Episode 46: Modeling Desert Water in a Changing Climate
There is both an art and a science to understanding our changing planet, and mastering that intersection requires decades of curiosity, collaboration, and innovation—and experience.
Episode 47: Bridging the data divide between ecology and infrastructure
The story of the energy transition is told in many languages: meter-scale satellite imagery, hyperlocal atmospheric data, ecological sustainability studies, infrastructure sustainability studies and more.
Understanding the full story requires researchers to harmonize data collected across political lines and scientific disciplines at different scales, on varying platforms, and by organizations with varying assumptions and methodologies. In this episode, Dr. Michael Young talks about his approach to bringing all these elements together into collaborative systems that serve all stakeholders.
Notes
Dr. Michael Young is the Associate Dean for Research at the Jackson School of Geosciences and a research professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Master’s in geological sciences with a hydrogeology focus from Ohio University and earned his PhD in Soil and Water Science from the University of Arizona. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Soil Science Society of America and the agronomy Society of America and has served as editor of the vadose zone journal. With 40 years of expertise spanning academia, government and industry, his multidisciplinary work focuses on environmental geosciences, notably the water energy nexus and beta zone hydrology.
Links to learn more about Dr. Michael Young
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- Michael on LinkedIn
- Michael on Scholar Nexus
- Michael on Google Scholar
- Michael at the Bureau of Economic Geology
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