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Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy
Executive Director of the Patel School of Global Sustainability
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Dr. Vairavamoorthy is an internationally-recognized expert on urban water issues who has worked to create clean and sustainable water and sanitation systems through programs for UNESCO and the European Union. He currently directs the USF Patel School of Global Sustainability. In his career, Vairavamoorthy has led groups of researchers studying the future of sustainable water systems for cities and how urban areas might respond to water issues in the face of climate change and population growth. His current research is in: development of new techniques for the flexible design of urban water supply systems operating under uncertainties associated with global change; application of optimization techniques for the operation & maintenance and life-cycle management of urban water systems; and, development of risk assessment approach for the design of sustainable urban water systems operating in the ‘city of the future’.
Christian Wells
Director of the Office of Sustainability
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Dr. E. Christian Wells is founding Director of the Office of Sustainability, Deputy Director of the Patel School of Global Sustainability, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Arizona State University. He is an environmental archaeologist, whose principal scholarly interests include cultural and ecological trajectories of long-term socionatural systems, the influence of environmental worldview on economic decision making, outcome-driven sustainability science, place-based engagement pedagogy, and quantitive modeling and analysis of anthropogenic soil data.