SaltCast Workshop: Shaping a Salinity Forecasting Tool for Water Management
On August 5th, we facilitated a stakeholder workshop for SaltCast, an interdisciplinary project being led by Dr. Ming Li and funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator Program. SaltCast will be a web-based salinity forecasting tool that will help ensure drinking water safety, sustainable freshwater uses, and infrastructure integrity under climate change. Stakeholders learned about progress in the development of this tool and provided feedback on a prototype. This project is taking a human-centered design approach, so feedback from stakeholders is crucial to creating a tool that will support their decision-making about water use and management. This was a wonderful opportunity for the project team to learn from stakeholders and for many of the project team to meet in-person for the first time!