People: Dave Gochis, Dave Yates, Noah Molotch, Mazdak Arabi, and Andre Dozier
Complementary work and coordination
Utilize similar climate products
Category III – integration and synthesis
NCAR – Sustainability of transbasin transfers for various land use scenarios
- Head-waters (2045-2055)
- Apply simplified statistics to generate timeseries
- Well thought through experiment
- Run 4 more years current and 2045
- 3 months of somebody’s time (4-5 months super-computer time)
- If transbasin transfers change, CSU could get NCAR’s outputs
- Satellite derived vegetation cover
- Develop dynamic climate model to explain snow coverage with forest and ag health
CSU – Water Management
- Decision variables: Urban water conservation systems (location and type), Ag-to-Urban water transfers (permanent fallowing, lease fallowing, improved irrigation)
- Objectives: Cost-effective and feasible -> min. vulnerability (P(S<D), resiliency – how long before it comes back to feasible solution, magnitude and duration) and cost (life cycle costs)
- Maybe just use GAMS
- Land-use (1950-2000 – Dave Theobold), energy, precipitation, and climate scenarios
- CEVAL and RESET – modified for western U.S. (weekly ET) connected with LANDSAT 5 & 7
- Validate model – utilize precipitation and temperature point estimates
TO DO:
Andre:
Contact Dave Theobold about land-use scenarios
Send specifications of our computing infrastructure
Send Dave Gochis info on the Galileo database system
Mazdak:
Share RESET data – more rigorous data validation
Send data to CUAHSI
Email Mary and Nancy and Tom about this collaboration & come up with a workshop goal
Noah:
Share MODIS products
Dave Gochis:
Request for more computing time
Andre Dozier is a Ph.D. student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program at Colorado State University where he also 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, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. His current research deals with citizen science approaches for water management, 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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