UROP Project

Advanced reservoir evaporation suppression technologies (physical or chemical) to preserve federal water assets in arid regions.

Water management, data assimilation, evaporation control

Research Mentor: Mark Sussman,
Department, College, Affiliation: Math, Arts and Sciences
Contact Email: msussman@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor):
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Faculty Collaborators:
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Looking for Research Assistants: Yes
Number of Research Assistants: 1
Relevant Majors: open to all majors
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
Research Assistant Transportation Required:
Remote or In-person: Partially Remote
Approximate Weekly Hours: 7.5, Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link:
Not participating in the roundtable

Project Description

The project addresses the recent NSF BAA:
Focus BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT
49100426R0009
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Establishing Consortia to Advance Energy-Water Security

In particular this topic:
Advanced reservoir evaporation suppression technologies (physical or chemical) to preserve federal
water assets in arid regions.
There are other topics to be researched too:
AI-informed predictive modeling for hydropower stability and federal reservoir elevation
management.
• Advanced reservoir evaporation suppression technologies (physical or chemical) to preserve federal
water assets in arid regions.
• Low/no water-cooling technologies for baseload thermal power generation.
• Coupled water-energy system modeling (high-performance computing) for forecasting scarcity-to-
generation risk.
• Engineered or bioengineered aquifer storage and recovery systems for seasonal industrial load
balancing.
Grid-load management via high-volume water conveyance (utilizing pumping infrastructure as grid-
balancing or "virtual battery" load assets).
• Closed-loop, recycled-water cooling systems for exascale data centers and high-density industrial
manufacturing.
• Modular atmospheric water capture for remote industrial site security and decentralized resilience.
• Decreasing energy intensity for industrial-scale brackish groundwater desalination and municipal
wastewater recycling.
• Resource and critical mineral recovery from industrial wastewater streams to secure domestic supply
chains.
• Scalable technologies for the treatment and beneficial reuse of produced water associated with
hydrocarbon production in water-scarce regions.

Research Tasks: 1. literature review
2. least squares best fit and/or AI

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: basic math courses recommended; in particular: Statistics