Faculty member Puneet Srivastava and several colleagues are using El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) information generated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) to develop methods for addressing both drought and flood in the Southeast. The team assisted the city of Auburn in planning for drought this summer as part of a Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC) initiative and as a result of population growth and increasing water demand in the area. The city now actively uses climate information for managing water supply and demand. SECC’s collaboration with Auburn also led to a proposal to develop a municipal water deficit index for small municipalities in the Southeast that depend on surface water sources for their municipal water supply. The proposal received funding from the National Integrated Drought Information System’s Coping with Drought initiative through the NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program.
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AUBURN ENGINEERING NEWS
- #GINNing Podcast: Turner Bikes America April 26, 2024Turner Friday is hitting the road this summer... for two and a half months. The industrial and systems engineering sophomore is raising money for those with disabilities through a cross-country bike ride sure to make memories — and make a difference.
- NSF, NIST grants boost Auburn Engineering’s prominence in polymer sustainability April 26, 2024Ed Davis, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is the principal investigator for two new awards — one from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the other from the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) — aimed at educating future polymer researchers as well as recycling industry professionals on the growing importance and evolving challenges of […]
- Students’ awesome research ideas celebrated at college’s second AUSome Science in 60 Seconds April 25, 2024AUSome Science in 60 Seconds, a research-based competition in its second year presented by the Council of Engineering Graduate Students, tasked students to create videos and explain their respective projects in a minute or less. Winners were announced during an awards ceremony on Thursday, April 25.