Fraser of Allander visit to California

Dr Scott J. McGrane and Dr Grant Allan have recently returned from a period of global engagement with researchers from Stanford University and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory during March and April. During this same visit, Scott represented the University at the California Water Policy Conference on March 22 and 23 at the University of California, Davis.

Scott and Grant visited several Stanford faculty members including Chris Field (Director of Woods Institute), David Freyberg (Professor of Hydrology), Newsha Ajami (Director of Urban Water Policy, Water in the West), John Weyant (Director Energy Modelling Forum and Precourt Institute), Rosemary Knight (Professor of Geophysics) and Stephen Comello (Director of the Sustainable Energy Initiative). They also attended the Precourt Institute public seminar given by Varun Sivarum on the future of global solar energy networks. Furthermore, Scott visited Peter Nico (Resilient Energy, Water and Infrastructure Program Lead) and Haruko Wainwright (Institute for Resilient Communities) of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

All of these meetings provided interesting areas of overlap and the initial development of a contact book of people involved in relevant research that would be interested in collaboration going forward. In September, members of the Fraser of Allander will participate in the California Climate Summit and small satellite meetings that will take place at Stanford in the days that follow.