Eleonora Demaria
Summer 2007 WAS*IS
 Currently, I am a PhD student in the Hydrology and Water Resources program at the University of Arizona with a minor in Global Change. Long ago, I gained an Associate Degree in Sanitation from the Biochemistry Department at the National University of the Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. After working as a sanitation technician in a State Environmental Lab for one year I went back to college for a degree in Water Resources Engineering and I got side tracked and became interested in hydrological processes. In 2001 I come to the USA to pursue a Master's degree in Meteorology at the University of Utah where I studied a Low Level Jet which brings moisture from the Atlantic Ocean and the Amazon forest into the one of the most fertile regions in the planet: the Pampas in south east Argentina.
In 2003 I moved to Tucson for Doctoral studies in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources. For my dissertation, I will focus on the use of satellite obtained precipitation data for flood forecasting in large basins located in developing regions.
I believe WAS*IS workshop will provide me with useful tools on how to make weather and climate science more accessible to the general public. It will help me to make connections with researchers from multiple backgrounds and understand how they relate to climate/weather research. I will gain insight in how various segments of society utilize forecasts and how we, climate scientists, can make those forecasts more accessible to a larger audience other than academics and scientists.
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