Screenshot of the Colorado River Basin Post-2026 Operations Exploration Tool

Post-2026 Operations Exploration Tool to be presented at WaterSciCon24

May 29, 2024

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...

Screenshot of robustness web app

Washington Post feature on Colorado River work

Feb. 11, 2024

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...

Congratulations to Dr. Mikaela DeRousseau!

Sept. 22, 2020

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,...

Congratulations to Dr. Billy Raseman!

July 25, 2019

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...

Congratulations to Brendan Purcell, MS!

June 21, 2019

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...

Congratulations to MS graduate Elliot Alexander!

June 21, 2019

In Summer 2018, Elliot Alexander graduated with his Master of Science degree in Hydrology, Water Resources & Environmental Fluid Mechanics within Civil Engineering. Elliot's Master's research, co-advised with Dr. Edith Zagona, focused on generating and identifying robust Lake Mead reservoir operating policies. In this research, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA)...

New Project: Integrative Reengineering of Infrastructure for Tomorrow's Communities

Oct. 19, 2018

Prof. Kasprzyk is a collaborator on a new Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need (GAANN) PhD fellowship program, titled "Integrative Reengineering of Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s Communities" . This project aims to increase the number of graduate students and, eventually, researchers and teachers, who have the multidisciplinary skills to address...