InterACTWEL Science Gateway for Adaptation Planning in Food-Energy-Water Sectors of Local Communities: Data, Methods, Lessons Learned and Future Directions

InterACTWEL Science Gateway for Adaptation Planning in Food-Energy-Water Sectors of Local Communities: Data, Methods, Lessons Learned and Future Directions. Rivera, S., J., Giles, N., A., Tilt, J., Reimer, J., Murthy, G., Mukhopadhyay, S., Durresi, A., Marru, S., Pierce, M., E., & Babbar-Sebens, M. In American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 12, 2019. American Geophysical Union.
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The management of our limited natural resources has become increasingly critical due to climate change and pressures from growing populations. Unfortunately, these problems continue to be aggravated due to the lack of strategic coordination amongst the food, energy, and water (FEW) sectors. InterACTWEL (Interactive Adaptation and Collaboration Tool for managing Water, Energy and Land) is envisioned to be transformational decision support cyberinfrastructure (DSC) with state-of-the-art analytics and visualization capabilities that will empower land, water, energy managers and food producers (i.e., FEW actors) to conceptualize and co-plan towards a resilient future for their local communities. Developed as a novel Science Gateway (ScG), InterACTWEL is aimed to help communities effectively coordinate and identify robust natural resources management decisions over time, and for long-term adaptation to acute or chronic perturbations that they do not have control of (e.g., changing state laws or climatic patterns). To enable large communities to prepare for an evolving future of changes the development of this flexible, secure and human computation-base DSC required the creation of, access to, and use of complex and multi-sectoral datasets of varying sizes, advanced simulation models, large-scale optimization algorithms, visualization techniques for rendering of complex decision and goal spaces, as well as interfaces that facilitate end-user engagement and cognitive learning. Moreover, since the end users of this gateway include not only interdisciplinary technical and social science researchers, but also public and private sectoral stakeholders (e.g., farmers, energy producers, municipalities, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, tribes), the DSC had to support the needs and activities of a diverse personas of end-user. Using the Hermiston region, in Oregon, as a case study, this talk will describe the user base, functionalities, and services included in InterACTWEL. Furthermore, we will share current challenges, lessons learned and future directions of DSC that are intended to improve the adaptation planning and resiliency of local communities by sustaining translational research goals and long-lasting collaboration between researchers and citizens.

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To enable large communities to prepare for an evolving future of changes the development of this flexible, secure and human computation-base DSC required the creation of, access to, and use of complex and multi-sectoral datasets of varying sizes, advanced simulation models, large-scale optimization algorithms, visualization techniques for rendering of complex decision and goal spaces, as well as interfaces that facilitate end-user engagement and cognitive learning. Moreover, since the end users of this gateway include not only interdisciplinary technical and social science researchers, but also public and private sectoral stakeholders (e.g., farmers, energy producers, municipalities, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, tribes), the DSC had to support the needs and activities of a diverse personas of end-user. Using the Hermiston region, in Oregon, as a case study, this talk will describe the user base, functionalities, and services included in InterACTWEL. Furthermore, we will share current challenges, lessons learned and future directions of DSC that are intended to improve the adaptation planning and resiliency of local communities by sustaining translational research goals and long-lasting collaboration between researchers and citizens.},
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 author = {Rivera, Samuel J. and Giles, Nicholas Alan and Tilt, Jenna and Reimer, Jeff and Murthy, Ganti and Mukhopadhyay, Snehasis and Durresi, Arjan and Marru, Suresh and Pierce, Marlon Edwin and Babbar-Sebens, Meghna},
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