The combination of 10 years of drought in the Chilean Andes and an increased demand water supply and agricultural activities has created the need for better forecasts to inform water management and decision making. The existing water supply forecasts have been insufficient for t…
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basins exhibit extremes in surface water availability at seasonal to annual timescales. However, due to lack of near basin-wide hydrological data, whether it is real-time or historical, water management at the basin-wide scale has been q…
This dissertation consists of thirteen short stories and a scholarly introduction about the nature of closure in some of those stories. These fictions are intentionally eclectic, but they are linked by stylistic and thematic bonds. Most of these works deal with issues of “othern…
Accurate projections of flooding are critical to climate change adaptation, as floods are a devastating and costly natural disaster sensitive to climate. Floods occur mainly in response to extreme precipitation, and the northeastern United States has experienced a dramatic incre…
This study focuses on the neighborhood of I’On in the Town of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The neighborhood is the result of the New Urbanism movement of the late 20th century that promotes three principles: density, walkability and the human scale. The New Urbanism-inspired …