Friday, June 6, 2014

CMWR 2014


June 10-13, 2014

Session: Optimization, uncertainty analysis and decision making

Conveners: Sergey Oladyshkin, Velimir V Vessilinov

Description: Environmental management deals with one of the largest and most important classes of complex dynamic systems. Real-world environmental management problems require an integrated systems approach that incorporates robust and defensible tools for model optimization, uncertainty analysis and decision making. Environmental management is frequently influenced by controversial and politically charged issues such as climate changes, carbon sequestration, hydro fracturing, gas and oil exploration, in-situ mining, waste disposition, etc. These problems involve interactions and feedbacks between various processes and represent uncertainty at multiple levels and scales (temporal and spatial). For this reason, society needs a better understanding of the environment in order to have an efficient and safe interaction for the sake of maximized welfare and sustainability in resources management. This session will explore how conceptual and data uncertainties are represented and evaluated, how optimization techniques are applied to reduce uncertainties through data collection and model analyses, and how uncertainty quantification in coupled with risk analysis and decision support. Of interest are probabilistic and non-probabilistic metrics used to judge models against data, rank alternative models and test hypotheses; sensitivity analyses used to unravel sources of uncertainty; and data collection strategies optimized for uncertainty reduction. This session solicits abstracts proposing innovative approaches and demonstrations of new or current methods related to complex environmental management problems.

INTERPORE 2014, Milwaukee

Minisymposium on UQ

MS 5.2: Uncertainty quantification in Porous Media: From pore scale to the field scale 

Organized by Matteo Icardi, Quan Long, Daniel Tartakovsky

Participants:

Monday, April 28, 2014

Hoshin V. Gupta is awarded John Dalton Medal 2014

John Dalton Medal 2014


Hoshin V. Gupta
Hoshin V. Gupta
The 2014 John Dalton Medal is awarded to Hoshin V. Gupta for seminal contributions to systems approaches to hydrologic science, for training a large number of outstanding young scientists, and for unselfish stewardship of hydrologic science and practice on a global scale. ... more