Emery Coppola Jr, NOAH Global Solutions - President

Emery Coppola Jr, NOAH Global Solutions - President

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Emery is a pioneer in the application of AI to water resources modeling and management. Years before “big data” and AI became part of our everyday language, he recognized the importance of these advanced technologies for addressing the ever-growing worldwide water crisis. He co-founded NOAH Global Solutions to bring problem-solving technology to the field of hydrology to help solve the serious problems surrounding water management and preservation.

Emery first proved the enormous value of AI, and its enhanced value when combined with formal optimization, on the contaminated New Jersey Toms River Parkway wellfield, later made famous by the Pulitzer Prize winning book “Toms River”. From this seminal work, he was the first to apply AI to a number of important water management problems, including accurately predicting dynamic conditions in complex real-world groundwater systems under ever changing pumping and weather conditions.

Co-developer of NOAH’s patented real-time decision support system for water management, he has applied AI models and optimization to groundwater, surface water, water supply and water distribution systems.

With a Doctorate in Hydrology from the University of Arizona, and over twenty-five years of experience on water projects world-wide, Emery has a rare blend of theoretical knowledge with practical real-world experience. This includes large scale studies to assess water resources for long-term sustainability and management, large-scale contamination studies, characterization of complex groundwater and surface water systems, water quality studies, saltwater intrusion/upconing, wellfield hydraulics, aquifer test design and analysis, and contaminant transport.

His modeling experience is not limited to AI and optimization but includes more traditional numerical and analytical methods. He has designed extensive data collection systems for hydrologic studies to support modeling efforts that include AI.

As an internationally recognized expert on the application of AI to complex water management problems, he has consulted on its use to nations in North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, as well as Australia. He has performed AI-related funded research for the United States National Science Foundation, the European Science Foundation, the United States Environmental Protection, and the United States Geological Survey, among others.

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