InterACTWEL Science Gateway for Adaptation Planning in Food-Energy-Water Sectors of Local Communities

InterACTWEL (Interactive Adaptation and Collaboration Tool for managing Water, Energy and Land) is envisioned to be transformational decision support ecosystem with state-of-the-art analytics and visualization capabilities that, once launched and adopted, will empower land, water, energy managers and food producers to conceptualize and co-plan towards a resilient future for their local communities. InterACTWEL is aimed to help communities identify natural resources management decisions over time, and for long-term adaptation to drastic changes that they do not have control of, such as severe water restriction, changing state laws, and changing climatic patterns. Read More
Creating such capabilities for large communities to prepare for an evolving future of changes requires creation of, access to, and use of complex and multi-sectoral datasets of varying sizes, advanced simulation models, large-scale optimization algorithms, visualization techniques for rendering of complex decision and goal spaces, as well as interfaces that facilitate end-user engagement and cognitive learning. Since public and private sectoral stakeholders (e.g., farmers, energy producers, municipalities, food processors, regulatory and non-regulatory governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, tribes) in local communities are all direct and life-long beneficiaries of resource management tools generated by the research community, the Science Gateway must support needs and activities of a diverse personas of end-user. This webinar will describe the user base, functionalities, and services in the novel Science Gateway (ScG) InterACTWEL designed to enable research and practitioner community to sustain translational research goals and long-lasting collaboration between researchers and citizens.