報告題目：Water Availability with Improved Irrigation Practices and Impacts of Climate Change in Arid Regions
報告人：盛祝平教授
時間：2018年8月13日 下午15：00
地點：老管理樓214
内容摘要：The impacts of improved irrigation practices and future climate change on the temporal and spatial variability of water availability in the arid regions received more and more attention as drought continues and demands continue to soar. In this talk I will use a project in Rincon Valley of New Mexico, USA as case study to explain such impacts. To simulate the hydrological process with the watershed, we developed a Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. The model covers the Rio Grande reach from Caballo Reservoir to Leasburg Dam and irrigated agricultural area within the Rincon Valley. The SWAT model utilized automatic irrigation method to quantify available irrigation water and groundwater recharge with different irrigation efficiency and assess water yield with projected climate data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) RCP 8.5 scenario for the period of 2014-2033. The improved irrigation practices can be translated into better water distribution in a watershed and increase crop productivity. The water stress is getting higher in the downstream areas for the future. The approach is applicable for better quantification of basin-scale water savings in areas with intensive irrigated agriculture. The quantification of temporal and spatial changes of flows in the river and the underlying aquifer under extreme weather conditions provides better guidelines for long-term water planning and river operations.
報告人簡介：盛祝平博士現任美國德克薩斯農工大學水文地質和水資源工程教授，埃爾帕索研究中心主任。注冊專業工程師，認證專業水文師，美國土木工程師學會會上。主要從事幹旱和半幹旱地區水資源開發的應用和基礎理論研究，側重水文地質、地表水和地下水的交互作用。含水層回灌系統、含水層力學和綜合水資源管理。擔任過美國海外華人農業、生物與食品工程師協會主席，美國水文科學協會副主席，美國科學院國家研究委員會可持續地下水顧問委員會會員，美國土木工程學會地下水水文學委員會主任等學術團體職務。早年畢業于上海同濟大學水文地質與工程地質專業，獲學士學位；在中國科學院地質所獲得工程地質專業碩士學位；之後赴美國内華達大學求學，獲水文地質及水文學博士。
