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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:14px">Dear all,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:14px">Please join us tomorrow (Thursday 11/9) for our speaker, Lorenzo Booth, a Masters student from UC Merced. 
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="font-size:14px">Lorenzo Booth<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14px">Environmental systems, UC Merced</span></p>

















<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:center"><b style="font-size:9.5pt"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Agricultural water use accounting through water
footprints</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Abstract:</b> </span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Freshwater resources are critical for supporting
human populations and economic activities across the world, but there is still
room to improve our knowledge of the stores and fluxes of freshwater. Different
activities consume water at different rates and rely on different resources and
thus have a different "footprint" in regard to their water demand.
However, the water footprint of different activities differs depending on the
region where the activity and the time when the activity occurred. I will present
my work on a water-balance model that evaluates the demand-side volumes of
water required to enable agricultural production in the Central Valley of
California. These water footprints represent an efficiency metric and can be
used to highlight similarities and differences among the diverse uses of
freshwater resources in the state. The model is based on gridded data inputs
from remotely sensed satellite products, and utilizes entirely free and open
source frameworks to present the method in a manner that can be reproduced
across different time periods, regions, and future climate scenarios.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Bio:</b></span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Lorenzo is a third year M.S. student at the
University of California, Merced. A California native, Lorenzo also obtained a
B.S. in Environmental Engineering from UC Merced. His research interests lie in
the methods that couple environmental sensing techniques with informed
decision-making. He also holds a particular interest in the use of free/libre
and open source software to improve the stewardship of our collective
environmental resources.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px">When: Nov. 9^th,Thursday, 12pm – 1pm<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px">Where: SE2-302 <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px">Coffee will be provided and please bring your own mugs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px">We look forward to seeing you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px">Organizers for 2017-18: Nate Bogie and Lixia Jin<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:9pt"><u></u><u></u></font></p>
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