PUB00145 ‎(2)‎

• Year: 2005
• Title: Western States Water Council - Seattle, WA., July 13-15, 2005
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Description: Western States Water Council - Seattle, WA., July 13-15, 2005
• Publications - Doc Type: Water Policy

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National Academy of Sciences
National Academy at Engineering
Institute 01 Medicine
National Research Council

Advisers to the NatiQl/ 011 Sclellce. Ellgllleerillg. <lnd Medicine

Water Science and Technology Board
Divisioo on Earth CI1d ute Studes

June 2005

New Study Announcement

The National Research Council (NRC) has begun an important new study of the
Scientific Bases of Colorado River Basin Water Management. A special committee has been
appointed to carry out the study, which will review the extant body of scientific data and studies
regarding Colorado River hydrology, including paleohydrological and dendrochronological
studies. The study will also consider other hydro-climatic trends that might influence future
hydrologic variability across the Colorado River basin. The study's overarching objective will
be to produce a report aimed toward an improved hydrological baseline for water project
operations and water management decisions across the Colorado River basin and other parts of
the western United States, especially during periods of extended drought. The committee will
focus its efforts on: a) science and technology, which includes historical and pre-historical
streamflow and climate records, and hydrologic modeling and methods, and b) science
institutions and water management practices, which includes institutional arrangements for
gathering and evaluating hydro-climatic data, and the implications of those data for systems
operations and water management practices.

The committee intends to meet four times during 2005-06 and plans to issue its final
report in Summer 2006. Its first meeting is scheduled for July 18-19 in Boulder, Colorado.
Subsequent meeting schedules and agendas will be posted on The National Academies web site
at http://www.nationalacademies.org/wstb. The committee is chaired by Dr. Ernest Smerdon, Professor
Emeritus at the University of Arizona. Jeffrey Jacobs of the NRC Water Science and
Technology Board is serving as study director. For more information on the study and schedule,
please contact Dr. Jacobs at [e-mail].

Names and affili,\tions of committee members are listed below. Committee member
biographical sketches arc posted on The National Academies website listed above.

Ernest T. Smerdon, Chair, University of Arizona (Emeritus), Tucson
Julio L. Betancourt,}USGS, Tucson, Arizona
Gordon "Jeff' W. Fassett, Fassett Consulting, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Luis A. Garcia, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington, Seattle
Eluid L. Martinez, Water Resources Management Consultants, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Stephen C. McCaffrey, University of the Pacific, Sacramento
Eugene M. Rasmusson, University of Maryland (Emeritus), College Park
Kelly T. Redmond, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada
Philip M. Smith, McGeary and Smith, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Connie A. Woodhouse, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado

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