Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West

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As Chief Hydrologist, he also provided (and continues to provide) advice on drought, floods, global warming, and weather modification, and has participated in elements of the California Water Plan update (DWR Bulletin 160). He has kept abreast of a number of CALFED Bay Delta and Central Valley Project studies and proposals implementing the CVP Improvement Act, especially as these affect water supplies and agricultural water use efficiency. Currently he is a member of the Board of the U. S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage and has participated in many of their recent conferences. For years he has been attempting to track climate change issues as well, especially as they relate to water supply in California. He received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from San Jose State University in 1957 and has been employed by DWR since then. Michael Dettinger Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, CA Dr. Michael Dettinger is a Research Hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Western Regional Research, and a research associate of the Climate Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has degrees from the University of California, San Diego (Physics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Civil Engineering), and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (Atmospheric Sciences). Dr. Dettinger has monitored, evaluated, and researched the water resources of the West for over 20 years, with foci in the areas of regional surface water and groundwater systems, water availability, watershed modeling, and climatic influences on water resources. Among other activities, he received a Vice President's National Performance Review Award for physical - sciences leadership in Mojave Desert Ecosystems science and data management planning efforts in 1996, was an Associate Editor of the journal Water Resources Research from 1998 to 2000, facilitated the "Climate & Groundwater" session for National Academy of Science's Workshop on Groundwater Fluxes Across Interfaces in 2002, has been the program chair and fundraiser for the annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshops, 1998 - present, and is team leader for the CALFED Bay -Delta Restoration Program's white paper on CALFED's climate- science needs. Patrick McGrane Program Manager, River and Reservoir Operations Group U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Boise, ID Pat McGrane is the Program Manager of the River and Reservoir Operations Group for the Pacific Northwest Region of the Bureau of Reclamation. Pat's group coordinates reservoir operations and does surface and groundwater studies associated with over 50 dams. He is a Professional Engineer with a M.S. degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University. He has a varied background, having worked 12 years as a smokejumper in the Northwest before becoming a groundwater engineer and eventually a reservoir manager for the Corps of Engineers in Seattle. Pat has been with Reclamation in Boise since 1999.