Debra Perrone
Debra Perrone
Postdoctoral Scholar - Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Water in the West
Type:
Postdoctoral Scholar
School:
Water in the West
Research Area(s):
Freshwater
Biography
Debra Perrone is a postdoctoral scholar at Water in the West. She is interested in the multifaceted interrelationship between water, energy, and food resources. Her research explores how the interactions among these resources affect decisions and tradeoffs involved in water resource management. At Stanford, Debra is also part of an interdisciplinary team that is developing a Western Water Dashboard. For the Dashboard project, Debra uses geospatial and statistical tools to extract the spatio-temporal elements of effective regulation from the profound complexity of state water laws and links these elements to human-natural systems.
Debra received her undergraduate degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Lafayette College in 2008. An active member of Lafayette’s Engineers Without Borders chapter, she worked on water projects in rural Honduras. After graduation she began the PhD Program in Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University and became a fellow of Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. In 2011, she was awarded an Environmental Protection Agency STAR fellowship for her research on the water-energy-food nexus. In Summer 2012, she participated in the Young Summer Scientist Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and a year later she was granted a NSF's East Asia Pacific Summer Institute fellowship in Singapore. Debra graduated in May 2014 and was the Graduate School’s Founder’s Medalist for First Honors.
Selected Publications by this Author
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What California can Learn from Other Southwest States on Managing Groundwater »
Researchers at Stanford and Melbourne University looked at groundwater permitting regimes in southwestern states that could hold important lessons for local agencies in the implementation of California’s new groundwater law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
By Devon Ryan,
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