Program

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Check-in and Light Breakfast
 

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9:00 am - 9:15 am

Welcome and Introduction
 

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9:15 am - 10:15 am

Panel/ Dialogue - Reducing Water Consumption
 

• Best Management Practices for Water Demand Reduction in the Los Angeles County
  Katie Mika, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability*
  Mark Gold, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
   

• Home Life: Gender, Kinship, and Residential Water Use
  Jessica Cattelino, Anthropology & Center for the Study of Women*
  Rachel Lee, English and Gender Studies
   

• Terahertz Laser Leaf Scanner to Reduce Urban Ecosystem Water Expenditure
  Lawren Sack, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology*
  Mona Jarrahi, Electrical Engineering
  Benjamin Williams, Electrical Engineering
   

• Turf Removal Program
  Stephanie Pincetl, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
  Tom Gillespie, Geography*
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10:15 am - 11:15 am

Panel/ Dialogue - Maximizing Local Water Supplies
 

• Towards a Data Assimilation Framework for Evapotranspiration Over Urban Regions
  Steve Margulis, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  Gonzalo Cortes, Civil & Environmental Engineering*
   

• Implications of Future Urban Ecosystem Management Alternatives for the Water Balance of the Los Angeles Basin
  Dennis Lettenmaier, Geography*
  Ruth Engel, Geography
   

• Increasing Climate Whiplash in 21st Century California
  Alex Hall, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
  Daniel Swain, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability*
  David Neelin, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
   

• Anti-fouling Membranes for Water Purification
  Richard Kaner, Chemistry & Biochemistry*
  Eric Hoek, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  Shaily Mahendra, Civil & Environmental Engineering
   

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11:15 am - 11:25 am

Coffee
 

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11:25 am - 12:25 pm

Panel/ Dialogue - Improving Local Water Resource Management
 

• Regional and Urban Vegetation Browning and Recent Drought - A Preview of Los Angeles' Future?​
  Glen MacDonald, Geography*
  Chunyu Dong, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
  Greg Okin, Geography
  Tom Gillespie, Geography
  Richard Ambrose, Environmental Health Sciences
  Philip Rundel, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
   

• Integrated Water Management Strategies for the L.A. River
  Mark Gold, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability*
  Katie Mika, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
   

• Developing Sustainable Water Supplies Through an Urban Water Market in Los Angeles
  J.R. DeShazo, Luskin Center for Innovation and Public Policy*
  Nicholas Chow, Luskin Center for Innovation
  Greg Pierce, Luskin Center for Innovation and Urban Planning
   

• Dollars and Sense of Local Water Supply in Los Angeles County
  Stephanie Pincetl, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
  Erik Porse, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability*
  
   

12:25 pm - 12:35 pm

Pick-up Lunch and Head to a Breakout Discussion
 

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12:35 pm - 1:15 pm

​Breakout discussions
 

• Hydrological and climate modeling in the L.A. region – areas of overlap, gaps in knowledge, and model integration
   

• How to translate research into changes in policy and practice – maximizing the impact of your research in the “real world"
   

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1:15 pm - 1:30 pm 

Next Steps and Closing Remarks

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