Richard Rushforth from School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University will speak about 'From Data Fusion to FEWSION: Creating integrated models to understand and visualize the food, energy, water nexus'. Global Water Institute Seminar Series May 2018.
Richard Rushforth, Ph.D., is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University, and the lead research scientist for the National Water-Economy Project (NWEP) and the NSF-funded FEWSION project. His PhD is in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering from Arizona State University. He also holds master’s degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Arizona as well as an MBA from Arizona State University. His primary research projects focus on big data modelling of few, energy, water systems for adaptive management and furthering the understanding of complex coupled natural-human systems. He also co-leads the Holistic Water Solutions project, sponsored by USAID, a 2-year effort bringing clean water to vulnerable and refugee host communities in Jordan and Lebanon.
