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2011 Symposium on Data-Driven Approaches to Droughts flyer
22 Jul 2010 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Carol Song
The DRINET team is hosting this symposium during June 20-22, 2011 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.This symposium is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through the Office of Cyberinfrastructure* and the Hydrological Sciences Division, and is in partnership with EWRI...
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A Web-Based Interface for SWAT Modeling on the TeraGrid
06 Jun 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Indrajeet Chaubey, Rao S Govindaraju
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a river basin scale model developed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS). It is widely used by researchers in various scientific domains to study the impact of land management practices on water quantity, sediment, and water quality in large...
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Achieving Sustainable Irrigation Water Withdrawals: Global Impacts on Food Production and Land Use
27 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Richard Lammers, Alexander A Prusevich, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Danielle Grogan, Steve Frolking
Unsustainable water use challenges the capacity of water resources to ensure food security and continued growth of the economy. Adaptation policies targeting future water security can easily overlook its interaction with other sustainability metrics and unanticipated local responses to the...
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Agricultural Productivity Growth for Long Run Sustainability
08 Oct 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos
Video presentation on "Agricultural Productivity Growth for Long Run Sustainability" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018
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Analyzing Water Scarcity in Global CGE Models
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Farzad Taheripour
Incorporating water into a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model operating at global scale can be extremely demanding due to the absence of standardized data, the sheer dimensions caused by intersecting river basins with countries, and difficulties to model demand for and supply of water....
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Assessing the Inter-regional Incidence of Climate Impacts on Agriculture
19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.
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Assessing the Poverty Impacts of Climate Change across Latin America
19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Monika Verma, Eduardo Magalhaes, Carlos Ludena, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Frances Moore
This is a poster presented at IMPACTS WORLD 2017, Germany.
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Attaining Food and Environmental Security in an Era of Globalization
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos
Attaining the twin goals of food and environmental security in the coming decades poses a significant sustainability challenge. This paper examines the food and environmental security implications of a range of policies affecting the global food economy and terrestrial ecosystems, first in the...
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Connecting Communities Through HUBzero
03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Hongjun Choi, Lan Zhao
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Cyberinfrastructure for GEOSHARE
31 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Lan Zhao
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Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools
10 Nov 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Christopher Panza
This paper describes the use of cyberinfrastructure to create interactive applications as part of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. These applications transform historical climate data, knowledge, and models into decision support tools for end users such as crop farmers, uni- versity Extension...
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Debunking the 'New Normal': Why World Food Prices are Expected to Resume their Long run Downward Trend
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel
Contrary to the opinions expressed by many commentators, the recent episode of higher prices for agricultural commodities is likely a transitory phenomenon. When compared to the last half-century, population growth is expected to be much slower in the coming decades, with nearly all of the growth...
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Developing A Collaborative Environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) Project
10 Nov 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski
HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...
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Developing A Collaborative Environment for Useful to Useable (U2U) Project
10 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski
HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...
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driNET: Drought Reserach Initiative Network
20 Jun 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song
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DURI Summer Intern Project: Drought related data and tools: development and integration
08 Aug 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Yuan Xia
A poster presented at the DURI student recognition luncheon, July 28, 2011. Yuan Xia, a junior from Computer Science, Purdue University, completed his summer internship with the Scientific Solutions group at RCAC. He helped integrated various maps and datasets into the DRINET. The live page can...
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Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: A comparison of process-based and statistical yield models
07 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Frances C Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel
A large number of studies have been published examining the implications of climate change for agricultural productivity that, broadly speaking, can be divided into process-based modeling and statistical approaches. Despite a general perception that results from these methods differ...
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Effects of Drought on Water Quality in Streams
08 Aug 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Rashad Riley, Indrajeet Chaubey, Lan Zhao
A research poster presented at the DDAD2011 symposium. It describes the preliminary results of a study on drought impact on water quality conducted over the Massie Creek sub-watershed in Ohio. The Messie Creek data is now available on DRINET and access is through the iDATA tool.Rashad Riley1,...
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Enabling Scientific Collaboration Using HUBzero Platform
03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao
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Evaluation Reports
18 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Whitney Meredith
An evaluation team perodically examines our progress towards defined project objectives. During year 1, three such evaluations are scheduled. As these are completed, the report will be added to this resource.