Hydrology



'Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture'
Chair:  Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Convener:  Shirley A Papuga, Wayne State University, Environmental Science and Geology, Detroit, MI, United States
Conveners:  Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Shirley A Papuga, Wayne State University, Environmental Science and Geology, Detroit, MI, United States and Hang Deng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States


'Walter B. Langbein Lecture'
Chair:  Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Convener:  Shirley A Papuga, Wayne State University, Environmental Science and Geology, Detroit, MI, United States
Conveners:  Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Shirley A Papuga, Wayne State University, Environmental Science and Geology, Detroit, MI, United States and Hang Deng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States


Downscaling Water Storage: Training Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model to Downscale Nonlinear Storage-Discharge Relation in Rum River Watershed, MN
Primary Convener:  Pai-Feng Victor Teng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, United States
Convener:  John Little Nieber, Univ of Minnesota, Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pai-Feng Victor Teng, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, United States


A Framework for Dynamic Visualization of Multi-Parameter Hydraulic Model Output on the Web
Primary Convener:  Myles McManus, RPS Group - Houston, Houston, TX, UNITED STATES
Convener:  Myles McManus, RPS Group - Houston, Houston, TX, UNITED STATES
Primary Liaison:  Myles McManus, RPS Group - Houston, Houston, TX, UNITED STATES


A STUDY ON STABLE ISOTOPE HYDROLOGY OF WARANGAL, ANDHRA PRADESHDeuterium and oxygen 18 were measured in precipitation, lake, well water samples collected from the Deccan plateau region, Warangal. Isotopic data gave a meteoric line having a slope which is slightly different from the global meteoric water line. The δD and δ18O values are enriched.
Primary Convener:  Anoop C K Jr, Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology, CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, Ernakulam, India
Convener:  Anoop C K Jr, Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology, CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, Ernakulam, India
Primary Liaison:  Anoop C K Jr, Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology, CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, Ernakulam, India


Advancements in Watershed Modeling to Support Water Management
Primary Convener:  Qian Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science / USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD, United States
Conveners:  Olivia Miller, US Geological Survey, Utah Water Science Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Noah M Schmadel, US Geological Survey, Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, OR, United States and Matthew P Miller, US Geological Survey, Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Qian Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science / USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD, United States


Advances in data-driven approaches to forecasting hydrologic data: statistical and Artificial Intelligence models
Primary Convener:  Taereem Kim, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Jun-Haeng Heo, Yonsei University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Ju-Young Shin, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, Jeju, South Korea and Hanbeen Kim, Yonsei University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Primary Liaison:  Taereem Kim, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, OK, United States


Advances in ecohydrology of water limited environments
Primary Convener:  Abinash Bhattachan, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lixin Wang, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Sujith Ravi, Temple University, Department of Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States and Kailiang Yu, University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lixin Wang, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Earth Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States


Advances in hydrogeophysics for subsurface investigation
Primary Convener:  Kennedy O Doro, University of Toledo, Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States
Conveners:  Matthew Griffiths, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, Chen Wang, Rutgers University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States and Gordon K Osterman, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kennedy O Doro, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany


Advances in Hydroinformatics : Building Accessible Knowledgebase and Resilience
Primary Convener:  Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Conveners:  Mike Johnson, University of California Santa Barbra, Geography, Santa Barbra, Denmark, Jerad Bales, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States and Sankar Arumugam, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, United States; North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States


Advances in modeling hydrometeorological extremes and adaptation for a resilient society
Primary Convener:  Hongxiang Yan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Mark S Wigmosta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Yonas Demissie, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tri-Cities, WA, United States and David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hongxiang Yan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Advances in observation and modeling of water surface evaporation
Primary Convener:  Jingfeng Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Heping Liu, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States and Lian Shen, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory & University of Minnesota, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Heping Liu, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States


Advances in petrophysics for geophysical characterization and monitoring of a dynamic subsurface
Primary Convener:  Qifei Niu, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners:  Damien Jougnot, Sorbonne Universite, UMR 7619 METIS, Paris, France and Flore Rembert, Sorbonne University, UMR 7619 METIS, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Qifei Niu, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States


Advances in Process-based and Data-driven Models for River Corridor and Watershed Systems
Primary Convener:  Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Convener:  Dipankar Dwivedi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dipankar Dwivedi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Advances in quantifying impacts and extents of land-use/land-cover change on hydrology and climate change
Primary Convener:  Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ben Livneh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Sylvia Wilson, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States


Advances in Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Resilient Socio-Environmental Systems
Primary Convener:  Kamini Yadav, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Convener:  Hatim M.E. Geli, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kamini Yadav, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States


Advances in Remote Sensing of Flood Dynamics
Primary Convener:  Dinuke Munasinghe, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Sagy Cohen, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Huan Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China and Peter Salamon, European Commission, Climate Risk Management Unit, Brussels, Belgium
Primary Liaison:  Dinuke Munasinghe, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States


Advances in soil modeling through machine learning and data analytics
Primary Convener:  Yonggen Zhang, Tianjin University, School of Earth System Sciences, Tianjin, China
Conveners:  Teamrat A Ghezzehei, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Wei Shangguan, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China and Roland Baatz, Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Deutschland, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Yonggen Zhang, Tianjin University, School of Earth System Sciences, Tianjin, China


Advances in subsurface flow characterization using machine learning
Primary Convener:  Sahar Bakhshian, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Convener:  Qinjun Kang, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sahar Bakhshian, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States


Advances in the Occurrence, Fate, Transport, Transformation, and Remediation of Contaminants in Aquatic Environments
Primary Convener:  Dengjun Wang, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Convener:  Chunming Su, US Environmental Protection Agency, Ada, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chunming Su, US Environmental Protection Agency, Ada, OK, United States


Advances in the Study of Nonequilibrium Geochemical and Physical Processes in Extreme Subsurface Environments
Primary Convener:  Takeshi Kurotori, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Pania Newell, University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Yashar Mehmani, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, University Park, PA, United States and Vincent Noel, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Takeshi Kurotori, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States


Advances in Tracer Methods and Modeling of Hydrochronology, Hydrologic Processes and Residence Times
Primary Convener:  Ate Visser, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer L Druhan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, Arash Massoudieh, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States and Ype Van der Velde, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Ate Visser, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Livermore, CA, United States


Advances in Understanding Climate, Vegetation, Soil and Topographic Controls on Hydrologic Patterns, Processes and Functions at the Watershed and Larger Scales
Primary Convener:  Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Convener:  Hong-Yi Li, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States


Advances in understanding rapid unsaturated zone flow in porous and fractured media
Primary Convener:  Kimberlie S Perkins, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Conveners:  Maria Clementina Caputo, National Research Council Water Research Institute, Bari, Italy and Lorenzo De Carlo, CNR National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Kimberlie S Perkins, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States


Advances in urban hydrology with model- and data-driven approaches
Primary Convener:  Taher Chegini, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Hong-Yi Li, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Taher Chegini, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States


Advances in Watershed Modeling: Hydrologic & Water Quality Processes and Conservation Management for Food-Water-Energy Nexus
Primary Convener:  Haw Yen, Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, TX, United States; Bayer CropScience, Environmental Exposure Modeling, St. Louis, MO, United States
Conveners:  Latif Kalin, Auburun University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, Blackland Research and Extension Center, College Station, TX, United States and Bernard A Engel, Purdue University, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Latif Kalin, Auburun University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States


Advancing flood characterization, modeling and communication
Primary Convener:  Keighobad Jafarzadegan, The University of Alabama, Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Manuela Irene Brunner, WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Paul D Bates, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom and Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tallahassee, FL, United States


Advancing Land Surface Models for Hydrological and Environmental Applications
Primary Convener:  Bailing Li, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Jifu Yin, NOAA College Park, NESDIS-STAR/University of Maryland CICS, College Park, MD, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Guo-Yue Niu, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bailing Li, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States


Advancing Science through Observations, Monitoring, and Experimentation in Catchment, Critical Zone, and Ecosystem Studies
Primary Convener:  Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, United States
Conveners:  Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, United States and James B Shanley, USGS, Montpelier, VT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, United States


Advancing Soil Moisture Science via Monitoring, Modeling, and Remote Sensing
Primary Convener:  Todd G Caldwell, USGS Nevada Water Science Center, Carson City, NV, United States
Convener:  Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Todd G Caldwell, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States


Agriculture/Crop Yield Forecast for Building Resilience and Climate Adaptability using Modeling and Remote Sensing
Primary Convener:  Narendra N Das, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Konstantinos Andreadis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States; University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Mantha S Phanikumar, Michigan State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States, Yadu Pokhrel, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change & Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States and A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Michigan State University, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Narendra N Das, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States


America's Water: Infrastructure gaps, their health, environmental and economic impacts and future directions
Primary Convener:  Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States and mark elliott
Conveners:  Maura Allaire, University of California, Irvine, NY, United States, Kevin White, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States, Mark Elliott, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Joseph Brown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Civil & environmental Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and mark elliott
Primary Liaison:  Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States and mark elliott


Application of Machine/Deep Learning in Earth, Energy and Environmental Modeling
Primary Convener:  Michael J Friedel, University of Colorado Denver, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, Denver, CO, United States
Convener:  Nicole C Lautze, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Erin Wallin, HIGP/SOEST/Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States


Application of Machine/Deep Learning in Hydrogeologic Modeling
Primary Convener:  Michael J Friedel, University of Colorado Denver, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, Denver, CO, United States
Conveners:  Nicole C Lautze, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States and Erin Wallin, HIGP/SOEST/Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Erin Wallin, HIGP/SOEST/Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States


Applications in Snow Hydrology: Linking Snow to Natural Processes and Society
Primary Convener:  Dongyue Li, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Laurie Huning, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management, Long Beach, CA, United States, Ryan Webb, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Graham A Sexstone, US Geological Survey, Colorado Water Science Center, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dongyue Li, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States


Applications of Data Integration, Inverse Methods, and Machine Learning in Hydrogeophysics and Biogeochemistry
Primary Convener:  Adam R Mangel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Kisa E Mwakanyamale, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, United States, Marc Dumont, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France and Blair Schneider, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adam R Mangel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Assessment of hurricane impacts on hydrological processes and water quality in agriculture watersheds under the changing climate
Primary Convener:  Ying Ouyang, USDA Forest Service-CBHR, Mississippi State, MS, United States
Conveners:  Johnny Grace, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Sudhanshu Sekhar Panda, University of North Georgia, Institute of Environmental Spatial Analysis, Oakwood, GA, United States and Aavudai Anandhi, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ying Ouyang, USDA Forest Service-CBHR, Mississippi State, MS, United States


Atmospheric water resources: remote sensing, AI, mechanisms, and technologies
Primary Convener:  Haiyun Shi, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Conveners:  Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Qingyun Duan, Hohai University, College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China, Ji Chen, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Bellie Sivakumar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Department of Civil Engineering, Mumbai, India
Primary Liaison:  Haiyun Shi, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China


Biogeochemical and Hydrodynamical Processes in Biofilms and Porous Media
Primary Convener:  Lazaro J. Perez, DRI Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Dorothee Luise Kurz1, Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez2 and Eleonora Secchi1, (1)ETH Zurich, Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland(2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Lazaro J. Perez, DRI Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States


Biogeochemistry of multi-contaminants and emerging pollutants in the critical zone: Reactivity and Treatment Solutions
Primary Convener:  Marc F F Benedetti, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Convener:  Ishai Dror, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel
Primary Liaison:  Marc F F Benedetti, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France


Challenges and Opportunities for Hydropower Generation Under Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Richard Dallison, Bangor University, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Sopan Dileep Patil, Bangor University, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor, United Kingdom, Shih-Chieh Kao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Michael Craig, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States
Primary Liaison:  Richard Dallison, Bangor University, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor, United Kingdom


Changing water cycles in African drylands to global change
Primary Convener:  Jean-Martial Cohard, University Grenoble Alpes, IGE, Grenoble, France
Conveners:  Agnidé Emmanuel Lawin, Unversity Abomey Calavi, LHA, Abomey Calavi, Benin, Richard G Taylor, University College London, Department of Geography, London, United Kingdom and Japhet J. Kashaigili, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
Primary Liaison:  Jean-Martial Cohard, University Grenoble Alpes, IGE, Grenoble, France


Characterizing human management features with remote sensing
Primary Convener:  Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Convener:  Manuela Girotto, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science and Policy Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Characterizing Spatial and Temporal Variability of Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes Across Scales
Primary Convener:  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener:  Haruko M Wainwright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States


Coastal Hydrology: Physical and Biogeochemical Processes
Primary Convener:  Hamed Moftakhari, University of Alabama, Civil, Construction and Environmental Eng, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Sergio Fagherazzi, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Yu-Ping (Yo) Chin, University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sergio Fagherazzi, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States


Conflict, migration and social justice: Integrating social science and hydrologic datasets to understand the dynamics of human-water interactions
Primary Convener:  Li Xu, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Conveners:  Xin Lu, Flowminder; Karolinska Institute, Department of Global Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden and James S Famiglietti, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Li Xu, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada


Convergent Research to Manage Human Interactions with the Phosphorus Cycle
Primary Convener:  Rebecca Logsdon Muenich, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Anna-Maria Marshall, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Sociology, Urbana, United States, Daniel R Obenour, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Jordan D Kern, North Carolina State University, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rebecca Logsdon Muenich, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States


Coupled Flow Processes in Fractured Media Across Scales: Recent Advances in Experimental and Modeling Efforts
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Peter K. Kang, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Philippe Davy, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France and Jan-Olof Selroos, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden
Primary Liaison:  Peter K. Kang, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States


Critical Interfaces in the Critical Zone: Process Understanding through Models, Observations, and Experiments
Primary Convener:  Allison Eva Goodwell, University of Colorado Denver, Civil Engineering, Denver, CO, United States
Conveners:  Susana Roque-Malo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Sean M Schaeffer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Allison Eva Goodwell, University of Colorado, Denver, Civil Engineering, Denver, CO, United States


Critical Zone Hydrological and Biogeochemical Dynamics Under Varying Climate, Land Use, and Ecosystem Management
Primary Convener:  Salvatore Calabrese, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States
Conveners:  Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Rose Z Abramoff, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France and Kailiang Yu, University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Salvatore Calabrese, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States


Cross-Scale Imaging and Image-Based Modelling of Subsurface Processes in Low-Carbon Energy Systems
Primary Convener:  Lin Ma, University of Manchester, Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Chun Chang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Bo Guo, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Xiongyu Chen, University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lin Ma, University of Manchester, Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom


Diagnostics, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty Analysis of Earth and Environmental Models
Primary Convener:  Juliane Mai, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Lucy Amanda Marshall, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Mary C Hill, University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States and Saman Razavi, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Juliane Mai, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada


DNA Informed Hydrology: techniques and applications of genetic data in watershed science
Primary Convener:  Dawn URycki, Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Stephen P Good, Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, Natalie C Ceperley, Institute of Geography (GIUB), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Byron C Crump, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dawn URycki, Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States


Emerging Methods for Subsurface Monitoring and Characterization of Contaminated Sites
Primary Convener:  Kayvan Karimi Askarani, Colorado State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Zexuan Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States and Kiril Hristovski, Arizona State University, The Polytechnic School, Mesa, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kayvan Karimi Askarani, Colorado State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Environmental Vadose Zone Hydrology
Primary Convener:  Bo Guo, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Nandita Gaur, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States; University of Georgia, Crop and Soil Sciences, Athens, GA, United States and Raghavendra B Jana, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, CDISE, Skolkovo, Russia
Primary Liaison:  Bo Guo, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States


Essential Water Variables (EWVs) observations and applications for research, water resources management, and operational decision support
Primary Convener:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  George John Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jared Keith Entin, NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Evapotranspiration (ET): Advances in In Situ ET Measurements and Remote Sensing-Based ET Estimation, Mapping, and Evaluation
Primary Convener:  Gabriel B Senay, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Convener:  Naga Manohar Velpuri, International Water Management Institute, Remote Sensing Hydrology– Water Accounting, Silverton, South Africa
Primary Liaison:  Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, EROS/North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Evapotranspiration (ET): Advances in In Situ ET Measurements and Remote Sensing-Based ET Estimation, Mapping, and Evaluation.
Primary Convener:  Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Integrated Science and Applications Branch, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Convener:  Naga Manohar Velpuri, International Water Management Institute, Remote Sensing Hydrology– Water Accounting, Silverton, South Africa
Primary Liaison:  Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Integrated Science and Applications Branch, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Experimental and Computational Developments in Modeling Geological CO2 Storage
Primary Convener:  Avinoam Rabinovich, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Conveners:  Ronny Pini, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Charlotte Garing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States and Ziv Moreno, Agricultural Research Organization Volcani Center, Rishon LeTsiyon, Israel
Primary Liaison:  Avinoam Rabinovich, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel


Flood Analytics, Operational Forecasting, and Adaptive Flood Management for an Uncertain Future: Challenges and Innovations
Primary Convener:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
Conveners:  Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States


Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations—Science and Decision-Support Needs
Primary Convener:  Michael D Dettinger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Robert Stabler Webb, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States and Duncan Axisa, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael D Dettinger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States


Forest evapotranspiration and ecohydrology under a changing environment: Processes and quantifications
Primary Convener:  Ning Liu, USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States; Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Ge Sun, USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States and Maricar Aguilos, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ning Liu, USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States; Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


Frontiers in Ecohydrology
Primary Convener:  Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University, Engineering, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
Conveners:  Salli Dymond, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States, Amy Hansen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Khandker S. Ishtiaq, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lauren Lowman, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, UNITED STATES


GRACE / GRACE-FO Science in Terrestrial Hydrology
Primary Convener:  John T Reager II, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Himanshu Save, Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  John T Reager II, University California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States


Groundwater Response to Climate Change and Variability
Primary Convener:  Yusong Li, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
Convener:  Timothy R Green, USDA-ARS, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lirong Zhong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions: Integrating Physical, Biological, and Chemical Patterns and Processes Across Systems and Scales
Primary Convener:  Anna Turetcaia, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Marie J Kurz, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Matthew Kaufman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Uwe Schneidewind, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Anna Turetcaia, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States


Harnessing earth system data for understanding and predicting climate extremes in agriculture and urban systems
Primary Convener:  Di Tian, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States
Conveners:  Long Yang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Qi Li, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Talea Mayo, Emory University, Department of Mathematics, Atlanta, United States and Karen A McKinnon, University of California Los Angeles, Departments of Statistics, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Di Tian, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States


Human Influence on the Regional/Natural Hydroclimate and Environmental Systems
Primary Convener:  Dominic Libera, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Conveners:  Ting Liu, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States and Danica Schaffer-Smith, Arizona State University, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ting Liu, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States


Hydro-climatic risks and solutions for African water security
Primary Convener:  Daniela Anghileri, University of Southampton, Geography and Environmental Science, Southampton, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Charlene Olayemi Ursula GABA, AGRHYMET Regional Centre for Agronomy, Niamey, Niger, Ellasy Chimimba, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi and Luke Olang, ICPAC, Nairobi, Kenya
Primary Liaison:  Daniela Anghileri, University of Southampton, Geography and Environmental Science, Southampton, United Kingdom


Hydroclimatic modeling, analyses, and projections in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
Primary Convener:  Sanjib Sharma, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Rocky Talchabhadel, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, El Paso, United States, Ganesh Ghimire, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Tirtha Raj Adhikari, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Primary Liaison:  Jeeban Panthi, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States


Hydroinformatics: Computational Intelligence, Sensing, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Scientific Computing
Primary Convener:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
Conveners:  Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Gerald Corzo Perez, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Hydroinformatics, Delft, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States


Innovations and collaborations to improve monitoring, modeling, and prediction of water availability
Primary Convener:  Julie A Vano, Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, CO, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey S Deems, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Mark S Raleigh, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Elise C Osenga, Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elise C Osenga, Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, CO, United States


Innovative Wastewater Disposal Methods to Manage Contamination of Coastal Waters
Primary Convener:  Ishita Shrivastava, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Convener:  Dayang WANG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ishita Shrivastava, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States


Integrated soil modeling
Primary Convener:  Dani Or, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Dept. of Environmental Syst. Sci., Zürich, Switzerland and International Soil Modelling Consortium (ISMC)
Convener:  Michael Young, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, DC, United States and International Soil Modelling Consortium (ISMC)
Primary Liaison:  Dani Or, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Dept. of Environmental Syst. Sci., Zürich, Switzerland and International Soil Modelling Consortium (ISMC)


Introducing the paradigm of Critical Zone science to Agrohydrology
Primary Convener:  Ying Zhao, LUDONG UNIVERSITY, Yantai, China; University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Conveners:  Yanping Li, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Li Guo, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China and Jian Liu, University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability & Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Ying Zhao, LUDONG UNIVERSITY, Yantai, China; University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada


Lakes and Inland Water Bodies
Primary Convener:  Samar Minallah, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Sally MacIntyre, Univ California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Peter Blanken, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States and Andrew Gronewold, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Samar Minallah, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


Land-Atmosphere Interactions: From Bedrock to Boundary Layer
Primary Convener:  Kaighin A Mccoll, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore Nat Labs, Livermore, CA, United States, Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Heng Xiao, Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kaighin A Mccoll, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States


Machine Learning and Process-Based Models for Understanding and Predicting Watershed and River Basin Function
Primary Convener:  Utkarsh Mital, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Dipankar Dwivedi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Dan Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Utkarsh Mital, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Machine learning applications in catchment hydrology
Primary Convener:  Tirthankar Roy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Omaha, NE, United States
Conveners:  Antonio Neto, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, Paulo Tarso S. Oliveira, UFMS Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil and Peter A A Troch, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Antonio Neto, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States


Machine Learning Applications in Geosciences Modeling and Measurement
Primary Convener:  Gege Wen, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Sally M Benson, Director Precourt Institute, and Professor, Stanford University, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Alexander Y Sun, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Grant S Bromhal, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gege Wen, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


Machine Learning for Hydrological Extreme Events
Primary Convener:  Zhangshuan Hou, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Convener:  Dave Judi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Zhangshuan Hou, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Machine Learning Methods for Understanding Coupled Processes and Material Properties in Heterogeneous Porous Media
Primary Convener:  Pania Newell, University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and tartakovsky, Alexandre
Conveners:  Hari Selvi Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories, Department of Geomechanics, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States and tartakovsky, Alexandre
Primary Liaison:  Pania Newell, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and tartakovsky, Alexandre


Monitoring and Modeling the Effects of Regulated Flows on River Ecosystems
Primary Convener:  Carly Hansen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Mirko Musa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Paul Matson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mirko Musa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


Nano-Colloids to Particulate Matter: Influence on Biogeochemical Cycles of Elements in Terrestrial Environments
Primary Convener:  Jing Yan, University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Kenton Alan Rod, Washington State Department of Ecology, Richland, WA, United States and Dengjun Wang, Auburn University, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jing Yan, University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States


New insights about the occurrence, fate and evolution of contaminants of emerging concern in urban aquifers
Primary Convener:  Estanislao Pujades, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Convener:  Anna Jurado, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Estanislao Pujades, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain


Next generation water resources modeling: innovation at the intersection of domain, computer, and data sciences
Primary Convener:  Trey Flowers, NOAA/NWS Office of Water Prediction, National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Burke, NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Jerad Bales, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States and David P Lesmes, Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Germantown, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Trey Flowers, NOAA/NWS Office of Water Prediction, National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States


Non-linearity in subsurface flow and transport: modelling, experiments and applications
Primary Convener:  Vittorio Di Federico, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Convener:  Yves Méheust, University of Rennes, Géosciences, Rennes, France
Primary Liaison:  Vittorio Di Federico, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali (DICAM), Bologna, Italy


Non-Perennial Streams: An Interface Between Hydrology, Ecology, Biogeochemistry, and Society
Primary Convener:  Samuel C Zipper, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
Conveners:  Margaret A Zimmer, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, C. Nathan Jones, University of Alabama, Biological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Yaqi You, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Samuel C Zipper, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States


Nutrient Transport, Aquatic Metabolism, and Water Quality in a Changing World
Primary Convener:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States
Convener:  Douglas A Burns, USGS, Troy, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States


Panta Rhei: Hydrology, Society, and Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  Heidi Kreibich, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 4.4 Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners:  Fuqiang Tian, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Maura Allaire, University of California Irvine, Urban Planning and Public Policy, Irvine, CA, United States, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, Sweden and Hilary K McMillan, San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hilary K McMillan, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States


Pathways, processes, and timing: high-frequency sensing of water quality across spatiotemporal scales
Primary Convener:  Admin Husic, University of Kansas, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Lawrence, KS, United States
Convener:  Erin Cedar Seybold, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Admin Husic, University of Kansas, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Lawrence, KS, United States


Physics-informed Machine Learning in Hydrology
Primary Convener:  Chaopeng Shen, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Convener:  Hoshin Gupta, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Planning, Incorporating and Managing Alternative Water Sources at Watershed Scale: from Theory to Practice
Primary Convener:  Masoud Negahban-Azar, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Manashi Paul, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Farshid Shoushtarian, University of Maryland, College Park, Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Masoud Negahban-Azar, University of Maryland College Park, Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States


Plastics in the Geosphere
Primary Convener:  Jennifer D Drummond, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Monica M Arienzo, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, Tim H M van Emmerik, Wageningen University, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen, Netherlands and Sarah-Jeanne Royer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer D Drummond, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom


Point- to Catchment- to Landscape-Scale Effects of Wildfire on Hydrologic, Geomorphic, and Biogeochemical Processes
Primary Convener:  James Joseph Joseph Guilinger, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Conveners:  Joe Wagenbrenner, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, Arcata, CA, United States and Brian A Ebel, USGS, Water Mission Area, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  James Joseph Joseph Guilinger, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States


Pore-Scale Physics: Recent Advances in Experimental and Computational Methods
Primary Convener:  Bo Guo, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Yashar Mehmani, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, Francisco Jose Carrillo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bo Guo, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States


Precipitation Through the Eyes of Machine Learning and Advanced Statistics: Remote Sensing, Uncertainties and Variability
Primary Convener:  Veljko Petković, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) / CISESS, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, OK, United States, Giuseppe Mascaro, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Ardehsir Ebtehaj, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Shruti Ashok Upadhyaya, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Veljko Petković, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) / CISESS, College Park, MD, United States


Prospects for Sustainability of Heavily Stressed Aquifers: Impediments and Opportunities
Primary Convener:  James J Butler Jr, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
Conveners:  J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández, Universitat Politècnica de València, Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering, Valencia, Spain, Rosemary J Knight, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States and David Hyndman, University of Texas at Dallas, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Richardson, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  James J Butler Jr, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States


Reactive Transport in Subsurface Systems at Multiple Scales: Experiments and Characterization
Primary Convener:  Bowen Ling, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Ran Hu, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Qingwang Yuan, Texas Tech University, Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering, Lubbock, TX, United States, Chen Guo, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; Chang'an University, Information Engineering, Xi'an, China and Mian Lin, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Bowen Ling, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


Recent Advances in Hybrid Methods for Multi-Scale Analysis of Fracture and Flow in Porous Media
Primary Convener:  Bozo Vazic, University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Selda Oterkus, University of Strathclyde, Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, Glasgow, United Kingdom and Bikash Dey, University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bozo Vazic, University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States


Remediation of co-contamination in groundwater and soil
Primary Convener:  Xiaodong Zhang, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Convener:  Shuguang Wang, Shandong University, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qingdao, China
Primary Liaison:  Xiaodong Zhang, Shandong University, Jinan, China


Remote Sensing Applications for Water Management
Primary Convener:  John D Bolten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Forrest S Melton, CSU Monterey Bay, NASA ARC-CREST, Seaside, CA, United States, Sarah Brennan, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States and John D Bolten, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  John D Bolten, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Remote Sensing of Rivers, Lakes, Reservoirs and Wetlands
Primary Convener:  Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Earth Observation Programmes, Frascati, Italy
Conveners:  Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Station, TX, United States and Ethan J Shavers, United States Geological Survey, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science, Rolla, MO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Earth Observation Programmes, Frascati, Italy


Remote Sensing, Modeling and Data Assimilation of the Terrestrial Water Cycle
Primary Convener:  Christian Massari, CNR National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Conveners:  Manuela Girotto, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science and Policy Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi, University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States and Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Manuela Girotto, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science and Policy Management, Berkeley, CA, United States


River Networks: Connecting Forms and Functions
Primary Convener:  Jon Schwenk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Jessica Z. LeRoy, USGS Central Midwest Water Science Center, Urbana, IL, United States, George H. Allen, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States and Jonathan A Czuba, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jon Schwenk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States


Runoff generation processes– integrating observations and processes over variable scales
Primary Convener:  Catalina Segura, Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management; Water Resources Graduate Program, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Ryan E Emanuel, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, Ilja H.J. van Meerveld, University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland and Genevieve Ali, University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Thom Bogaard, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands


Science-Based Solutions to Transboundary Water Issues in the Nile River Basin
Primary Convener:  Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener:  Sarfaraz Alam, University of California Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


Scientific Machine Learning for Flow, Transport, and Coupled Processes across Temporal and Spatial Scales
Primary Convener:  Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories, Department of Geomechanics, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Convener:  Jonghyun Harry Lee, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Honolulu, HI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories, Department of Geomechanics, Albuquerque, NM, United States


Space-Based Precipitation Observations: Innovations for Science and Applications
Primary Convener:  Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Sarah Ringerud1,2, George John Huffman1 and David B Wolff3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States(3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Code 610W, Wallops Island, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, OK, United States


Stable Isotopes in the Critical Zone: Methods, Applications, and Process Interpretations
Primary Convener:  Matthias Sprenger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Natalie Orlowski, University of Freiburg, Chair of Hydrology, Freiberg, Germany, Scott T Allen, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Elizabeth Joy Olson, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthias Sprenger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Statistical-Dynamical Models for Hydroclimatic Risk Management and Adaptation
Primary Convener:  James Doss-Gollin, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Scott Steinschneider1, Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay1 and Julianne Quinn2, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States(2)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  James Doss-Gollin, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States


Subgrid parameterization of physical processes in Earth System Models
Primary Convener:  Siwei He, NOAA Global System Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Conveners:  Evan Kalina, NOAA Global System Laboratory, University of Colorado/CIRES, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Ben Livneh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Siwei He, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States; NOAA Global System Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States


Subsurface Contaminant Transport and Remediation: State of Knowledge and Current Challenges
Primary Convener:  Thomas J Phelan, US Air Force Academy, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USAF Academy, CO, United States
Conveners:  Amalia Kokkinaki, University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States, Amanda Lawter, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Kevin Mumford, Queen's University, Department of Civil Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Thomas J Phelan, United States Air Force Academ, U S A F Academy, CO, United States


Surface Water Hydrology from SWOT, NISAR, and ICESat-2
Primary Convener:  Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Conveners:  Sarah W Cooley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Bruce D Chapman, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States


Test Test Test Test Test1
Primary Convener:  Nicole Lane, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Convener:  Nicole Lane, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nicole Lane, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


The "Bark Side" of the Water Cycle
Primary Convener:  John T Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, United States
Conveners:  Salli Dymond, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States and Anna Klamerus-Iwan, University of Agriculture, Department of Forest Utilization, Engineering and Forest Technology, Krakow, Poland
Primary Liaison:  John T Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, United States


The changing hydrologic and hydrogeologic role of glaciers in their watersheds
Primary Convener:  Anna Bergstrom, Boise State University, Boise, United States
Conveners:  Jakob F Steiner, Utrecht University, Department of Geopgraphy, Utrecht, Netherlands and Lauren Somers, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Anna Bergstrom, Boise State University, Boise, United States


The Food-Water Link and Nonpoint Source Flux Impact on Groundwater, Vadose Zone, and Surface Water Quality
Primary Convener:  Thomas Harter, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Joachim Rozemeijer, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands and Christopher T Green, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Thomas Harter, University California Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States


The MacGyver Session: The Place for Novel, Exciting, Self-Made, Hacked, or Improved Sensors, Data Acquisition, and Data Transmission Solutions to Understand the Geosphere
Primary Convener:  Rolf Hut, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands
Conveners:  Theresa Blume, GFZ German Research Centre, Potsdam, Germany and Andrew D Wickert, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rolf Hut, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands


Treatment of Six Different PFOS- and PFOA-Amended Sands by Planetary Ball Milling
Primary Convener:  Lauren Turner, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Bernard H Kueper, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada and Kela Weber, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Lauren Turner, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada


Uncertainty in Watershed Storage Estimates
Primary Convener:  Scott Raulerson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States
Convener:  Charles Rhett Jackson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scott Raulerson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States


Understanding Biogeochemical and Hydrological Processes in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin Across Scales
Primary Convener:  Alicia Sendrowski, Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Mantha S Phanikumar, Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States and Yadu Pokhrel, Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alicia Sendrowski, Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States


Understanding, Modeling, Forecasting and Mitigation of Urban and Riverine Flood Risks in South Asia
Primary Convener:  Satish Kumar Regonda, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Environmental and Water resources Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Hydearbad, India
Conveners:  Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India, Balaji Rajagopalan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Manabendra Saharia, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India
Primary Liaison:  Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Civil Engineering, Ahmedabad, India


Urban heat, vegetation, and water dynamics: New insights and implications for management and equity in heterogeneous landscapes
Primary Convener:  Kyle Blount, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, United States
Conveners:  Newsha Ajami, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States, Katie Spahr, Water Research Foundation, Denver, CO, United States, Natalie Chin, University of Wisconsin, Sea Grant, Superior, WI, United States and Garett Pignotti, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kyle Blount, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, United States


Utilizing Precipitation Datasets and Quantifying Associated Uncertainties in Hydrometeorological and Climate Impact Applications
Primary Convener:  Paul A Kucera, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, COMET, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Ali Behrangi, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Emad H Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Civil Engineering, Lafayette, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paul A Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States


Waste Treatment Processes of Industrial Brines: Utilizing In-situ Geochemistry for a Sustainable Water Cycle
Primary Convener:  Bonnie McDevitt, USGS Reston, Reston, VA, United States
Conveners:  Madalyn S Blondes, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy, and Minerals (GEM) Science Center, Reston, VA, United States and Tanya J Gallegos, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy, and Minerals (GEM) Science Center, Reston, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bonnie McDevitt, USGS Reston, Reston, VA, United States


Water and Society in Urban Systems
Primary Convener:  Sarah H. Ledford, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Nasrin Alamdari, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Jordyn Wolfand, University of Portland, Shiley School of Engineering, Portland, OR, United States, Darrel Jenerette, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States and Daniel Bain, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah H. Ledford, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States


Water and Society: Adaptive management of coupled human-natural systems confronting global change
Primary Convener:  Sarah Fletcher, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Julianne Quinn, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Jonathan Lamontagne, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah Fletcher, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


Water and Society: Big data analytics to transform governance of water, energy, and human networks in the Anthropocene
Primary Convener:  Andrea Cominola, Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, Germany; Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Conveners:  Newsha Ajami, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States, Andrea Castelletti, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy and Christopher Chini, Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Engineering and Management, Bellbrook, OH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrea Cominola, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, Germany


Water and Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hydroclimatic Forecasting for Water Resources Decision-Making
Primary Convener:  Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Ximing Cai, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI, United States and David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States


Water and Society: Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World
Primary Convener:  Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Matteo Giuliani, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Alexandra Bruce, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States and Dustin Garrick, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States


Water Quality and Watersheds: From Scientific Innovations to Actions
Primary Convener:  Allison Rhea, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Tim P Covino, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States and Heather E Golden, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Allison Rhea, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Water Security: Challenges for the 21st Century
Primary Convener:  Jason A Hubbart, West Virginia University, Institute of Water Security and Science; Division of Plant and Soil Sciences; Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, Morgantown, WV, United States
Convener:  Kaylyn Gootman, West Virginia University, Institute of Water Security and Science, Morgantown, WV, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jason A Hubbart, West Virginia University, Institute of Water Security and Science; Division of Plant and Soil Sciences; Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, Morgantown, WV, United States


Water-Soil-Vegetation Dynamics in Dryland Hydro-Ecosystems in Changing Climate
Primary Convener:  Xixi Wang, Old Dominion University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norfolk, VA, United States
Conveners:  Ruizhong Gao, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Hohhot, China and Zhi Wang, California State Univ Fresno, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Fresno, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xixi Wang, Old Dominion University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norfolk, VA, United States


Watersheds as Complex Systems: Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches
Primary Convener:  Cyndi V Castro, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  David J. Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Gopal Penny, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Li Xu, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Cyndi V Castro, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States


Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications
Primary Convener:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Advances in wildland fire - atmosphere interactions
Primary Convener:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Janine Baijnath-Rodino, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Bruna R F Oliveira, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal and William C Porter, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States


Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Aerial Systems
Primary Convener:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gijs de Boer, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States and Beat Schmid, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Primary Convener:  Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Shane Mayor, California State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Chico, United States, Ying Pan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States and Scott Salesky, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States


Convection Processes and Their Environmental and Aerosol Interactions: Theory, Observation, and Modeling
Primary Convener:  Dié WANG, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Conveners:  Michael P Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore Nat Labs, Livermore, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dié WANG, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States


Dust in a changing climate: from small‐scale insights to large‐scale understanding
Primary Convener:  Chun Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Conveners:  Adeyemi Adebiyi, University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, Martina Klose, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe, Germany and Cassandra Gaston, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adeyemi Adebiyi, University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States


Extratropical and High-latitude Storm Tracks, Circulation Dynamics, and Extreme Events in the Context of Rapidly Changing Arctic and Antarctic Climate
Primary Convener:  Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiangdong Zhang, Univ Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States


Extreme Precipitation in a Changing Climate
Primary Convener:  Abhishekh Kumar Srivastava, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Richard Grotjahn, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Paul Aaron Ullrich, University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States and Michael F Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Abhishekh Kumar Srivastava, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States


Extreme Precipitation in Past, Present, and Future Climates
Primary Convener:  Markus Donat, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain
Conveners:  Erich M Fischer, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Angie Pendergrass, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Primary Liaison:  Markus Donat, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia


Extreme weather and climate in urban areas, their social impacts, and mitigation
Primary Convener:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Conveners:  Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Fei Chen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan


Extreme Weather Events: Forecast skill, Uncertainty Quantification and Impact Modeling
Primary Convener:  Marina Astitha, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States
Conveners:  Marina Astitha, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, Forest Cannon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, United States; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Efthymios I Nikolopoulos, Florida Institute of Technology, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Melbourne, United States and Alison Cobb, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marina Astitha, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States


High resolution Earth system modeling on large supercomputers
Primary Convener:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Malcolm J Roberts, Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology and National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Reading, United Kingdom and Rein Haarsma, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Machine Learning for Weather and Climate: Predictions and Applications
Primary Convener:  Venkata Ratnam Jayanthi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Conveners:  Jing-Jia Luo1, Takeshi Doi2 and Swadhin K Behera2, (1)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Institute for Climate and Application Research (ICAR), Nanjing, China(2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Venkata Ratnam Jayanthi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan