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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Hello Everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Please join us
<b>Today Mar. 7</b> for this week's Enviro-Lunch talk<b> </b>by Dr. Majdi Abou Najm from University of California, Davis, at 12-1pm in room
<b>SE2-224</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">If you’re willing to meet Majdi for lunch or individual conversations,
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#212121">Revisiting soil pore structure for sustainable water-energy-food nexus</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">High interdependencies among water, energy, and food required an integrated approach known as the Nexus. An integrated framework for the nexus with focus on water and food is presented through an optimization model developed for optimal
resource allocation towards sustainable water and food security. The model considers a wide range of nutritional, socio-economic, agricultural, environmental, and natural resources constraints. The core objective of this model is to maximize the composite
water-food security status by recommending an optimal water and agricultural strategy. The role of soil pore structure, being the medium where the bulk of biophysical processes take place, will be featured given its integral role to the nexus. Specifically,
the talk demonstrates how advancements in pore structure understanding and characterization can improve much of our ability to model fluxes of water, contaminants, nutrients, and greenhouse gases. I share results of a new method utilizing non-Newtonian fluids
for pore structure characterization, showing great promise with a low-cost and a scalable method. The results advance our knowledge towards conceptualizing the complexity of porous media to impact applications in fields like irrigation efficiencies, vadose
zone hydrology, soil-root-plant continuum, and carbon sequestration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Bio: </span></b>Dr. Abou Najm’s research group focuses on optimizing the biophysical processes along the water-soil-plant-atmosphere continuum for sustainable resource management. He utilizes systems approach to optimize the water-energy-food
nexus through improved understanding of the system-connections and governing processes. He is particularly interested in the soil pore structure being the medium where the bulk of soil biophysical interactions take place. He is also involved in sustainable
designs for poverty alleviation under humanitarian engineering context.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">When: Thursday 3/7, 12pm – 1pm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Where: SE2-224</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Coffee will be provided, please bring your own mugs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">We look forward to seeing you,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Jing & Jennifer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Organizers for Spring 2019: Jing Yan and Jennifer Alvarez</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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