Data Collection
- Documenting what census data we have and how to query for it
- In the process of automating the data collection, unzipping, and updating our data store with Integrated Surface Data (hourly data from NCDC)
- Linked water rights data from Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado with NHD high data
- Merging and compiling water rights data from WY, NE, and CO into one consistent database
Model Integration
- Individual models (DayCent, IUWM, CGE, and water allocation) are independently being wrapped with OMS components that will aid model integration
- Began to write a paper on hydraulic model integration of SWAT and MODFLOW
Infrastructure and computational improvements
- Made progress on linking SWAT with other models via MPI (successfully linked mpiJava and MPI in C and Fortran)
- Developed a generic way of connecting and interacting with legacy models such as SWAT through MPI
South Platte Application
- A plan for the Poudre model has been implemented, data is being compiled to automatically calculate naturalized river flows
Coordination
- Went to the Southplatte Roundtable
- Spoke with Eric Wilkinson of Northern Water about availability of their hydrologic model… it’s not available for sharing until they are through with their NEPA review (maybe next year)
- Spoke with Erin Messner of Aurora Water about data for pricing water rights purchases that the city of Aurora has done
- Participated in a discussion on CMIP3 and CMIP5 with the Front Range Climate Change Group in Boulder
Reporting and presentations
- Made more figures and interactive figures on the website
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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