2010 Western Water Assessment: Front Range Water Providers Workshop
Boulder, CO, December 9, 2010
The Western Water Assessment hosted a one-day workshop for our partners in the Front Range water provider community. Our objectives for this workshop were to:
- Present ongoing and planned WWA research projects and activities most relevant to Front Range water interests
- Solicit input on these projects and learn about your climate-related concerns
- Discuss recent climate studies involving Front Range water providers and lessons learned from them
- Given the above, generate ideas for future WWA efforts
AGENDA & PRESENTATIONS
9:30 am Welcome and Introductions
9:40 am Overview of Western Water Assessment (Brad Udall)(pdf)
10:00 am Updates (10 minutes + Q&A) from ongoing WWA projects:
- 2-year ENSO-based flow forecast for the Upper Colorado River (Klaus Wolter) (pdf)
- Dust-on-snow and hydrologic impacts in the Colorado River basin (Jeff Deems) (pdf)
- Extreme precipitation (Kelly Mahoney) (pdf)
- The Mountain Pine Beetle infestation: effects on water quantity and water quality (Jeff Lukas/Eric Gordon) (pdf)
- Informing responsible use of climate models and projections (Joe Barsugli)
- The Colorado Climate Preparedness Project (Eric Gordon) (pdf)
- Intermountain West Climate Summary and the WWA website (Jeff Lukas/Heather Glenn) (pdf)
Shorter briefings on other WWA projects:
- Lower Colorado River Basin paleohydrology (Balaji Rajagopalan/Jeff Lukas) (pdf)
- The Water-Energy-Climate Nexus and Colorado water supplies (Kristen Averyt) (pdf)
12:15 pm Catered Lunch (continue briefings over lunch if needed)
1:00 pm Recent climate change studies in Colorado and lessons learned from them: Group discussion (led by Joe Barsugli and Laurna Kaatz)
2:00 pm Working together to meet climate challenges - Group discussion (led by Brad Udall)
- What climate-related challenges do you see coming over the horizon?
- What additional climate information, tools and or/trainings would be helpful in meeting those challenges?
- How else can we work to together build capacity to pursue effective climate adaptation?
3:30 End
RESOURCES
Meeting Minutes
Gunnison Basin Climate Adaptation Workshop report
October 2009 IWCS focus on TreeFlow
March 2010 IWCS feature on Colo River studies
May 2010 IWCS feature on MPB-Water
July 2010 IWCS focus on RFC forecast tool
October 2010 IWCS feature article on La Nina
