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You can now find a preprint of our NOAA-funded work on using deep learning and snowpack information in an ensemble streamflow prediction model on the ESS Open Archive ! The paper's lead author was PhD student Parthkumar Modi, and co-authors are Keith Jennings, Joseph Kasprzyk, Eric Small, Cam Wobus, and...

Reclamation has partnered with the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Virga Labs to create a web-based platform on which stakeholders can explore different operational strategies through a Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty lens. The Post-2026 Operations Web Tool has been used for the negotiation process to find a new operating...

Joshua Partlow in the Washington Post wrote an article "Inside the race to grasp the fate of the Colorado River" , discussing the history of how data analysis and modeling has been helping save the Colorado River. Through extensive interviews at CADSWES, the article paints a vivid picture of the...

The Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering department published a story about a meeting that Prof. Edie Zagona and Prof. Kasprzyk had with the US Bureau of Reclamation commissioner. An excerpt is below. CEAE Research Professor Edie Zagona, director of CADSWES, and CEAE Associate Professor Joseph Kasprzyk joined the CADSWES Reclamation...

Jacob Kravits was a guest on the How on Earth podcast from KGNU radio, an independent community radio station from the Boulder-Denver metro area. The graduation special episode focuses on graduate students in STEM-related fields. Listen to the episode online or where podcasts are found!

Courtlyn Carpenter graduated in Summer 2020 with the MS in environmental engineering. Her thesis committee was chaired by Joe Kasprzyk and her research was directed by Kimberly Wickland from the USGS. Courtlyn's research explored the role of wetlands in the aquatic carbon cycle, comparing dissolved carbon exports in headwater streams...

Dr. Mikaela DeRousseau recently defended her doctoral dissertation, graduating in Summer 2020. Her dissertation developed a new multi-objective framework for desigining sustainable concrete mixtures, combining machine learning, life cycle assessment (LCA), and multi-objective evolutionary algorithm optimization. Her NSF-funded research also contributed a review of decision support for concrete mixture design,...

Dr. Billy Raseman recently defended his doctoral dissertation, graduating in Summer 2019. After graduation, he has accepted a position as Assistant Engineer at Hazen and Sawyer in Lakewood, CO working to bring intelligent water technologies to the drinking water, wastewater, and water reuse sectors. In Billy's thesis, he researched and...

The Kasprzyk Research Group welcomes a cohort of new members starting in Summer/Fall 2019! Learn more about each of these group members by clicking their profile pages. Nathan Bonham is a PhD student will be co-advised by Prof. Edith Zagona and work with CADSWES on the Colorado River Basin. Sung...

Brendan Purcell graduated with the M.S. degree in 2019. His work was in collaboration with Prof. Ashlynn Stillwell at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and partially funded by a Water-Energy Nexus seed grant at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research developed a framework for calculating the downstream effects...