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Hydrological Sciences

Lauren E. McGiven

Lauren E. McGiven is a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, where she focuses on coupled human water systems and the development and deployment of the educational game, Thirsty Earth. She is a current US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Thirsty Earth: a multiplayer online game for water resources education and research

Thirsty Earth: a multiplayer online game for water resources education and research

The Rising Need for Interdisciplinary Literacy The sustainable management of water resources requires cooperative institutions whose development are rarely included in already overloaded engineering and earth sciences curricula. The resilience of such institutions in the context of climatic and demographic change is also poorly understood. Enter “Thirsty Earth,” an online open-access m ...[Read More]