报告题目：Water Availability with Improved Irrigation Practices and Impacts of Climate Change in Arid Regions
报告人：盛祝平教授
时间：2018年8月13日 下午15：00
地点：老管理楼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.
报告人简介：盛祝平博士现任美国德克萨斯农工大学水文地质和水资源工程教授，埃尔帕索研究中心主任。注册专业工程师，认证专业水文师，美国土木工程师学会会上。主要从事干旱和半干旱地区水资源开发的应用和基础理论研究，侧重水文地质、地表水和地下水的交互作用。含水层回灌系统、含水层力学和综合水资源管理。担任过美国海外华人农业、生物与食品工程师协会主席，美国水文科学协会副主席，美国科学院国家研究委员会可持续地下水顾问委员会会员，美国土木工程学会地下水水文学委员会主任等学术团体职务。早年毕业于上海同济大学水文地质与工程地质专业，获学士学位；在中国科学院地质所获得工程地质专业硕士学位；之后赴美国内华达大学求学，获水文地质及水文学博士。
