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Dr. Tirusew Asefa: Expertise in Water Resources Management and Climate Change Adaptation, Study notes of Macroeconomics

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Tirusew Asefa, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE
Planning & Decision Support Manager, Tampa Bay Water, 2575 Enterprise Rd, Clearwater FL 33763
Courtesy Professor, University of Florida, 4204 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa FL 33620
[email protected]
Summary
Dr. Asefa has a broad interest in systems level modeling of infrastructures, water resources
management, climate dynamics, risk management, sustainability, and decision making under deep
uncertainty. He is motivated by the challenges of solving real-life problems making a difference in the
community. Some of the innovative tools that his team developed have been featured by Whitehouse
initiative’s Climate Resiliency Toolkit (https://toolkit.climate.gov/).
Research and Professional Interest
• Systems analysis and modeling
• Climate variability & Climate changes
• Integrated Hydrologic Modeling
• Planning under deep uncertainty, and developing systems level decision support tools
• Statistical learning tools/intelligent algorithms
• Risk, reliability, and water resources management
Professional Training
•
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University,
Logan, Utah, U.S.A. 2004. Summa Cum Laude
Dissertation: Statistical Learning Theory: Concepts and applications in water resources
Management. Advisor: Dr. M. Kemblowski
• M.Sc., Hydrology, Free University of Brussels
Brussels, Belgium, 1998. Magna Cum Laude.
Thesis: Open integration of a hydrological model and GIS to study the response of a catchment
Advisor: Dr. F. De Smedts
• B.Sc., Irrigation Engineering, Arbaminch University
Arbaminch, Ethiopia, 1993. Great Distinction.
Industry Experience
• Manager, Planning & Systems Decision Support Tampa Bay Water 2016 – Present
• Manager, Systems Decision Support Tampa Bay Water 2014 – 2016
• Principal Water Resources Engineer Tampa Bay Water 2012- 2014
• Senior Water Resources Engineer Tampa Bay Water 2008 – 2012
• Water Resources Engineer Tampa Bay Water 2004 – 2008
•
Research Engineer Free University Brussels, Belgium 1998 - 2008
Academic Experience
• Courtesy Professor, University of South Florida 2016 – Present
Provided lectures and seminars: Systems level decision support, water resources planning,
integrated water resources management, and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
• Pan African University, Institute of Water and Energy Sciences. Tlemcen, Algeria
Crush Course: River Basin Management: Management of extreme (drought & Flood)
• Lecturer, Arbamnich University, Arbaminch, Ethiopia 1993-1996
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Planning & Decision Support Manager, Tampa Bay Water, 2575 Enterprise Rd, Clearwater FL 33763 Courtesy Professor, University of Florida, 4204 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa FL 33620 [email protected]

Summary

Dr. Asefa has a broad interest in systems level modeling of infrastructures, water resources management, climate dynamics, risk management, sustainability, and decision making under deep uncertainty. He is motivated by the challenges of solving real-life problems making a difference in the community. Some of the innovative tools that his team developed have been featured by Whitehouse initiative’s Climate Resiliency Toolkit (https://toolkit.climate.gov/).

Research and Professional Interest

  • Systems analysis and modeling
  • Climate variability & Climate changes
  • Integrated Hydrologic Modeling
  • Planning under deep uncertainty, and developing systems level decision support tools
  • Statistical learning tools/intelligent algorithms
  • Risk, reliability, and water resources management

Professional Training

  • Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, U.S.A. 2004. Summa Cum Laude Dissertation : Statistical Learning Theory: Concepts and applications in water resources Management. Advisor : Dr. M. Kemblowski
  • M.Sc., Hydrology, Free University of Brussels Brussels, Belgium, 1998. Magna Cum Laude. Thesis : Open integration of a hydrological model and GIS to study the response of a catchment Advisor : Dr. F. De Smedts
  • B.Sc., Irrigation Engineering, Arbaminch University Arbaminch, Ethiopia, 1993. Great Distinction.

Industry Experience

  • Manager, Planning & Systems Decision Support Tampa Bay Water 2016 – Present
  • Manager, Systems Decision Support Tampa Bay Water 2014 – 2016
  • Principal Water Resources Engineer Tampa Bay Water 2012- 2014
  • Senior Water Resources Engineer Tampa Bay Water 2008 – 2012
  • Water Resources Engineer Tampa Bay Water 2004 – 2008
  • Research Engineer Free University Brussels, Belgium 1998 - 2008

Academic Experience

  • Courtesy Professor, University of South Florida 2016 – Present

Provided lectures and seminars: Systems level decision support, water resources planning,

integrated water resources management, and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

  • Pan African University, Institute of Water and Energy Sciences. Tlemcen, Algeria Crush Course: River Basin Management: Management of extreme (drought & Flood)
  • Lecturer, Arbamnich University, Arbaminch, Ethiopia 1993-
  • Ph.D. student at USF (Co-advisor); Toni Panaou and Faissal R. Ouedraogo; UF (Chang)
  • M.Sc. Students at PAUWES; Jemal Mohammed Hassen, Endalkachew Yeshewas MUCHE, Jean

Marie Pascal KWISANGA, Vincent Ogembo Sara Tadlaoui

Synergic Activities

  • Member of Tampa Bay Climate Science Advisory Panel
  • Member of Water Utilities Climate Alliance (WUCA) (http://www.wucaonline.org/html/)
  • Project Advisor for several Water Research Foundation
  • Co-Chair, Florida Water and Climate Alliance (http://floridawca.org/)
  • EPA-Invited expert on risk and resilience of water and waste water utilities working group: https://www.epa.gov/crwu
  • CNW-Charting New Water invited expert for a panel on “Ensuring adequate water in a drier world” by the Johnson foundation and ReNUWIt (re-inventing the nation’s urban water infrastructure, a National Science Foundation (NSF) project)-brought together the nation’s leading experts in the field (http://www.johnsonfdn.org/aboutus/chartingnewwaters)
  • Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA)-sustainability committee member.
  • Invited to contribute in United Nation’s Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR)- (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport/2016)
  • NASA Post-doctoral program reviewer
  • Invited in subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) climate forecast application by the American Academy of Sciences Board of Directors

In the News

  • 83 Degree Media, 2016, Rethinking Tampa Bay’s water resources as climate change, featured article , April 19, 2016, http://www.83degreesmedia.com/features/climatechange041916.aspx
  • NOAA, 2012, Florida’s Fragile Oasis by Brian Khan, Climate Watch Magazine, September 13, 2012. http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2012/floridas-fragile-oasis.
  • Whitehouse Initiative climate residence toolkit: documents Tampa Bay Water’s effort in climate variability and water resources management applied research. https://toolkit.climate.gov/content/worried-about-water-tracking-climate-assures-supply- climategov-

Peer Reviewed Publications

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tirusew_Asefa Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K4YmxzkAAAAJ&hl=en

  • Wang, H., Asefa, T. , Bracciano, B., Adams, A., and Wanakule, N. Proactive water shortage mitigation integrating system optimization and input uncertainty, Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.071, 2019
  • Syewoon, H., C. Martinez and Asefa , T. 2012, Assessing the benefits of incorporating rainfall forecasts into monthly flow forecast system of Tampa Bay Water, Florida, Journal of the Korean society of Agricultural Engineers 54(4), pp. 127 - 135.
  • Asefa T. 2009, Ensemble stream flow forecast: A GLUE-Based Neural Network Approach, Journal of American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 45(5) j.1155-1163. (Selected as Journal cover page and highlight of the October 2009 issue)
  • Asefa T ., Wanakule N. and A. Adams, 2007, Field-scale applicability of three types of Artificial Neural Networks to predict groundwater levels, Journal of American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 43(5):1-12. DOI: 10.1111 ⁄ j.1752-1688.2007.00107.

(Selected as Journal cover page highlight of the October 2007 issue)

  • Gill K., Asefa, T. and M. McKee, 2007, Effect of missing data on performances of Learning Algorithms: Implications to Imputation Techniques, 43 , W07416, doi:10.1029/2006WR005298, Water Resources Research.
  • Asefa, T. , Kemblowski, W.M., McKee, M. and A., Khalil, 2006, Multi-time Scale Stream Flow Prediction: The Support Vector Machines Approach, Journal of Hydrology. (318), 7-16.
  • Gill K., T. Asefa, Kemblowski, W.M. and M. McKee, 2006, Soil moisture prediction using Support Vector Machines, Journal of American Water resources Association, 42(4), 1033-1046.
  • Khalil A. , M. McKee, M. Kemblowski, Asefa T. , and L. Bastidas, 2006, Multi-objective analysis of chaotic dynamic systems with sparse learning machines, 29, 72-88 , Advances in Water Resources.
  • Asefa, T ., M. Kemblowski, U. Lall, and G. Urroz, 2005, Support vector machines for nonlinear state space reconstruction: Application to the Great Salt Lake time series, Water Resources Research, 41, W12422, doi:10.1029/2004WR
  • Asefa T., Kemblowski M., G. Urroz and M. McKee, 2005, Support Vector Machines for ground water quality monitoring network design, 43(3), pp.423-422, Ground Water.
  • Khalil A., M McKee, MW Kemblowski and Asefa T. , 2005, Basin-Scale Water Management and Forecasting using Artificial Neural Networks, Journal of American Water Resources Association 41(1):195-208.
  • Khalil, A., M. McKee, M. Kemblowski, and Asefa. T. , 2005, Sparse Bayesian learning machines for real-time management of reservoir releases, Water Resources Research, 41 , W11401, doi:10.1029/2004WR003891.
  • Asefa, T. , M. W. Kemblowski, G. Urroz, M. McKee, and A. Khalil, 2004, Support vectors–based groundwater head observation networks design, Water Resources Research, 40, W11509, doi:10.1029/2004WR003304.
  • Batelaan, O., Van Campenhout, A., Asefa, T ., De Smedt, F. and Triest, L., 2002, Groundwater Discharge and Recharges in the Land-use Planning Project of Grote-Nete, 1: Characterization by means of Hydrological Modeling, Vegetation Mapping and GIS (in Dutch), Water, May 2002, pp 1-
    1. (Abstract in English).
  • Batelaan, O., Van Campenhout, A., Asefa , T. and De Smedt, F., 2002, Groundwater Discharge and Recharges in the Land-use Planning Project Grote-Nete, 2: Effect of Land-use Changes (in Dutch), Water , June 2002, pp 1-9. (Abstract in English).

Honors and Awards

  • Distinguished Workshop Speaker, July 2 to July 6, 2018, University of Cuenca, Ecuador. Gave a week long workshop in water resources management and decision support tools to students, researchers, and water resources professional from utilities across Ecuador.
  • Distinguished Speaker, 2015, Cornell University College of Engineering, (October 29 th^ – November 1 st) provided seminar and share experience with faculty, researchers, and students.
  • Diplomate in Water Resources Engineering, American Academy of Water Resources (AAWRE), 2014
  • Future of the Region Award. Member of the Award winning Climate Science Advisory Panel who recommended sea level rise projections for planning in Tampa Bay area. http://www.tbrpc.org/events/for/2016/pdf/2016_FOR_Winners.pdf
  • February 2006. Received editor-in-Chief’s appreciation letter and a souvenir for outstanding reviewing, Journal of Ground Water.
  • December 2004. Summa Cum Laude. Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University.
  • May 2003. Outstanding Student Paper Award. First place. American Water Resources Association Utah Section. (Prize: $400 and invited speaker on 31 st^ AWRA section conference). Paper Title: Multi- time Scale Stream Flow Prediction: The Support Vector Machines Approach.
  • July 1998. Great Distinction (M.Sc.), First Place, Department of Hydrology, Free University Brussels, Belgium.
  • July 1997. Magna Cum Laude (Graduate Diploma), tied First place, Complementary Studies in Water Resources Engineering, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium.
  • 1996- 1998, Belgian Government Scholarship.
  • 1993 Great distinction and First place, graduated with department record GPA at the time, Irrigation Engineering, Arbaminch University, Ethiopia

Current Research Project (Co-PI and/or Practitioners lead)

  • Integrating NASA Earth Systems Data into Decision Making Tools of Member Utilities of the Florida Water and Climate Alliance. NASA ROSES. Co-PI. $1.6 million (PI: C. Martinez (UF). V. Misra (FSU), et al.
  • Water Integrated Supply Evaluation and Sourcing Tool (WISEST) for Water Supply Planning in the Face of Variable and Extreme Precipitation Events. NOAA SAARP. Co-PI. Pending. (with C. Martinez (UF) et al.
  • NSF- Next generation water Infrastructure for urban utilities (with Patrick Reed (Cornell), Greg Charaklis (UNC), et al. Practitioners leader. Pending.

Monitoring and Modeling Catchments Water Quantity and Quality, Ghent, Belgium, 27- September, 2000, pp. 215-218.

  • Asefa, T., Wang, Z., Batelaan, O. and De Smedt, F., 1999, Open integration of a spatial water balance model and GIS to study the response of a catchment. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual American Geophysical Union Hydrology Days, Ed. Morel-Seytoux, H.J., August 16-20, 1999, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. pp. 11-22.