Edith Zagona teaches a seminar at Yerevan State University

Modern water management approaches on tap during USAID visit

June 6, 2024

Professor Edith Zagona provided technical and advisory services during a USAID-sponsored visit to Armenia, addressing water scarcity in rural communities affected by uncontrolled fish farm use and pollution from untreated mining tailings.

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PhD Student Madeline Pernat honored with prestigious NSF fellowship

April 15, 2024

Civil Engineering PhD Student Madeline Pernat received a 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her research on large-scale water management in the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River Basin.

Joseph Kaspryzk and Edith Zagona in front of a wall of colorful graphics.

Washington Post: Inside the race to grasp the fate of the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River

Feb. 14, 2024

Professors Edith Zagona and Joseph Kasprzyk were interviewed by the Washington Post for an article on how the federal government is using ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder's innovative web-based tools to forecast the river’s future flows.

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CEAE professors meet with US Bureau of Reclamation commissioner

Oct. 5, 2023

CEAE Research Professor Edie Zagona, director of CADSWES, and CEAE Associate Professor Joseph Kasprzyk joined the CADSWES Reclamation ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River modeling team in a meeting with the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The meeting's purpose was to provide an update on a web application being developed for stakeholders to explore alternatives in the upcoming environmental impact statement negotiations regarding new ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River operating policies.

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CADSWES RiverWare User Group meeting, August 29-30

Aug. 1, 2023

The Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) is hosting the first post-Covid RiverWare User Group meeting on August 29-30. The agenda includes presentations by many users on their RiverWare applications including the Bureau of Reclamation on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River Basin modeling, Bonneville Power on managing the Columbia River Basin, the International Boundary and Water Commission on binational management of the Rio Grande, the Tribal Water Settlement in Oklahoma and the Cooperative management of the Nile River.

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CPR NEWS: Parched — The Boldest Idea of All

May 10, 2023

In this episode of "Parched," CPR's podcast about people who rely on the river that shaped the West and have ideas to save it, Research Professor Edith Zagona explains what it would take to bring more water to the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River states from the Mississippi River.

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KUNC: Snow detectives are in the mountains to solve a mystery: Where’s all the snow going?

May 4, 2023

Research Professor Edith Zagona was interviewed for this KUNC (ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ NPR) story about tracking where the snow is going, including how much snow evaporates before it has a chance to melt.

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Newsweek: How ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ river levels stand as U.S. mulls plan for failure

April 13, 2023

In this Newsweek article, Research Professor Edith Zagona discusses what the U.S. Bureau of Reclamations' plans to conserve enough water so that the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams continue to produce hydropower might look like. The ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River is flowing at some of the lowest levels ever seen.