Sep. 19, 2013 – Progress

Data Collection

• Documented what census data we have and how to query for it
• Automating data collection, unzipping, and updating our data store with Global Historical Climatology Network daily and hourly data
• Linked water rights data from Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado with NHD-High data
• Developed a methodology to download, process, and display results of soil data extraction within user-defined regions

Model Integration and Development

• Began to write paper on the generic model integration framework
• Developed three initial test cases for the model integration framework… DayCent & SWAT, SWAT & water allocation, Best management practice (optimization) tool & SWAT
• Individual models (SWAT, DayCent, IUWM, CGE, and water allocation) are independently being built, calibrated and wrapped with OMS components that will aid model integration
• Began to write a paper on hydraulic model integration of SWAT and MODFLOW
• Began to build a water allocation network optimization toolbox to extract a water network from NHD data and allocate water according to institutional agreements
• Began to update soil-water submodel in DayCent
• Updated model integration framework to handle multi-program input & output

Infrastructure and computational improvements

• Began to develop web-based interfaces with water rights data, census and demographics analyses, climate, and soils. Purchased a data server to run queries on static or semi-static datasets (not specifically “timeseries” datasets)
• Successful initial implementation of the model integration framework using MPI in Fortran
• Developed a generic way of connecting and interacting with legacy models such as SWAT through MPI – implemented for Fortran, implemented in Matlab, Java, and C; successfully assigned values to variables using generic access to variables through variable names
• Automated the new development integration process for website and infrastructure development
• Built a map-reduce concept for running models in the cloud with uncertainty analysis 
• Began web-based interface tools to retrieve and quickly analyze census data, soil data, water rights data, and climate data from the eRAMS website
• Discussed new computing infrastructure and collaborative research opportunities with a major enterprise computing company
• Connected automated kriging routine in R with Python for web-based interpolation calculations

South Platte Application

• Developed a plan to implement SWAT-MODFLOW connection within the Poudre River Basin
• Developed methodology to automatically extract streamflow data and calculate naturalized river flows

Coordination

• Coordinated with water managers and decision makers at 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

About 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.