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David E. Rosenberg's work uses systems analysis -- simulation and optimization modeling and hydroinformatics -- to improve the planning, design, and operation of water systems. His work spans spatial scales from individual users (such as households) to transboundary river basins and integrates hydrological, engineering, economic, environmental, and institutional system aspects and uncertainties to mathematically model and inform water management. Research projects in the Middle East, California, and Utah include:

Systems modeling Managing water for the environment Water conservation, Operations Work is principally the effort of current and former students. We are also now sharing our work in public model & code repositories so others can download and use these tools and further the practice of #OpenScience. Current Students + Postdocs Adel Abdallah, PhD, Hydroinformatics to organize and synthesize water management data Ayman AlAfifi, PhD, Managing watershed habitat under uncertainty Ryan James, MS, Agent-based modeling of the Logan River system Nour Atallah, MS, High frequency water demands of non-residential users Jim Stagge, Postdoc, Managing droughts on the Bear River using Paleoclimate data Leah Meeks, PhD, Managing water in Cache Valley, Utah

(Top) Soda Springs reservoir and hydropower generating station, Bear River, Idaho, July 2016 (Bottom) Measuring flow on Bear River, Utah-Idaho border, August 2015.

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Former Students

• Omar Alminagorta, PhD, February 2015, Systems Optimization Models to Improve Water Management and Environmental Decision Making. Now Post-doctoral Researcher, Utah State University
• Adel Abdallah, MS, May 2012, Heterogeneous Water and Energy End-Uses and Implications for Residential Water and Energy Conservation and Management. Now PhD student, Utah State University, Hydroinformatics.
  
• Melina Santos Vanderliner, BS, May 2012, Remotely Sensing Vegetation Response and Secondary Succession to Improve Wetland Management. Now Graduate Student, Sustainable Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology.
• Bereket Tesfatsion, MS, December 2011, Managing Water Shortages in the Weber Basin Using the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) System. Now at Franson Civil Engineers.
• Francisco Suero, MS, September 2010, Estimating and Verifying Household Potential to Conserve Water. Now at Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos of the Dominican Republic (INDRHI) and Instituto Technologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC)