STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA
Hydrologic & Water Quality Assessment
We develop innovative tools that integrate data from various sources to understand the condition of water bodies, identify threats to their health, and implement strategies for protection and restoration.
Watershed management is a holistic and collaborative approach to sustainably manage water resources that recognizes the importance of protecting and restoring the health of entire watersheds to ensure the long-term viability of water supplies and the ecosystems they support.
We take a holistic, collaborative approach to watershed management, ensuring sustainable water resources and thriving ecosystems. Partnering with government agencies, utilities, municipalities, and NGOs, we provide expertise, tools, and data-driven insights to protect water quality, optimize water use, and restore watershed health. Our advanced modeling and analysis help track key indicators like water quality, hydrology, and habitat conditions—empowering stakeholders to make informed decisions for long-term resilience.
We assess the condition and dynamics of surface water resources, enabling informed decision-making, sustainable water resources management, and the protection of aquatic ecosystems and human health.
Our assessment tools provide valuable information for sustainable groundwater management, groundwater protection, and safeguarding water supplies in Colorado and beyond.
Our suite of analytical tool allow users to perform river-reservoir simulation modeling, hydro economic assessment, multi criteria decision analysis, and decision making under uncertainty.
Surface Water
Surface water is a critical component of water resource management and takes many forms including overland flows, stream/river flows, city drainage, and agricultural irrigation. Surface water has the potential to carry large amounts of sediment and pollutants. It can also be implicated in flooding damages.
Our team develops analytical tools to manage surface water in a way that protects people, infrastructure, and the environment.
Groundwater
Groundwater is a vital source of drinking water, irrigation, industrial supply, and ecosystem support for the planet. It can be used as a supplemental resource to satisfy drinking water or irrigation demand and is often is used in times of drought or rainfall uncertainty. Unfortunately, over-pumping can cause groundwater depletion. Conversely, shallow groundwater levels can threaten urban infrastructure or cultivation practices.
Our team conducts wide-ranging groundwater analyses and our experts use a variety of data collection and modeling methods to estimate the quantity and quality of groundwater as well as predict the impact of numerous management practices.
Expertise
- Monitoring and modeling for groundwater quality and quantity
- Interactions between groundwater and surface water
- Coupled groundwater-surface water modeling
- Mapping shallow groundwater areas in urban areas
- Hydro-agronomic modeling in regions of groundwater depletion
- Assessment of groundwater quantity in coastal and island aquifers
Additional Resources
Watershed Management Tools
We use integrated, interdisciplinary frameworks to research the complex hydrologic, ecologic, and socio-economic challenges facing the water industry in our changing world. Our team has developed innovative tools for managing scarce surface and ground water resources in both quantity and quality under various future scenarios including climate change, land use change, and extreme events.
