Provost finalist Luis Garcia

 

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
University of Vermont

EDUCATION

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Spring 1990

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
M.S. Civil Engineering, Fall 1985
B.S. Civil Engineering, Fall 1983

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018 –
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont

2013 – 2018
Dean, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont

2013 – 2018
Barrett Foundation Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University  of Vermont

2014 – 2016
Interim Director of the School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont

2005 – 2013
Acting, Interim & Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University

2005 – 2013
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University

1992 – 2013
Director, Integrated Decision Support Group (IDS), The Water Center, Colorado State University

1998 – 2005
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

2000 – 2004
Associate Director, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Colorado State University

2000 – 2002
Program Leader, Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering Degree, Colorado State University

1991 – 1998
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering and Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

1990 – 1991
Associate Director, Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES), University of Colorado, Boulder

1988 – 1990
Assistant Director, Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES), University of Colorado, Boulder

LEADERSHIP OVERVIEW

My goal as a leader is to foster a collaborative process in which those that work with me are provided opportunities to build a shared vision and play an active role in the decision making process while being mindful of the need to make steady progress towards a goal. I believe in accountability, setting and holding high standards, rewarding productivity and providing opportunities and incentives for every individual to contribute to the success of the unit. I hold myself to the same high standards as my coworkers, and I believe in leading by example. I tend to be pragmatic in my approach to problem solving because I have a unique ability to grasp the big picture and the pieces to find a solution to a problem.

Throughout my career I have been an active member of the faculty having been Advisor or Co-Advisor to 16 Ph.D. and 15 M.S. students that have graduated and I have been a member of 39 graduate committees.  I have been active academically, publishing 57 refereed journal articles (a number of which have received national awards), 4 book chapters, 49 conference papers with proceedings, over 100 professional conference presentations, and a number of invited lectures, technical reports and newsletter articles. In addition, I am active in a number of professional associations as described in my curriculum vitae.

LEADERSHIP ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Accomplishments as Dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS), University of Vermont (2013-2018*)

 *longest Dean tenure at CEMS in last 30 years.

AY13-14 AY18-19 % Change
Increased the undergraduate population while increasing the quality 1,006 1,417 41%
Increased the graduate student population 149 236 58%
Increase selectivity of our undergraduate students 79% 70% 11%
Increase the quality of our incoming class as measured by their SAT score 1,227 1,302 6%
Doubled the number of undergraduate female students 188 378 101%
Increase the percent of female students in our first time first year incoming class 17.5% 31.3% 79%
Created strategic incentives for Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP) 4 14 enrolled & 54 (in pipeline) 250%
Increased the minorities and students of color in the college 103 166 61%
More than doubled the number of undergraduate international students 71 174 145%
More than tripled the annual fundraising $922K $3.03M* 229%
More than doubled the number of Assistant Professors 12 26 117%
Increased the size of the faculty 85 107 26%
Increase the number of female faculty (TT & non-TT) members 25 35 40%
Increased the research awards (FY13)

$7.98M

 (FY 18)

$10.15M

  

27%
College budget (from annual cuts to significant strategic surplus) -$107K +$3.1M

 

  • Additional $5M gift on 10/18 was a follow-up to a previous smaller gift from this donor and a proposal submitted last year.
  • Created two new undergraduate degrees (BS in Biomedical Engineering and BS in Data Science)
  • Create four new graduate degrees (MS in Biomedical Engineering, MS in Complex Systems and Data Science, MS in Engineering Management and PhD in Complex Systems and Data Science)
  • Implemented a Strategic Plan for the College.
  • Implemented a faculty variable workload starting in academic year 2014-2015.
  • Best ABET accreditation in UVM history (2 concerns between all four of our accredited degrees).
  • Invested $3M of college funds, that were matched by more than $10M of University investments, to completely transform ALL teaching labs in the college, providing a significantly enhanced student learning experience.
  • The infrastructure transformation allowed us to expand the prototype shop and the Fabrication Lab (FabLab) which promoted the incorporation of project-based, hand-on learning in the labs.
  • We substantially increased the student club space which fueled success of the AERO and ASCE in the hybrid car and steel bridge competitions, respectively.
  • Worked on the development and implementation of $104M STEM complex to improve infrastructure of the college.
  • We implemented a large number of initiatives related to inclusive excellence (CEMS Inclusive Excellence).
  • We initiated a number of new strategic initiatives (one around Cyber security – included increasing our course offerings and creating the Center for Computer Security and Privacy (http://compsec.w3.uvm.edu/).
  • Initiated two annual seed funding opportunities. One with the College of Medicine and another with the College of Education and Social Services.
  • We made substantial improvements in the areas of marketing, branding, communications and social media including creating a hardcopy biannual college newsletter called SUMMIT (SPRING 2018 CEMS SUMMIT).
  • Created a recruiting brochure specifically targeted at female students (Spotlight on Women in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences).
  • We created the CEMS Family Network that sponsored a number of events throughout the year for both faculty and staff as well as for students to create an inclusive sense of community.
  • Created the position of Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs.
  • Created the position of Assistant Dean for Student Services.
  • Created the position of director of communications.
  • Created the position of pre-awards specialist to support faculty in their proposal presentation.
  • Created the position of lab manager for engineering.
  • We substantially increased the support to our students by hiring a career readiness coordinator, a graduate student coordinator, and an international student coordinator.
  • Served for 2 years (pro-bono) as Interim Director of the School of Engineering as we prepared for the ABET accreditation and then restructured the School.

Accomplishments, Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University (2007-2013)

AY07-08 AY13-14 % Change
Increased the undergraduate population while increasing the quality 323 485 50%
Increased the number of graduate students 186 234 26%
Increased the number of female students in the department 126 221 75%
Increased the number of Hispanic students 14 33 136%
More than doubled the number of minority students 30 65 117%
Increased the number of international Students 79 115 46%
Ten-fold increase in the number of MS Online students 5 59 1,080%

 

  • Changed the name of the department from Civil Engineering to Civil and Environmental Engineering to better reflect the degrees offered.
  • Created concentrations for both the Civil Engineering and the Environmental Engineering degrees and expanded the course offerings.
  • Upgraded the infrastructure of the department (teaching and research labs).
  • Oversaw a very successful ABET accreditation visit and made preparations for another visit that took place in 2013.
  • Obtained over $4.0M in gifts and donations for the department.
  • Created 15 new scholarships.
  • Successfully negotiated 11 transitional retirements, multiple spousal accommodations and retention packages.
  • Hired 16 new faculty members (4 of which were females and 1 Hispanic).

Associate Director, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station (2000-2004)

From 2000-2004 I served as Associate Director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). This position allowed me to become familiar with a broad breath of research that was conducted at Colorado State University. CAES funded over 120 projects across 20 departments in six colleges as well as eight off- campus research centers at that time. As part of the CAES duties I reviewed the annual reports for all 120 projects, selected the ones with significant outcomes, wrote the CAES annual report to USDA, and oversaw a number of special initiatives that CAES had.

Director, Integrated Decision Support Group (1992-2013)

In 1992 I founded and was director of the Integrated Decision Support Group at Colorado State University www.ids.colostate.edu until 2013. This gave me excellent experience with budget projection and management. I was PI or Co-PI on more than 95 funded projects with total funding of over $12M. In 2012 the Corps of Engineers requested proposals for support of a software package that they created called “PAVER”. I submitted a proposal and it was selected and created a support center http://paver.colostate.edu/ which quickly grew to support over 100 users and conduct training courses around the US for the software.

TEACHING AND ADVISING

As part of my teaching responsibilities at Colorado State University, I taught 9 different classes. The classes were introduction to engineering (civil, environmental, agricultural and bioresource, and chemical), systems engineering and optimization, applications of GIS and GPS, and senior design. I also have advised the following number of graduate students:

Advisor/Co-Advisor Committee Member
Completed Ph.D. 16 11
Completed M.S. 15 28

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

  • 57 Refereed papers published
  • 5 Books/Book Chapters
  • 49 Papers presented and published in proceedings
  • 109 Presentations at conferences, symposia or workshops
  • 10 Technical Reports
  • 12 Newsletter Articles
  • 16 Invited Lectures

AWARDS

  • 2016 Best Case Study Award by the American Society of Civil Engineering Journal of Irrigation and Drainage
  • Four Best Paper Awards by the American Society of Civil Engineering Journal of Irrigation and Drainage (2015, 2014, 1999 and 1996)
  • 2013 Gold Key Award for Civil Engineering Professor of the Year, Colorado State University Chapter of Chi Epsilon
  • 2015 and 2008, Best Honorable Mention Paper Award from the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, American Society of Civil Engineers
  • 2002 Faculty Award for Excellence in Service – Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
  • 1999 and 2000, Outstanding Faculty Member, Colorado State University Chapter of American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE)
  • 1999 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Interdisciplinary Water Education, Research and Outreach, presented by The Water Center, Colorado State University
  • 1998 Outstanding Academic Advisor of the Year, Colorado State University Chapter of American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE)
  • 1996 Favorite Faculty Member – Allison Hall, Colorado State University
  • 1995 Dean’s Council Award for Bioresource Engineering at Colorado State University
  • 1992 and 1993 Diversity Career Enhancement Awards at Colorado State University

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS

I am an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (elected to the ASCE Department Heads Council Executive Committee [2008-2011]), and the United States Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (elected to the USCID board of directors [2011-2014] and served as the secretary of USCID during that time). I serve as a reviewer for several journals, two technical committees of ASCE as well as I have been a member of the planning committee for three national meetings, served as the co-chair for the fall 2013 USCID national meeting in Denver and have served as an external reviewer for several federal programs.

I have served on many committees at multiple levels in the university (university, college and department). I have been a member of numerous search committees both as chair and committee member. I was chairperson for The Women and Minorities in Engineering advocacy board at Colorado State University for 4 years and a member of this board for 2 additional years.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Papers Published

  1. H., Green T.R., David, O., Garcia, L.A., Ascough II, J.C., and Arabi, M. (2016) “Development of the Land-use and Agricultural Management Practice web-Service (LAMPS) for generating crop rotations in space and time”, Soil & Tillage Research 155 (2016) 233–249.
  2. Chalghaf, I., Elhaddad, A., Garcia, L.A., Lecina, S. (2015) “Remote Sensing and Specialized Database Programs for Irrigation Monitoring and Evaluation at a Regional Scale”, ASCE Journal Irrigation Drainage Engineering, 141(11)10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000896,04015016.
  3. Elhaddad, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2014), “Using a Surface Energy Balance Model (ReSET-Raster) to Estimate Seasonal Crop Water Use for Large Agricultural Areas: Case Study of the Palo Verde Irrigation District”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage. 140(10) 05014006. (Best Case Study Award — ASCE Irrigation and Drainage Division 2016).
  4. Garcia, L.A., Elhaddad, A., Altenhofen, J., and Hattendorf, M. (2013), “Developing Corn Regional Crop Coefficients Using A Satellite-Based Energy Balance Model (ReSET) in the South Platte River Basin of Colorado”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage. 139(10) 821-832. (Honorable Mention Paper—ASCE Irrigation and Drainage Division 2015).
  5. Alzraiee, A., Garcia, L.A., and Gates, T.K. (2013), “Modeling Subsurface Heterogeneity of Irrigation and Drainage Systems: I. Model Development and Verification”, ASCE Journal or Irrigation and Drainage. 139(10) 797-808. (Best Research Paper Award—ASCE Irrigation and Drainage Division 2015).
  6. Alzraiee, A., Gates, T.K., and Garcia, L.A. (2013), “Modeling Subsurface Heterogeneity of Irrigation and Drainage Systems: Multivariate Stochastic Analysis of Root Zone Hydrosalinity and Crop Yield”, ASCE Journal or Irrigation and Drainage. 139(10) 809-820.
  7. Alzraiee, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2013), “Global Sensitivity Analysis of Variably Saturated Flow and Transport Parameters and Its Implication for Crop Yield and Root Zone Hydrosalinity”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage. 139(11) 889-897.
  8. Alzraiee, A., Bau, D., and Garcia, L.A., (2013) “Multi-Objective Design of Aquifer Monitoring Networks for Optimal Spatial Prediction and Geostatistical Parameter Estimation”, Water Resources Research. 49(6) 3670-3684.
  9. Islam, A., Ahuja, L.R., Garcia, L.A., Ma, L. and Anapalli, S. (2013) “Modeling the Effect of Elevated CO2 and Climate Change on Reference Evapotranspiration in the Semi-Arid Great Plains”, Transactionsof ASABE. 55(6):2135-2146.
  10. Eldeiry, A., Garcia, L.A. (2012), “Evaluating the performance of ordinary kriging in mapping soil salinity”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage. 138(12) 1046-1059.
  11. DeJonge, K.C., Ascough II, C., Andales, A.A., Hansen, N.C., Garcia, L.A., Arabi, N. (2012) “Improving evapotranspiration simulations in the CERES-Maize model under limited irrigation” Agricultural Water Management – 115(92-103).
  12. Alzraiee, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2012) “Using Cluster Analysis of Hydraulic Conductivity Realizations to Reduce Computational Time for Monte Carlo Simulations”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 138(5) 424-436.
  13. Islam, A., Ahuja, L.R., Garcia, L.A., Ma, L., Anapalli, S. and Trout, T. (2012), “Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Irrigated Corn Production in the Central Great Plains”, Agricultural Water Management 110(94-108).
  14. Yuanwen, L. and Garcia, L.A. (2012) “Assessing Impact of Irrigation Return Flow on River Salinity for Colorado’s Arkansas Valley”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 138(5) 406-415.
  15. Chavez, J.L., Gowda P.H., Howell, T.A., Garcia, L.A., Copeland, K.S., and Neale, C.M.U. (2012), “ET Mapping with High Resolution Airborne Remote Sensing Data in an Advective Semi-Arid Environment”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 138(5) 416-423.
  16. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2012), “Using Disjunctive Kriging as a Quantitative Approach to Manage Soil Salinity and Crop Yield”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 138(3) 211-224. (Best Research Paper Award—ASCE Irrigation and Drainage Division 2014).
  17. Elhaddad, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2011), “ReSET-Raster a surface energy balance model for calculating evapotranspiration using a raster approach”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 137(4) 203-210.
  18. Eldeiry, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2011), “Using indicator kriging tecnique for soil salinity and yield management”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 137(2) 82-93.
  19. Elhaddad, A., Garcia, L.A. and Chavez J.L. (2011), “Using a Surface Energy Balance Model to Calculate Spatially Distributed Actual Evapotranspiration”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 137(1) 17-26.
  20. Eldeiry, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2010), “Comparison of ordinary kriging, regression kriging, and cokriging techniques to estimate soil salinity using LANDSAT images”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 136(6) 355-364.
  21. Matter, M., Garcia, L., Fontane, Bledsoe, B., (2010) “Characterizing Hydroclimatic Variability in Tributaries of the Upper Colorado River Basin -WY1911-2001.” Journal of Hydrology (380): 260-276.
  22. Adiku, S.G.K., Dunn, G.H., Ahuja, L.R., Gunter, S., Bradford, J., Garcia, L., and Andales, A.A. (2010) Simulation of Sandsage-Bluestem Forage Growth Under Varying Stocking Rates. Rangeland Ecology & Management: September 2010, 63(5): 546-552.
  23. Khan J.M, Razzaq A., Khattak M.K. and Garcia L. (2009) “Effect of different pre-sowing water application depths on wheat yield under spate irrigation in the Southern part of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan”. Agricultural Water Management – (96): 1467-1474.
  24. Oad, R., Garcia, L., Kinzli, K.D., Patterson, D., and Shafike, N. (2009) “Decision Support Systems for Efficient Irrigation in the Middle Rio Grande Valley”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage. 135(2): 177-185.
  25. Eldeiry, A., Garcia, L.A., Reich, R. (2008) “Soil Salinity Sampling Strategy in Alfalfa Fields Using Spatial Modeling Techniques, Remote Sensing, and Field Data”. ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 134(6) 768-777.
  26. Lin, Y., and Garcia, L.A. (2008) “Development of a Hydro-Salinity Simulation Model for Colorado’s Arkansas Valley”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 134(6) 757-767.
  27. Elhaddad, A., Garcia, L.A. (2008) “Surface Energy Balance-Based Model for Estimating Evapotranspiration Taking Into Account Spatial Variability in Weather”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage – 134(6) 681-689.
  28. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2008) “Detecting Soil Salinity in Alfalfa Fields using Spatial Modeling and Remote Sensing”, Soil Science Society of America Journal – 72(1):201-211.
  29. Shrier, C.J., Fontane, D.G., and Garcia, L.A. (2008) “A Spatial Knowledge-Based Decision Analysis System for Pond Site Assessment”, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management – 134(1) 14-23.
  30. Elgaali, E., Garcia, L.A and Ojima, D. (2007) “High Resolution Modeling of the Regional Impacts of Climate Change on Irrigation Water Demand”, Climatic Change, 84(3-4) 441-461.
  31. Elgaali, E. and Garcia, L.A. (2007) “Neural Network Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Supplies”, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 133(3) 230-243.
  32. Garcia, L.A., Foged, N., and Cardon, G. (2006) “A GIS-Based Model to Estimate Relative Reduction in Crop Yield Due to Salinity and Waterlogging: Philosophy and Development.” ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 132(6) 553-563.
  33. Elgaali, E., Garcia, L.A and Ojima, D. (2006) “Sensitivity of Irrigation Water Balance to Climate Change in the Great Plains of Colorado”, Transactions of ASAE, 49(5) – 1315-1350.
  34. Garcia, L.A., Shigidi, A. (2006) “Using Neural Networks for Parameter Estimation in Ground Water.” Journal of Hydrology, 318 (1-4): 215-231.
  35. Eldeiry, A., Garcia, L.A., El-Zaher, A.S. and Kiwan, M.E. (2005) “Furrow Irrigation System Design for Clay Soils in Arid Regions.” ASAE Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 21(3): 411-420.
  36. Shigidi A. and Garcia, L.A. (2003) “Parameter Estimation in Groundwater Hydrology Using ” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 17(4): 281-289.
  37. Eldaw, A., Salas, J.D. and Garcia, L.A. (2003) “Long Range Forecasting of the Nile River Flows Using Climatic Forcing.” Journal of Applied Meteorology, 42: 890-904.
  38. Ribbens, R. and Garcia, L.A. (2002) “Drain Spacing Design Taking into Account Mass Balance.” Transactions of the ASAE, 45(4): 965–971.
  39. Faidi, H., Garcia, L.A., and Albertson, M. (2002) “Development of a Model for Simulation of Solute Transport in a Stream-Aquifer System.” Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 7(3) 191-206.
  40. Mahmoud, M. R. and Garcia, L.A. (2000) “Comparison of Different Multicriteria Evaluation Methods for the Red Bluff Diversion Dam.” Environmental Modeling & Software, 15(2000) 47: 1-478.
  41. Ojima, D., Garcia, L., Elgaali, E., Miller, K., Kittel, T., and Lackett, J. (2000) “Potential Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in the Great Plains.” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 35(6)1443-1454.
  42. Lahkim, M. and Garcia, L.A. (1999) “Stochastic Modeling of Exposure and Risk in a Contaminated Heterogeneous Aquifer. 1: Monte Carlo Uncertainty Analysis.” Journal of Environmental Engineering Science:16(5): 315-328.
  43. Lahkim, M, Garcia, L.A., and Nuckols, J.R. (1999) “Stochastic Modeling of Exposure and Risk in a Contaminated Heterogeneous Aquifer. 2: Application of Latin Hypercube Sampling.” Journal of Environmental Engineering Science: 16(5).
  44. Lahkim, M., Garcia, L.A. and Nuckols, J.R. (1999) “Spatial and Temporal Properties of Environmental Exposure Assessments Related to Ground Water Contamination.” Journal of Environmental Modeling and Assessment 4(2-3) 165-178.
  45. Hasmi, M. and Garcia, L.A. (1998) “Spatial and Temporal Errors in Estimating Regional Evapotranspiration.” ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage 124(2):108-114. (Best Research Paper Award—ASCE Irrigation and Drainage Division 1999).
  46. Garcia L.A., and Armbruster, M. (1997) “A Spatially Based Decision Support System for Evaluation of Wildlife Habitat.” Journal of Ecological Modeling 102(2) 287-300.
  47. Manguerra, H.B. and Garcia, L.A. (1997) “Modeling Flow and Transport in Drainage Areas with Shallow Water Table.” ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, 123(3):185-193.
  48. Manguerra, H.B. and Garcia, L.A. (1997) “Field Strategy for Agricultural Drainage and Water Quality Management.” ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, 123(1):37-44.
  49. Manguerra, H.B. and Garcia, L.A. (1996) “Drainage and No-Drainage Cycles for Salinity Management in Irrigated Areas.” Transactions of the ASAE, 39(6):2039-2049.
  50. Mejia-Navarro, M. and Garcia, L.A. (1996) “Natural Hazard and Risk Assessment Using Decision Support Systems, Application, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.” Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geosciences, Vol II(3):299-324.
  51. Nevo, A., Garcia L.A. (1996) “Spatial Optimization of Wildlife Habitat.” Journal of Ecological Modeling, 91(1/3) 271-281.
  52. Nevo, A., Garcia L.A. (1996) “Spatial Optimization of Wildlife Habitat — Model Formulation.” Transactions of the ASAE, 39(3):1189-1196.
  53. Hashmi, M., Garcia, L.A., and Fontane, D. (1995) “Spatial Estimation of Regional Crop Evapotranspiration.” Transactions of the ASAE, 38(5):1345-1351.
  54. Vadas, R. G., Garcia, L. A, and Labadie, J.W. (1995) “A Methodology for Water Quantity and Quality Assessment for Wetland Development.” Water Science and Technology, 31(8):293-300.
  55. Garcia, L.A., Manguerra, H.B., and Gates, T.K. (1995) “Irrigation and Drainage Design and Management Model: I. Development.” ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, 121(1):71-82. (Best Research Paper Award—ASCE Irrigation and Drainage Division 1996)
  56. Manguerra, H.B., and Garcia, L.A. (1995) “Irrigation and Drainage Design and Management Model: Validation and Application.” ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, 121(1):83-94.
  57. Garcia, L.A., Strzepek, K.M, Podmore, T.H. (1994) “Design of Agricultural Drainage with Adaptive Irrigation Management.” ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, 120(1):176-194.

Books/Book Chapters

  1. Adiku, S.K.G., Ahuja, L.R., Dunn, G.H., Derner, J.D., Andales, A.A., Garcia, L., and Bartling, P.N.S. (2011) “Parameterization of the GPFARM-Range Model for Simulating Rangeland Productivity” p. 209- 228 advances in agricultural systems modeling 2. Methods of Introducing System Models into Agricultural Research Laj R. Ahuja and Liwang Ma (ed.)
  2. Elhaddad, A. and Garcia, L. (2009) Remote Sensing Application in Agriculture. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. Germany.
  3. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L. (2008) Spatial Modeling of Soil Salinity Using Remote Sensing, GIS and Field Data. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. Germany.
  4. National Research Council Report (2007) “Committee on the Scientific Bases of Colorado River Basin Water Management. ”
  5. Labadie, J. and Garcia, L. (2003) “Has Modeling of Water Resources on the Basis of Climate and Hydrology Reached Its Full Potential?”, Chapter 8, Water and Climate in the Western United States, William M. Lewis (editor), University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Conference Presentations with Proceedings

  1. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L. (2014) “Using Geospatial Techniques and Remote Sensing to Reduce the Number of Soil Salinity Samples”. Presented and published in the 34th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 24-26.
  2. Chalghaf, I., Elhaddad, A., Casterad, M.A., Martínez-Cob, A., Garcia, L.A., Lecina, S., (2013) “Análisis del Uso del Agua en el Sistema de Riegos del Alto Aragón Combinando el Sistema Ador y Teledetección”. Presented and published in the 31st Spanish National Congress on Irrigation, Albacete, Spain, June 2013.
  3. Formetta, G., Amico, M.D., Rigon, R., David, O., Garcia, L.A., Capparelli, G., Versace, P., (2013) “GEOtop/OMS3 – Model Integration and Case Study”. Presented and published in the 33th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 25-27, 2013.
  4. Kipka, H., David, O., Lyon, J., Garcia, L.A., Green, T.R., Ascough, J.C., Rojas, K., (2013) “A Web- Service Tool to Generate Crop Rotation Management Input Files for Spatially Distributed Agroecosystem Models”. Presented and published in the 33th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 25-27, 2013.
  5. Garcia, L.A. and Elhaddad, A., (2012) “Estimating Seasonal Crop Water Use for Alfalfa Using a Surface Energy Balance Model (ReSET-Raster)”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on “Managing Irrigation Systems in Today’s Environment”, November 13–16, Reno, NV.
  6. Eldeiry, A., and Garcia, L. (2012) “Management of Soil Salinity and Crop Yield Using Conditional Probability Maps”. Presented and published in the 32th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 21-23, 2012.
  7. Eldeiry, A., and Garcia, L. (2011) “Using Deterministic and Geostatistical Techniques to Estimate Soil Salinity at The Sub-Basin and Field Scale”. Presented and published in the 31th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 21-23, 2011.
  8. Alzraiee, A., and Garcia, L. (2011) “Clustering of Hydraulic Conductivity Realizations to Reduce Computational Time Analysis for Monte Carlo Simulations”. Presented and published in the 31th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 21-23, 2011.
  9. Chávez, J., Straw, D., Garcia, L., Ley, T., Andales, A., Simmons, L. and Bartolo, M., (2010) “Mapping ET In Southeastern Colorado Using A Surface Aerodynamic Temperature Model”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on “Meeting Irrigation Demands in a Water- Challenged Environment – SCADA and Technology: Tools to Improve Production”, September 28 – October 1, Fort Collins, CO.
  10. Elhaddad, A., Garcia, L., Altenhofen, J., Hattendorf, M., (2010) “Developing Corn Regional Crop Coefficients Using A Satellite–Based Energy Balance Model (ReSET) In The South Platte River Area of Colorado”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on “Meeting Irrigation Demands in a Water-Challenged Environment — SCADA and Technology: Tools to Improve Production”, September 28 – October 1, Fort Collins, CO.
  11. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L., (2010), “Using a Geo-statistical Approach for Soil Salinity and Yield Management”. Presented and published in the 30th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 22-24, 2010.
  12. Garcia, L., and Patterson, D., (2009) “Model for Calculating Consumptive Use (CSUID)”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on Irrigation and Drainage for Food, Energy and the Environment, November 3-6, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  13. Elhaddad, A., Garcia, L. and Chavez, J., (2009) “Using a Surface Energy Balance Model to Calculate Spatially Distributed Actual ET”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on Irrigation and Drainage for Food, Energy and the Environment, November 3-6, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  14. Alzraiee, A., Garcia, L. and Burnett, R. (2009) “Modeling Spatial and Temporal Variability in Irrigation and Drainage Systems: Improvements to the Colorado State University Irrigation and Drainage Model (CSUID)”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on Irrigation and Drainage for Food, Energy and the Environment, November 3-6, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  15. Kinzli, K.D., Oad, R., Garcia, L., Kinzli, K.D., Patterson, D., Shafike, N. and Gensler, D. (2009) “Improving Irrigation System Performance in the Middle Rio Grande through Scheduled Water Delivery”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on Irrigation and Drainage for Food, Energy and the Environment, November 3-6, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  16. Eldeiry A., and Garcia L. (2009) “Comparison of Regression Kriging and Co-Kriging Techniques to Estimate Soil Salinity Using Landsat Images”. Presented at the 29th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 25-27, 2009.
  17. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2008) “Soil Salinity Samples and Variograms: Case Study in the Lower Arkansas Basin”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 28th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 26-28.
  18. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2007) “Assessing Soil Salinity Using a Geostatistical Approach”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 27th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 19-21.
  19. Noh, J. and Garcia, L.A. (2007) “Hydrologic System for Simulating Reference Flows in the Geum River Basin’ s TMDL Practices”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 27th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 19-21.
  20. Elhaddad, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2006) “Detecting Soil Salinity Levels in Agricultural Lands Using Satellite Imagery”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing annual conference, Reno, NV, May 1-5.
  21. Elgaali, E., Elhaddad, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2006) “Estimating Lawn Irrigation Requirements Using Aerial Photography and GIS”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the American Water Resources Association specialty conference on Geographic Information Systems and Water Resources IV, Houston, TX, May 8-10.
  22. Elhaddad, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2006) “Using Remote Sensing and GIS to Detect Soil Salinity”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the American Water Resources Association specialty conference on Geographic Information Systems and Water Resources IV, Houston, TX, May 8-10.
  23. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2006) “Potential Contributions of Residuals for Better Prediction of Soil Salinity from Remote Sensing Data”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 26th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 20-22.
  24. Elgaali, E. and Garcia, L.A. (2006) “Effects of Climate Change on the Distribution of the Arkansas River Flow”. Published in the proceedings of the 26th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 20-22.
  25. Eldeiry, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Comparison of Three Regression Models to Assess Soil Salinity from Remote Sensing Data”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the International Salinity Forum: Managing Saline Soils and Water: Science, Technology, and Social Issues, Riverside, CA, April 25-28.
  26. Eldeiry, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Predicting Soil Salinity in Alfalfa Fields Using Remote Sensing Data”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the International Salinity Forum: Managing Saline Soils and Water: Science, Technology, and Social Issues, Riverside, CA, April 25-28.
  27. Elhaddad, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Methodology for Quantifying Soil Salinity Using Remotely Sensed Data”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the International Salinity Forum: Managing Saline Soils and Water: Science, Technology, and Social Issues, Riverside, CA, April 25-28.
  28. Jaramillo, A., Garcia, L.A., and Gates, T. (2005) “Water Application and Irrigation Efficiencies in Selected Fields in the Arkansas River Valley (CO)”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 25th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 7-9.
  29. Elgaali, E. and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Sensitivity of Irrigation Water Supply to Climate Change in the Great Plains Region of Colorado”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 24th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 7-9.
  30. Matter, M, Garcia, L.A. and Fontane, D. (2005) “Influence of Hydroclimate on Characteristics of Hydrograph Evolution in Snowmelt-Dominated River System”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 25th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 7-9.
  31. Eldeiry, A., Garcia, L.A., and Reich, R. (2005) “Estimating Soil Salinity from Remote Sensing Data in Corn Fields”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 25th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 7-9.
  32. Garcia, L.A. and Elhaddad A. (2005) “Use of Energy Balance Approach to Compute ET in the Arkansas Valley in Colorado”. Presented at the Reclamation ET Workshop: State of the Art Review of ET Remote Sensing Science and Technology”, Fort Collins, CO, February 8-10. Pages 210-215.
  33. Garcia, L.A. (2004) ”User Centered Approach to Develop Decision Support Systems – Estimating Pumping and Augmentation Flow Needs in the South Platte Basin in Colorado”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on Water Rights and Related Water Supply Issues October 13-16, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  34. David, O., Viger, R. J., Schneider, I.A. and Garcia, L.A. (2004) “Geospatial Interoperability in Modeling Frameworks – The ‘GEOLEM’ Approach”, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society (IEMSS) 2004 Conference – Complexity and Integrated Resource Management, Osnabruck, Germany, June 14-17, Vol. 1, p. 420-427.
  35. Elgaali, E. and Garcia, L.A. (2004) “Neural Network Modeling of Climate Change Impacts on Irrigation Water Supplies in Arkansas River Basin”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 24th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 10-12.
  36. Eldeiry, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2004) “Spatial Modeling using Remote Sensing, GIS, and Field Data to Assess Crop Yield and Soil Salinity”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 24th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 10-12.
  37. Eldeiry, A., Garcia, L.A., Ahmed Samy A. El-Zaher and El-Sherbini, M. (2004) “Furrow Irrigation System Design for Clay Soils in Arid Regions”. Published in the proceedings of the 24th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 10-12.
  38. Garcia, L.A., Daniel Gillham, David Patterson and Blair Hanna (2002) “A Decision Support System for Field Drainage Management”. Published in the proceedings of Energy, Climate, Environment and Water—Issues and Opportunities for Irrigation and Drainage, July 9-12, 2002, San Luis Obispo, CA.
  39. Garcia, L.A. and Foged, N. (2002) “Field Scale Monitoring and Modeling of Salinity and Waterlogging in the Lower Arkansas River Basin of Colorado”. Published in the proceedings of the Central Plains Irrigation Short Course and Exposition, February 5-6, Lamar, CO.
  40. Garcia, L.A., Patterson, D., Bender, M. and Kinerson, R. (1998) “Development of Water Quality Modeling Framework”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the First Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, April 19-13, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  41. Engelmann, C., and Garcia, L.A. (1998) “Comparison of ET estimates calculated from the Penman- Monteith and the FAO-24 Blaney-Criddle equations using GIS”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the American Geophysical Union. 18th Annual “Hydrology Days”, March 30-April 3, 1998, Fort Collins, CO.
  42. Mahmoud, M., and Garcia, L.A. (1995) “Multi-criteria Decision Support System Implementation and Application”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water and Environmental Management: Concepts, Approaches, and Applications, July 23-28, 1995, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  43. Vadas, R. G., Garcia, L. A., and Labadie, J.W. (1994) “A Methodology for Water Quantity and Quality Assessment for Wetland Development”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the Living with Water—International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 1994.
  44. Garcia, L.A., Meyer, S., Vadas, R., and Crossman, J. (1993) “A Decision Support System for Wetland Development”. Presented at the Application of Advanced Information Technologies for Management of Natural Resources, sponsored by ASAE, Spokane, Washington, June 1993.
  45. Garcia, L.A., Armbruster, M., Buehler, K., and Williams, G. (1993) “A Spatially Based Decision Support System for Evaluation of Wildlife Habitat”. Presented at the Application of Advanced Information Technologies for Management of Natural Resources, sponsored by ASAE, Spokane, Washington, June 1993.
  46. Garcia L.A., Gates T.K., Jensen M.E., Podmore T.H. and Durnford D.H. (1993) “Management Support System for Conjunctive Irrigation and Drainage”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the 15th Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, sponsored by ICID-CIID, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 4-5, 1993.
  47. Strzepek, K.M. and Garcia, L.A. (1987) “Optimal Design of Tile Drains Under Uncertainty in Soil Properties”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the Fifth National Drainage Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 1987.
  48. Strzepek, K.M., Garcia, L.A. and Christopher J. (1985) “A CAD Approach to Training Engineers on Analysis of Uncertainty and Risk in Drainage Design.” Reviewed Paper, USCID Tenth Technical Conference on Irrigation Drainage and Flood Control, Reno, Nov. 1985.
  49. Strzepek, K.M., Garcia, L.A. and Sullivan G. (1985) “A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Model for Reservoir Operation Using Lotus 1-2-3.” ASCE Computer Applications in Water Resources, Buffalo, New York, June 1985.

Newsletter Articles

  1. Chalghaf I., Elhaddad A., Garcia L.A., Lecina S. (2014) “Generar información regional detallada para entender mejor el regadío”, Agricultura 970, 142-146.
  2. Garcia, L.A., and Patterson, D. (2011) “A User-Centered Approach to Development of Decision Support Systems for Estimating Pumping and Augmentation Needs in Colorado’s South Platte Basin.” 28(1): 11-14 January/February 2011, Colorado Water Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  3. Oad, R., and Garcia, L.A. (2011) “Decision Support Systems for Efficient Irrigation Water Management in the Middle Rio Grande.” 28(1): 8-10 January/February 2011, Colorado Water Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  4. Garcia, L.A., Gates T.K., Hemphill, R. (2009) “Irrigation Monitoring in the Lower Arkansas River Valley of Colorado.” 26 (3): 8-9 May/June 2009, Colorado Water Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  5. Gates T.K., Labadie J.W., and Garcia, L.A. (2009) “Discovering Favorable Prospects for the Lower Arkansas River Basin Using Data-Supported Decision Tools.” 26 (3): 2-4 May/June 2009, Colorado Water Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  6. Garcia, L.A. (2007) “South Consensus Development for Augmentation Accounting” Published in Colorado Water, 24 (5): 20-22 October/November 2007, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  7. Garcia, L.A. and Patterson, D. (2005) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program” Published in Colorado Water, April 2005, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  8. Garcia, L.A. (2004) “Employing ‘Sound Science’ to Conjunctively Manage Surface and Ground Water.” Published in Colorado Water, April 2004, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  9. Patterson, L., and Garcia, L.A. (2003) “User Centered Decision Support Tools for Computing Augmentation Requirements in the South Platte River.” Published in Colorado Water, October 2003, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  10. Garcia, L.A., Elhaddad, A., Foged, N., Eldeiry, A., and Lange R. (2001) “Monitoring and Modeling Salinity and its Impacts on Irrigated Fields in Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Basin.” Published in Colorado Water, February 2001, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  11. Khosla, R., and Garcia, L. (2001) “Using GIS Technologies to Monitor the Ogallala Aquifer.” Published in Colorado Water, February 2001, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.
  12. Garcia, L.A., and Lange B. (2000) “SPMAP Provides Comprehensive Tool for Mapping and Analysis of South Platte.” Published in Colorado Water, December 2000, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Ft. Collins, CO.

Presentations at Conferences, Symposia or Workshops

  1. Jobin-Davis, E., Underwood, K., Dewoolkar, M., Hamshaw, S., Garcia, L. and Rizzo, D. (2018) “Educational Applications of an Enhanced Augmented Reality Sandbox”. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 10-14, Washington, D.C.
  2. Panel member of the “Spurring Research and Development of New Technologies in Vermont” panel at the Vermont Council on Rural Development’s summit on Creating Prosperity and Opportunity Confronting Climate Change, February 19, 2015, Randolph, VT.
  3. Garcia, L.A., Elhaddad, A., Altenhofen, J. and Hattendorf, M. (2013) “Developing Corn Regional Crop Coefficients Using a Satellite-Based Energy Balance Model (ReSET) in the South Platte Area of Colorado”. Presented at the USCID Conference on “The Agriculture/Urban Water Interface — Conflicts and Opportunities”, October 22 – October 25, Denver, CO.
  4. Alzraiee, A. and Garcia, L., (2012) “Modeling the Spatial and Temporal Impacts of Salinity and Waterlogging with the CSUID Model”. Presented and published in the proceedings of the USCID Conference on “Managing Irrigation Systems in Today’s Environment”, October 13-16, Reno, NV.
  5. Garcia, L., Manana, N., Oad, R., and Dietrich-Kinzli, K., (2012) “Development of SCADA and Decision Support Systems for the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District”. Presented at the USCID Conference on “Irrigated Agriculture Responds to Water Use Challenges – Strategies for Success”, April 3-6, Austin, TX.
  6. Huber, D., Butters, G. and Garcia, L. (2011) ” Solution Chemistry Effects On Soil Hydraulic Properties: Changes with Changing Soil Water Content”. Poster presentation at the ASA, CSSA and SSSA Annual Meetings, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 16-19, 2011.
  7. Elhaddad, A., Garcia, L., Altenhofen and M. Hattendorf (2011) “Developing Early and Late Planted Corn Regional Crop Coefficients Using A Satellite–Based Energy Balance Model (Reset) in the South Platte River Area of Colorado”. Presented at the 31th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 21-23, 2011.
  8. Elhaddad, A., Garcia, L., J. Altenhofen (2011) “Evaluating the Accuracy of Using a Surface Energy Balance Model (ReSET) to Estimate Water Use in Agricultural Fields”. UCOWR/NIWR Annual Conference, Boulder, CO, July 12-14.
  9. Eldeiry, A., Garcia, L. (2011) “Using linear and nonlinear kriging and cokriging techniques with remote sensing data to estimate soil salinity”. UCOWR/NIWR Annual Conference, Boulder, CO, July 12-14.
  10. Garcia, L. and Elhaddad, A. (2010) “Applications of A Surface Energy Based Remote Sensing Model (ReSET) To Irrigation Water Management”. Presented at the USBR-Alliance University Applied Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration Conference, Desert Research Institute (DRI), Las Vegas, NV August 16-18.
  11. Elhaddad, A. and Garcia, L. (2010) “Using A Surface Energy Model (ReSET) To Determine The Spatial Variability Of ET Within And Between Agricultural Fields”. Presented at the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, July18-21, Denver, CO.
  12. Garcia, L. (2010) “IDSCU – Software for Consumptive Use Calculations”. Presented at the Evapotranspiration Workshop: Using the best science to estimate consumptive use. Fort Collins, CO, March 12, 2010.
  13. Garcia, L. (2010) “Remote sensing to improve ET estimates”. Presented at the Evapotranspiration Workshop: Using the best science to estimate consumptive use. Fort Collins, CO, March 12, 2010.
  14. Panel member of the “Water for Food, Energy and the Environment: Where Does Policy Meet Applications?” panel at the USCID Conference on Irrigation and Drainage for Food, Energy and the Environment, November 3-6, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  15. Elhaddad, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2009) “ReSET-Raster a Surface Energy Balance Model for Calculating Evapotranspiration using a Raster”. Presented at the 2009 GIS of the Rockies, Longmont, CO, September 16.
  16. Elhaddad A., and Garcia L. (2009) “Calculating ET and Crop Coefficients for the South Platte Using a Surface Energy Balance Model (ReSET)”. Presented at the 29th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 25-27, 2009.
  17. Kinzli K., Oad R., Garcia L., Patterson D., and Gensler D. (2009) “Improving Irrigation System Performance through Scheduled Water Delivery in the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District”. Presented at the 29th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 25-27,2009.
  18. Alzraiee A., and Garcia L. (2009) “Modeling Spatial and Temporal Variability in Irrigation and Drainage Systems: Improvements to the Colorado State Irrigation and Drainage Model (CSUID)”. Presented at the 29th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 25-27, 2009.
  19. Kinzli K., Oad R., Garcia L., Patterson, D., Shafike N. and Gensler D. (2008) “Efficient Irrigation Water Management in the Middle Rio Grande using Decision-support Models and Infrastructure Modernization”. Presented at the 28th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 26-28, 2008.
  20. Panel member of the “Sharing Water in Times of Stress and Scarcity” panel at the 28th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 26-28, 2008.
  21. Matter, M., Garcia, L.A. and Fontane, D. (2008) “Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on Climate Cycle Patterns in Temperature and Precipitation over the 20th Century in the Gunnison River Basin”. Presented at the 28th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 26-28, 2008.
  22. Matter, M., Garcia, L.A. and Fontane, D. (2008) “Complementary Temperature/Precipitation Patterns Accompanying Climate Cycles in the Gunnison River Basin & Effects of Climate Change and Land Use”. Presented at the 28th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 26-28, 2008.
  23. Garcia, L.A. (2008) “Colorado River Basin Management: Evaluating and Adjusting to Hydroclimatic Variability”. Presented as part of the Interdisciplinary Water Resources Seminar at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, January 31, 2008.
  24. Garcia, L.A. (2008) “Refining Water Accounting Procedures Using the South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”. Presented at the Colorado Water Congress, Denver, CO, January 25, 2008.
  25. Oad R., Garcia L., Kinzli K., Shafike N. and Gensler D. (2007) “Modernization of Irrigation Operations and Management in the Middle Rio Grande Irrigation System”. Presented at the American Water Resources Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. November 12-15, 2007.
  26. Garcia, L.A. (2007) “Modeling Well Augmentation: From Computers to Satellites”. Presented at the 18th Annual South Platte Forum, Longmont, CO, October 24-25, 2007.
  27. Oad R., Garcia L., Kinzli K., Shafike N. and Gensler D. (2007) “Decision-Support Systems for Efficient Irrigation in the Middle Rio Grande”. Presented at the 2007 USCID Fourth International Conference on Irrigation and Drainage, Sacramento, CA. October 3-6, 2007.
  28. Oad R., Garcia L., Kinzli K. and Shafike N. (2007) “Decision-Support Systems for Efficient Irrigation Operations in the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District”. Presented at the 2007 New Mexico Water Research Symposium, Macey Center, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM. August 14, 2007.
  29. Elhaddad, A., Garcia, L.A. and Gates, T.K. (2007) “A Remote Sensing – GIS Approach to Evaluate the Effects of Soil Salinity on Evapotranspiration”. Presented at the 27th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 19-21.
  30. Matter, M., Garcia, L.A. and Fontane, D. (2006) “Linking Fall and Spring Streamflow, Temperature and Precipitation Conditions: A Case Study of the Gunnison River Basin”. Presented at the MTNCLIM 2006 Conference, September 19-22, Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon.
  31. Oad, L. A. Garcia, K-D. Kinzli and D. Patterson (2006) “Decision support systems for efficient irrigated agriculture”. Presented at the First International Conference on Sustainable Irrigation 2006, Bologna, Italy, September 5-7.
  32. Garcia, L.A. and Elhaddad, A. (2006), “Impact of Salinity on ET – Use of the Model Remove Sensing of ET (RESET) to Estimate Impact in the Arkansas River Basin in Colorado”. Presented at the American Water Resources Association specialty conference on Geographic Information Systems and Water Resources IV, Houston, TX May 8-10.
  33. Garcia, L.A. and Elhaddad, A. (2006), “Model for Calculating ET Using Remote Sensing (ReSET): Applications in Colorado”. Presented at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing annual conference, Reno, NV, May 1-5.
  34. Matter, M., Garcia, L.A. and Fontane, D. (2006) “Variations in Precipitation and Temperature Signals and Characteristic Responses in Autumn and Spring Seasonal Hydrographs: Implications to Water Resource Management in the Gunnison River Basin”. Presented at the 26th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 20-22.
  35. Elhaddad, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2006) “Using LANDSAT imagery for detecting soil salinity in corn fields: calibration and validation”. Presented at the 26th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 20-22.
  36. Jaramillo, A., Garcia, L.A. and Gates, T. (2006) “Preliminary Results of Detailed Field Measurements of On-Farm Water Management in the Lower Arkansas River Basin in Colorado”. Presented at the 26th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 20-22.
  37. Gates and L.A. Garcia (2006) “Assessing Benefits of Improved Irrigation Practices for Crop Productivity & Environmental Health Along the Arkansas River”. Presented at the 2006 Drip Irrigation & Water Quality Workshop, Sponsored by the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, Rocky Ford, CO, March 14.
  38. Garcia, L.A. and Gates, T. (2006) “Toward Successful Pilot Implementation of Strategies for Remediation of A Salinity-Threatened Irrigated Watershed” poster accepted for presentation at the USDA-CSREES, National Water Conference, Research, Extension and Education for Water Quality and Quantity, San Antonio, TX, February 5-9.
  39. A. Matter, L. A. Garcia, D. G. Fontane, (2005) “Coupled Teleconnections and River Dynamics for Enhanced Hydrologic Forecasting in the Upper Colorado River Basin USA”. Presented at the American Geophysical Union, Fall 2005 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9.
  40. Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Salinity in Colorado – Lessons from the Arkansas River Basin”, Lower South Platte Watershed Meeting, Sterling, CO, October 19, 2005.
  41. A. Matter, L. A. Garcia, D. G. Fontane, (2005) “Influence of Hydroclimate on Seasonal and Diel Hydrograph Evolution in Snowmelt-Dominated River Systems”. Open Science Conference on Global Change in Mountain Regions in Perth, Scotland, Oct 2-6, 2005.
  42. Elhaddad, A. and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Detecting Soil Salinity Levels in Agricultural Lands Using Satellite Imagery”. Presented at the 2005 GIS of the Rockies, Denver, CO, September 22.
  43. Garcia, L. A. and Elhaddad, A. (2005) “Detecting ET Using Landsat Imagery: Applications in Colorado”. Presented at the 2005 GIS of the Rockies, Denver, CO, September 22.
  44. Garcia, L.A., Elhaddad, A., Elgaali, E. and Eldeiry, A. (2005) “Generating Land Cover Maps for Urban Areas Using Aerial Photography”. Presented at the 2005 GIS of the Rockies, Denver, CO, September 22.
  45. Elhaddad, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Detecting Soil Salinity Levels in Agricultural Lands Using Satellite Imagery”. Accepted for presentation at the Twenty-Fifth Annual ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, CA, July 25-29.
  46. Gates, T. and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Salinity and Selenium”. Presented at the 2005 Arkansas River Basin Water Forum, Trinidad, CO, April 7-8th.
  47. Garcia, L.A. and Elhaddad, A. (2005) “Calculating ET Using Satellite Imagery in the Arkansas Valley of Colorado”. Presented at the 25th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 7-9.
  48. Garcia, L.A., Elhaddad, A., Elgaali, E. and Eldeiry, A. (2005) “Generating Land Cover Maps for Urban Areas Using Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photography”. Presented at the 25th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 7-9.
  49. Eldeiry, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Evaluation of Application Efficiency of Furrow Irrigation Systems in Clay Soils”. Presented at the 25th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 7-9.
  50. Matter, M, and Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Hydrograph Evolution In Snowmelt-Dominated River Systems”. Poster presented at the MTNCLIM 2005, Chico Hot Springs, MO, March 1-4.
  51. Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Colorado State University South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP) Experiences with Technology Transfer”. Presented at the Reclamation ET Workshop: State of the Art Review of ET Remote Sensing Science and Technology”, Fort Collins, CO, February 8-10.
  52. Garcia, L.A. and Saunde, P. (2005) “ET Work in the Great Plains Region of the USBR”. Presented at the Reclamation ET Workshop: State of the Art Review of ET Remote Sensing Science and Technology”, Fort Collins, CO, Feb. 8-10.
  53. Garcia, L.A. (2005) “Overview of Modeling and Monitoring Salinity and Waterlogging in the Arkansas River Basin”. Presented at the Arkansas Valley Farm/Ranch Symposium & Trade Show, Rocky Ford, CO, January 6.
  54. Garcia, L.A. (2004) “Finding Ways to Reduce Salinity on the Farmland in the Arkansas River Basin” ½ day workshop, Lamar, CO, November 10.
  55. Elgaali, E. and Garcia, L.A. (2004) “Quantification of Climate Change Impacts on Irrigation Water Demand in the Arkansas River Basin- Spatial Approach”. Presented at the 24th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 10-12.
  56. Garcia, L.A. (2004) “New Capabilities of the South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program—Estimating Consumptive Use of Groundwater and Depletions to the South Platte in Colorado”. Presented at the 24th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 10-12.
  57. David, O., Viger, R. and Garcia, L.A. (2004) “Geospatial Interoperability in Modeling Frameworks— The ‘GEOLEM’ Approach”. Presented at the 24th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 10- 12.
  58. Matter, M.A., Garcia, L.A., and Fontane, D. (2004) “Requirements of Endangered Fishes and Water Supply Forecasting: Use of Physical Characteristics of Streamflows in Snowmelt-Dominated Rivers”. Presented at the 24th Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 10-12.
  59. Garcia, L.A. (2004) “Update on South Platte Map and its Use in Implementing Senate Bill 73”. Presented at the Colorado Water Congress, Denver, CO, January 29.
  60. Garcia, L.A. (2003) “User Centered Decision Support Tools for Computing Augmentation Requirements in the South Platte River”. Presented at the Groundwater Workshop sponsored by the Colorado Water Congress, Denver, CO, November 14th.
  61. Garcia, L.A. (2003) “Pumping and Augmentation in the South Platte: Impacts and Opportunities”. Assessing the Impacts of Prolonged Severe Drought on Aquatic Ecosystems and Water Quality of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Fort Collins, April 3-4.
  62. Elhaddad, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2003) “Soil Salinity Mapping Using Satellite Images”. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 31-April 2.
  63. Garcia, L.A., and Patterson, D. (2003) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP) Water Management Tools for the Lower South Platte Basin”. Poster presented at the In Service Training, Colorado Cooperative Extension, Fort Collins, CO, Feb. 26th.
  64. Hanna, B. Garcia, L.A., and Loftis, J. (2003) “Modeling Selinium Loading Throughout the Uncomphagre Basin”. Poster presented at the In Service Training, Colorado Cooperative Extension, Fort Collins, CO, Feb. 26th.
  65. Garcia, L.A. (2003) “Improving Estimates of Augmentation Flow Needs through Information Technology”. Presented at the Colorado Water Congress, Denver, CO, January 23.
  66. Garcia, L.A., Hanna, B. and Loftis, J. (2003) “Managing Selinium in the Upper Colorado River Basin”. Poster presented at the USDA-CSREES National Water Quality Coordinators Conference Tucson, Arizona, January 12-15.
  67. Hanna, B., Garcia, L.A. and Loftis, J. (2002) “Modeling Selenium Loading Throughout the Uncompahgre Basin”. Poster presented at the Mancos Landscapes: Science and Management Workshop, Grand Junction, CO, June 10-13.
  68. Garcia, L.A. (2001) “Arkansas River Drainage Basin: Providing a Better Understanding of Field Scale Processes in the Presence of Saline, Shallow Watertables”. Presented at Searching for Solutions “A Colorado Salinity/Selenium Symposium and Workshop”, Colorado Springs, CO, October 4-5.
  69. Garcia, L.A. (2001) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”. Presented at the 2001 GIS of the Rockies Conference, Denver, CO, September 20.
  70. Garcia, L.A. (2001) “Salinity Study in the Lower Arkansas River Basin”. Presented at the 2001 Arkansas River Basin Water Forum, Lamar, CO, March 23.
  71. Garcia, L.A. (2001) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”. Presented at the 21st Annual Hydrology Days, April 2-5, 2001, Ft. Collins, CO.
  72. Garcia, L.A. (2000) “Field Scale Monitoring of Salinity in the Arkansas River Basin”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Society for Engineering in Agriculture, Food, and Biological Systems (ASAE), Lamar, CO, November 3.
  73. Garcia, L.A., and Lange, B. (2000) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”. Poster presented at the 2000 South Platte Forum, Longmont, CO, October
  74. Garcia, L.A., Elhaddad, A., and Patterson, D. (2000) “Modeling Irrigation and Drainage System for Drainage Water Quality Management”. Presented at the International Challenges Facing Irrigation and Drainage in the New Millennium, June 20-24, 2000, Ft. Collins, CO.
  75. Elhaddad, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2000) “Field Scale Monitoring of Salinity in the Arkansas River Basin”. Presented at the 20th Annual Hydrology Days, April 3-6, 2000, Ft. Collins, CO.
  76. Shigidi, A., and Garcia, L.A. (2000) “Solving the Inverse Problem in Groundwater Flow by Iterative Inversion of a Neural Network”. Presented at the 20th Annual Hydrology Days, April 3-6, 2000, Ft. Collins, CO.
  77. Garcia, L.A. (1999) “Agricultural Drainage Planning Program (ADPP)”. Presented as part of the US Bureau of Reclamation Biennial Groundwater-Drainage Workshop, Denver, CO, April 20, 1999.
  78. Garcia, L.A. (1998) “Geographic Information Systems for Groundwater Agencies”. Presented at the Groundwater Management Districts Association Summer Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, June 1, 1998.
  79. Garcia, L.A. (1998) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program.” Presented at the 1998 South Platte Forum, Longmont, CO, October 18.
  80. Garcia, L.A. (1998) “Consumptive Use Model”. Presented at the Colorado Water Officials Association, Steamboat Springs, CO, October 1.
  81. Garcia, L.A., and Wind, B. (1997) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”. Computer demonstration at ESRI/GIS Users Group Meeting, June 19, Fort Collins, CO.
  82. Mejía-Navarro, M., and Garcia, L.A. (1996) “Integrated Planning Decision Support System (IPDS) Application: Glenwood Springs, Colorado”. Poster presented at the ASCE Natural Disaster Reduction international conference and exposition, December 3-5, Washington, D.C.
  83. Mejía-Navarro, M,. and Garcia, L.A. (1996) “Integrated Planning Decision Support System (IPDS)”. Paper presented at the ASCE Natural Disaster Reduction international conference and exposition, December 3-5, Washington, DC.
  84. Manguerra, H.B., and Garcia, L.A. (1996) “A Management System for Sustainable Crop Production Under Reduced Drainage Conditions”. Paper presented in the 1996 ASAE Annual International Meeting in July 14-18, 1996, Phoenix, AZ.
  85. Meyer, S., Stiles, E., and Garcia, L.A. (1996) “Demonstration of Wetscape: A Terrain-Based Decision Support Modeling for Planning Wetland Restoration and Management”. Computer demonstration at consev”96, sponsored by ASCE, AWRA, and AWWWA, 4-8 January, 1996, Orlando, Florida.
  86. Garcia, L.A., and Manguerra, H. (1995) “Colorado River Decision Support System – Consumptive Use Model”. Presented at Evaporation and Irrigation Efficiency Seminar, sponsored by the American Consulting Engineers Council of Colorado and the Colorado Division of Water Resources, October 10- 11, 1995, Arvada, CO.
  87. Meyer, S., Stiles, E., and Garcia, L.A. (1996) “Demonstration of Wetscape: A Terrain-Based Decision Support Modeling for Planning Wetland Restoration and Management”. Presented at Conserve 1996, sponsored by ASCE, AWRA, and AWWWA, 4-8 January, 1996, Orlando, Florida.
  88. Mahmoud, M., and Garcia, L.A. (1995) “Multi-criteria Decision Support System Implementation and Application”. Presented at the First International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water and Environmental Management: Concepts, Approaches, and Applications, July 23-28, 1995, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  89. Manguerra, H., and Garcia, L.A. (1995) “Salinity Management Modeling and Implementation Issues in Irrigation and Drainage Systems”. Presented at the ASCE First International Conference on Water Resources Engineering, summer 1995, San Antonio, TX.
  90. Garcia, L.A., Manguerra, H., and Bennett, R. (1995) “Crop Consumptive Use Model using GIS and Databases”. Presented at the ASCE First International Conference on Water Resources Engineering, summer 1995, San Antonio, TX.
  91. Mahmoud, M., and Garcia, L.A. (1995) “Multi-criteria Decision Support System Implementation and Application”. Presented at the American Geophysical Union. 15th Annual Hydrology Days, April 3-7, 1995, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
  92. Meyer, S., Garcia, L.A., and Stiles, E. (1995) “Decision Support Modeling for Wetlands”. Presented at the Western Wetlands and Water Quality Workshop, sponsored the US Bureau of Reclamation, US Army Corps of Engineers, and Eastern Municipal Water District, 11-14 September, 1995, Ontario, California.
  93. Manguerra, H.B., Garcia, L.A., and Quinn, N. (1994) “A Model for Evaluating Irrigation Induced Water Quality Problems in Irrigation and Drainage Systems”. Presented at the 1994 International Summer Meeting, June 19-22, 1994, Kansas City, Missouri.
  94. Mejía-Navarro, M., and Garcia, L.A. (1994) “Model for Integrated Planning Decision Support (IPDS) in Land-use Incorporating Geological Hazards, Vulnerability, and Risk Assessment”. Conferencia Interamericana sobre Reduccion de los Desastres Naturales, Cartagena, Colombia. March 21- 24, 1994, section A-07, 22 p.
  95. Garcia, L.A., Vadas, R., Meyer, S., Ternlund, J., and Cunningham, J. (1994) “The Use of Decision Support Systems in Wetland Development at a Landscape Level”. Presented at the 21th Annual Conference of the Water Resources Planning and Management Division, May 23-26, 1994, Denver, CO.
  96. Meyer, S., Vadas, R., Ternlund, J., and Garcia, L.A. (1993)”A Decision Support System for Wetland Development at a Landscape Level”. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Thirteenth Annual “Hydrology Days”, March 30-April 2, 1993, Fort Collins, CO.
  97. Garcia, L.A. (1993) “Decision Support System—A Planning Tool”. Presented to Easter Municipal Water District, San Jacinto, CA, January 1993.
  98. Garcia L.A., Valdes J.B., and Strzepek K.M. (1990) “Impact of Changes in Weather Patterns on Irrigation and Drainage Systems”. American Geophysical Union Tenth Annual “Hydrology Days”, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, April 1990.
  99. Garcia, L.A., Nevo, A., and Armbruster, M. (1993) “A Spatially Based Decision Support System for Evaluation and Planning of Wildlife Habitat”. Presented at the 1993 U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage/U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 1993 Seminar titled: Environmental Enhancements of Water Projects, Sacramento, CA, Oct. 14-15.
  100. Nevo, A., and Garcia, L.A. (1993) “Spatial Optimization of Wildlife Habitat”. Presented at the 1993 International Summer Meeting sponsored by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Canadian Society of Agricultural Engineers, Spokane, Washington, June 20-23, 1993.
  101. Garcia L.A., Gates T.K., Jensen M.E., and Podmore T.H. (1992) “Management Support System for Conjunctive Irrigation and Drainage”. Presented at the Sixth International Drainage Symposium, Nashville, Tennessee, Dec. 1992.
  102. Garcia L.A., Strzepek K.M. and Podmore T.H. (1990) “Design of Conjunctive Irrigation and Drainage System”. Presented at the Visions of the Future, Third National Irrigation Symposium, Phoenix, Oct. 1990.
  103. Strzepek, K.M. and Garcia, L.A. (1989) “An Intelligent Planning Tool for Emergency Operation of Multipurpose Reservoir Systems”. Computerized Decision Support Systems for Water Managers ASCE 3rd Water Resources Operations and Management Workshop: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, June 1989.
  104. Garcia, L.A., Strzepek, K.M., and Podmore, T.H. (1989) “Design of Conjunctive Irrigation and Drainage Systems”. ASAE International Winter Meeting, New Orleans, December 1989.
  105. Garcia, L.A., Strzepek, K.M., and Podmore, T.H. (1989) “Robustness: A Criterion for Drainage Design”. ASAE International Winter Meeting, New Orleans, December 1989.
  106. Garcia, L.A., and Strzepek, K.M. (1988) “CURVENUMBER: An Expert System for Parameter Identification in Rainfall-Runoff Models”. Special Session on Expert Systems in Water Resources, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 9 December 1988.
  107. Garcia, L.A., and Strzepek, K.M. (1987) “SPILL: An Advanced Decision Support System for Evaluation of Spillways”. Presented at the Computational Hydrology, First International Conference, Anaheim, July 1987.
  108. Strzepek, K.M., and Garcia, L.A. (1987) “A Decision Support System for Tile Drainage Design”. Third International Workshop on Land Drainage, Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 1987.
  109. Strzepek, K.M., Garcia, L.A., and Christopher J. (1987) “A Decision Support Package for Title Drainage Design”. Fifth National Drainage Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 1987.

Reports

  1. Gates, T.K, Garcia, L.A., Hemphill, R.A., Morway, E.D. and Elhaddad, A. (2012) “Irrigation Practices, Water Consumption, & Return Flows in Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Valley”. Completion Report No. 221.
  2. Gates, T.K, Garcia, L.A., and Labadie, J.W. (2006) “Toward Optimal Water Management in Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Valley: Monitoring and Modeling to Enhance Agriculture & Environment”. Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Report TR-6-10.
  3. Garcia, L.A. Patterson, D., Patterson, L., Altenhofen, J., Hall, J.R., (2005) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP) Decision Support Tools for the Lower South Platte”. Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Completion Report No. 1203, May 2005.
  4. Bohren, L., Breeze, P., Byerly, R., Galvin, K., Garcia, L., Hahn, L., Hobbs, T. N., Kleinshmit, M., Lackett, J., Miller, K., Morgan, J., Ojima, D., Webb, R.S. (2002) “Preparing for a Changing Climate: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change”. Colorado State University, Natural Ecology Lab., Fort Collins, CO.
  5. Garcia, L.A. Patterson, D., Lange, R.W., Altenhofen, J., Hall, J.R., Leaf, F., and Odor, J. (2001) “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP) Decision Support Tools for the Lower South Platte”. Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Completion Report No. 193, January 2001.
  6. Raymond, J.H., Garcia, L.A., and Lange, R. (1996) “Evaluation of SAMSON for Use in a South Platte Decision Support System”. Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Completion Report No. 191, December 1996.
  7. Claessens, L., Garcia, L.A., Lange, R., and Jensen, M. (1994) “Reference Evapotranspiration Maps for Colorado.”.Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Completion Report No. 182, January 1994.
  8. Garcia, L.A., and Lange, R. (1993) “Capability Assessment of the Integrated River Basin Environmental Management (IREM) Model for Application to the Kendrick Project”. Integrated Decision Support Group, Technical Publication, October 1993.
  9. Strzepek, K.M., Garcia, L.A., and Over, T.M. (1989) “MITSIM 2.1 River Basin Simulation Model User Manual”. Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems, Technical Publication, May 1989.
  10. Garcia, L.A. (1985) “A Computer Aided Design of Agricultural Drains Under Uncertainty in Soil Properties”. TEES Technical Report, Dec. 1985.

Invited International Lectures

  1. Invited Plenary Session Keynote speaker, “Challenges and Opportunities for Improvements in Remote Sensing Technology for Water Resources Management”, International Conference on Research and Technology Development for Sustainable Water Resources Management (REDWARM), Cairo, Egypt, December 4, 2016.
  2. Invited Plenary Technical Session Keynote speaker, “Use of Remote Sensing to Estimate and Monitor Water Use and Salinity in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions”, International Conference on Research and Technology Development for Sustainable Water Resources Management (REDWARM), Cairo, Egypt, December 5, 2016.
  3. Invited Keynote speaker – II International Conference on Water in Arid and Semiarid Lands, 09 to 12 of September 2007, Gravatá (Pernambuco), Brazil. Organized by ABRH – Assocoiação Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos, International Center of Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies at Texas Tech University, UFPE – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and by UFRPE – Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco.
  4. Invited speaker on Decision Support Systems at a NATO-Russian Advanced Research Workshop on “Flood Satellite Forecasting and Flood Risk Assessment” held in Khanty-Mansiisk, Siberia, May 28-29, 2004.

Invited Presentations

  1. “How Analytical Solutions and AWAS Compute Depletions and Accretions”. Presented at the Colorado Aquifer Management Conference, Denver Colorado, November 28-29, 2012.
  2. “The Use of Remote Sensing Techniques to Determine Evapotranspiration”. Presented at the Colorado Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program on Evapotranspiration, Denver, CO, October 12, 2012.
  3. “Consumptive Use Modeling — From Computers to Satellites”. Presented at the Groundwater Management District Association Summer 2007 Conference, Estes Park, CO, June 5, 2007.
  4. “Impacts of Management and Technology”. Presented at the 2006 Ogallala Symposium. Wray, CO, February 20, 2006.
  5. “User centered water research as a way to connect university research with needs of Colorado water managers”. Presented at Colorado State University as part of the Creating and Sustaining Constructive Conversations about Water sponsored by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Fort Collins, CO, December 13, 2005.
  6. “Calculating Crop Evapotranspiration and Soil Salinity Using Remote Sensing in the Arkansas Valley of Colorado”. Presented at University of Colorado as part of the Hydrologic Sciences and Water Resources Engineering Seminar Series, Boulder, CO, April 13, 2005.
  7. “Consensus Development of Computer Water Accounting”. Presented at the Colorado Law Conference, Denver, CO, March 7-8, 2005.
  8. “How the System Works—Where the Water Comes From and Where it Goes”. Presented at the Lower South Platter River Symposium, Sterling, CO, February 13, 2003.
  9. “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP)—A Case Study in User Centered Tool Development”. Presented at the Groundwater Management District Association Summer 2002 Conference, Breckenridge, CO, June 13, 2002.
  10. “Field Scale Monitoring and Modeling of Salinity and Waterlogging in the Lower Arkansas River Basin of Colorado”. Presented at the Western Soil Society 2002 Annual Meeting, Fort Collins, CO, June 4, 2002.
  11. “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP)”. Presented as part of the Boulder Creek Watershed Program, Boulder, CO, September 22, 1999.
  12. “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”. Presented at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Western Water Seminar, Boulder, CO, April 9, 1999.
  13. “Limits to Water”. Presented at the Climate Change Impacts on the Great Plains Workshop, Fort Collins, CO, May 27-29, 1997.
  14. “Decision Support Systems for Water Resources”. Presented to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Natural Resources Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, October 10, 1993.
  15. “Integrated Decision Support Systems for Water Resource Management”. Presented at the National Park Service Water Resource Division Natural Resources Management Trainee Program, Fort Collins, CO, May 10-14, 1993.
  16. “Wetland Development at a Landscape Level and the Use of Decision Support Systems”. Presented at the Western Wetland Development and Restoration Workshop, sponsored by the US Bureau of Reclamation, US Army Corps of Engineers, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 14-19, 1992.
  17. “Stochastic Approach to Conjunctive Irrigation and Drainage System Design”. Colorado State University, Agricultural Engineering Seminar Series, 30 March, 1990.
  18. “Conjunctive Design of Irrigation and Drainage Systems”. Drainage Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt, 14 March, 1990.

RESEARCH

Funded Projects

  1. 2013-2017: PI on “STEM-Connect: Career Training in the Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Disciplines”, funded by U.S. Department of Labor $2,749,995 at University of Vermont.
  2. 2011-2013: Co-PI on “Mobile Irrigation Water Management System Using eRAMS Cloud Computing Infrastructure”, funded by USDA-NIFA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture $365,000 at Colorado State University.
  3. 2011-2013: Co-PI on “Assessment of Conservation Practices in Arkansas, Lower St. Francis & Bayou Macon”, funded by USDA-NRCS-Natural Resources Conservation Service $90,000 at Colorado State University.
  4. 2011-2012: Co-PI on “Assessment of Conservation Practices in Arkansas, Cache River Watershed and Bayou Meto Watershed”, funded by USDA-NRCS-Natural Resources Conservation Service $60,000 at Colorado State University.
  5. 2011-2013: PI on “OMS Support of CDSI Tools”, funded by USDA-NRCS-Natural Resources Conservation Service $440,000 at Colorado State University.
  6. 2011-2012: Co-PI on “Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology Supplier Asset Mapping Database Tool”, funded by Colorado Association for Manufacturing Association $39,218 at Colorado State University.
  7. 2011-2012: PI on “Review, Testing, Modification and Incorporation of the Detrended Kriging Spatial Climate Data Distribution Model”, funded by USDA-NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service $195,750 at Colorado State University.
  8. 2011-2013: PI on “Delivery of the OMS-based AGES-W Resource Concerns Assessment Model for Evaluating Water/Nutrient Management”, funded by USDA-NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service $84,417 at Colorado State University.
  9. 2011-2013: PI on “Spatial Data and Implementation Tools for Distributed Watershed Modeling Addressing NRCS Resource Concerns”, funded by the USDA-ARS Agricultural Research Service $326,350 at Colorado State University.
  10. 2011-2013: PI on “Modification and Enhancement of the LCRAS Evapotranspiration Application”, funded by the DOI-Bureau of Reclamation $20,264 at Colorado State University.
  11. 2011-2014: PI on “Use of Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration Model (ReSET) in the South Platte River Basin”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $99,000 at Colorado State University.
  12. 2011-2012: PI on “Natural Resources Technology Delivery through the Object Modeling System (OMS) Framework 2011”, funded by the USDA-NRCS $245,000 at Colorado State University.
  13. 2011-2012: PI on “Remote Sensing of Soil Salinity and Evapotranspiration”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $15,000 at Colorado State University.
  14. 2011-2012: PI on “Review, Testing, Modification and Incorporation of the Detrended Kriging Spatial Climate Date Distribution Model”, funded by the USDA-NRCS, $100,000 at Colorado State University.
  15. 2010-2012: PI on “Use of Remote Sensing for Detecting Soil Salinity and Estimated Evapotranspiration”, funded by the US-Egypt Joint Science Technology Fund $100,374 at Colorado State University.
  16. 2010-2011: PI on “2010 Global Research Alliance Fellowship”, funded by the USDA-Foreign Agricultural Service $33,760 at Colorado State University.
  17. 2010: PI on “Natural Resources Technology Delivery through the Object Modeling System (OMS) Framework 2010”, funded by the USDA-NRCS $220,000 at Colorado State University.
  18. 2009-2012: Co-PI on “A Multi Criteria Decision Tool for the Assessment and Planning of Watershed Management Practices”, funded by the USDA-CSREES-Coop State Research Education and Extension $615,000 at Colorado State University.
  19. 2009-2011: Co-PI on “Development of Crop Coefficients for the South Platte Based on Multi-Temporal High-Resolution Remote Sensing of ET”, funded by the US Bureau of Reclamation $50,000 at Colorado State University.
  20. 2009-2011: PI on “Delivery of a Prototype Field-to-Watershed Scale Model for CEAP Using and Enhanced OMS”, funded by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service $31,200 at Colorado State University.
  21. 2009-2010: PI on “Remote Sensing of Soil Salinity and Evapotranspiration”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $11,000 at Colorado State University.
  22. 2009-2010: PI on “Natural Resources Technology Delivery through the Object Modeling System (OMS) Framework 2009”, funded by the USDA-NRCS $175,000 at Colorado State University.
  23. 2008-2011: PI on “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP): Remote Sensing, Consumption Use and Augmentation Accounting,” funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $102,000 at Colorado State University.
  24. 2008-2013: PI on “Module Development for OMS (Object Management System)”, funded by the USDA-ARS-Agricultural Research Service $170,600 at Colorado State University.
  25. 2008-2010: PI on “Support Implementation and Development of the Object Modeling System”, funded by the USDA-NRCS-Natural Resources Conservation Service $100,000 at Colorado State University.
  26. 2008-2010: PI on “Complete Needed Enhancements of OMS and Delivery of the OMS-Prototype Field to Watershed Scale Model for CEAP”, funded by the USDA-ARS-Agricultural Research Service $50,000 at Colorado State University.
  27. 1997-2013: PI on “Evaluation of Models for a Decision Support System for the South Platte”, funded by several water users associations (Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, Ground Water Appropriators of the South Platte, Lower South Platter River Group Inc., and Lower South Platte Water Conservancy District, City of Greeley, City of Fort Collins, Central Water Conservancy District, State Engineers Office) $271,000 at Colorado State University.
  28. 2008-2009: PI on “Application of System Models to Evaluate and Extend Cropping Systems Studies at Different Great Plains/Northwest Sites”, funded by the USDA-ARS-Agricultural Research Service $72,000 at Colorado State University.
  29. 2008-2009: PI on “Modification of the Integrated Decision Support Consumptive Use Model”, funded the United States Bureau of Reclamation $24,343 at Colorado State University.
  30. 2008-2009: Co-PI on “Late-Season Monitoring of Irrigation Practices Under Conventional and Improved Technologies in Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Basin”, funded by the Colorado State Water Conservation Board $96,664 at Colorado State University.
  31. 2008-2009: PI on “A Remote Sensing – GIS Approach to Evaluate the Effects of Soil Salinity on Evapotranspiration”, funded by Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District $40,238 at Colorado State University.
  32. 2008-2009: Co-PI on “Decision Support Systems for Efficient Irrigation Management in the Middle Rio Grande”, funded by the New Mexico, Interstate Stream Commission $160,893 at Colorado State University.
  33. 2006-2010: PI on “Second Phase: Alliance University Application of Remote Sensing Techniques to Estimating Evapotranspiration”, funded by Central State University through a grant from the Bureau of Reclamation $180,000 at Colorado State University.
  34. 2006-2009: Co-PI on “Observing and Modeling Non-Beneficial Evaporative Upflux from Shallow Ground Water under Uncultivated Land in an Irrigated River Valley”, funded by the State of Colorado $74,942 at Colorado State University.
  35. 2008: Co-PI on “Early-Season Monitoring of Irrigation Practices Under Conventional and Improved Technologies in Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Basin”, funded by the Colorado Division of Water Resources $ 74,233 at Colorado State University.
  36. 2007-2008: Co-PI on “Decision Support Systems for Efficient Irrigation Management in the Middle Rio Grande”, funded by the New Mexico, Interstate Stream Commission $160,893 at Colorado State University.
  37. 2007: PI on “GeoLem Caching and Multithreading Development”, funded by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service $50,000 at Colorado State University.
  38. 2007: Co-PI on “Characterizing Non-beneficial Evaporative Upflux from Shallow Groundwater Under Uncultivated Land in an Irrigated River Valley”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Institute $49,942 at Colorado State University.
  39. 2007-2008: PI on “Refining Water Accounting Procedures Using the South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Institute $22,985 at Colorado State University.
  40. 2007: PI on “Implementation and Development of the Object Modeling System”, funded by the Natural Resources Conservation Service $100,000 at Colorado State University.
  41. 2007: PI on “GeoLem Caching and Multithreading Development”, funded by the Natural Resources Conservation Service $50,000 at Colorado State University.
  42. 2006-2009: PI on “Implementation of a Multi-temporal High Resolution GIS-based Spatial Evapotranspiration Decision Support Tool”, funded by the Bureau of Reclamation $109,579 at Colorado State University.
  43. 2005-2008: Co-PI on “Evaluation of Impact of Best Management Practices”, funded by Colorado Department of Health and Environment $150,000 at Colorado State University.
  44. 2005-2008: PI on “Augmentation Accounting in the South Platte Using the South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $100,500 at Colorado State University.
  45. 2003-2008: PI on “Apply and Enhance the Object Modeling System (OMS) for Building New Models for Field, Farm, and Watershed Scales”, funded by the USDA Agricultural Research Service $821,000 at Colorado State University.
  46. 2006-2007: Co-PI on “Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Implementation and Improvements of Decision Support System”, funded by the New Mexico, Interstate Stream Commission $100,000 at Colorado State University.
  47. 2006-2007: PI on “Remote Sensing of Soil Salinity and Evapotranspiration”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $11,000 at Colorado State University.
  48. 2005-2007: PI on “Subsurface Drainage Research”, funded by the Bureau of Reclamation $100,000 at Colorado State University.
  49. 2005-2007: Co-PI on “Arkansas Valley Research Center Lysimeter”, funded by the Colorado Water Conservation Board $340,000 at Colorado State University.
  50. 2004-2007: PI on “Alliance University Application of Remote Sensing Techniques to Estimating Evapotranspiration”, funded by Central State University through a grant from the USBR $90,000 at Colorado State University.
  51. 2004-2007: PI on “Toward Implementation of Strategies for Remediation of a Salinity-Threatened Irrigated Watershed”, funded by USDA Water Quality Program $495,000 at Colorado State University.
  52. 2004-2007: PI on “Monitoring of Irrigation Amount, Timing, and Crop Yield in the Arkansas River Basin, Colorado”, funded by the Colorado Water Conservation Fund $270,000 at Colorado State University.
  53. 2006: PI on “Calculation of ET using Remote Sensing”, funded by the Bureau of Reclamation $12,000 at Colorado State University.
  54. 2006: PI on “Development of Tools to Estimate Return Flows from the Colorado Big Thompson Project”, funded by Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District $29,900 at Colorado State University.
  55. 2005-2006: PI on “Calculating Soil Salinity and Crop Evapotranspiration in the Arkansas Valley in Colorado Using Remote Sensing”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $15,000 at Colorado State University.
  56. 2004-2006: PI on “Field-Scale Assessment of Improved Irrigation Practice Impacts on Drainage Water Dissolved Chemical Constituents and Stream Salt-Loading Vulnerability of Receiving Waters”, funded by EPA 319 funds through the Southeast Colorado Resource Conservation and Development Inc. $87,000 at Colorado State University.
  57. 2004-2006: Co-PI on “Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Operational Improvements and Decision Support System”, funded by the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission $265,800 at Colorado State University.
  58. 2001-2006: PI on “Framework for Decision Support System for Rocky Flats”, funded by the Department of Energy $155,000 at Colorado State University.
  59. 2002-2005: PI on “Determining Soil Properties for Field Scale Modeling of Salinity”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $40,500 at Colorado State University.
  60. 2001-2005: PI on “South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $51,081 at Colorado State University.
  61. 2001-2005: PI on “Enhancements to the South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute $69,000 at Colorado State University.
  62. 2001-2005: PI on “Field Scale Monitoring and Modeling of Salinity”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station $205,952 at Colorado State University.
  63. 2004: PI on “HYDROSS Improvements”, funded by the US Bureau of Reclamation $15,840 at Colorado State University.
  64. 2001-2004: Co-PI on “Economic Stream-Aquifer Management in a Salinity Threatened Irrigated Valley”, funded by the USDA National Research Initiative $363,000 at Colorado State University.
  65. 2001-2004: Co-PI on “Selenium in the Upper Colorado River Basin: Public Education and Remediation”, funded by the USDA $399,500 at Colorado State University.
  66. 2003: PI on “Field Assistance and Soil Sampling and Analysis”, funded by the USBR $6,000 at Colorado State University.
  67. 2002-2003: PI on “Integration of the South Platte Mapping and Analysis CU and SDFView models with Central Colorado Water Conservancy District Existing Databases”, funded by the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District $10,000 at Colorado State University.
  68. 2001-2003: PI on “Managed Ground Water Recharge for Habitat Restoration: The Development of a Biological Component to the South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP)”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute $21,750 at Colorado State University.
  69. 2001-2003: PI on “Hydrologic Characterization to Develop/Design a Natural Hydrograph for Use in Adaptive Management of Multi-Purpose Reservoirs”, funded by the US Bureau of Reclamation $74,371 at Colorado State University.
  70. 2002: Co-PI on “Soil Sampling and Analysis”, funded by the US Bureau of Reclamation $6,000 at Colorado State University.
  71. 2002: PI on “Update the Hydrologic Model HYDROS”, funded by the US Bureau of Reclamation$10,000 at Colorado State University.
  72. 2000-2002: Co-PI on “Monitoring the performance of Best Management Practices”, funded by EPA 319 funds through the Northeast Prowers Soil Conservation District $83,480 at Colorado State University.
  73. 1995-2002: Co-PI on “Inventorying and Monitoring Natural Resources Status and Trends in the National Park System”, funded by the National Park Service for $1,749,410 at Colorado State University.
  74. 1998-2001: PI on “Monitoring and Modeling Salinity and its Impacts on Agriculture in Colorado”, funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station for $256,000 at Colorado State University.
  75. 2000: PI on “Seed Money for Evaluation of Wetscape in the Devil’s Lake Area”, funded by the USBR $5,000 at Colorado State University.
  76. 1996-2000: PI on “Stream Water Quality Modeling Technology Development”, funded by the USBR $144,399 at Colorado State University.
  77. 1997-2000: PI on “Evaluation of a Decision Support System for the South Platte”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute for $30,000 at Colorado State University.
  78. 1999-2000: PI on “Hydrologic Characterization to Design/Develop a Natural Hydrograph”, funded by the USBR $22,790 at Colorado State University.
  79. 1999: PI on “Contribution Towards the Development of a Consumptive Use Model for the South Platte”, funded by the USBR $6,000 at Colorado State University.
  80. 1998-1999: PI on “Modification to the Agricultural Drainage Planning Program Development”, funded by the USBR $20,000 at Colorado State University.
  81. 1998: PI on “Hydrologic Maps”, funded by the Colorado Division of Wildlife $11,650 at Colorado State University.
  82. 1996: PI on “Wetscape: Test, Refinement and Documentation”, funded by the USBR $47,161 at Colorado State University.
  83. 1995-1996: PI on “Development of Data Presentation Framework using HTML”, funded by the USBR $20,095 at Colorado State University.
  84. 1995-1996: PI on “Evaluation of SAMSON in the Context of a Decision Support System”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute $9,000 at Colorado State University.
  85. 1995-1996: PI on two tasks for “The Colorado River Decision Support System”, funded by the State of Colorado to a team which included Colorado State University. The total funding for these two tasks was $257,169 at Colorado State University.
  86. 1995: PI on “The Natural Resource Workstation—Wetland Capabilities”, funded by the USBR $121,051 at Colorado State University.
  87. 1995: PI on “Technical Assistance to the United State Bureau of Reclamation”, funded by the USBR $5,750 at Colorado State University.
  88. 1994-1995: PI on “Modifications to the Integrated River Environmental Management (IREM) Model”, funded by the USBR $30,000 at Colorado State University.
  89. 1994-1995: Co-PI on “Linking a Geographic Information System to Non-point Source Pollution Models for Assessing the Implementation of Best Management Practices”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute $15,000 at Colorado State University.
  90. 1993-1995: PI on “Development of the Logical Resources Workstation”, funded by the USBR $157,602 at Colorado State University.
  91. 1994: PI on “Development of a Multi Criteria Evaluation System for the Red Bluff Dam”, funded by the USBR $45,000 at Colorado State University.
  92. 1994: PI on “Development of a Graphical User Interface for MODFLOW”, funded by the USBR $51,594 at Colorado State University.
  93. 1994: PI on three tasks for “The Colorado River Decision Support System”, funded by the State of Colorado to a team which included Colorado State University. The total funding for these three tasks was$185,572 at Colorado State University.
  94. 1993-1994: PI on “Use of GIS Techniques as a Planning Tool for Establishment of Wetlands as Nitrate and Pesticide Removal Facilities”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute $14,000 at Colorado State University.
  95. 1993-1995: PI on “Development of the Natural Resources Workstation”, funded by the USBR $228,631 at Colorado State University.
  96. 1992-1993: Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment (IPA) from 6/15/92 through 9/30/93. This IPA was between the Earth Science Division of the USBR and Colorado State University for $40,053 at Colorado State University.
  97. 1992-1993: PI on “Development of Reference Evapotranspiration Maps for Colorado”, funded by the Colorado Water Resources Institute and the State Engineers Office for $19,000 at Colorado State University.
  98. 1991-1993: PI on “Development of an ADSS for Integrated River Basin Environmental Management Second Phase”, funded by the USBR $139,857 at Colorado State University.
  99. 1991-1992: PI on “Development of a Groundwater Workstation”, funded by the USBR $219,498 at Colorado State University.
  100. 1990-1992: Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment (IPA) from 7/23/90 through 3/10/92 for 75% of my salary. This IPA was between the Earth Science Division of the USBR and University of Colorado at Boulder.

TEACHING AND ADVISING

Classes Taught
(500 level and above are graduate courses)

  • CIVE102 Civil Engineering Principles I (Fall 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12)
  • CIVE103 Civil Engineering Principles II (Spring 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13)
  • CE108 Civil Engineering Principles I (Fall 04, Fall 05)
  • CECC192 Civil Engineering Principles I (Spring 05, 06)
  • CE109 Civil Engineering Principles II (3 semesters)
  • CB101 Agricultural and Chemical Engineering I (5 semesters)
  • CB102 Agricultural and Chemical Engineering II (2 semesters)
  • CB104 Strategies for Engineering Problem Solving (4 semesters)
  • CE402 Civil Engineering Design 1 (Fall 06)
  • CE403 Civil Engineering Design 1 (Spring 07)
  • EG410 Systems Engineering and Optimization (5 semesters)
  • CB470 Engineering Design I (1 semesters)
  • CB581 Advanced Engineering using GPS and GIS (Fall 99, 00)
  • CB542 Engineering Applications of GPS and GIS (Fall 01, 02, 03)
  • CE576 Engineering Applications of GPS and GIS (Fall 04, 05, 06, 07, 09)
  • GS592 Water Resources Seminar (Fall 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12)

List graduate advisees (Advisor or Co-Advisor) that graduated at Colorado State University

Date Granted

 

Fall 2013

 Name of Student

 

Ahmed Eldeiry

 Degree

 

M.S.

 Thesis or Dissertation

 

Using Nonlinear Geostatistical Models for Soil Salinity and Yield Management
Spring 2012 Mary Coburn M.S.(B)
Spring 2012 Ayman Alzraiee Ph.D. Stochastic Analysis of Flow and Salt Transport Modeling In Irrigation-Drainage Systems
Spring 2012 Kendall DeJonge Ph.D. Evaluation and Improvement of Ceres-Maize Evapotranspiration Simulations Under Full and Limited Irrigation Treatments In Northern Colorado
Fall 2011 David Huber M.S. Re-evaluating Short-term Effects of Water Quality Changes on Soil Hydraulic Properties
Fall 2009 Margaret Matter Ph.D. Characterization of Hydroclimatic Variability in Tributaries of the Upper Colorado River over the 20th Century
Fall 2007 Nithya Srinivasan M.S. (B)
Summer 2007 Aymn Elhaddad Ph.D. Use of Remote Sensing to Estimate Soil Salinity and Evapotranspiration in Agricultural Fields
Summer 2007 Mathew Denno M.S. (B)
Fall 2006 Ahmed Eldeiry Ph.D. Spatial Modeling of Soil Salinity Using Remote Sensing, GIS and Field Data
Fall 2006 Elgaali Elgaali M.S. (B)
Summer 2006 Andres Jaramillo M.S. (B)
Fall 2005 Eric Morway M.S. (B)
Fall 2005 Sung-Jin Jeon M.S. Development and Evaluation of Synthetic Unit Hydrographs for Dam Inflow Prediction During Storm Events Using GIS
Summer 2005 Yuan-Wen Lin Ph.D. Development of a Model for Hydro-Salinity Simulation in Irrigated River Basins
Spring 2005 Elgaali Elgaali Ph.D. Modeling Regional Climate Change Impacts on Available Water for Agriculture
Fall 2004 Catherine Shrier Ph.D. A Knowledge-based Spatial Methodology for Evaluation of Groundwater Recharge Sites for Stream Augmentation
Spring 2004 Daniel J. Gillham M.S. Data and Modeling of Irrigated Fields with Saline High Water Tables
Summer 2002 Mark Peters M.S. Integrating Meaningful Stakeholder Participation through Decision Support Systems: Making Better Water Resources Planning and Management Decisions
Spring 2002 Nathan Foged M.S. A GIS Based Tool to Estimate Relative Yield Due to Salinity and Waterlogging in a Corn Field in the Lower Arkansas River Basin of Colorado
Ahmed Eldaw Ph.D. Long Range Forecasting of Nile River Flows Using Large Scale Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcings
Summer 2001 Ty Mull M.S. (B)
Fall 2000 Troy Monroe M.S. Evaluation of the Hydrologic Component of EPA’s Basins Model Applied to the Big Thompson Watershed, Colorado
Summer 2000 Neville, James M.S. (B)
Summer 2000 Shigidi, Abdulla Ph.D. Solving the Inverse Problem in Groundwater Flow by Iterative Inversion of a Neural Network
Fall 1998 Cagatay Tanriverdi M.S. (B)
Spring 1998 Lahkim, Mohamed Ph.D. A Stochastic Approach to Environmental Exposure Assessment toGroundwater Contamination
Spring 1998 Vadas, Rolando Ph.D. A Methodology for Water Quantity and Quality Assessment for Wetland Developmen
Fall 1996 Azambuja, Nelson M.S. Flood Protection on River Basins with Limited Available Data
Fall 1995 Mahmoud Mohamed Rami Ph.D. Muti-objective Location and Sizing of Water Resource Projects with Dynamic Programming
Summer 1995 Al-Ali, Emad M.S. The Effect of an Increase in Temperature in Irrigation Demand
Spring 1995 Henry Manguerra Ph.D. Integrated design and Management of Irrigation Drainage Systems Incorporating Water Quality Aspects
Spring 1994 Henry Manguerra M.S. (B)
Spring 1993 Mansor Hasmi Ph.D. A Spatial Methodology for Estimation of Crop Water Requirements – The GIS Approach

 

Graduate Committee Work at Colorado State University

Date Granted Name of Student Degree Major
Fall 2015 Calvin Miller Ph.D. CE
Spring 2011 Paul Haby Ph.D. BAE
Spring 2011 Laurence Nance M.S.(B) CE
Spring 2010 Kristoph Kinzli Ph.D. CE
Spring 2010 Alex Herting M.S.(B) CE
Fall 2009 Amin Haghnegahdar M.S.(B) CE
Summer 2008 Enrique Triana Ph.D. CE
Spring 2008 Lim, Kwang-Suop Ph.D. CE
Fall 2006 Jennifer Mueller M.S. CE
Spring 2006 Ryan Hemphill M.S. CE
Spring 2006 Eric Moreway M.S. CE
Fall 2005 James Wittler M.S. CSS
Fall 2005 Phil Burkhalter Ph.D. CE
Fall 2005 Roy Gallea M.S. CE
Summer 2004 Michael Gossenauer M.S. CE
Fall 2003 Tanriverdi, Cagatay Ph.D. BAE
Spring 2003 Hay, Christopher M.S. BAE
Spring 2003 Fox, Garey Ph.D. CE
Fall 2002 Law, Whitney M.S. CE
Summer 2002 Stover, Jason M.S. FS
Spring 2002 Legoza, Sarah Marie M.S. BAE
Spring 2002 Liv Bleifuss Haugen M.S. BAE
Spring 2002 Mohamed Rafeed Ph.D. BAE
Spring 2001 Amit Sharma Ph.D. CE
Fall 1999 Erik Anglund M.S. BAE
Fall 1999 Hashem Faidy Ph.D. CE
Fall 1999 Enrique Triana M.S. CE
Summer 1999 Klinton Reedy M.S. CE
Spring 1998 Aymn Elhaddad M.S. FS
Spring 1998 Matz, Michael M M.S. CE
Spring 1998 Salim Halem Tarek M.S. CE
Spring 1998 Morton Ty M.S. BAE
Spring 1998 Mohammed Lahkim M.S. FS
Spring 1998 Kenan Diker Ph.D. BAE
Fall 1997 Ellington, David M.S. CE
Spring 1997 Cetiner, Ziya M.S. CE
Fall 1996 Morris Hall Ph.D. ER
Fall 1996 Abdulla Al-Thani M.S. CE
Spring 1996 Hatim Sharif M.S. CE
Spring 1996 Azza Abdel-Aziz M.S. CBE
Fall 1996 Abdulla Al-Thani M.S. CE
Spring 1995 Essam Barakat, M.S. CBE
Spring 1995 Hanan Ali Abdelkader, Ph.D. CE
Spring 1995 Mario Mejia-Navarro Ph.D. ER
Spring 1994 John Ternlund M.S. CS
Spring 1993 Steffen Meyer M.S. CE
Spring 1992 Hatem Ali M.S. CE

 

Undergraduate Student Research at Colorado State University

  • 2006 Chad Hall, REU Program in Water Research at Colorado State University.
  • 2004 Fletcher McKenzie, McNairs Scholar Program, Summer Research Assistant.
  • 2003 Travis Hertneky, Design of a Biosolid Load Application Tracking System for Parker Ag Services, LCC.
  • 2000 Caleb Barclay, Shadow Mountain Lake Delta Analysis.
  • 2000 John Carrillo, Use of GIS information technology to enhance sharing of water quality data in Colorado.
  • 1999 Rachel Correa, Use of GIS and Remote Sensing to Display the Areas of the Front Range that Receive Water from the Big Thompson Watershed and Determine the Location of Septic Systems in the Big Thompson Watershed.
  • 1998 Micah Zogorsky, Design of Wetlands for Stormwater Detention and Water Quality.
  • 1997 Andrea McPherson, Heavy metal concentrations from mine drainage into California Gulch, Leadville, CO.

AWARDS

National Academic Awards

  • 2016 Best Research Paper Award for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE
  • 2015 Best Research Paper Award for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE
  • 2015 Best Honorable Mention Paper Award for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE
  • 2014 Best Research Paper Award for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE
  • 2008 Best Honorable Mention Paper Award for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE
  • 1999 Best Research Paper Award for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE
  • 1996 Best Research Paper Award for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE

University Academic Awards

  • 2013 Gold Key Award for Civil Engineering Professor of the Year, Colorado State University Chapter of Chi Epsilon
  • 2002 Faculty Award for Excellence in Service—Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
  • 2000 ASAE Outstanding Faculty Member—Colorado State University
  • 1999 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Interdisciplinary Water Education, Research and Outreach, presented by The Water Center, Colorado State University
  • 1998-99 ASAE Academic Advisor of the Year—Colorado State University
  • 1997-98 ASAE Outstanding Faculty Member—Colorado State University
  • 1996 Favorite Faculty—Allison Hall, Colorado State University
  • 1995 Dean’s Council Award for Bioresource Engineering at Colorado State University
  • 1992 and 1993 Diversity Career Enhancement Award at Colorado State University
  • 1990 Christopher Fellowship at the University of Colorado at Boulder

EXTENSION

I had an Extension appointment as a water resources specialist from 1998-2013. My focus was on the use of information technology to improve water management. I worked in two main areas:

  1. South Platte Basin—In my extension work in the South Platte, I established a collaborative process that I called “user-centered design” to develop Decision Support (DS) tools. With this approach, the users are key partners in the planning, development, implementation and use of the DS tools. In the South Platte, I created an advisory group to study water user data and modeling needs, and as a result of this effort, water users embraced the user-centered design approach and provided several grants for the development of the DS capabilities that we jointly identified. The DS tools are collectively called the South Platte Mapping and Analysis Program (SPMAP ids.colostate.edu/projects/). Components of this work were adopted as part of the South Platte three states agreement between Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. In the years around 2005-2010 the tools developed as part of this DS were used to manage over 75% of the wells in the South Platte Basin (over 3,500 wells).
  2. Arkansas River Basin salinity and waterlogging issues. Between 1999-2013 I worked on monitoring and modeling salinity issues at the field scale in the Arkansas River Basin in Colorado. I was the PI on a $495,000 three-year USDA water quality grant that worked towards implementation of some of the remediation strategies in a large area of the valley. Our proposal was ranked 1st out of 102 proposals received.

SERVICE

University Service

Departmental, College and University Service

  • Faculty Co-Advisor, American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter – University of Vermont (2019-present)
  • Chairperson, University of Vermont Council of Deans (2017-2018)
  • Member, University of Vermont Incentive Based Budget Metrics Working Group (2016)
  • Member, University of Vermont Incentive Based Budget Steering Committee (2015-2017)
  • Member, University of Vermont Incentive Based Budget Grad Tuition Revenue and Aid Subcommittee (2013-2014)
  • Faculty Advisor, Engineers Without Borders – University of Vermont (2014-present)
  • Chair, Search Committee, Vice-President for Research, University of Vermont (2014)
  • Member, Search Committee, Director of Development, College of Engineering, Colorado State University (2012-2013)
  • Member, Search Committee, Agricultural Experiment Station Deputy Director and Associate Dean for Research, College of Agriculture, Colorado State University (2012-2013)
  • Member, Search Committee, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Colorado State University (2012)
  • Member, University Benefits Committee, Colorado State University (2012-2013)
  • Member, Committee on Strategic and Financial Planning, Colorado State University (2012-2013)
  • Co-Chair/Chair, Committee on Faculty Governance, Colorado State University (Co-Chair 2009-2011; Chair 2011-2012)
  • Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter of Chi Epsilon – Civil Engineering Honor Society (2011, 2012, 2013)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Director of the Undergraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering (2010)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate II, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (2009)
  • Member, Search Committee, Department Head of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University (2009)
  • Member, Search Committee, 4-H Youth Development Specialist, Extension (2009)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Senior Research Administrator, Sponsored Programs (2008)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate II, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (2007)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate II, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (2006)
  • Member, Colorado State University Diversity Conference Advisory Committee (2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008)
  • Member, College of Engineering Executive Committee (2005-2006, 2006-2007)
  • Member, College of Engineering Advisory Board (2005-2006, 2006-2007)
  • Member, Program Review Committee for Department of Soil and Crop Science (2005-2006)
  • Chairperson, Civil Engineering Executive Committee (2005-2006, 2006-2007)
  • Chairperson, Civil Engineering Internal Advisory Board (2005-2006, 2006-2007)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate III, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (2006)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate II, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Arkansas Valley Research Center (2004)
  • Member, Search Committee, Research Associate I, College of Engineering, Engineering Computing Services (2004)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate II, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Arkansas Valley Research Center (2004)
  • Chairperson, Program Review Committee for Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering (2002-2003)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Manager/Research Associate, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Western Colorado Research Center (2002)
  • Member, Search Committee, Regional Extension Specialist, Arkansas River Basin, Rocky Ford (2002)
  • Member, Search Committee, Dean of Libraries (2002)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Faculty Position in Civil Engineering (Precision Farming) (2002)
  • Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) ¼ Scale Tractor Team (2002)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate/Scientist (Non-tenure track faculty position), San Luis Valley Research Center, Agricultural Experiment Station (2001-2002)
  • Faculty Council, College of Engineering Representative at Large (2001-2002)
  • Member, Civil Engineering Department Advisory Committee, (2000-2001, 2001-2002)
  • Faculty Member, College of Engineering Student Technology Committee, (2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2004-2005)
  • College of Engineering Computing Committee, Member (2001-2002; 2003-2004, 2004-2005) and Chairperson (2003-2004; 2004-2005)
  • Civil Engineering Department Computing Committee Member (2001-2002; 2002-2003), Chairperson (2002-2003, 2004-2005)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate/Scientist (Non-tenure track faculty position), Western Colorado Research Center, Agricultural Experiment Station (2001)
  • Chairperson, Search Committee, Research Associate, Mountain Meadow Research Center, Agricultural Experiment Station (2001)
  • Member, Search Committee, Department Head of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering (2000)
  • Chairperson, Advocacy Board for The Women and Minorities in Engineering Program (2000- 2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003)
  • Faculty Advisor, student chapter of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) (1998-1999, 1999-2000)
  • Faculty Advisor, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) (1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999- 2000)
  • Faculty Advisor, College of Engineering PREVIEW (1997-1998, 1998-1999)
  • Member, Search Committee, Director of Women and Minorities in Engineering Program (1998)
  • Engineering Advisor, Shared Interest Living (1996-1997, 1997-1998)
  • Member, College of Engineering Diversity Committee (1997-1998)
  • Member, College of Engineering Undergraduate Student Affairs Committee (1997-1998)
  • Chairperson, Department of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering Diversity Committee (1994-1995 and 1997-1998)
  • Chairperson, College of Engineering Undergraduate Student Affairs Committee (1994-1995, 1995- 1996, 1996-1997)
  • Member, Department of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering Diversity Committee (1996-1997)
  • Member, Departmental of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering Advisory Committee (1996-1997)
  • Liaison for Minority Students, Departmental of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering (1995-1996, 1996-1997)
  • Member, Search Committee, Research Associate, Microcomputer Manager of the Engineering Network Services (1997)
  • Mentor, University Mentoring Program (1993-1994)
  • Member, 5-year Program Internal Review Committee for the HELP/Success Center (1992-1993)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

National/International Committees

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Water Science Journal (Elsevier) 2019-present.
  • Member of the International Review Committee of the Third World Irrigation Forum (WIF3) to be held in Bali, Indonesia September 1-7, 2019.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) Journal 2018-present.
  • Member of the “Committee on the Scientific Bases of Colorado River Basin Water Management” of the National Academies – Water Science and Technology Board, June 2005 to February 2007. National Conference/Workshop Planning Committees:
  • Co-Chair of the “Agriculture/Urban Water Interface – Conflicts and Opportunities”, A USCID Water Management Conference, October 22-25, 2013, Denver, CO.
  • Member of the Planning Committee for the “Meeting Irrigation Demands in a Water-Challenged Environment”, A USCID Water Management Conference, September 2010, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Member of the Planning Committee for the “Fifth International Conference on Irrigation and Drainage”, A USCID Water Management Conference, November 3-6, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Member of the Planning Committee for the Reclamation ET-Remote Sensing Workshop, Sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, International Center for Water Resource Management at Central State University in Ohio, OhioView Consortium and Colorado State University, February 8-11, 2005, Fort Collins, Colorado.
  • Member of the Planning Committee for the Water Rights and Related Water Supply Issues, A USCID Water Management Conference, October 13-16, 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Member of the Planning Committee for the “Third International Conference on Irrigation and Drainage”, A USCID Water Management Conference, March 30-April 2, 2005, San Diego, California.

Workshop Organizer/Presenter

  • Co-Chair of the Colorado State University 2008 Research Colloquium. Global Water: From Conflict to Sustainability – Challenges and Opportunities in an Interdependent World, March 25th, 2008, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Organized and conducted a one day training workshop on the “Integrated Decision Support Group Consumptive Use Model (IDSCU) and Aquifer Water Accounting Model (AWAS)”, May 17th, 2007 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Organized and conducted a one day training workshop on the “Integrated Decision Support Group Consumptive Use Model (IDSCU) and Aquifer Water Accounting Model (AWAS)”, May 19th, 2005 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Organized and conducted two one day training workshops on the “Integrated Decision Support Group Consumptive Use Model (IDSCU)”, May 18th and May 19th, 2004 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Conducted a one and a half day short course, June 21-22, 1990 on “Advanced Decision Support Systems for Technical Organizations”, at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
  • Provided two days of lectures as part of the “Drainage and Salinity Control for Irrigated Lands”, a study tour for nine participants, organized by the Colorado Institute for Irrigation Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, September 8-25, 1992.
  • Worked for two weeks with several engineers from the Central Water Commission of India between April and May of 1996 as part of a study tour organized by the ISWR, IDS office, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO.
  • Instructor in the “Interregional Training Workshop in the use of Microcomputers in Water Resources Development” sponsored by the United Nations – Department of Technical Cooperation for Development. Taught the application of general-purpose computer programs to water resources, the use of groundwater programs, a pipe network analysis and a watershed-modeling program. Kisumu, Kenya, November 1985 – December 1985.

Professional Societies Committee Service

  • Elected to the Executive Committee of the United States Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (2011- 2014). Elected Secretary of the board (2011-2014).
  • Elected to the American Society of Civil Engineers Department Heads Council Executive Committee (2008-2011).
  • Member of the Western Extension Research Activity (WERA) Project 202 “Climatic Data Application in Irrigation Scheduling and Water Conservation” (2005-2008).
  • Colorado State University representative to the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) (2005-2008).
  • Member of Agricultural Drainage and Subsurface Water Management Committee and the Irrigation and Drainage Technical Oversight Committee of the Irrigation and Drainage Division of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE).
  • Member of the Benefits of Drainage and Subirrigation (SW-236) and the Drainage Research Committee (SW-231) of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE).
  • Member of the Water Quality & Drainage Committee of Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Technical Societies

  • Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Member of the United States Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (USCID)
  • Member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
  • Member of the Civil Engineering Honor Society (Chi Epsilon)

Conference/Workshop Sessions Chairperson/Facilitator

  • Chairperson for the session on “Water Management/Optimization – Crops – Irrigation – Salinity” American Geophysical Union 31st Annual Hydrology Days, March 21-23, 2011, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Moderator for the session on Application of Technology II, of the USCID Conference on Irrigation and Drainage for Food, Energy and the Environment, November 3-6, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Chairperson for the session on “Irrigation – Evapotranspiration – Soil Salinity” American Geophysical Union 29th Annual Hydrology Days, March 25-27, 2009, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Chairperson for the session on “Hydrology – Agriculture – Water Management” American Geophysical Union 28th Annual Hydrology Days, March 26-28, 2008, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Chairperson for the session on “Sediment – Erosion – Evapotranspiration – Irrigation” American Geophysical Union 27th Annual Hydrology Days, March 19-21, 2007, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Chairperson for the session on “Agro-ecosystems of the Lower Arkansas River” American Geophysical Union 26th Annual Hydrology Days, March 20-22, 2006, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Panel Facilitator for the “User Centered Panel Discussion” as part of the Hydrological Modeling Workshop sponsored by the USBR, April 6th and 7th, 2004, Denver, CO.
  • Chairperson for the session on “Watershed Hydrology and Modeling” American Geophysical Union 24thAnnual Hydrology Days, March 10-12, 2004, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Chairperson for the “South Platte River Modeling Session” American Geophysical Union 21th Hydrology Days, April 2-5, 2001, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Co-leader of the Water Group of the “Central Great Plains Symposium and Workshop on the Climate Change Impacts Assessment” sponsored by the Department of Energy, The President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, US Global Change Research Program and Colorado State University, Loveland, CO, March 22-23, 1999.
  • Leader of the Water Group of the workshop titled “Climate Change Impacts on the Great Plains” sponsored by Department of Energy, The President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, US Global Change Research Program and Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, May 27-29, 1997.
  • Chairperson for session on “Decision Support System in Water Resources” American Geophysical Union 13th Annual Hydrology Days, March 30-April 2, 1993, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Co-moderator for the session on “Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater”, USCID Conference Water Rights and Related Water Supply Issue October 13-16, 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Professional Service to Federal Agencies

  • Member of the external focus group for the Great Plains Systems Research Unit of the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.
  • Member of the external focus group for the Water Management Research Unit Precision Agriculture project of the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.

Peer Reviewer

  • S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF)
  • Journal of Arid Land Research and Management
  • Soil Science Society of America Journal
  • American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage
  • Wyoming Water Resource Research Institute
  • New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute
  • Utah Water Resources Research Institute
  • United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
  • United States Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (USCID)
  • Fund for Rural America Standard Grant Program, USDA
  • Transactions of ASAE
  • Reviewer research and development proposals submitted to the United Sates Bureau of Reclamation’s science and technology program (2003)
  • Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station

Professional Development

  • Member of Class 10 (2000-2001) of the Leadership Development Program sponsored by the Agricultural Experiment Station national Committee on Organization and Policy (ESCOP) and the Cooperative Extension national Academic Programs Committee on Organization and Policy Overview (ACOP)
  • Colorado State University (2000-2001) Men’s Mentoring Group

Consulting Experience

  • Denver Water—Consultant in the development of GIS information to help in the quantification of lawn irrigation return flows. Denver, Colorado, 1998 to 2011.
  • United Nations—Consultant in the Development of a Decision Support System for the Project “Automated Operation of Irrigation Canal Systems”. Pune, India. December 1993.
  • University of Perugia—River Basin Modeling of the Tiber River Basin. Perugia, Italy. June 1990 and May 1991.
  • Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources—Drainage Design and Modeling. Cairo, Egypt (USAID Project: 263-0132). February 1990 – March 1990.
  • Cohen, Milstein, and Hausfeld, Attorneys at Law—Subcontractor. Modeled and evaluated a water supply system. Washington, D.C.
  • Haskoning Royal Dutch Engineers and Architects—Subcontractor. Provided technical support for the river basin planning computer model MITSIM. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • S. Army Corps of Engineers, Water Ways Experiment Station—Worked as part of a team developing a planning model for the Han River (Korea) Control System. Vicksburg, Mississippi.
  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis—Water Resources Planning for ShanXi Province, Peoples Republic of China. Luxemburg, Austria.

Community Outreach

  • Member of the Board of Directors of Color Our World (COW). A non-profit organization providing mobile art relief around the world.