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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)...

Most people take their tap water for granted, but it is actually delivered by a complex and important water-management infrastructure. In the face of a changing climate and growing population, Colorado water managers need new tools to continue providing a high-quality water delivery system. Assistant Professor Joseph Kasprzyk , working...

The CEAE department is conducting a series of interviews with CU graduate students, and our own Melissa Estep was recently chosen. Here's an excerpt: My experience at CU has proven to be what I expected and more. All of the graduate students I have worked with have been incredible people,...

Our group has recently released several new publications. Rebecca Smith expanded on her ParFAIT framework for assessing and improving tools in water resources research, with a new publication " Experimenting with Water Supply Planning Objectives Using the Eldorado Utility Planning Model Multireservoir Testbed ", in the Journal of Water Resources...

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...

Over the last several months, we are proud to welcome multiple students to the research group! Prof. Kasprzyk recently started co-advising Leah Bensching, an MS student who is a member of Prof. Ben Livneh's research group and is set to defend in Fall 2018. MS student Michelle O'Donnell joined the...

We have a diverse set of new publications out recently! Tim Clarkin's master's work, published in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management , showed the effect of including preference constraints on optimizing water resources problems -- both on how easy it is to interpret the tradeoffs, and whether or...

The Kasprzyk group recently attended three conferences. At the American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental Water Resources Institute meeting in Minneapolis, MN, Elliot presented our work on decision making for the Colorado River Basin and Prof. Kasprzyk presented on a new reclaimed water project that Brendan is working on with...

MS student Brendan Purcell recently joined the Kasprzyk group. His research will focus on how to quantify downstream effects of the use of upstream reclaimed water, in collaboration with Prof. Ashlynn Stillwell of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Brendan's summer research is funded by a Water Energy Nexus seed...

On February 26, Rebecca Smith gave a webinar entitled “Exploring the Use of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithims (MOEAs) for Long-term Planning by Front Range, Colorado, Water Managers", which summarized her dissertation research. You can read the article and watch a recorded video of the webinar at this link !