Dan Sousa
Biographic Data
| ID | 9697870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Sousa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sousa |
| SIGNATURE | SOUSA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1632-1955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Groundwater recharge as an adaptive response to flood events in the San Joaquin Valley, California
Groundwater is a critical resource for both nature and society, yet aquifers are rapidly depleting globally. This includes the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, a productive agricultural region that suffers from drought. However, in spring 2023, the region experienced record-breaking precipitation. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR), groundwater recharge and storage via human-made processes, is a possible adaptive response to extreme events. W…
Identifying producer perspectives on groundwater management and repurposed land strategies in Kern County, California
California's San Joaquin Valley is a major agricultural region, but its reliance on irrigated farming has caused severe groundwater overdraft, leading to land subsidence and potential seismic risks. To address this, the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to achieve groundwater sustainability by 2040. Compliance with SGMA is expected to remove significant land from production, prompting efforts to repurpose former farmland for…
Weathering the storm
Fluctuations in extreme weather such as a shift from an extreme dry to an extreme wet year, termed hydroclimate volatility or precipitation whiplash, present potential challenges and opportunities for agricultural production in water-limited regions. Yet, whether the sudden profusion of precipitation or the presence of flooding has a net positive or negative impact on agricultural production, particularly agricultural pests, is understudied. Usin…
The future of ecosystem assessments is automation, collaboration, and artificial intelligence
Robust and routine ecosystem assessments will be fundamental to track progress towards achieving this decade’s global environmental and sustainability goals. Here we examine four needs that address common failure points of ecosystem assessments. These are (1) developing rapid, reproducible, and repeatable ecological data workflows, (2) harmonizing in situ and remotely sensed data, (3) integrating socioeconomic and biophysical data, and (4) increa…
Micro-climate to macro-risk
Mosquito-borne diseases (MBD) threaten over 80% of the world’s population, and are increasing in intensity and shifting in geographical range with land use and climate change. Mitigation hinges on understanding disease-specific risk profiles, but current risk maps are severely limited in spatial resolution. One important determinant of MBD risk is temperature, and though the relationships between temperature and risk have been extensively studied…
Humans on Earth
Humans on Earth
Micro-climate to macro-risk
Mosquito-borne diseases (MBD) threaten over 80% of the world’s population, and are increasing in intensity and shifting in geographical range with land use and climate change. Mitigation hinges on understanding disease-specific risk profiles, but current risk maps are severely limited in spatial resolution. One important determinant of MBD risk is temperature, and though the relationships between temperature and risk have been extensively studied…
The future of ecosystem assessments is automation, collaboration, and artificial intelligence
Robust and routine ecosystem assessments will be fundamental to track progress towards achieving this decade’s global environmental and sustainability goals. Here we examine four needs that address common failure points of ecosystem assessments. These are (1) developing rapid, reproducible, and repeatable ecological data workflows, (2) harmonizing in situ and remotely sensed data, (3) integrating socioeconomic and biophysical data, and (4) increa…
Groundwater recharge as an adaptive response to flood events in the San Joaquin Valley, California
Groundwater is a critical resource for both nature and society, yet aquifers are rapidly depleting globally. This includes the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, a productive agricultural region that suffers from drought. However, in spring 2023, the region experienced record-breaking precipitation. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR), groundwater recharge and storage via human-made processes, is a possible adaptive response to extreme events. W…
Identifying producer perspectives on groundwater management and repurposed land strategies in Kern County, California
California's San Joaquin Valley is a major agricultural region, but its reliance on irrigated farming has caused severe groundwater overdraft, leading to land subsidence and potential seismic risks. To address this, the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to achieve groundwater sustainability by 2040. Compliance with SGMA is expected to remove significant land from production, prompting efforts to repurpose former farmland for…
Weathering the storm
Fluctuations in extreme weather such as a shift from an extreme dry to an extreme wet year, termed hydroclimate volatility or precipitation whiplash, present potential challenges and opportunities for agricultural production in water-limited regions. Yet, whether the sudden profusion of precipitation or the presence of flooding has a net positive or negative impact on agricultural production, particularly agricultural pests, is understudied. Usin…
Environmental Science (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Land use (3 works) · Environmental resource management (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Groundwater (2 works) · Groundwater recharge (2 works)