The Team
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OpenAgua is developed and maintained by a core group of university researchers and funding partners, with development and technical support from many others.
Current:
, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Previous:
, Tecnológico de Monterrey.
, University of California, Davis.
David Rheinheimer, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Researcher, Hydrosystems Group, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Rheinheimer conceptualized OpenAgua and is involved in all aspects of its development, including vision, strategic planning, project management and technical leadership; to-date, he has been the primary developer of OpenAgua. His primary interests are in developing and leveraging decision support technologies to improve strategic management of water and energy resources.
. Dr. Brown helps guide the vision of OpenAgua and helps ensure its continued short-term development in the context of multiple high profile water systems.
Don Park. Don, who currently a graduate student in the UMass Hydrosystems Research Group, has previous experience in the startup world and cloud software management, and provides valuable insights into the application development process. Don also maintains a list of useful articles related to programming conventions, .
Laura Elisa-Garza, M.S., Center for Water for Latin America and the Caribbean, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Laura led the study to demonstrate OpenAgua for the city of Monterrey, Mexico, and contributed to documentation and visual design.
In addition, core development is in close collaboration with others. In particular:
The OpenAgua team appreciates working with our initial funding partners, for both their financial support and strategic vision.
Tecnológico de Monterrey. Tecnológico de Monterrey also supports NED, including with physical space.
Once we get translations going again, we'll list the translators here.
, Senior Researcher, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis. Dr. Medellín-Azuara was the U.S. co-Principal Investigator for the [CITRIS]()-funded seed project to develop OpenAgua, helping to oversee project organization and coordinate with other related projects.
, Professor, Center for Water for Latin America and the Caribbean, and General Director, Núcleo Estrategico de Decisiones (NED), at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Dr. Ramírez was the Mexico co-Principal Investigator for the CITRIS-funded seed project to develop OpenAgua, helping to guide project organization and liaise with funding partners in Mexico.
, Senior Software Engineer, College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Michael was a lead designer and implementer of the "heart and soul" of OpenAgua, the facility to run and monitor models. Michael is interested in all aspects of artificial intelligence and the art and science of software engineering.
Stephen Knox, Ph.D., Lead Developer, Water Resources Group, Manchester University. Dr. Knox is the lead developer of , the core data organization framework used by OpenAgua. Steve provides critical support for Hydra Platform and advice on strategic development.
Adel Abdallah, Ph.D. Candidate, Utah State University, Logan Utah and Senior Hydroinformatics Specialist at the Western States Water Council. Adel designed the Water Management Data Model to organize water systems data across multiple datasets and models. He has contributed to OpenAgua with ideas and bug reports while developing interoperability between WaMDaM and Hydra Platform/OpenAgua. Adel is interested in improving information methods and tools like OpenAgua to better organize, analyze, and communicate water management data and models to ultimately support effective and transparent decisions.
[Adel Abdullah](), PhD Candidate, Utah State University. An expert in hydroinformatics and water resources management, Adel has provided critical feedback on OpenAgua, pushing it further while integrating it into his own data workflow, including [WaMDaM]() and [HydroShare]().
, University of California. CITRIS provided the seed funding for OpenAgua in 2016 under the 2016 joint CITRIS-ITESM seed funding program. Under this program, "Bi-national research teams in Mexico and California develop promising, early-stage IT projects that can attract larger funding and support resources." See the .
. The FEMSA Foundation supports the Núcleo Estrategico de Decisiones (Nucleus for Strategic Decisions, or NED) at the Water Center for Latin America at Tecnológico de Monterrey, under which OpenAgua was initiated.
. IADB also supports NED.
OpenAgua uses primarily Open Source software, much of which is highly undervalued by society, yet nonetheless otherwise extremely appreciated. We consider the many thuosands of developers who have contributed to the various technologies used by OpenAgua to be implicitly part of the team. See the list of .