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<br />, <br /> <br />00207~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ties which will include model development, appropriate software and hardware, <br />information -needs of policy makers, etc. The output from this meeting will <br />help guide future methods development by the CU team and others. This work- <br />shop will be organized in cooperation with the ASCE Urban Water Resources <br /> <br />Research Council. <br /> <br />7.0 Phase 2 Research <br /> <br />Based on the experience of Phase. 1 and the results of the workshop, a <br />detailed Phase 2 work plan will be developed. Decisions will be reached on <br />the following topics: <br />1. The appropriate hardware/software environment(s): Lively debate continues <br />on the relative merits of PCs vs. Work Stations as the appropriate platform. <br />This discussion has been going on at CADSWES and HEC. In each case, a hybrid <br />solution has been selected. We plan to revisit this topic in year 2. <br />2. Which programming language to use? Most of the existing models are writ- <br />ten in Fortran. Is it worth rewriting them in C? <br />3. The capability to network researchers and model users so as to speed the <br />research and development. <br />4. Promising computational methods for simulation and optimization. <br /> <br />The Phase 2 research is expected to be a combination of the initial <br />efforts and new more exploratory research activities. <br /> <br />8.0 CO Capabilities <br /> <br />Sponsored research in the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering <br />graduate program within the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architec- <br />tural Engineering and the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and <br />Environmental Systems (CADSWES) has totaled .over $2 million per year for the <br />past three years. In Fall 1995, we will have 12 faculty, and 110 graduate <br />students in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, 40 of whom are in <br />the Ph.D. program. Virtually all of these faculty have the necessary back- <br />ground to integrate water resources and environmental engineering. CADSWES <br />is now the largest center in applied environmental and water resources sys- <br />tems analysis nationally. <br />Outside the CEAE Department, we interact with leading environmental and <br />water scientists elsewhere on campus and with nearby agencies. On campus <br />groups include the Natural Hazards Center, the LTER Niwot Ridge research <br />station, the Water Law Center, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on <br />Environmental Sciences, and the Hydrologic Sciences Program which was recent- <br />ly awarded a major graduate fellowship program by NSF. External agencies <br />include NCAR, EPA, DOE, USGS, and the Bureau of Reclamation. At the State <br />level, the Colorado River 'Decision Support System is a multi-million dollar <br />software development effort whose output will be available to us. Thus, we <br />have a unique combination of internal and external talent available to enrich <br />the output from this research project. <br />State of the art computing and laboratory facilities are vital to inno- <br />vations in this area. The CEAE Department and associated CADSWES have out- <br />standing computational facilities including a recently completed $365,000 PC <br />Lab with 46 networked high end machines, a $1 million Bechtel Work Station <br />Lab equipped with Sun Work Stations, the recently completed $370,000 CADSWES <br />facility which contains 20 Sun Work Stations, and a new specialized Water <br />Resources and Environmental Engineering PC lab with state of the art water <br />resources software. In addition, students will have acces~ to comprehensive <br /> <br />14 <br />