News & Events

A delegation of five high ranking professionals from water management agencies in Turkmenistan visited CADSWES on November 7 during their trip to the United States to exchange information about approaches to water resources management. They described their water management challenges in a water-scarce climate and their transboundary agreements with neighboring...

Nathan Bonham successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Empowering Participatory Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty: Novel Algorithms and Interactive Tools applied to Colorado River Post-2026 Negotiations” on Monday 11/6. His research advances methods for DMDU with an emphasis on water resources management. Dr. Joseph Kasprzyk and Dr. Edith Zagona were his...

CEAE Professors Edie Zagona , Director of CADSWES, and Joseph Kasprzyk joined the CADSWES Reclamation Colorado River modeling team in meeting with the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation and other Department of Interior officials on September 28 in Washington D.C. The team gave the Commissioner, Camille Calimlim Touton, updates...

Over 140 water managers and modelers from federal and local government agencies, utilities, consulting firms and research institutions attended the 19 th RiverWare User Group meeting on August 29-30. Presentations described powerful and inventive RiverWare applications used to plan and operate diverse systems such as the Tennessee Valley, the Truckee...

Congratulation to Dr. Rajagopalan Balaji, who recently was honored with a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship and an opportunity to make a difference in his native country of India. His Fulbright work centers around developing monsoon forecasting models to aid residents in flood preparedness; exploring the intricate interplay between monsoonal climate and...

Mitch Clement presented “Optimizing Hydropower Reservoirs with Limited Flexibility on the Columbia River” and David Neumann presented “Deep Aquifer Modeling within an Operations and Planning Decision Support Tool on the Rio Grande River, New Mexico” while attending the EWRI conference May 21 – 25, 2023, in Henderson NV. More about...

David Neumann gave a presentation on the RiverWare, RiverSMART and RiverWISE decision support tools developed by CADSWES and used by many in the water management communities. He also gave live demonstrations of the tools in a 3-hour evening session. More about SEDHYD and the full program is available here ...

We are excited to announce the newest release of RiverWare and RiverSMART, version 9.0. Highlights of this new release include: Bundling of RiverSMART in the RiverWare installation; RiverSMART is automatically installed with RiverWare! In RiverWare, a brand-new Web Map View shows objects on a dynamic map. A new Quick Start...

Nathan Bonham, Ph,D. Candidate, presented his recent publication post-MORDM: mapping policies to synthesize optimization and robustness results for decision-maker compromise at The Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) 2022 Annual Meeting in Mexico City, November 9 – 11. The theme of the meeting was “Transformative Recovery and Forging...

Tim Magee presented “Power Portfolio Optimization: Combining Hydropower and Production Costs Models” at the annual conference of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences on October 18, 2022 in Indianapolis. The paper, co-authored by Edie Zagona, described a novel approach developed for the Tennessee Valley Authority for optimal...