NSF Economics Working Group meeting 4/1/13
To do before next meeting:
- Invite Sybil.sharvelle@colostate.edu to the next meeting
- Build a toy model and compare CGE vs. Aquarius
- Allie and Travis will build the model
- Meet with Andre to evaluate the pro’s and con’s
Topics discussed:
- How models will interact
- How working groups will interact including timeline
- Temporal and spatial detail
Social responsibility measure, i.e. equity
- Economics usually begin with the efficient solution and then look into equity. Equity could be a vulnerability index that we include.
Spatial/temporal detail
- SWAT model will use 12 digit watersheds
- Will always run on a daily basis, but our analysis will be monthly most likely
- Census block group is the lowest level of spatial detail, we will work up from there
- For irrigation purposes: how much water is allocated to each ag irrigation district from economic model
- Potential spatial/temporal detail: irrigation district and cities, monthly or yearly
- 20-50 irrigation districts in the south platte
Potential model
- Maybe use a modified version of the Aquarius model for our analysis instead of a CGE
- If linking a CGE and MODSIM is relatively easy, then we should use the CGE.
- If it is hard, then we should look into using a modified Aquarius as this model already links water demand and MODSIM
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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