Research

Colorado River Transitions | Lake Urmia Collaborate | Target Water Conservation | Reproduce Results

Colorado River Transitions

We seek more sustainable and equitable river management by working with managers, stakeholders, and experts to adapt Colorado River operations to declining basin flows and reservoir storage. Our generation will be defined by how we adapt, how we experiment, how we jointly learn, how we collaborate, how we cope with numerous uncertainties, and how we pursue goals such as more equity.

	Lessons from immersive online collaborative modeling to discuss more adaptive reservoir operations Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Download the immersive, interactive online model. Role play with others!
	Adapting Colorado River Basin Depletions to Available Water to Live within Our Means Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (2023) Preprint
	Bugs pay for days of steady reservoir releases to reduce costs to hydropower customers and sustain funds to maintain infrastructure Manuscript, Powerpoint Presentation, and Data, Model, Code repository with Directions
	Adapting to Low Colorado River Flows and Storage: Lessons from 3 Computer Exercises
	Adapt Lake Mead releases to inflow to slow reservoir draw down Journal Water Resources Planning and Management (2022)
	Invest in Farm Water Conservation to Curtail Buy and Dry Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (2022) No data
	Ranchers Adapting to Climate Variability in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah Climate (2020) Cover Article
	Managing the Colorado River for an Uncertain Future Center for Colorado River Studies (2020) No data

Lake Urmia Collaborations

We are collaborating with Iranian and other iternational researchers to share experiences with our saline lakes and try to recover Lake Urmia. This is an extremely difficult undertaking as we synthesize across a large number of disciplines. Also, there are numerous human-natural linkages. Reach out to join our effort.

	Lake Effect: What an Iranian Lake can Teach us about Great Salt Lake
	40-Years of Lake Urmia Restoration Research: Synthesis and Next Steps Science of the Total Environment (2022)
	Managing Lake Urmia, Iran for diverse restoration objectives: moving beyond a uniform target lake level Jounal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (2021)
	Lake Urmia, Iran Collaborations Multiple docs!
	Why care about Iran's great salt lake Urmia? Download from Google Drive

Targeted Water Conservation

We are targeting water conservation actions to the users who will save the most water, money, and energy. We collect and use 5-second water use data (e.g., tells us shower length, toilet flush volume, irrigation volume and timing, etc.) to construct conservation messages that are specific to the user.

Attallah, Nour A., Rosenberg, David E., and Horsburgh, Jeffery S. (2021). "Water End-Use Disaggregation for Six Nonresidential Facilities in Logan, Utah." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147(7), 05021006.
Abdallah, A., and Rosenberg, D. (2014). "Heterogeneous Residential Water and Energy Linkages and Implications for Conservation and Management." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE, 140(3), 288-297. Best Paper
Suero, Francsico Jose, Mayer, Peter W., and Rosenberg, David E. (2012). "Estimating and Verifying United States Households' Potential to Conserve Water." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE, 138(3), 209-306. Best Paper
Rosenberg, David E. (2007). "Probabilistic Estimation of Water Conservation Effectiveness." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE, 133(1), 39-49

Make Results more Reproducible

We seek to change our science culture so researchers make their results more reproducible. We launched a new program with the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Environmental Water Resources Institute to publish any manuscript with reproduced results submitted to the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management FREE Open Access to the authors.

	Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management's Reproducibility Review Program: Accomplishments, Lessons, and Next Steps Journal Water Resources Planning and Management (Aug. 2024)
	Lets make our research more reproducible to accelerate science and increase impact EWRI World Congress (June 2022)
	Reproducible Results Policy Journal Water Resources Planning and Management (Feb. 2021)
	The Next Frontier: Making Research More Reproducible Jounral of Water Resources Planning and Management (June 2020)