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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 Research Group Members Jian Wang, Post doc, Adaptively managing Colorado River water for supply and ecosystems over time with uncertainties Jacob Everitt, MS, Vulnerability of Weber Basin water system to drought, climate, water use and other factors Moazzam Rind, Phd, Glen Canyon dam management for bugs and hydropower Mahmudur Aveek, MS/Phd, Targeting households with the most potential to save water and energy.

(Top) Snowshoe outing to SNOTEL site, Logan Canyon, Utah, March 2019 (Bottom) Grand Canyon sandbar near Lee Ferry, Arizona, April 2018

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Former Research Group Members

• Adel Abdallah, PhD, May 2020, Hydroinformatics to organize and synthesize water management data (WaMDaM)
• Hadia Akbar, PhD, December 2019, Ranchers Adapting to Climate Variability in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah
• Ryan James, MS, August 2019, Agent-Based Model to Manage Household Water Use Through Social-Environmental Strategies of Encouragement and Peer Pressure.
• Nour Attaallah MS, December 2018, Demand Disaggregation for Non-Residential Water Users in the City of Logan, Utah, USA. Now Phd student, USU, Department of Civil and Env. Engineering.
• Jim Stagge, Postdoc, August 2018, Managing droughts on the Bear River using Paleoclimate data. Now Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engienering, The Ohio State University.
• Ayman AlAfifi, PhD, May 2018, Systems Optimization Models to Improve Water Management and Environmental Decision Making. Senior Water Resources Engineer, Brown and Caldwell.
• Omar Alminagorta, PhD, February 2015, Systems Optimization Models to Improve Water Management and Environmental Decision Making. Now Research Scientist, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto.
• 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. Environmental Health and Safety Manager, Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales, CDEEE Dominican Corporation of State Electricity Companies.
• 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).