Faculty, staff and graduate students at the One Water Solutions Institute at Colorado State University, April 20, 2018
Faculty
| Mazdak Arabi, Professor |
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Dr. Arabi is the Borland Endowed Professor of Water Resources in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Colorado State University (CSU). His research, education and engagement activities focus on the development of scientific approaches and analysis tools that enable integrated water resource management in a changing world. His primary expertise includes hydrologic assessment, watershed modeling, water quality control, and system identification and optimization. He is the creator and currently serves as the director of the One Water Solutions Institute (OWSI). The mission of the institute is to solve real-world water challenges via cutting-edge research and innovation. OWSI coordinates synergistic activities at several multi-institutional research networks, including: Urban Water Innovation Netwrok (UWIN), CLEAN Nutrient Center, and Water and Climate Sustainability Center.
Email: mazdak.arabi@colostate.edu |
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Research Associates
| Olaf David, Senior Research Scientist, Computer Sciences |
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Olaf is the director of Object Modeling System (OMS) Laboratory at CSU. Since 2000, he has led the design, development, and operation of OMS framework for agro-environmental modeling. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering from Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany.
Email: odavid@colostate.edu |
| David Patterson, Research Associate |
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| Dave is the co-creator of the eRAMS technology. Over the past 20 years at CSU, he has developed a number of tools for geospatial analysis, location-based information management, hydrologic analysis, irrigation water management, and optimization of water resources systems. He holds a M.S. degree in Computer Sciences from UC-Boulder. |
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| Tyler Dell, Research Associate |
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| Tyler is the Stormwater Center and primarily focuses on urban stormwater related issues. He holds a B.S. and M.S. degree from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at CSU. |
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| Tyler Wible, Research Associate |
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| Tyler is the developer of several data analystics and modeling tools in eRAMS including stream discharge analysis services. He holds a B.S. and M.S. degree from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at CSU. |
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Administrative Professionals
PhD Students
| Dezfooli, Donya , PhD, 2023 |
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| Donya is developing a comprehensive assessment framework and rating system for One Water cities. |
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| Gharib, Ahmed , PhD, 2022 |
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| Ahmad’s work focuses on allocation of water under alternative water rights institutions, climate change and population scenarios in water scarce regions along fast growing urban-rural interface. |
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| Chinnasamy, Cibi , PhD, 2022 |
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| Cibi is investigating the effects of urban water recycling and conservation strategies at the contiguous U.S. level. |
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| Dell, Tyler , PhD, 2023 |
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| Tyler’s PhD research is focused on life cycle cost assessment of green infrastructure. |
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| Ghanbari, Mahshid, PhD, 2020 |
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| Mahshid develops methods for characterization of flood risks in coastal regions. |
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| Heidari, Hadi , PhD, 2020 |
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| Hadi is investigating the vulnerability U.S. water supply to shortage. |
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| Dozier, Andre, PhD, 2017 |
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| Andre received a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree and M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a concentration in water resources planning and management. He worked as an Engineer in Training at Natural Resources Consulting Engineers, Inc. for three-and-a-half years during his undergraduate and graduate studies, and served either as a Graduate Research Assistant or a Research Fellow on a variety of projects related to water and power systems operations, water rights, irrigation design, artificial intelligence, and climate change funded by the Department of Energy, Hydro Research Foundation, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. His current research deals with interdisciplinary model integration and synthesis, optimization, and decision support to investigate water management solutions under uncertainty in climate, population, land use, and energy preferences. He is or has been a member of ASCE, COSHA, IEEE, and iEMSs, and has received a number of awards and scholarships such as the NSF IGERT Fellowship, IEEE PES Student Paper Prize Award in Honor of T. Burke Hayes, Hydro Research Foundation Fellowship, Borland Advanced Graduate Student, and Colorado Distinguished Scholar Award. |
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| Olson, Chris, PhD, 2017 |
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| Chris is developing tools for assessing modleing uncertainties for evaluation of water quality impacts of urban stormwater BMPs. |
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| Tasdighi, Ali, PhD, 2017 |
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| Ali is a PhD student and a Graduate Research Assistant in department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. His concentration is Hydrology and Water Resources. Prior to CSU he attended Yazd University (Iran) where he got his B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering. He started his graduate studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Shiraz University (Iran) with concentration on Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. His main interests are in the areas of Hydrology, Rainfall-Runoff modeling, Scaling issues in hydrological processes, Water quality and Water Resources Management. For his current research, Ali has also developed a comprehensive SWAT model for Jordan Lake Watershed in North Carolina. This model was then calibrated and tested in both spatial and temporal scales and several scenarios were defined to evaluate the effectiveness of the current and future agricultural BMPs in reducing the edge-of-field and delivered-to-lake Nutrients. The results will feed an economical model which will evaluate the potential of “Water Quality Trading” between Development and Agriculture sector in this area. |
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| Ahmadi, Mahdi , PhD, 2012 |
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| Mehdi developed optimization and system identification methods for optimal placement of agricultural conservation practices at the watershed level. |
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| Yen, Haw, PhD, 2012 |
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| Yen developed several methods of analysis of uncertainties in watershed modeling. |
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| Storteboom, Heather, PhD, 2009 |
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| Heather investigated fate and transport of antibiotic resistance genes in rivers. |
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MS Students
| MacPherson, Galen, M.S., 2020 |
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| Galen is developing a framework for rating One Water Cities. |
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| Ludwig, Maddie, M.S., 2020 |
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| Maddie is developing methods to characterize effects of human activities on E-Coli levels along urban streams. |
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| Rainey, William, M.S., 2020 |
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| William is investigating the co-benefits of green infrastructure at municipal scales. |
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| Furth, Canon, M.S., 2020 |
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| Canon is conducting modeling studies to assess the effects of various grey and green infrastructure systems on flooding and combined sewer systems in New York City. |
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| Trotter, Brianna, M.S., 2020 |
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| Brianna’s research focuses on the assessment of water quality effects of agricultural conservation practices. |
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| Mohammadzadeh, Mahshid, M.S., 2020 |
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| Mahsihd is assessing modeling uncertainties in simulating urban hydrological responses. |
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| Joseph George, Alfy, M.S., 2020 |
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| Alfy’s MS thesis developed a method for assessment of green infrastructure and urban stormwater control systems under maintenance uncertainty. |
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| Neale, Michael, M.S., 2019 |
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| Michael developed a systems-based approach for evaluation of fit-for-purpose use of alternative water resrouces in cities and applied the approach in Denver, Miami, and Tucson. |
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| Heiden, Chelsey, M.S., 2019 |
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| Chelsey developed methods for assessing the vulnerability of river systems to nutrient pollution. |
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| Batista, Giovana, M.S., 2018 |
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| Giovana studied droughts and fit-for-purpose use of alternative water resources in São Paulo, Brazil. |
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| Mahon, Elizabeth, M.S., 2018 |
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| Elizabeth developed a web-based water allocation tool. |
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| Jobin, Olivia, M.S., 2017 |
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| Olivia developed systems approaches for evaluation of nutrient control strategies from multiple sectors and sources. |
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| Dell, Tyler, M.S., 2016 |
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| Tyler’s MS thesis focused on on the assessment of water quality benefits of urban stormwater practices (BMPs). |
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| Havel, Aaron, M.S.,2015 |
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| Aaron investigated the hydrological response of forested watersheds to fires. Prior to graduate school he worked as an Engineering Assistant at an engineering consulting firm in Anchorage, Alaska for two-and-a-half years and before that he attended Michigan Technological University where he earned his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering. Aaron is attending graduate school simply because he felt the need for more “tools in his belt”. His current research is focused on creating a linked hydrologic and hydraulic model using public domain software packages to investigate sediment transport and water quality issues. In his free time Aaron enjoys skiing, biking, hiking, and running. |
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| Ditty, Jeff, M.S., 2015 |
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| Jeff developed a computationally scalable watershed models called SWAT-DEG on eRAMS. |
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| Records, Rosemary, M.S., 2013, co-advised with Dr. Steven Fassnacht |
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| Rosie completed her MS in Watershed Science in 2013 at CSU, and holds a BS with honors in Rangeland Resource Science (Wildland Soils option) from Humboldt State University, California. In between her BS and MS she worked as a research assistant at the California Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit studying ecosystem services of restored wetlands. Her research interests include feedbacks between hydroclimatic changes, riparian and wetland ecosystems, and water quality, as well as hydrologic modeling to better understand these and other topics. Her activities outside of research include involvement in the Early Career Climate Science Forum; founding of the CSU chapter of Graduate Women in Science; and a teaching assistantship at CSU’s Pingree Park for Natural Resources Ecology and Measurements undergraduate course (summer 2014). |
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| Azizimoghaddam, Barmak, M.S., 2013 |
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| Bamak conducted global sensitivity analysis to identify key uncertainties in assessing agricultural conservation practices. |
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| Smith, Meagan, M.S., 2012 |
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| Meagan evaluated ecosystem services from wetlands and irrigation activiies in a semi-arid Colorado watershed. |
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| Cowley, Cortney, M.S., 2011 |
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| Cortney conducted data collection and modleing studies to characerize fate and transport of nutrients in the Cache la Poudre watershed in Colorado. |
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| Foy, Caleb, M.S., 2010 |
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| Caleb studies the effects of climate change on hydrological processes in mountanuous headwater river basins in Colorado. |
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| Motorova, Mayya, M.S., 2010 |
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| Maya investigated the consequences of climate change on the fate and transport of phosphorus in an agricultural watershed in Midwestern United States. |
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| Sanadhya, Pranay, M.S., 2010 |
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| MPranay conducted a global sensitivity analysis to improve understanding of critical hydrologic processes in major snow‐dominated mountainous river basins in Colorado. |
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| Hill, Heather, M.S., 2009 |
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| Heather worked on watershed scale assessment of agricultutal conservation practices. |
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| Spencer, Anthony, M.S., 2009 |
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| Tony examined the role of represention of headwater streams in simulation of hydrological processes at the larger river basin levels. |
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