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- At this year鈥檚 Clean Currents conference in Portland, OR CADSWES industry expert Tim Magee delivered a compelling presentation titled 鈥淪ystem-Level Hydropower Flexibility鈥 on October 9. Magee鈥檚 talk explored the critical role of hydropower
- We are excited to announce the latest release of RiverWare and RiverSMART, version 9.3.Highlights of the release include:A new Settings Manager to centralize settings, including functionality for searching and filtering to find the desired setting.
- Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton, Deputy Commissioner David Polumbo and other officials from the Colorado River Basin (CRB) visited CADSWES on June 5 for a special celebratory luncheon and award ceremony to honor the Bureau of Reclamation team stationed at CADSWES for their contributions to the ongoing process to determine the future management of the CRB.
- Professor Joseph Kasprzyk, Senior Research staff David Neumann, and Ph.D. student Madeline Pernat presented recent research and development results at the ASCE World Environmental & Water Resources (EWRI) conference May 19 鈥 22. 聽All in the
- Edie Zagona was part of a 兔子先生传媒文化作品 team for the USAID鈥檚 Improved Water Resources Management聽for Sustainable Economic Growth聽in Armenia聽program. She presented "Water Resources Management: Objectives, Technologies and Best Practeces"
- 聽A delegation of five high ranking professionals from the Nile Water Sector, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt visited CADSWES on May 15, during their trip to the United States for the project 鈥淐limate Change Impact on Egypt鈥檚
- Balaji Rajagopalan and a several colleagues analyzed Colorado River data from a suite of models. Their study accounts for both rising temperatures as well as predicted precipitation and it appears that the river鈥檚 future may be more positive than
- PhD student Madeline Pernat received a 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GFRP) for the research she is doing on the Colorado River Basin, with advisors Joseph Kasprzyk and Edie Zagona, and the Bureau of Reclamation. See
- Tim Magee presented 鈥淩ealizing Hydropower Flexibility with RiverWare鈥 at the CEATI Hydropower Conference March 20, 2024, in Palm Springs CA. The presentation was co-authored by Edie Zagona, also from CADSWES, and Gabe Miller from TVA was a co-
- Operating the Colorado River effectively requires forecasting the highly variable flows beyond the seasonal timescale. The traditional NWS River Forecast Center method based on ESP is not skillful past 5 months when flows are much above or below