Talks & Press Releases

Maina, F.Z. · AMS Annual Meeting · Houston, Texas, USA

Maina, F.Z. · AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

"Heatwave patterns in semi-arid regions of the Andean regions of South America"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V. · AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Maina, F.Z. · Johns Hopkins University · Maryland, USA

Maina, F.Z. · Rutgers University · New Jersey, USA

Maina, F.Z. · Climate Resilience Symposium · Abuja, Nigeria

Maina, F.Z. · Stanford University · Stanford, California

"Enhancing Precision Agriculture Through Innovative Fine-Scale Surface Meteorology"

Maina, F.Z., NASA WaterInSight Team · Third U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium · Kigali, Rwanda

"Linking Groundwater and Land Surface Processes with the Coupled NASA Land Information System and ParFlow Framework"

Maina, F.Z., Rosen D., Abbaszadeh P., Yang C., Kumar S.V., Rodell M., Maxwell R. · AMS Annual Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

"Advancing IDRO's Mission with NASA's Water Insight"

Maina, F.Z. · International Drought Resilience Alliance at the UNCCD COP16 · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

"Restoring land in West Africa's transboundary basins: tackling climate and hydrological challenges"

Maina, F.Z. · G20 Land Initiative at UNCCD COP16 · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

"Reviving the Sahel: transformative approaches to land restoration and climate resilience"

Maina, F.Z. · Science Day at UNCCD COP16 · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

"Rain-on-snow and its consequences on the hydrology from the historical period to the end of the century"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V. · AGU Fall Meeting · Washington, DC, USA

"Innovative applications of satellite data in water resource management"

Maina, F.Z. · ComoLake Conferences · Cernobbio, Italy

"Deciphering the impacts of climate-human interactions on hydrology through satellite observations"

Maina, F.Z. · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

"Development of a fine-scale North American precipitation analysis for retrospective and operational applications"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V., Mocko D., Whitney K., Locke K. · AWRA, UCOWR, NIWR 60th Anniversary Joint Water Resources Conference · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

"NLDAS-3, a fine scale surface meteorology dataset for North and Central America"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V., Mocko D., Kemp E., Collins C., Beck J. · AGU Water Science Conference · Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

"Deciphering the impacts of climate-human interactions on hydrology through satellite observations"

Maina, F.Z. · JMSC · Strasbourg, France

"Creating a water atlas: a scientist's odyssey across borders and disciplines"

Maina, F.Z. · ENGEES · Strasbourg, France

"The impacts of climate change and human management on the hydrology of High Mountain Asia"

Maina, F.Z. · George Mason University · Fairfax, Virginia, USA

"Development of a fine-scale North American precipitation analysis for retrospective and operational applications"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V., Mocko D., Kemp E., Collins C., Beck J. · AMS Annual Meeting · Baltimore, Maryland, USA

UNESCO–Al Fozan International Conference

Maina, F.Z. · Meeting · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

UNESCO Headquarters

Maina, F.Z. · Meeting · Paris, France

"A multivariate data assimilation to estimate the impacts of groundwater depletion in the Ganges-Brahmaputra on the Bay of Bengal's streamflow"

Maina, F.Z., Getirana A., Kumar S.V., Saharia M., Kumar B. N., McLarty S., Appana R. · AGU Fall Meeting · San Francisco, California, USA

"Providing transboundary solutions through innovative products overcoming the challenges of data sharing"

Maina, F.Z. · World Water Week · Online & Stockholm, Sweden

"Etudier l'eau de l'espace"

Maina, F.Z. · Université Abdou Moumouni · Niamey, Niger

"Satellite observations reveal the responses of Asian water towers to a changing climate and agricultural activities"

Maina, F.Z. · Stanford University · Stanford, California, USA

"The impacts of a changing climate and human activities on the hydrology of High Mountain Asia"

Maina, F.Z. · Montclair State University · Montclair, New Jersey, USA

"Development of a multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V., Getirana A., Forman B., Zaitchik B., Loomis B., Maggioni V., Xue Y., Zhou Y. · AMS Annual Meeting · Denver, Colorado, USA

"Rain-on-snow events over High Mountain Asia"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V · AGU Fall Meeting · Chicago, Illinois, USA

"Disentangling the impacts of anthropogenic activities and changing climate on the land surface processes in High Mountain Asia"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V., Albergel C., Mahanama S. P., Gangodagamage C. · AGU Fall Meeting · Chicago, Illinois, USA

"On the use of space technology to tackle water scarcity issues"

Maina F.Z. · Africa Aerospace and Defense Exhibition · Pretoria, South Africa

"On the 21st century techniques to boost the achievement of groundwater related SDG targets"

Maina F.Z. · International Conference "Groundwater, key to the Sustainable Development Goals" · Paris, France

"Evaluation of the impacts of warming, greening, and irrigation on the surface albedo in High Mountain Asia"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V., Albergel C., Mahanama S. P., Gangodagamage C. · AMS Annual Meeting · Houston, Texas, USA

"Drivers of greening in High Mountain Asia: a multivariate analysis based on remote sensing data"

Maina, F.Z., Kumar S.V., Albergel C., Mahanama S. P. · AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

"How does California's new normal shape its hydrology?"

Maina F.Z · Rice University · Houston, Texas, USA

"le parcours prestigieux d'une scientifique de Zinder (Niger)"

Maina F.Z · Webinar organized by Région Globale France  ·  Watch video ↗

"Impacts of end of century climate extremes on California hydrology"

Maina F. Z, Rhoades A., Siirila-Woodburn E., Dennedy-Frank J. · AGU Fall Meeting · San Francisco, California, USA

"Understanding the impacts of wildfires on water supply in California"

Maina F. Z · AGU Fall Meeting · San Francisco, California, USA

"Sortir de l'ordinaire avec des choses ordinaires"

Maina F. Z · CIPMEN (Incubator Center for Small and Medium Enterprises of Niger) · Niamey, Niger

"The rise of water from wildfires"

Maina F. Z · Fête de la Science, DFI & French Embassy Office of Science · Washington, D.C., USA  ·  Watch video ↗

"Understanding the impacts of a changing climate on water supply in California"

Maina F. Z · University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Washington Forum (panel)

Maina F.Z · Washington, D.C., USA  ·  Watch video ↗

"Understanding the impacts of a changing climate on water supply in California"

Maina F. Z · University of Washington Summer Institute · Seattle, Washington, USA  ·  Watch video ↗

"How wildfires impact water supply in California"

Maina F. Z · Midday Science Café · Berkeley, California, USA  ·  Watch video ↗

"Feedbacks between evapotranspiration and subsurface flow: a global sensitivity analysis"

Maina F.Z. · SIAM Uncertainty Quantification 2020 · Munich, Germany

"Understanding the impact of climate extremes and wildfires on Californian watersheds using an integrated hydrologic model"

Maina F. Z · MIT CEE Rising Stars Workshop · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

"Sustainable water for an uncertain future"

Maina F. Z · German Academic International Network Meeting · San Francisco, California, USA  ·  Watch video ↗

Maina F. Z, Siirila-Woodburn E. · Gordon Research Conference, Catchment Science · Andover, New Hampshire, USA

"Nonlinear impacts of post-wildfire conditions on watershed hydrodynamics"

Maina F. Z, Siirila-Woodburn E. · Gordon Research Seminar, Catchment Science · Andover, New Hampshire, USA

"Assessing the impact of climate extremes on watershed dynamics"

Maina, F. Z, Siirila-Woodburn E., Newcomer M., Xu Z., Steefel C. · EGU General Assembly · Vienna, Austria

"Quantification of parametric uncertainty and calibration of basin-scale depositional models"

Patani S., Porta G., Bianchi Janetti E., Maina F. Z, Guadagnini A. · EGU General Assembly · Vienna, Austria

"Introduction to modeling in hydrology"

Maina F. Z · University of Niamey, Niger

"Nigerien Women in Science"

Maina F. Z · Africa Science Week 2018 (with the patronage of the First Lady of Niger) · Niamey, Niger

"On the use of numerical models to understand water scarcity in Zinder (Niger)"

Maina F. Z · University of Zinder · Zinder, Niger

"Calibrating an integrated hydrologic model using hydraulic heads"

Maina F. Z · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · California, USA

"Global sensitivity analysis of subsurface flow parameters to gravimetric variations during pumping tests in unconfined aquifers"

Maina F. Z, Guadagnini A. · Gordon Research Seminar, Flow and Transport in Permeable Media · Newry, Maine, USA

"A new approach to predicting the effects of climate extremes on California's water supply"

Siirila-Woodburn E., Maina, F. Z, Newcomer M., Xu Z., Steefel C. · Computational Methods in Water Resources · Saint-Malo, France

"Can we simultaneously calibrate groundwater recharge and aquifer hydrodynamic parameters?"

Maina F. Z., Bildstein O., Ackerer P. · EGU General Assembly 2017 · Vienna, Austria

"Estimation of groundwater recharge by inversion"

Maina F. Z · University Pierre et Marie Curie · Paris, France (2016)

"Estimating initial conditions using inverse modeling"

Maina F. Z · AquiFR Meeting · Paris, France (2016)

"Adaptive downscaling parameterization for inverse models"

Maina F. Z · CEA Cadarache · France (2016)

"Simultaneous estimation of groundwater recharge and hydrodynamic parameters for groundwater flow modeling"

Maina F. Z., Bildstein O., Ackerer P. · VIII International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output · Le Tampon, France (2016)