Water Management Course Set for US, European Grad Students
(AP) — A National Science Foundation grant will let dozens of U.S. and European graduate students attend a two-week water management course in the Netherlands.
The foundation is providing nearly $400,000 over three years to a partnership between The Water Institute of the Gulf and the University of New Orleans, the institute said in a news release.
The grant will support 13 students from the United States and up to 14 students from Europe each year .
Participants will get important training, connections with professionals and experimental and modeling skills, said Christopher Esposito, research scientist at the Water Institute.
“Water management needs — whether facing the challenge of too much water from flooding or needing to meet the demands of agriculture, industry, power generation, consumption and seafood production — continue to grow,” said Matthew Tarr, an analytic chemistry professor and vice president for research and economic development at UNO.
Organizers hope to encourage and deepen international conversations around water management, according to the news release.
During the first five days, students will learn to use modeling software called Delft3D to simulate the flow of water and sediment along coasts and in estuaries. After those sessions at an independent research institute called Deltares, they’ll go to Utrecht University to run associated experiments in a tank designed to physically model sedimentary basins.
Another two days are planned for field trips to coastal sites, with the last day spent creating and discussing poster presentations of their modeling work.
Delft University of Technology is also a partner in the program.
The news release, issued Wednesday, said U.S. participants will be recruited from a broad range of interdisciplinary graduate programs aligned with water management.
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