News & Events

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 more about the award and the research here. Congratulations to Maddy!

Tim Magee presented “Realizing Hydropower Flexibility with RiverWare“ 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-presenter. The presentation was well received and shared important technology available to adapt...

Choose from three live, instructor-led classes, via Zoom. See all RiverWare training class descriptions . Simulation & Rulebased Modeling Class, June 3 - 7, 2024 This course covers both of RiverWare's two most commonly used solution techniques - Simulation and Rulebased Simulation - and many of its utilities, output features...

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 average. A new modeling approach developed at the University of Colorado is...

The CADSWES contribution to the Colorado River modeling for collaborative decision making was featured in the Washington Post on February 11, 2024. The article decribes the history of the CU collaboration with the Bureau of Reclamation in developing the RiverWare modeling tools over the past decades. CADSWES models and software,...

A recent publication, “ Interactive and Multimetric Robustness Tradeoffs in the Colorado River Basin ” introduces a novel, interactive framework for stakeholders to identify policies robust to challenging climate futures. Published in the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, December 30, 2023, the paper demonstrates the framework with...

We are excited to announce the latest release of RiverWare and RiverSmart, version 9.2. Highlights of the new release include: increased flexibility for SCT conditional formatting, easier display of Snapshots in SCTs and plots, functionality to apply Snapshot values back to the source slots...

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...

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...