Ashlynn Stillwell, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will discuss her work on sustainable water and energy systems. Water and energy are closely linked resources with clean water and sanitation services dependent on energy, and fuels production and electric power generation dependent on water. This water-energy nexus spreads across scales to include large-scale infrastructure systems, societal trends and patterns, and individual behaviors. This presentation and discussion will include data and analysis of water-energy connections and sustainability across scales, ranging from sector and infrastructure transformations to individual behaviors within homes. How do electricity fuel changes affect water resources? Where do cities demonstrate water-energy sustainability? What human activities determine residential water and energy consumption? In a world with increasing amounts of data, modeling and analyses can translate data into knowledge for further action around water-energy sustainability as an approach to future change.
Dr. Ashlynn S. Stillwell is an Associate Professor and the Elaine F. and William J. Hall Excellence Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on creating sustainable water and energy systems in a policy-relevant context. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri, and an M.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, M.P.Aff in Public Affairs, and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Her previous work experience includes consulting engineering at Burns & McDonnell and policy research at the Congressional Research Service. Dr. Stillwell received the NSF CAREER and UCOWR Early Career Award for Applied Research. She was honored with the 2015 Girl Scouts of Central Illinois Woman of Distinction Award in STEM and the 2018 AEESP Award for Outstanding Teaching in Environmental Engineering and Science.
