Event Overview
For Chicago Water Week, join Illinois State Water Survey for a two-hour participatory groundwater modeling event on Zoom focused on Chicago’s South Suburbs.
This will be part presentation, part live workshop, and part low-stakes Monday-morning science adventure, so please plan to relax with a cup of coffee. Illinois State Water Survey will use a short survey to prompt a series of questions and experiments with a fast-running, simple groundwater model built in Jupyter Notebook, giving attendees a chance to explore how changing inputs and assumptions can affect model behavior in real time.
The session will focus on making groundwater modeling feel accessible, interactive, and genuinely useful rather than mysterious and locked behind a black box, while grounding the discussion in water questions relevant to the south suburbs.
This event will be of interest to researchers, water professionals, advocates, students, and curious members of the public who want to learn more about groundwater, modeling, and how participatory approaches can support water science and decision-making.
Speakers
Vlad Iordache and Daniel Abrams from the Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will be speaking.
Host: Illinois State Water Survey
Location
This event is virtual.
Date and Time
Monday May 4, from 8am to 10am
Cost
Free
Event Type
Panel Discussion / Seminar, Research, Policy, Equity, Innovation, Technical, Networking
