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People
WATER is what we think and do. We synthesize theory and practice.
Water issues are complex because they cross natural, societal, disciplinary, institutional, political, and jurisdictional boundaries. Our focus is to make these boundaries permeable by engaging and partnering with scholars from different domains to create interdisciplinary actionable knowledge -- through a careful synthesis of theory and practice, analysis and application, satellite and ground observations, and explicit scientific information and tacit societal understanding -- on emerging water issues.
Our group WE REASoN (Water and Environmental Research, Education, and Actionable Solutions Network) emphasizes interdisciplinary research to address complex water issues. An overarching goal of our group is to work on contemporary and emerging water issues with a focus on scarcity and abundance within the context of change, variability and impact.
Faculty | Current Students | Graduated Students | Selected Research Partners
Faculty
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Shafiqul Islam, Professor and Director, Water Diplomacy
School of Engineering and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Interests and Expertise:Hydrology, Climate, Cholera, Scales, Remote Sensing, Interdisciplinary Education
Professor Islam's CV in .pdf format
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David Small, Research Assistant Professor
Interests and Expertise:Physical hydrology, Global climate and hydrologic cycle, Dynamic meteorology
Issues of scale and predictability
Professor Small's CV in .pdf format |
Current Students
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Ali Akanda is a PhD candidate in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. His academic interests include Hydrology, Forecasting, Hydroclimatology, and Water-Borne Diseases. |
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Yongxuan Gao is a PhD student in water resources engineering. Her academic interests include environmental flows, hydrological modeling, water conflict resolution, and alleviation of poverty through better water resource management. Her PhD research topic is environmental flows in the
context of small reservoirs in Ghana. |
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Antar Jutla is a PhD. Candidate in Environmental and Water Resource Engineering. His research interests include the application of remote sensing in hydrology,issues of scale and predictability, remote sensing based prediction and understanding of hydrological controls on water borne diseases, and hydro-epidemiology.
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Dinesh Prashar is a PhD student with interests in Hydrology and Remote Sensing |
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Tianyi Luo is a MEng student of Environmental and Water Resource Engineering. Hisresearch interest is the application of remote sensing in Hydrology. |
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Yuan Wang is a M.A. student in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. Her interdisciplinary academic interests include transboundary water conflict resolution, the impact of climate change on urban water infrastructures, urbanization in developing countries and its impact on water. She obtained her M.S. degree from Singapore Stanford Partnership in Environmental Science and Engineering in 2008 and worked in Singapore Building and Construction Authority for about two years before coming to Tufts. |
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