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KAUST researchers are leading discoveries and science-based solutions for addressing climate change issues and developing innovative, energy-efficient, and cost-effective solutions to enable real climate action. Read the stories below to learn more.

05 June, 2023

H.H. Princess Mashael Saud AlShalan joins the CLI Advisory Board

Princess Mashael is co-founder of Aeon Strategy, where she advises on climate change policy, socioeconomic development and sustainability, and works with government entities and the private sector as an advocate for sustainable and equitable development.

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16 February, 2023

Latest Publication - Nature Climate Change - Yoshihide Wada

Closing the loop of reflexivity

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16 February, 2023

Latest Publication - Water Resources Research - Hylke E. Beck

Use of Hydrological Models in Global Stochastic Flood Modeling

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16 February, 2023

Latest Publication - Nature water - Hylke E. Beck

Future global streamflow declines are probably more severe than previously estimated

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16 February, 2023

Hylke E. Beck - Latest Publication - Remote Sensing of Environment

Inversion of river discharge from remotely sensed river widths: A critical assessment at three-thousand global river gauges

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15 February, 2023

Sami Al-Ghamdi joins KAUST Climate Science team

The main objectives of Al-Ghamdi’s research group are to reduce the contribution to global climate change, to enhance individual human health, to promote local sustainable and regenerative material cycles, to protect and restore water resources, to build a domestic green economy through technology entrepreneurship, to enhance community quality of life; and to protect and enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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07 February, 2023

Ansir Ilysa joins KAUST Climate Science team.

Ilysa will be working in Prof. Wada’s team with a specific focus on integrating water-food-energy nexus dynamic modeling with biodiversity and economical systems to produce more sustainable conservation, while at the same time contributing towards more robust policy mechanisms.

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16 January, 2023

Kaoru Kakinuma joins KAUST Climate Science team

Kakinuma will be working in Prof. Wada’s team with a specific focus on climate and environmental changes, and the impact it has on societies.

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10 January, 2023

Julian Hunt joins KAUST Climate Science team

Hunt will be working in Prof. Wada’s team with a specific focus on providing sustainable cooling systems within desert agriculture to help mitigate climate change.

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09 January, 2023

Mengjie Yang joins KAUST Climate Science team

Yang will continue his PhD. studies with a specific focus on the water-food-energy nexus, system dynamics modeling and water resource management.

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09 January, 2023

Abhishek Abhishek joins KAUST Climate Science team

Abhishek will be working in Prof. Wada’s team with a specific focus on the Water-food-energy nexus.

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05 December, 2022

Fernando Maestre visits KAUST for the Climate and Livability Lecture Series

Prof. Maestre visits KAUST to give a seminar on the structure and functioning of global drylands in a changing world

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19 December, 2022

Yoshihide Wada joins KAUST Climate Science team

Prof. Wada will be focussing on exploring innovative developments for integrated bio-economic and water-food-energy modeling, network modeling, forward looking scenario development, risk and vulnerability assessment, dynamic systems modeling and analyzing extreme destabilizing events and tipping points in society and nature, from local to global levels.

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22 June, 2022

Hylke Beck joins KAUST Climate Science team

Beck will focus on building preparedness and resilience for future climate challenges in the region.

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03 March, 2022

Coproducing water and electricity powers crop growth

A solar-driven system to generate electricity and produce water for crops in arid areas may help a decentralized approach to food, water and energy security.

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17 March, 2022

Drones shed light on coastal water flows

Unmanned aerial vehicles show promise for monitoring coastal water flows over large areas.

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25 January, 2022

Tackling climate and sustainability challenges as a global brand

Eugene Willemsen, PepsiCo's CEO of the AMESA division, joined the annual Winter Enrichment Program (WEP)

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09 January, 2022

Making light work of emerging micropollutants

Pulses of intense light could clean organic pollutants from wastewater.

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27 October, 2021

Agreements support two new centers aimed to mitigate climate impacts in Middle East

KAUST and NCM sign agreements in support of the creation of two new climate centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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08 February, 2021

Monitoring precious groundwater resources for arid agricultural regions

A pioneering framework will monitor groundwater use for agricultural irrigation across Saudi Arabia.

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