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Clark , Martyn P 1 1 NCAR Water is a precious commodity underpinning not only the global economy, but also our quality of life. Those responsible for managing the availability and distribution of this basic necessity face a variety of challenges every year in ensuring a high-quality, always-ready resource to...

Burns , Margaret 1 ; McKnight , Diane 2 ; Gabor , Rachel 3 ; Barnard , Holly 4 1 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, CU Boulder 2 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, CU Boulder 3 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, CU Boulder 4 Institute of Arctic...

Brakenridge , G. R. 1 1 University of Colorado As noted in “Stream-Gaging Program of the U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Circular 1123", “Perhaps the biggest challenge that confronts the stream-gauging program is that of maintaining long-term and consistent nationwide data sets.” The USGS operates a ground-based discharge monitoring network of...

Bracken , Cameron 1 ; Rajagopalan , Balaji 2 ; Gangopadhyay , Subhrendu 3 1 University of Colorado, Boulder 2 University of Colorado, Boulder; CIRES 3 Bureau of Reclamation Extreme precipitation magnitude and timing varies drastically throughout the western US. Understanding the spatial and temporal variability of these events is...

Berryman , Erin M 1 ; Barnard , Holly R 2 ; Brooks , Paul D. 3 ; Adams , Hallie 4 ; Burns , Maggie 5 1 INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder 2 INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder 3 Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona 4...

Bales , Roger C 1 1 Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California, Merced Water security is the reliable availability of an acceptable quantity & quality of water for health, livelihoods and production, coupled w/ an acceptable level of water-related risks. California has in the past and can in the...

Yates , David 1 ; Miller , Kathleen A 2 ; Wilby , Robert L 3 ; Kaatz , Laurna 4 2 Presenting Author 1 NCAR 2 NCAR 3 Loughborough University 4 Denver Water Drought episodes and climate change may threaten water supplies for cities and farms along Colorado?s Front...

Wohl , Ellen 1 1 Colorado State University Channel-spanning logjams occur on rivers throughout Rocky Mountain National Park. Each jam creates a backwater area in which finer sediment and organic matter are deposited. Jams thus slow the downstream movement of water, sediment, and nutrients. The backwater at a jam provides...

Watson , Abigail 1 ; Kasprzyk , Joseph 2 1 CU-Boulder 2 CU-Boulder Increasingly, decision support systems seek to provide structured robust decision-making support for stakeholders and decision makers under the context of deep uncertainty. Deep uncertainty refers to situations in which stakeholders or decision makers do not know, or...

Tomkinson , Lauren J 1 1 INSTAAR The Center for Water, Earth Science and Technology (CWEST) is a scientific and educational partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and CU Boulder. Housed within the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), CWEST enhances the many successful and ongoing collaborations taking...