Maria’s research interests are broad in the field of water use and environmental responsibility towards sustainable development. Her research objective was to bring a multidisciplinary perspective for addressing water management issues while also supporting economic progress to achieve sustainable development. Thus, changes in the availability of a resource or in government policy may change the choice selection among technologies available to different economic sectors. The Rectangular Choice-of-Technology (RCOT) model, a constrained optimization input-output (IO) algorithm, was chosen to represent the economic system in the coupled framework because it captures both physical and monetary phenomena and allows for choices among operational technologies. In this framework, the watershed system was represented using a deterministic, physically based model, Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF). Specifically, she designed strategic scenarios to provide insights into future development patterns that may occur in Fauquier County, Virginia, customize the different models, compile necessary data, and reach conclusions for policymaker actions. Maria’s doctoral research studied the interactions between economic and watershed systems using a coupled modeling framework. She also studied Environmental Engineering as an undergraduate student at The Ohio State University, completing her B.S. Prior to this research position, Maria received her doctorate in Civil Engineering, with a focus on Environment and Water Resources, from Virginia Tech in May 2022. CV Maria Amaya is a postdoctoral associate with the Marston Research Group in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.Landon Marstonĭepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering ResearchGate Postdoctoral Researcher Faculty Mentor: Dr.
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