WMOD00263 ‎(2)‎

• Applicant: CWCB
• Sponsor Name: USBR
• Project Name: Response to RFP
• Title: Numerical Simulations of Snowpack Augmentation for Drought Mitigation Studies in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
• Prepared For: USBR
• Prepared By: Joe Busto, CWCB
• Date: 8/20/2003
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Application

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Curriculum Vitae

John Joseph (Joe) Busto

Colorado Water Conservation Board
Flood Protection & Weather Modification Permitting
Denver, Colorado 80203
Telephone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Joe Busto is a Colorado native that graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S.
in Natural Resource Management in 1996. He has worked for the Colorado Department
of Natural Resources (DNR) since 1996. Initially he worked in the Executive Director's
Office of the DNR running the "Youth in Natural Resources Program" and worked on
many reports and publications for the DNR. For the last five years he has worked for the
Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB), mainly in the arenas of drought planning,
flood protection projects, water resource planning projects, and weather modification
permitting.

Joe was appointed the lead for the CWCB for weather modification in July 2002, but has
been involved with weather modification monitoring, reporting and public hearings since
1999. He attended the April 2003 Weather Modification Association Annual Meeting
and received the "Black Crow Award," and is attempting to take a leadership role in the
coordination, scientific studies and understanding of wintertime weather modification
operations. His recent work related to weather modification includes: interactive maps
for cloud seeding programs on the CWCB website, a grant award to complete a statewide
cloud seeding feasibility study by watershed, and a grant application to cost share with
the USBR for consulting services on this project, and possibly a grant application to cost
share with water users (mainly conservancy and conservation districts in cloud seeding
programs).

Joe completed a drought survey of water users in 1999, and was an early innovator and
supporter for the CWCB's water education foundation and water education CD-ROM
and conservation kit project. He administrates the Colorado Flood Task Force and assists
with the Water Availability Task Force. Together with his section chief, Larry Lang, he
is working on a Site Specific Probable Maximum Precipitation Study for Cherry Creek
Reservoir, and a Chatfield Reservoir Reallocation Study. He is also the state regulator
for weather modification permits and is also known as the state's floodplain information
officer.

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