*What*: Faisal Hossain: Delivering Hydrological Information for
Community Empowerment - Opportunities and Challenges for the
Semi-skilled Consumer
*When:* Tuesday, April 29th at 12pm
*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203
Please join us Tuesday for an exciting Change Seminar. Faisal Hossain
from Civil Engineering Department will be talking about his work to
monitor water use throughout the world.
*Abstract:*
/An idea that has lately received some traction is that the space
vantage of satellites to monitor water dynamics around the world would
one day empower developing nations and their inhabitants currently
cursed with not able to know early enough how much water will flow
into or out of its borders or location. The current water information
black out negatively impacts water resources management in about 50 or
more developing nations that occupy only a small part of a large river
basin. The dream of empowerment is founded on the belief that timely
access to water information flowing in or out is a basic right for all
nations and their inhabitants and that emerging satellite remote sensing
are now poised to afford this right. This talk will provide an overview
of challenges and the current progress made on making satellite remote
sensing deliver this widely-accessible water information as
decision-making knowledge to solve developing world water problems. The
talk will also address the issue of water-borne disease vulnerability in
the developing world and the potential synergy that satellite-based
water information may afford. Finally, the talk will summarize some of
the unresolved research and technological questions for enabling
sovereign management of water resources for developing nations. /
*About the speaker:*
Faisal Hossain is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering
Department of University of Washington. He graduated from the Indian
Institute of Technology with a B.S in Civil Engineering (1996) followed
by a MS and PhD from National University of Singapore (1999) and
University of Connecticut (2004), respectively. His research interests
span the field of water resources issues, human impacts of climate and
engineering education
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