1. Session 1: Vulnerability of Water Resources to Climate Change glaciations lead to highly productive landscape humans take advantage of landscape for food complex problems emerge from our huge success solutions to complex problem of water security in the face of climate change will necessitate integration between scales (individual  global) involve agile institutions to take full advantage of remote sensing, cyber- infrastructure resources consist of a network approach to consider interdependencies be place-based long long ago… more recently… today… ? ? ? ? 1) Professor Praveen Kumar - A Blue Revolution for Water Security

2. On drought: “Large scale preparation requires reliable forecasts months in advance” Challenge: Providing this prediction is tough because climate models diverge during the summer. Solution: an empirical model that uses anomalies that occur in the early spring constitutes a better early warning system than existing climate models As need for water increases, water security is increasingly vulnerable to delayed monsoon seasons, coastal inundation, and other hydrologic impacts. Challenge: We need to make local scale predictions given global climate models. Solution: downscaling approach to to predict droughts, irrigation demands, urban flood intensities 2) Professor Rong Fu - A seamless approach to reduce vulnerability of water resources to climate change over the U.S Southern Great Plains 3) Professor Pradeep Mujumdar - Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Implications for Water Management in India

3. Common Themes water is a place-based science feedbacks and non-linearity  uncertainty solutions will take advantage of measurements, models, and comprehension of our own limited prediction skills