People

Dr. Zagona leads a multi-disciplinary team at CADSWES in the research and development of RiverWare and other decision support tools...

Dr. Balaji, a Professor of Hydrology, Water Resources & Environmental Fluid Mechanics Interests in: Stochastic Hydrology and Hydroclimatology Nonparametric functional estimation techniques (probability density)...

Dr. Kasprzyk leads group research that addresses how to generate new plans for engineering systems, evaluate their performance, visualize trade-offs between multiple objectives, and negotiate robust alternatives...

Mitch Clement holds a B.A. in Ancient Languages from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois as well as B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado...

Jessica provides software build and release support for the RiverWare development team. She builds, configures, and maintains the release tools used for creating RiverWare installers, and the licensing tools used for license management...

Patrick Lynn did his undergraduate studies at Rice University (B.S. in Computer Science and Math Sciences, 1987) and his graduate work at the University of Colorado...

Tim Magee has over 30 years of experience in optimization, including reservoir optimization at CADSWES since 1993. His expertise is in the theory and application of linear programming, integer programming, goal programming, and stochastic programming...

David Neumann earned a B.S./M.S. in Civil Engineering from CU-Boulder in 2002. In his research, he developed “An operations model for temperature management of the Truckee River above Reno, Nevada.” After a brief time in the consulting world...

Jim Pasquotto started work at the center in 2005; he functions as the main resource for Windows hardware, software, and peripherals support...

Nancy Stevens joined CADSWES as a technical writer in May, 2018. She is a CU Boulder graduate, with a BA in Psychology. Prior to joining CADSWES, Nancy was a technical writer for Oracle, Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, and a few technology startup companies in Boulder and Silicon Valley. She has developed user guides, administration guides, and help systems for a variety of complex software solutions, most recently as lead writer for...

Kathryn Baack is the Financial Coordinator for CADSWES. Her roles include payroll liaison, human resources liaison, accountant, and research funds administrator. Kathryn earned an MBA from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994...

Gwen Miller is a general professional at CADSWES, with her primary focus on Technology Transfer activities regarding the RiverWare DSS tool developed there and licensed through the...

Mitchell is a pursuing his M.S. in the Civil Systems program at the University of Colorado Boulder while serving as a Graduate Research Assistant at CADSWES. He comes to CU Boulder after receiving his BS in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mitchell is working on developing a RiverWare operations model and summary report tool for the Klamath River Basin in collaboration with the Bureau of Reclamation, Klamath...

David is a PhD student at CU-Boulder currently working on a USBR-funded project involving development of midterm streamflow forecast methods for the Upper Colorado River Basin based on climate model projections. David earned a BS and MS in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech and spent four years there working as a research assistant on projects related to urban hydrology and watershed management. Research interests include physical and statistical hydrologic modeling,...

Elliot Alexander is a Hydraulic Engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation’s Upper Colorado Region. He earned his MS in Civil Engineering at CU Boulder in the Hydrology, Water Resources, and Environmental Fluid Mechanics...

Sarah is now a full time engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region after successfully earning her Ph.D. in August of 2019 in Water Resources and Hydrology, in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering with Professor Balaji. "Development of Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Watershed-scale Hydroclimate Forecast Techniques to Support Water Management" https://search.proquest.com/docview/2301477558?pq-origsite=gscholar Sarah began at CADSWES as a student research assistant while working on her M.S. here at the University...

Alan Butler is a Hydrologic Engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Region, and is currently on assignment at CADSWES. Alan was part of the Colorado River Basin Study technical team where he led the RiverWare modeling efforts for the Study. He is currently tasked with development and enhancements of various Reclamation RiverWare models. Alan is a former graduate student at CADSWES where he graduated with a BS and...

Conor Felletter is a Hydraulic Engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Colorado Region, and is currently on assignment at CADSWES. Conor is a former graduate student at CU Boulder where he graduated with a BS and MS in Civil Engineering. His present work activities include research and development of mid-term operational and long-term planning models for the Colorado River, hydrologic and salinity analysis, and maintaining datasets of histroical and...

Carly is an Operations Research Analyst for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Region in the Boulder Canyon Operations Office. She is currently stationed at CADSWES. Carly obtained BS Degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. She also earned her MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado in 2005. Carly leads the Region’s research and development of modeling...

She is stationed at CADSWES as part of the Lower Colorado planning and modeling team. Jessie joined Reclamation as a SCEP student while completing her masters at the Colorado School of Mines 2017 in water resource engineering and was hired full time as a

Dr. James Prairie is a Hydrologic Engineer working for the Bureau of Reclamation since 2000 and is currently stationed at CADSWES. He has extensive experience directing and coordinating research, development, and modeling projects. Dr. Prairie leads applied research in mid-term operations and long-term water resource planning, climate variability, and decision support under uncertainty. He directs river basin modeling technical teams; and oversees the consumptive use, natural flow and natural salinity...

Rebecca graduated from CU Boulder in 2017 with her PhD in Civil Engineering (Water Resources concentration). She began performing research at CADSWES in 2013 and specialized in Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA)-assisted optimization for planning and operations of complex water resources systems. She began working full time for the Lower Colorado Region of the Bureau of Reclamation in January 2018 where she focuses on developing and communicating the Bureau’s research activities...