Presentation

Date

• Water Allocations under Distribution Losses: Comparing Alternative Institutions (pdf)
  David Sunding

• Sustainable Water Resources Management Under Hydrological Uncertainty(pdf)
  Newsha Ajami, George Hornberger, David Sunding

• Data and Metadata (ppt)
  Roger Bales, UC Merced
• Overview of Berkeley Water Center Data Efforts(ppt)
  Jim Hunt, UC Berkeley

• Testing User Acceptance of the Mesita Azul in Baja California Sur.
  I. Ray, K. Nelson and F. Reygadas UCB
• Trickle DownL Chlorine Dispensers and Household Water Treatment
  Clair Nul UCB, M. Kremer-Harvard, E. Miguel UCB, S. Mullainathan Harvard, Alix Zwane Google.org
• Evaluating sustainability, impacts on child health, and the relationships between E. Coli, H2S and diarrheal risk associated with water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in rural Tamil Nadu, India
  J. Colford and B. Arnold UCB; R. Khush and A. London- Aquaya Institute; P. Ramaswamy, P.Srikanth, P. Ramaprabha, P. Rajkumar, S. Sudharsanam, N. Durairaj, K. Balakrishnan Sri Ramachandran Medical College
• Electrochemical Arsenic Remidiation (ECAR) for Rural South Asia: REsent Field Results and the Road Forward S. Addy UCB, A. Gadgil UCB/LBNL
• Recent Fieldwork, Preliminary Prototype, and Preliminary Survey Results for ARUBA in Bangladesh J. Mathieu UCB/LBNL,A. Gadgil UCB/LBNL, K. Kowolik LBNL, W. Babbitt JMP, S. Qazi, T. Khan
• Examining the Relationship Between Marginalized Communtiites and Small Scal Water Providers in Manila D. Cheng UCB
• Water Jusitice: Environmental Justice and Access to Clean Drinking Water in California's San Joaquin Valley C. Balazs UCB
• Point of Use Disinfection of Drinking Water Using Cationic Anitmicrobial Surface Coatings A. da Silva, K. Nelson, J. Dahm, D. Love, B. Coox, R. Maboudian, R. Lim, P. Alper, M. Cerruti, C. Carraro-UCB; P. Kozodoy-Aquaya Institute; G. Kang, V. Balraj-Christian Medical College India
• Drinking Water as a Route of Exposure to H. Pylori C. Smith
• To Treat or Not to Treat: What Drives Water Treatment Behaviour in a Mumbai Slum? P. Saxena UCB
• Blue Planet Run Foundation Bringing the Global Community Teogether to Deiver Safe Drinking Water L. Nash Blue Planet Run Foundation
• The Enigma for providing clean water & sanitation for developing countries: Why does this problem persist when so many people are working on it?
  J. Dracup UCB
• Using information treatments ("software") to motivate household investment in water, sanitation and hygiene in Dar es Salaam, TZ A. Boehm UCB, J. Davis, A. Pickering
• Efficacy of Waterless Hand Hygiene as Compared to Hand Washing with Soap: A field study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania A. PickeringUCB, A. Boehm, J. Davis
• The Effect of Marketing and Information on Adoption of Safe Water Products - Preliminary Results D. Levine UCB, J. Luoto, J. Albert
• Don't think of waste water: evaluation and planning tools for reuse-oriented sanitation A. Murray, K. Nelson, I. Ray-UCB
• Impact Assement for Haath Mein Sehat (HMS) Hygiene Education Program: Lessons Learned and Future Directions A. Ercumen A. Kan, A. Silverman, R. Chand, B. Arnold, J. Colford , K. Nelson-UCB
• Wastewater irrigation: Evaluation of on-fram wasteware treatment through the use of smal-scale storage reservoirs A. Silverman UCB
• Shuar Health Project: Safe Water and Sanitation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
  Horiuchi UCB
• Rethinking Piped Water Supply: WAter Access and Infrastructure Changes in Hubli-Dharwad, India E. Kumpel UCB
• Sanitation in Hubli: Can We shift the incentives for open defecation?
  Z. Burt UCB

See the meeting schedule

BWC supported research

• Catchments as simple dynamical systems: Catchment characterization, rainfall-runoff modeling, and doing hydrology backward, James Kirchner (pdf)

Central Valley Groundwater Modeling Workshop

• See all of the presentations from the conference here.

Seimens Corporation:

• Berkeley Water Center overview on Future Challenges for Seimens, James Hunt (ppt)

Sekisui Chemical Company:

• Berkeley Water Center Research Summary for the Sekisui Chemical Company, James Hunt (ppt)

EGU, Vienna, Austria:

• Integrated Uncertainty Estimation for Distributed Hydrological Models, N. Ajami, G. Hornberger and D. Sunding (pdf)
• Next Generation Flux Network Data Server, D. Agaral, D. Baldocchi, and C. van Ingen (pdf)
  

California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum, Asilomar CA:

• Impacts of Uncertainty in Efficient Management of California’s Water Resources, N. Ajami,G. Hornberger, D.Sunding, D. Purkey, and D. Yates (pdf)

Visit with BWC Researchers from Singapore:

• The Berkeley Water Center, Y. Rubin, UCB (pdf)

Visit with Tony Hey and Dan Fay of Microsoft:

• A Science Data Server for Environmental Data, Deb Agarwal, LBL and Catharine van Ingen, MSFT (ppt)
• Runoff vs. Precipitation, Jim Hunt, UCB (ppt)
• Photo: BWC Server Development Team (jpg)
• Photo: Tony and Jim (jpg)

Safe Water and Sanitation/BWC Workshop

• Workshop Background Info (doc)
  
  
• Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Clorin in Zambia, N. Ashraf, Harvard, J. Berry, MIT, and J. Shapiro, Chicago (ppt)
• Comments on: Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia, D. Zilberman, UCB (ppt)
• Comments On: Cost-Effectiveness of Water Quality Interventions for Preventing Diarrhoeal Disease in Developing Countries, M. Auffhammer, UCB (pdf)
• Critical Ignorance in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, S. Luby, ICDDRB (ppt)
• Discussion on “The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth-Century US”, K. Nelson, UCB (ppt)
• Doing Badly? Behaviour Change in Hygiene and Sanitation, V. Curtis, Hygiene Centre/ LSHTM and M. Jenkins, Hygiene Centre/UCD (ppt)
• Ethical Issues in the Use of Placebo Control Groups in Water Intervention Trial, J. Colford, UCB, B. Arnold, UCB, and D. Maeusezahl, Swiss Tropical Institute & University of Basel (ppt)
• Evaluation of the Total Sanitation Program in Maharashtra, N. Chaudhury (ppt)
• Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality Improvement, M. Kremer, Harvard/NBER, J. Leino, UCB, E. Miguel, UCB/NBER, and A. Zwane, UCB (ppt)
• Spring Cleaning Discussion (ppt)
• Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Plus Community Impact (SWASH+): Meeting Needs Today and Learning for the Future, R. Dreibelbis, Rollins School of Public Health (ppt)

International Ecoinformatics Technical Collaboration, Berkeley, CA

• eXtended Metadata Registry (XMDR), Bruce Bargmeyer, LBNL/UCB (ppt)

Ameriflux Collaboration's Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO:

• Developing a Scientific Collaboration Data Server for Ameriflux, D. Agarwal, et al. (pdf)
• The AmeriFlux Cyberinfrastructure Prototype – Introduction and Applications, G. Miller (pdf)

Microsoft eScience Meeting:

• Development of the AmeriFlux and Central Valley Data Portals, S. Hubbard, D. Agarwal & C. vanIngen (ppt)
• A View of the Ameriflux Data June ORNL Download, C. van Ingen (ppt)
• Early Experience Prototyping a Science Data Server for Environmental Data, C. van Ingen et. al (ppt)

UC Berkeley Homecoming:

• Growth, Environment and Efficiency: California’s Water Future, D. Sunding (pdf)
  
  

CITRIS Research Exchange:

• Early Experience Prototyping a Science Data Server for Environmental Data,
  D. Agarwal & C. VanIngen (pdf)
  
  

League of Women Voters:

• Regional Economic Importance of the S.F. Water System, D. Sunding (pdf)

Ameriflux Working Group Meeing #2:

• Meeting Summary (Word doc)
• Guide to Using the Current Tools, D. Agarwal (pdf)
• Applications of the Ameriflux Cyberinfrastructure Prototype, G. Miller (pdf)
• Ameriflux Data Curation Portal Status and Learnings to Date, Vanigan (pdf)

Ameriflux Working Group Meeing #1:

• Meeting Summary (pdf)
• Ameriflux Data Curation Portal Status and Learnings to Date (pdf)
  A Presentation given at the Ameriflux Group Meeting by Catharine VanIngen of Microsoft

BWC presentations to the Science Advisory Meeting (pdfs):

• Berkeley Water Center Science Advisory Committee Meeting, Y. Rubin
• Digital Watershed and linkage to Digital CAL, S. Hubbard
• Modeling of Hydrology and Nutrient Cycling, C. Oldenburg
• Computational Portals and the Berkeley Water Center, D. Agarwal

The Berkeley Water Center (BWC) (pdf)
Dr. Hubbard's Presentation to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Director

The Berkeley Water Center (BWC) Microsoft Kick-off Meeting (pdf)
A presentation for Microsoft's BWC TCI (Technical Computing Initiative)
Presented by Dr. Yoram Rubin