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Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton, Deputy Commissioner David Polumbo and other officials from the Colorado River Basin (CRB) visited CADSWES on June 5 for a special celebratory luncheon and award ceremony to honor the Bureau of Reclamation team stationed at CADSWES for their contributions to the ongoing process to determine the future management of the CRB.

Professor Joseph Kasprzyk, Senior Research staff David Neumann, and Ph.D. student Madeline Pernat presented recent research and development results at the ASCE World Environmental & Water Resources (EWRI) conference May 19 – 22. All in the Water Resources Modeling, Management and Policy sessions, and Kasprzyk and Pernat also participated in...

Edie Zagona was part of a CU Boulder team for the USAID’s Improved Water Resources Management for Sustainable Economic Growth in Armenia program. She presented "Water Resources Management: Objectives, Technologies and Best Practeces" to faculty and students. More about the week long trip in May 2024 is available here .

A delegation of five high ranking professionals from the Nile Water Sector, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt visited CADSWES on May 15, during their trip to the United States for the project “Climate Change Impact on Egypt’s Water Scarcity.” The goal was to gain information on ways...

Balaji Rajagopalan and a several colleagues analyzed Colorado River data from a suite of models. Their study accounts for both rising temperatures as well as predicted precipitation and it appears that the river’s future may be more positive than recently anticipated. Their findings were published in the Journal of Climate...

PhD student Madeline Pernat received a 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GFRP) for the research she is doing on the Colorado River Basin, with advisors Joseph Kasprzyk and Edie Zagona, and the Bureau of Reclamation. See more about the award and the research here. Congratulations to Maddy!

Tim Magee presented “Realizing Hydropower Flexibility with RiverWare“ at the CEATI Hydropower Conference March 20, 2024, in Palm Springs CA. The presentation was co-authored by Edie Zagona, also from CADSWES, and Gabe Miller from TVA was a co-presenter. The presentation was well received and shared important technology available to adapt...

Operating the Colorado River effectively requires forecasting the highly variable flows beyond the seasonal timescale. The traditional NWS River Forecast Center method based on ESP is not skillful past 5 months when flows are much above or below average. A new modeling approach developed at the University of Colorado is...

The CADSWES contribution to the Colorado River modeling for collaborative decision making was featured in the Washington Post on February 11, 2024. The article decribes the history of the CU collaboration with the Bureau of Reclamation in developing the RiverWare modeling tools over the past decades. CADSWES models and software,...

A recent publication, “ Interactive and Multimetric Robustness Tradeoffs in the Colorado River Basin ” introduces a novel, interactive framework for stakeholders to identify policies robust to challenging climate futures. Published in the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, December 30, 2023, the paper demonstrates the framework with...