Dr. Ekundayo Shittu is the principal investigator on a four-year, $499,991, National Science Foundation grant titled “INFEWS: Quantifying complex adaptive FEW systems with a coupled agent-based modeling framework.” Dr. Shittu will work with his collaborators at University of Houston and Lehigh University to develop a new mathematical modeling framework to decipher the complex, adaptive food-energy-water system of systems (FEWSoS). The proposed modeling framework will center on an agent-based representation of the linkages among food, energy, and water sub-systems and between human and physical systems across multiple temporal and spatial scales.
Under this funding mechanism, collaborators from Tsinghua University in China will also receive equivalent funding. The teams will test the utility of the developed FEWSoS modeling framework over two international river basins in the U.S. (Columbia River) and China (Mekong River) to elucidate similarities and differences in these FEWSoS and to generate new understanding that is transferable to other river basins. GW’s share of the grant is $139,500 over two years focusing on the energy sub-system.