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Session Proposal: Frontiers in Stormwater Modeling, Measurements, and Management (AGU25)

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Frontiers in Stormwater Modeling, Measurements, and Management

Session ID#: 251833

Session Description:
Stormwater is a leading cause of flooding and impaired water quality worldwide. Storm runoff generation and quality processes can be impacted by changing climatic conditions, increasing urbanization, and altered catchment hydrology. New research is needed to understand, predict, and manage the impacts of the interacting drivers on stormwater quantity and quality. Typical challenges include the scarcity of observational data, lack of alternative modeling and management tools, complex land cover/uses, and engagement of diverse stakeholders. This session welcomes contributions with basic and applied research on stormwater runoff and quality in both inland and coastal urban-natural environments. We invite abstracts on the frontiers of stormwater research and management, including data collections, analyses, modeling, predictions, and management of water quantity and quality across a wide range of time, space, and process scales. This session aims to bring together scientists from various disciplines, including climatology, hydrology, geomorphology, biogeochemistry, ecology, socioeconomics, and related other disciplines.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:

1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
Conveners:  Debankur Sanyal, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States, John Jairo Ramirez-Avila, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States and Walter McDonald, Marquette University, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, United States
 
Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Condition Assessment (1845202)
Omar Hegazy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Walter McDonald, Marquette University, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, United States and Abhiram Siva Prasad Pamula, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Determining Flow Rates and Flow Sources in Pipes using Temperature Data (1845206)
Omar Hegazy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States and Walter McDonald, Marquette University, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, United States
 
A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach to Soil-Plant-Stormwater Interactions in a Rain Garden (1870132)
Trix Zhouxin Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Champaign, United States and Ashlynn S. Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
 
Equifinality in Urban Stormwater Modeling: Improving Calibration and Uncertainty Assessment (1879164)
Zhaokai Dong, Western University, London, ON, Canada, Pradeep Goel, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks, Environmental Monitoring and Reporting, Etobicoke, Canada and Clare E Robinson, University of Western Ontario, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada
 
Optimizing Sensor Placement in Urban Storm Sewers: A Data-Driven Sparse Sensing Approach (1880565)
Zihang Ding, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States and Kun Zhang, University of Minnesota Duluth, Civil Engineering, Duluth, MN, United States
 
Evaluating Remotely Sensed Precipitation Data for Urban Drainage System Analysis Using SWMM (1883198)
Minha Choi, Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Water Resources, Graduate School of Water Resources, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Sanggon Jeong, Sungkyunkwan University, School of Civil, Architecture Engineering & Landscape Architecture, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea and Hyunho Jeon, Sungkyunkwan University, School of Civil, Architecture Engineering & Landscape Architecture, Suwon, South Korea
 
Tracing technique review: Contamination in municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) (1888369)
Chuyu Xiong and Ting Fong May Chui, The University of Hong Kong, Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong, China
 
Impact of Climate Variability on Probabilistic Water and Pollutant Dynamics in Stormwater Ponds (1930379)
Kuan-Ying Lee, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Jacques C Finlay, University of Minnesota, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Saint Paul, United States, Benjamin Janke, Univ of MN-Ecology Bldg #100, St Paul, MN, United States, Anthony Parolari, Duke University, Durham, United States and Xue Feng, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States
 
Performance Evaluation of Stormwater Drainage System Subjected to Multiple Flood Drivers (1944413)
Pravas Ranjan Pradhan, IIT Madras, Chennai, Department of Civil Engineering, Chennai, India and Soumendra Nath Kuiry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
 
COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF URBAN DRAINAGE SIMULATION TOOLS FOR PLUVIAL FLOOD MODELING: A SWMM BASED APPROACH (1959644)
Dasuni Ranapathi Arachchige1, Susanna Tong2 and Xi Chen1, (1)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (2)University of Cincinnati, Geography and GIS, Cincinnati, United States
 
Tetris-based Sewer Network Generator: A Virtual Benchmarking Dataset for Evaluating I&I, Design, and Monitoring Models (1963001)
Kevin Blanco, Oklahoma State University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stillwater, United States and Gabriel Perez, Oklahoma State University, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stillwater, United States
 
Global Mapping of Rainfall Seasonality: A Harmonic and Threshold-Based Analysis of Long-Term Satellite Data (1963724)
Darshana Wickramasinghe1, Mansoor D Leh1, Naga Manohar Velpuri1 and Abdulkarim Seid2, (1)International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka, (2)International Water Management Institute, ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
 
Highway Overpass as Critical Source of Urban Runoff Pollution: Field Evidence from Milwaukee, WI (1964443)
Md Sakib, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Benjamin Bodus, Marquette University, Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Milwaukee, United States and Walter McDonald, Marquette University, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, United States
 
A Modeling Assistive Stormwater Sampling (MASS) Framework for Strategic SCM Prioritization in a Complex Urban Watershed (1967301)
Seyed Mostafa Banihashem, Dongfeng Li and Nick Fang, University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, United States
 
Data-Driven Performance Forecasting for Green Stormwater Infrastructure (1967607)
Musfiqur Rahman1, Virginia B Smith1, Bridget Wadzuk2, Xun Jiao3, Peleg Kremer4, Achira Amur2 and Ruixuan Wang3, (1)Villanova University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova, PA, United States, (2)Villanova University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova, United States, (3)Villanova University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova, United States, (4)Villanova University, Geography and the Environment, Villanova, United States
 
Bayesian Optimization for Effective Design of Integrated Gray-GreenStormwater Drainage Systems (1977206)
Yiyi Zhang and Jinzhu Yu, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States
 
Potential Increases in Extreme Climate and Stormwater Events in Subcoastal Urban Environments (1980357)
Kazi Mushfique Mohib, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
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