Francisco Flores

Francisco Flores is a Senior Scientist and a water resources engineer in SEI’s U.S. Center, based in Davis, California.

He applied his technical, analytical and quantitative skills to modelling projects using SEI’s WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) system to address critical challenges related to water, energy, food security, and the environment for sustainable development.

His primary field of expertise was in the implementation of the plant growth modelling (PGM) tool of SEI’s WEAP platform.  Through the development of PGM, he focused on the potential effects of climate change on the landscape – specifically, the impact of altered weather variables and increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations on biomass production, crop yields and irrigation/water demands in cultivated and non-cultivated landscapes.