ESSIC / AOSC Professor and CICS Executive Director Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm is the principal investigator for two newly awarded research grants. A grant funded via the World Bank will study the impacts of climate change on global water supply and demand. The study will be conducted jointly by ESSIC and the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI). A grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support an upcoming Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus Workshop. The workshop will take a broad systems perspective, linking application of tools and areas of disciplinary expertise to optimization of engineered FEW systems. The Co-principal investigator of the FEW Nexus Workshop award is Dr. Eric D. Wachsman, Director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC).
