SIDE EVENT ANA/UN WATER
R-SPARROW as a tool to map pollution loads in watersheds
SCHEDULE
ABOUT
Cooperation between ANA and USGS has led to significant advances in water quality modeling, including the development of a new open-source modeling and interactive decision support systems within the SPAtially Referenced Regressions on Watershed attributes (SPARROW) model and application of the improved model to understand water quality in Brazil. SPARROW was developed by the USGS to model water quality at a regional scale and was migrated to the R language, now called R-SPARROW, as part of this work.
SPEAKERS
Ana Carolina Argolo
Director at ANA
Geologist, graduated from the University of Brasilia. Postgraduate in Management and Environmental Technologies from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP) and in Environmental Geoprocessing from the University of Brasília (UnB), with a focus on geological risk management and studies of water availability in underground aquifers.
Joel Groten
Director at USGS
Joel is specialist at USGS. He has a M.S. in Water Resources Science from the University of Minnesota and studied karst groundwater and surface water interactions in southeastern Minnesota under Dr. E. Calvin Alexander. Joel serves as a principal investigator related to USGS nutrient and sediment studies.
Ana Paula Generino
Coordinator of Water Quality at ANA
Ana Paula is Water Quality Coordinator at SHE/ANA. With a degree in Biological Sciences from UnB and a Master's degree in Sciences from Fiocruz, Ana Paula has more than 13 years of experience in the field of water quality and sanitary sewage. He has been a specialist in the regulation of water resources and sewage at ANA since June/2010.
Olivia Miller
Specialist at USGS
Olivia is a valuable member of the Utah Water Science Center. Her current research focuses on spatial and temporal analysis of groundwater and surface water quality, and the relationship between land use, climate, and hydrology throughout the southwestern United States.
Marcelo Souza
Specilist at ANA
Marcelo Luiz de Souza, Biologist, M.e., D.r., Ecology, Specialist in Water Resources and Basic Sanitation. He has worked in the water quality area at the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA) since 2010.
