill Ritter Jr.                                                      as an editor for various journals including Water Resources       Audio/Video Producer, NSF Science Nation Series
      Director, Center for the New Energy Economy,                         Research, Reviews of Geophysics and has served as a                                                                                                   Jim Thebaut is a former Regional
      Colorado State University                                            consultant for IAEA.                                                                Laurie Howell oversees the Science Nation                         Environmental Planner and was responsible
                                                                                                                                                               video series and the Science360 Radio                             for numerous Environmental Impact
                         Bill Ritter, Jr. is the founder and director of                                                                                       stream for NSF, both of which she helped to                       Statements, and Planning Studies in
                         the Center for the New Energy Economy
                                                                           Bruno Basso                                                                         launch in 2009. Over the last decade, Laurie                      Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska.
                         (CNEE) at Colorado State University which                                                                                             has helped hundreds of scientists and                             He is currently president and CEO of
                                                                           University Foundation Professor, Michigan State University
                         works directly with governors, legislators,                                                                                           engineers communicate their research to                           The Chronicles Group, a not-for-profit
                         regulators, planners, policymakers, and                            Bruno Basso is a University Foundation                             the general public via video, audio, the web   corporation focusing on educating the public through
                         other decision makers. The Center provides                         Professor in Department of Earth and             and social media. Her past major projects for NSF include        media about profound issues that affect both human and
                         technical assistance to help officials create                      Environment Sciences at Michigan State           the Engineers of the New Millennium documentary series for       ecological systems. He has written, produced and directed
      the policies and practices that will facilitate America’s                             University. His research falls broadly in the    public radio and the Innovation Nation series for the Science    an array of prominent, socially significant productions. His
      transition to a clean-energy economy. Ritter authored a book                          area of sustainable agriculture. He integrates   Channel. Prior to her communications work for NSF and            environmentally focused pieces include “Running Dry” a
      that was published in 2016 entitled, Powering Forward – What                          process-based crop models with geospatial        NOAA, Laurie was an award-winning broadcast journalist in        documentary regarding the worsening global humanitarian
      Everyone Should Know About America’s Energy Revolution.                               technologies to provide sustainable              Los Angeles.                                                     water crisis, along with its follow up “The American
                                                                           ecosystem services (crop production, carbon sequestration,                                                                         Southwest: Are We Running Dry?” and “Beyond the Brink”
      Ritter was elected as Colorado’s 41st governor in 2006
                                                                           water and nitrogen conservation) and increased profitability                                                                       a film on how food shortages like the one in California’s
      and built consensus to tackle some of the state’s biggest
                                                                           for farmers, globally.                                            Mark Miano                                                       San Joaquin Valley will lead to a National Security Threat
      challenges. During his four-year term, Ritter established
      Colorado as a national and international leader in clean                                                                               Executive Producer/Executive Editor, formerly NBC Learn          (released April 2018). (Reference: https://www.urbanfarm.
      energy, by building a new energy economy. He signed                                                                                                                                                     org/2017/07/29/267-jim-thebaut/)
                                                                           Martha Conklin                                                                       Mark Miano has produced, senior
      57 new energy bills into law, including a 30% Renewable                                                                                                   produced, and executive produced more
                                                                           Professor, School of Engineering,
      Portfolio Standard and a Clean Air Clean Jobs Act that                                                                                                    than a thousand original stories to help
                                                                           University of California Merced
      replaced nearly a gigawatt of coal-fired generation with                                                                                                  engage, inspire and educate students in the
      natural gas. Ritter is the chair of the Board of Directors of the                      Dr. Martha Conklin, Professor of Engineering                       classroom. In partnership with the National
      Energy Foundation and a senior fellow and member of the                                and member of the Environmental Systems                            Science Foundation, Mark has overseen
      board of directors of the Advanced Energy Economy Institute.                           Graduate Group, joined UC Merced in 2003                           the production of more than 17 hours of
      Ritter earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from                          as part of the Founding Faculty. She is the     STEM focused storytelling, with such celebrated series as
      Colorado State University (1978) and his law degree from the                           Faculty Director of the UC Merced Natural       the “Science of NFL Football,” “Science of NFL Hockey,”
      University of Colorado (1981).                                                         Reserve System. For most of her career,         “Science of the Olympic Winter Games,” “Mysteries of the
                                                                                             Dr. Conklin has studied water quantity          Brain,” “When Nature Strikes,” “Chemistry NOW” and more.
                                                                           and quality, water movement and the interaction of surface        In addition to his work with the NSF, Mark has overseen the
      Mainstreaming FEW Systems Science                                    water and groundwater in natural settings. She is currently       production of hundreds of other stories for educational
                                                                           focusing on looking at how forest management practices
      and its Impact                                                                                                                         publishers such as Pearson, McGraw Hill, Scholastic, and
                                                                           affect stream discharge in headwater catchments, seeing           Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
                                                                           how better hydrological data will improve river modeling and
      Tom Torgersen                                                        forecasting, and determining groundwater contributions to         Most recently, Mark was the executive editor and co-founder
      Panel Moderator                                                      stream flow using natural tracers and modeling. Dr. Conklin is    of NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC News. Mark was also
      INFEWS Co-Chair                                                      a co-investigator on the National Science Foundation’s Sierra     a senior producer and co-founder of Peacock Productions,
                                                                           Nevada Critical Zone Observatory. In charge of the outreach       the long-form documentary unit of NBC News, where he
                         Thomas Torgersen has served as the lead           she has helped develop the Earth Science Literacy Standard,       produced and wrote numerous documentaries that appeared
                         Program Officer for the NSF program               produce several videos and a develop a web-based course           on such networks as Discovery, A&E, the History Channel,
                         in Hydrologic Sciences since 2010. He             on Critical Zone Science. She has published numerous              National Geographic, and TLC. Mark has also worked at ABC
                         also Chaired the NSF program in “Water            well-cited papers, as well as served on a National Research       News, Bloomberg Television, WPIX-TV, The MacNeil/Lehrer
                         Sustainability and Climate” that investigated     Council committee and as an associate editor of Water             Newshour, and The New York Observer. Mark holds a B.A.
                         the complexity of water systems Since 2015,       Resources Research (WRR).                                         and M.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University.
                         Dr. Torgersen has been co-chair of the NSF
      cross-Directorate initiative in “Innovation at the Nexus of
      Food, Energy and Water systems” which involved seven NSF
      Directorates as well as the USDA/NIFA coordination. He
      represents NSF on several government committees including
      SWAQ. During his academic career, Dr. Torgersen spent 25
      years as faculty at the University of Connecticut and has over
      90 peer-reviewed publications across the scope of isotope
      dating of groundwater; surface water processes, limnology,
      oceanography, and paleoclimate. He served over 17 years

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