Ben Livneh

Ben Livneh is the director of the Western Water Assessment and is an associate professor in the department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), at the University of Colorado Boulder. He enjoys teaching and learning, finding ways to reduce complex challenges into simpler ones. His research group focuses on solving problems that explore how land cover and climate changes affect water availability across western North America. Recent projects have focused on changes in snowpack and drought prediction, as well as studying post-wildfire hydrology and water.