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CONFERENCE KEYNOTES & SPEAKERS

Keynotes

Susan Buto
Hydrography Data Acquisition Lead
3D Hydrography Program

Susan (Sue) Buto started her 20+-year career with the USGS working for the Nevada and Utah Water Science Centers providing GIS and remote sensing support for hydrologic studies. In 2015, she took on the role of National Watershed Boundary Dataset Lead, working in a joint capacity for the USGS Water Mission Area and the National Geospatial Program. She moved into the acting role of 3D Elevation Program Data Acquisition Lead in 2019 and finally into her current role as the Hydrography Data Acquisition Lead for the 3D Hydrography Program (3DHP) where she coordinates partnerships and strategy for 3DHP data acquisition.

Sudhir Raj Shrestha
Technical Manager
NWS Office of Water Prediction (OWP) Web and Data Services (WDS)

Sudhir Raj Shrestha is currently serving as the Technical Manager for NWS OWP Web and Data Services program. In this role, he provides key support and leadership for the development and deployment of the Office of Water Prediction Web and Data services presence, including solutions on web and geospatial dissemination services in cloud and on-premise infrastructure to support the NWS Water Resources Program. He also provides key technical support for the Hydrologic Visualization and Inundation Services (HydroVIS) project involving cloud deployment of National Water Model (NWM) and River Forecast Center (RFC) forecast visualizations, including inundation geospatial mapping services and their dissemination via National Water Prediction Service (NWPS). As a part of the web/dissemination effort, he represents, collaborates, and creates strong stakeholder relationships with national, regional, and local partners in planning, deployment, and maintenance of national data dissemination and services. He also works with Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), The White House to support an interagency effort on the Year of Open Science as a co-chair. He strives to make science and scientific information reachable to a larger community via American Geophysical Union (AGU), Eos magazine where he serves as Science Advisor for Informatics and guest editor for the Journal of Remote Sensing. He believes, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is one of the important components of our work and life and Asian immigrants play an important role in government including NOAA. To foster the goal of DEIA, he actively participates in DEIA efforts and serves a co-chair for American Geophysical Union (AGU) Informatics DEI, co-chair of NWS Diversity Management Council (DMC), including serving as Executive committee member of the NOAA AAPI Employee Resource Group.

As an earth scientist, he strives to make geospatial earth science data open, easy to use with added value to large users with emphasis on the science community promoting Open Science. For more information: https://www.weather.gov/careers/physical-science-sudhir-raj-shrestha

Dr. Abhishek Singh
Principal Engineer and President
INTERA’s Water Resources and Supply Line of Business (LoB)

Dr. Abhishek Singh is a Principal Engineer and President of INTERA’s Water Resources and Supply Line of Business (LoB), where he leads and manages operations, business development, strategic planning for the LoB across the United States. Dr. Singh has more than 20 years of research and consulting experience in the areas of integrated water resources planning and management; design and construction of groundwater supplies and infrastructure; modeling of complex hydrogeologic systems including surface-water/groundwater interactions, seawater intrusion, and subsidence; vadose zone hydrology; contaminated hydrogeology; risk and uncertainty analyses; climate change impact assessments; numerical optimization techniques; hydrogeologic data-collection; GIS and geodatabases; and data-mining and data analytics. He has authored several technical publications and journal articles on groundwater modeling and calibration, climate change, stochastic optimization, and uncertainty/risk analyses.

REGISTRATION NOTE & CANCELATION POLICY

All conference participants (presenters, moderators, panelists, etc.) must register at the appropriate registration rate. AWRA Gateway members are not eligible for discounted conference rates. The registration fees are the major source of funding for the Conference, and the sharing of registrations is prohibited - every person attending the conference must register. For presenters, if two or more individuals will be presenting, each individual must register for the conference. This includes: all technical session presenters; all panel session presenters; and all poster session presenters.

All conference participants must adhere to the AWRA Code of Conduct. Cancelations must be made in writing, received by June 19, 2023, and will be subject to a processing fee of 30% of total fees. Refunds will be processed after the conclusion of the conference. Your registration may be transferred to someone else by June 19, 2023. If transferring a Super Saver or Early Bird registration after June 19, 2023 the transferred registration must pay the difference to the current rate. Abstract submission fees are nonrefundable.