December: Poster presentation based on my doctoral research titled "H45Q-1597 - Quantifying the food-energy-water nexus at regional scales: Inter-sectoral tradeoffs under hydroclimatic extremes" at AGU Fall meeting 2022, Chicago, USA.
October: Attended Strategic Planning Retreat organized by Dr. Greg Characklis from the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES), at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium, October 14, 2022.
July: Hemant Kumar started internship with Dr. Liangzhi You in the Environment and Production Technology Division of the International Food Research Institute (IFPRI). The internship is part of the National Science Foundation award #180523.
June: Ph.D. Preliminary Oral Exam of Hemant Kumar "The Role of Climate in the Interaction of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus across the Coterminous US" Under the supervision of Prof. Sankar Arumugam successfully completed on June 22, 2022.
June: Oral (in-person) presentation based on the collaborative work with Dr. Hui Wang of Tampa Bay Water and Dr. Dol Raj Chalise on developing and applying potential scenarios of changes in hydroclimatic variables for analyzing the impacts on water supply system at 2022 EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
June: Collaborative work with Dr. Albert Ruhi, Dr. Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Jeongwoo Hwang and Dr. Naresh Devineni on studying how does flow alteration propagate across a large, highly regulated basin is published in Earth's Future. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002490. This work was a result of Global Synthesis on Budyko Framework Working Group at USGS Powell Center, USA
May: Attended (virtually) One-day National Seminar on Advances in Water Resources Planning and Management; May 22, 2022; IIT Madras, India
April: Oral (virtual) presentation based on my doctoral research tilted "Food-Water-Energy System: Challenges in Modeling and Quantifying the Nexus" at ICWRER 2022 (The 9th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research), University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
March: Poster presentation based on my doctoral research titled "Developing an integrated hydrology-economics model to simulate food-energy-water nexus" at Environmental, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering Graduate Research Symposium 2022, North Carolina State University
February: Oral (online) presentation based on my doctoral research titled "Modeling FEWS nexus through Regional Hydroeconomic Optimization (RHEO) framework" at INFEWS Synthesis PI Workshop 2022 (9-11 Feb), Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. The 2022 INFEWS PI Workshop is the closing event that brings together all PIs and projects supported by the USDA-NSF INFEWS program (2015 to present). Overall, the goal of the workshop is to take a wide-angle view and do a synthesis of the overarching INFEWS research frameworks; novel data, modeling and experimental approaches; key technologies, insights; educational programs, and approaches to translate science to practitioners in communities, industry, and government.