[QSB-grads] Fwd: [Enviro-lunch] Today 3/7: Majdi Abou Najm

[Miriam Barlow]

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From: Jing Yan <jyan235 at ucmerced.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:58 AM
Subject: [Enviro-lunch] Today 3/7: Majdi Abou Najm
To: enviro-lunch at lists.ucmerced.edu <enviro-lunch at lists.ucmerced.edu>




Hello Everyone,



Please join us *Today Mar. 7* for this week's Enviro-Lunch talk by Dr.
Majdi Abou Najm from University of California, Davis, at 12-1pm in room
*SE2-224*.



If you’re willing to meet Majdi for lunch or individual conversations, you
can use the link below to set your meeting time. We can still try to fit
you in for some of the time slots even it’s reserved.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w3umokBRDMymikcq0JaaxpCftLKDWeXWzVX8DN3C4ok/edit?usp=sharing









*Revisiting soil pore structure for sustainable water-energy-food nexus*

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.



*Bio: *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.





When: Thursday 3/7, 12pm – 1pm



Where: SE2-224



Coffee will be provided, please bring your own mugs.



We look forward to seeing you,



Jing & Jennifer



Organizers for Spring 2019: Jing Yan and Jennifer Alvarez

Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe








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-- 
Miriam Barlow
Founding Faculty and Professor
Chair, Quantitative and Systems Biology
University of California, Merced

209.228.4174
miriam.barlow at gmail.com
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