News & Events

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a nonprofit federal power marketing administration based in the Pacific Northwest. As of September 13, 2016, they have successfully operationalized the HERMES IT infrastructure system, officially used for modeling the Federal Columbia River Power System . RiverWare is the modeling tool used in this system...

The Bureau of Reclamation hired two MS students from the CEAE Water Resources program as trainees in the Bureau of Reclamation Pathways Program . Elliot Alexander and Conor Felletter will assist Reclamation technical staff stationed at CADSWES with ongoing Colorado River Basin planning studies and will also undertake research for...

Over 100 members of the global RiverWare community shared modeling applications and discussed new and upcoming enhancements. The meeting was held Aug. 23–24, 2016, in Boulder, Colorado.

Two river system operation professionals from Barqi Tojik, the agency that operates the Vakhsh River, and a project manager from Manitoba Hydro International trained at CADSWES, July 25–29, 2016. They arranged a private class to learn how to use RiverWare for operating their system and began to develop a model...

David Neumann attended the 69th National CWRA conference in Montreal, May 25 - 27, 2016. He gave a presentation on " Decision support systems on the upper Rio Grand basin using RiverWare ". The Rio Grande is the longest river in southwestern North America, and along its 1900-mile route it...

RiverWare, the CADSWES created and supported river modeling software, was one of five University of Colorado inventions presented at the annual CU CleanTech Market Assessment Program (MAP) luncheon and poster session. The program concludes months of financial and market analysis to determine the feasibility of commercializing each of the inventions...

CADSWES recently launched the initial release of RiverSMART, the RiverWare Study Manager and Research Tools. This new suite of software facilitates climate change assessments and other long-term planning studies. Included are components for generating stochastic hydrologic ensembles based on historic, paleo, and climate change data and for generating alternative demand...

Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes today announced today the 2012 “Partners in Conservation” Awards to 17 organizations that have achieved exemplary conservation results through public-private cooperation and community engagement. Together, the 17 award recipients represent more than 700 individuals and organizations from across the United States. University...