Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) - Research Coordination Network (RCN)
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he American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) released the 2022 class of AAAS Fellows, which included HWISE's Executive Committee's very own Dr. Amber Wutich (ASU) and Dr. Wendy Jepson (TAMU). Congratulations to both Dr. Wutich and Dr. Jepson…
Read More 2022 Class of AAAS Fellows: Dr. Amber Wutich & Dr. Wendy Jepson
On January 9-10, fifteen engineers and social scientists from the US and UK convened at the University of Miami for an HWISE-RCN workshop titled Causes, Consequences, and Measurement of Unpredictable Water Supplies: An Underlying Driver of Water Insecurity. This collaborative…
Dr. Kristin Dobbin (UC Berkeley) & Dr. Jenny Rempel (UC Berkeley) Kristin Dobbin and Jenny Rempel are recipients of the HWISE Collaborative Accelerator Award (CAA), a funding opportunity to bring small teams of researchers (2-3 members) together to accelerate new…
Read More Collaborative Accelerator Award Highlight: Dr. Kristin Dobbin & Dr. Jenny Rempel
Bertha Hernández Aguilar is an academic technician at the National Higher Studies School (ENES) Campus Mérida. She is geographer with a PhD in Sustainability Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her lines of research are related to…
Read More February HWISE-RCN Scholar of the Month: Dr. Bertha Hernandez Aguilar
On November 1st, HWISE's Dr. Amber Wutich and Dr. Greg Pierce were panelists a the the Water Science and Technology Board Fall 2022 Meeting. Alongside Dr. Manny Teodoro and Darrin Polhemus, they discussed institutional solutions to long - term solutions…
Read More HWISE at the National Academies Panel on the Future of U.S. Drinking Water
Lourdes Johanna Avelar is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the department of Medicine. She recently completed a one-year fellowship at UC San Diego’s School of…
Read More November HWISE-RCN Scholar of the Month: Dr. Lourdes Johanna Avelar Portillo
Justin Stoler (Associate Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development and Public Health Sciences, University of Miami), Danice Brown Guzmán (Associate Director of the Pulte Institute's Evidence and Learning Division, University of Notre Dame), Ellis Adams (Assistant Professor of Geography and…
Dr. Anaís Roque (Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University), Dr. Sameer H. Shah (School of Environmental & Forest Sciences, University of Washington), Dr. Linda E. Méndez-Barrientos (Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver) (L-R) Linda Méndez-Barrientos, Anaís…
Nicole J. Wilson (She/Her) is an Assistant Professor and a Canada Research Chair (T II) in Arctic Environmental Change and Governance in the Department of Environment and Geography and the Centre for Earth Observation Science at the University of Manitoba.…
Read More October HWISE-RCN Scholar of the Month: Dr. Nicole J. Wilson
Jaynie Vonk is an Impact Evaluation Lead for Oxfam GB. Much of her work has focused on understanding the impact of Oxfam’s programming on Sustainable Water and Sanitation. Measuring aspects of water insecurity, governance and well-being have been integral to…
Read More September HWISE-RCN Scholar of the Month: Jaynie Vonk