News & Events

We will do our best to reschedule any class that is postponed when it is safe, and reschedule to as convenient a date as possible for those impacted. More CU Boulder COVID-19 information is available here

The Joint Federal Interagency Conferences on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling (SEDHYD) conference was held June 24 - 28, 2019 at the Peppermill Hotel in Reno, Nevada. The conference provides formal technical presentations, poster sessions, field trips, workshops, exhibits, and model demonstrations. David Neumann presented a co-authored paper "River and Reservoir...

CADSWES hosted our first RiverWare Optimization training class June 12 - 14, 2019. The class was taught by Tim Magee and Mitch Clement and attended by people from Idaho Power, in Boise ID, RTI International in Fort Collins CO, South Columbia Basin Irrigation District in Pasco WA as well as...

New RiverWare Release 7.5 Highlights of this new release include: A new DMI connection to Excel where Excel doesn't open in the background. This new behavior is the default, but the old connection is still available. A new browser based Documentation system. In the Model Comparison Tool, Links and DMI...

We congratulate Sumi Thapa on earning her Masters degree in Civil Engineering, in the Hydrology, Water Resources, and Environmental Fluid Mechanics program here at CU Boulder this May, 2019.

Recently a pertinent journal article “Quantifying and Evaluating the Impacts of Cooperation in Transboundary River Basins on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: The Blue Nile Basin, was published by the Science of the Total Environment. The Blue Nile flows from Lake Tana in Ethipoia to where it crosses the border into Sudan...

This years AGU Fall meeting was held in Washington DC. Two of our students presented their research and our director Edie Zagona was in attendance. Sarah Baker (PhD candidate) presents " Developing New Watershed-based Climate Forcast Products for Water Managers " and " A Testbed to Analyze Colorado River Streamflow...

In October Dr. Zagona attended the 60th Anniversary celebration of the China Institute of Water and Hydropower Research (IWHR) in Beijing and gave a keynote address for the International Symposium on Water System Operations as a part of that celebration. She reviewed the IWHR's water and hydropower research projects, and...

On October 29 and 30, Bill Oakley and Robynn Balduf attended the Qt World Summit 2018 conference in Boston, MA. Keynote speeches by Lars Knoll, CTO of The Qt Company and Jared Spool of Centre/UIE highlighted the growth and future direction of Qt technology as well as best practices for...

Starting in August CADSWES launches a new research project that aims to develop new operating policies and procedures for the Klamath Basin in Oregon, consistent with changing environmental objectives, decommissioned power projects, hydrologic uncertainty and stakeholder input. In collaboration with Reclamation's Technical Service Center and the Klamath Basin Area Office...