Emily uses geospatial analytics to investigate the spatial character of sociotechnical systems, in which human decision-making affects resource availability and infrastructure performance as resource and infrastructure systems affect human decisions. She develops agent-based models of sociotechnical systems to simulate feedback mechanisms and adaptive behaviors among consumers, infrastructure, and environmental systems. Her interests include optimization models and algorithms to manage the sustainability, security, and resilience of complex infrastructure systems––particularly those managing household water, stormwater, and solar power.

Roles

• Fellows

Publications

• An integrated approach to place Green Infrastructure strategies in marginalized communities and evaluate stormwater mitigation (2018)
• An agent-based modeling framework for assessing the public health protection of water advisories (2018)
• An empirical agent-based model to simulate the adoption of water reuse using the social amplification of risk framework (2017)
• Synthesis of public water supply use in the United States: Spatio-temporal patterns and socio-economic controls (2017)
• Optimization framework to identify demand reduction strategies for shared groundwater resources (2017)
• Complex adaptive systems framework to simulate the performance of hydrant flushing rules and broadcasts during a water distribution system contamination event (2017)
• Agent-based modeling to simulate the dynamics of urban water supply: Climate, population growth, and water shortages (2017)
• Coupling agent-based and groundwater modeling to explore demand management strategies for shared resources (2016)
• Exploring strategies for LID implementation in marginalized communities and urbanizing watersheds (2016)
• Cellular automata modeling framework for urban water reuse planning and management (2016)

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