Jun. 3, 2013 Progress

Data Collection

  • Pre-processed much of the required data for the various models within the modeling framework
    • Census data
    • Climate data (NCDC and CoAgMet)
    • Soils
    • NLCD
    • DEM
    • NHD
  • received access to downscaled climate change datasets for the South Platte River Basin from CMIP 5
  • received access to remotely sensed ET data throughout the South Platte River Basin

Model Integration

  • Began developing a SWAT model for the Poudre River Basin
  • Linking SWAT with a socio-economic model to provide supply and shortage feedback along with future water demand between the hydrologic and socio-economic components
  • Planning SWAT connection to DayCent for more detailed nutrient cycling and crop production in Ag, Forest, and Rangeland areas
  • successfully converted the Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) tool to a multi-platform framework
  • Almost completely hydraulically linked the hydrologic model (SWAT) with the groundwater model (MODFLOW + UZF)

Infrastructure and computational improvements

  • Coordinating with SWAT developers changes and updates made to the code to make it multi-platform and be able to utilized the GNU compilers in addition to Nvidia GPU compiler and PGI CUDA FORTRAN compiler
  • made several significant computational speedups within SWAT (input and output tables and lookups)…
  • parallelizing SWAT using two different approaches: Map-Reduce and GPU computing (have the code ready to test)

Coordination

  • Discussing potential water management solutions with CWCB, CDWR, the Poudre River Water Commissioner and other stakeholders and decision makers within the South Platte River Basin
  • Discussing regional climate simulation and collaborative opportunities with NCAR (David Yates, Noah Molotch, and David Gochis) using the WRF model
  • Storylines from SWSI (climate and land-use/population) talk to Taryn & updating SWSI
  • discussed future storylines for energy with Stacy Tellinghuisen from Western Resource Advocates
  • discussed potential for collaboration with work at CSU on oil & gas water production and management is this getting consumable water from produced water (?) most applications are for non-tributary water to the South Platte…
  • coordinating efforts with two other groups doing complementary work in the South Platte River Basin on fires and inter-basin transfers

Water Allocation

  • Just about finished linking NHD with water rights…
  • Thinking of developing a network off of NHD data use 24k NHD (not 100k NHD)
  • Connecting Wells to GW modeling components – decipher between alluvial and bedrock wells (depth to bedrock is a good indication)

Reporting and presentations

  • Building detailed and high-resolution figures to display the model integration, forcings and outputs

 

 

 

Andre Dozier

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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