TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the application of participatory modeling approaches in the Sonora River Basin, Mexico
AU - Robles-Morua, Agustin
AU - Halvorsen, Kathleen E.
AU - Mayer, Alex S.
AU - Vivoni, Enrique
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the three anonymous reviewers for their many helpful comments on this manuscript. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Mexican federal government of the first author through a CONACYT PhD fellowship. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers CBET-1014818 . Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We also acknowledge the support from Dr. Jose Luis Moreno and the Colegio of Sonora for providing access to their facilities. We are grateful for support from the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University, the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and the Department of Water and Environmental Science at the Technological Institute of Sonora. The assistance of Mrs. Cara Shonsey and Mr. Richard Vendliski in conducting the QUAL2K and tRIBS simulations is acknowledged as well.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - This study presents the results from evaluation of a hydrologic modeling workshop for 46 water resource decision makers in Hermosillo, Mexico. This region has serious, ongoing water quantity and quality problems. Our goals were to assess participants' perceptions of our workshop and associated hydrologic and water quality models and to learn whether it changed their perceptions of local water resource-related problems, causes, and solutions. We administered on-site pre-and post-workshop surveys to assess any changes and to collect evaluations of the workshop and models. A few about water quality problems changed significantly over the course of the workshop, but most measured perceptions did not. On average, participants rated the workshop highly and believed that the presented models could assist their future decision-making. These results could contribute to future watershed modeling workshop efforts.
AB - This study presents the results from evaluation of a hydrologic modeling workshop for 46 water resource decision makers in Hermosillo, Mexico. This region has serious, ongoing water quantity and quality problems. Our goals were to assess participants' perceptions of our workshop and associated hydrologic and water quality models and to learn whether it changed their perceptions of local water resource-related problems, causes, and solutions. We administered on-site pre-and post-workshop surveys to assess any changes and to collect evaluations of the workshop and models. A few about water quality problems changed significantly over the course of the workshop, but most measured perceptions did not. On average, participants rated the workshop highly and believed that the presented models could assist their future decision-making. These results could contribute to future watershed modeling workshop efforts.
KW - Hydrologic modeling
KW - Less-developed regions
KW - Modeling workshop
KW - Risk perceptions
KW - Water quality modeling
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U2 - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.006
DO - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84890440541
VL - 52
SP - 273
EP - 282
JO - Environmental Modelling and Software
JF - Environmental Modelling and Software
SN - 1364-8152
ER -