April 17, 2019
Montana Tech will host a guest lecturer on campus on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 12:00 pm in the Big Butte Room in the Student Union Building. The lecturer is Melissa Clutter from the University of Arizona. Her presentation is titled, A Simple, Robust Design of Field Measurements for Evapotranspiration Barriers using Universal Multiple Linear Egression.
Barriers can reduce downward water movement into contaminated zones. Specifically, evapotranspiration (ET) barriers can store and release water (via ET) prior to it percolating to an underlying waste. This project uses field data from a sensor network, simulated model data, and a mathematical approach, called universal multiple linear regression (uMLR) to monitor store-and-release mechanisms and optimize the network design. We found that uMLR, combined with robust decision making (RDM), provided an effective network design. Furthermore, the optimal design could have been selected before any measurements were collected, making uMLR paired with RDM a practical approach for designing a monitoring network.
Melissa Clutter is a Hydrology PhD student completing her research at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation explores optimizing measurement network designs to bridge the gap between science and decision making. Melissa is a member of the Cherokee Nation and a Sloan Scholar who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2015. She enjoys rock climbing, skiing, and going on long trail runs with her dog Juniper. After graduating from the University of Arizona this summer she will move to Durango, Colorado to assume a tenure-track faculty position at Fort Lewis College.
Lunch will be provided (pick-up a wristband at SUB Help Desk at 11:45 a.m.). Sponsored by the Office of Research, Graduate School & Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership.