José Bonilla at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2015 in San Francisco, USA

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) celebrated in 2015 the 48^th AGU Fall Meeting; this is the largest Earth and space meeting in the world with nearly 24 000 attendees. It brings together the entire Earth and space science community for 5 days, where the discussions of the latest discoveries, emerging trends, and challenges are the main objectives of the activity. AGU Fall Meeting’s 2015 scientific program had more than 1,700 sessions, with more than 23,000 oral and poster presentations.

Sessions were held from 8 am to 6 pm from Monday to Friday with two coffee breaks and a lunch break for the presentation and posters as well. The posters were all day for display and discussion, in the poster hall, were new sessions and posters every day. The AGU Fall Meeting program consists of more than 300 pages; a printed copy is available, additional information at https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi. Sessions from the 26 disciplines were performed simultaneously, thus, the main interest was in the Hydrology discipline sessions. Also the Atmospheric Sciencies, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Global Environmental Change, Near Surface Geophysics, Public Affairs and Tectonophysics disciplines sessions were attended.

The INOWAS group was represented by José Bonilla who presented the poster with the title: “Identification of groundwater potential zones in the Machuca River in the Central Pacific of Costa Rica using a GIS-Multi-criteria analysis” (H23C-1597), which was included in the session “Estimation of Total Effective Recharge of Groundwater: Significant of Recent Applicable Approaches between Different Climate Regions” of the Hydrology discipline on Tuesday, December 15^th. The poster presents the initial results of José's doctoral research project titled “Management of Aquifer Recharge in Costa Rica: a tool for managing the water scarcity in the dry season”, which aims to evaluate the managed aquifer recharge (MAR) suitability in the Costa Rican environmental conditions to regulate the water temporal distribution.