PUB00105

• Year: 1999
• Title: Conference Proceedings: 24th Annual Gunnison Water Workshop
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Description: Theme of the workshop was Garden of Dreams v. High-Desert Reality
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

DAY TWO: Thursday, July 29
KATHLEEN KLEIN (Today's Moderator. See Wednesday above)

ROBERT A. YOUNG
Consultant in Water Resource Economics
Emeritus Professor, Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado)
Robc11 A. Young is a resource and agricultural policy economist with over 35 years of applied
research, consulting and teaching experience. Born in Nebraska in 1931, he received degrees from
the University of California (Davis) and an Agricultural Economics doctorate from Michigan State
University. Before coming to Colorado, Young was on the faculty at the University of Arizona and
then a staff member at the nonprofit research organization. Resources for the Future, Inc. in
Washington, DC. He served 22 years as a full-time Colorado State University Agricultural
Economics faculty member with primarily research responsibilities, retiring in 1992.
Dr. Young specializes in water resource economics, and his consulting and research activities
focus on interdisciplinary modeling of water resource allocation and management issues; policies for
coping with drought; nonmarket techniques for measuring the direct and secondary economic values of water in alternative uses;
ground water management; and on methods for accommodating increasing intersectoral competition for water in arid arcas. He is
the author or co-author of over 200 articles, monographs, reports and papers.
Since his retirement, Dr. Young has worked mainly on short term consulting assignments in the U,S. and abroad on issues of
water resource planning and policy. He has undertaken water management and planning assignments in Egypt, Mexico, Pakistan,
the Philippines and Indonesia, among other nations, and has worked on studies funded by USAID, World Bank, United Nations
Development Program and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, He continues his University-based research
activities on a part-time basis as an Emeritus Professor, being recently or currently involved in interdisciplinary studies of water
management under drought conditions on the Colorado, Rio Grande and South Platte River Dasins,

HENRY DIAZ
Associate Director, Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (Fort Collins)
Henry is a research climatologist in the Climate Diagnostics Center of the Environmental
Research Laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S.
Department of Commerce. Dr. Diaz has worked in NOAA throughout his 25-year professional
career. He is a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
of the University of Colorado (Boulder), and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of
Geography at CU-Boulder. Henry has published extensively in the scientific literature about the
nature of climactic variability on regional to global spatial scales, and ranging from interannual cli-
mactic variability to century-scale fluctuations. He is also a recognized expert on the El
NiOo/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and has written several journal articles on teleeon-
neetion features of ENSO; he has coedited three other books titled El NiOo: Historical and
Paleoelimactic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation, published by Cambridge University Press (1992), The Medieval Warm Period,
and Climactic Change at High Elevation Sites published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (1994), Hurricanes: Climate and
Socioeconomic Impacts, published by Springer-Verlag (1997), and Climactic Change at High Elevation Sites published in 1997 by
Kluwer.Academic Publishers

PETER EVANS
Director, Colorado Water Conservation Board (Denver)
Peter served as Deputy Director for the Board from 1993 to 1997 and as legal counsel to the
Department of Natural Resources Executive Director from 1990 to 1993. In coordination with the
DNR Executive Director, the Wildlife Commission the Water Conservation Board and the Agriculture
Commission, he had the responsibility for coordinating the State's participation in, two endangered
species recovery programs between 1992 and 1998. Before joining the DNR team in 1990, he prac-
ticed law for five years with a Denver finn and specialized in environmental pennitting.
Peter has a bachelor's degree in geology from Pomona College (Claremont CA, 1976). Before
going to the University of Denver's College of Law in 1982, he worked as a geochemist for NASA
on the Viking Mission to Mars (1975-77), as a geophysicist for the USGS on the Parkfield Earthquake
Prediction Experiment (1977-79) and as a reclamation specialist for the Colorado Mined Land
Reclamation Board (1979-82). Peter is married (to Ginger, the famous airport engineer) for 18 years
and has three prc-tecn-to-tcenage daughters (just to keep life at the FULL CHALLENGE level).