2024

• Lindsay Murdoch, MS, “Adaptively Operating a Fixed-percent Environmental Flow Budget with a Functional Flows Approach,” PhD student, UC Davis, CA.

2023

• Nicole Osorio, MS, “Channel Routing and Multi-Timestep Optimization in WRIMS2 for the Sacramento Valley: A Water Year 1997 Case Study,” engineer, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.

2021

• Sanchez, Nadya, PhD, “Volumetric Uncertainty in an Open-Channel Water Delivery Network with Policy Implications,” agricultural engineer, Davids Engineering – Davis.
• Francisco J. Bellido-Leiva, PhD, “Is there hope for winter-run Chinook? An integrated habitat-flow approach for species recovery,” post-doctoral researcher, University of California – Davis.
• Matthew Bates, PhD, “Advances in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Multi-Objective Optimization for Sustainable Water Resources and Sediment Management,” engineer, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.
• Yara Pasner, MS Hydrologic Science, “Reproducibility of Daily Unimpaired Flow Computations: Case Study of San Joaquin Basin Tributaries, California,” PhD student, University of California – Davis.
• Michael Fitch, MS, “Green Stormwater Infrastructure,” Engineer, Wood Rodgers, Sacramento, CA.
• Wyatt Arnold, MS, “The Economic Value of Carryover Storage in California’s Water Supply System with Limited Hydrologic Foresight,” Engineer, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.

2020

• Ann Willis, PhD (NSF Fellow), “Keeping it Cool: Sustainable Stream Conservation Using Process-Based Thermal Regime Management ,” Regional Director for California, American Rivers.
• Elaheh “Ellie” White, PhD (NSF Fellow), “Statistical Learning for Unimpaired Flow Prediction in Ungauged Basins,” researcher, USGS – Lakewood, CO.
• Yiqing “Gracie” Yao, PhD, “Managing Groundwater for Agriculture, with Hydrologic Uncertainty and Salinity,” postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Davis.
• Nicholas Santos, MA Geography, “Estimating Trade-offs for Environmental Flows at the Basin Scale,” Scientific Programmer, University of California, Merced.
• Amber Pulido, MS, “Replication of Unimpaired Flow Calculations for Three San Joaquin Basin Tributaries in California’s Central Valley“, Civil Engineer, Brown and Caldwell, Sacramento, CA

2019

• Mustafa S. Dogan, PhD, “Hydropower Generation Optimization in the Era of Renewables and Climate Change,” Assistant Professor of Engineering, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey.2020
• Amy Talbot, MA Geography, “Urban Water Conservation in the Sacramento, California Region during the 2014-2016 Drought,” Regional Water Efficiency Program Manager, Sacramento Regional Water Authority, Citrus Heights, CA.
• Kathleen Stone, MS, “Economic Tradeoffs in Groundwater Management During Drought: Tulare County, California,” engineer, Jacobs Engineering, Sacramento, CA.

2018

• Alessia Siclari Melchor, PhD, “Hydro-Economic Modeling of Flood Bypasses,” engineer, California State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, CA.
• Robert M. Gailey, PhD, “Approaches for Groundwater Management in Times of Depletion and Regulatory Change“, consulting hydrogeologist, Berkeley, CA.
• Lauren Adams, PhD, “Optimized Reservoir Management for Downstream Environmental Purposes,” engineer, State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, CA.
• Bradley Arnold, MS, “Probabilistic Optimization Model for Allocating Regulated Groundwater Supplies to Agricultural Water Management Districts in California,” senior engineer, Calaveras County Water Agency, CA.
• Jesse Jankowski, MS, “Consumptive Water Use in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: A Comparison of Estimation Methods and Field Data, with Implications for Water Right Diversion Reporting.” engineer, California State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, CA.
• Jefferson Laird, MS, “Drought Water Rights Allocation Tool: Eel River Model Update and pyWRAT Application,” engineer, Watercourse Consulting, Davis, CA.

2017

• Tariq Kadir, PhD, “Coupled Reservoir Operation and Integrated Hydrologic Simulation Modeling of the SWP and CVP Systems in California with Dynamic Hydrology Adjustment,” Senior Engineer, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.
• Fandi P. Nurzaman, MS, “Irrigation Management in the Western States,” National Planner for Water Resources and Irrigation, Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning, Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Wesley Walker, MS, “Drought Water Right Allocation Tool Applied to the San Joaquin River Basin,” engineer, MBK and Associates, Sacramento, CA.
• Nadya Alexander Sanchez, MS, “Drought and Land Fallowing in Kern County, California,” PhD student, UC Davis.
• Elaheh “Ellie” White, MS, “Predicting Unimpaired Flow in Ungauged Basins: ‘Random Forests’ Applied to California Streams,” Researcher, USGS, Lakewood, CO.
• Angela Kwon, MS (Hydrologic Sciences), “Declining Groundwater Level Effects on Supply Well Operations,” hydrologic scientist, California State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, CA.
• Julia Pavicic, MS, “Uncertainty in Water Rights Analysis: Overpromising vs. Over Curtailing ,” engineer, West-Yost and Associates, Davis, CA.

2016

• Bonnie Magnuson-Skeels, MS (Geography), “Using Machine Learning to Statistically Predict Natural Flow: The Sacramento Watershed under Dry Conditions”, San Francisco, CA.
• Chad Whittington, MS, “Russian River Drought Water Right Allocation Tool (DWRAT),” engineer, CH2M-Hill, Sacramento, CA.
• Ian Buck, MS, “Managing to End Groundwater Overdraft in California’s Central Valley with Climate Change,” Water Resources Manager, Friant Water Authority, Sacramento, CA.
• Andrew Tweet, MS, “Water Right Curtailment Analysis for California’s Sacramento River: Effects of Return Flows,” engineer, Springfield, OR.

2015

• Alvar Escriva-Bou, PhD, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), “The Water-Energy Nexus: a bottom-up approach for basin-wide management” (co-advisor with Professor Manuel Pulido-Velazquez), Research Fellow, Water Policy Center, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, California.
• Mustafa Dogan, MS, “Integrated Water Operations in California: Hydropower, Overdraft, and Climate Change,” Assistant Professor of Engineering, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey.
• Benjamin Lord, MS, “Water rights curtailments for drought in California: Method and Eel River Application,” engineer, RTI, Chapel Hill, NC.
• Dakari Barksdale, MS, “Estimating Financial Sustainability for Developed Land Water Utility Supply,” engineer, West-Yost and Associates, Davis, CA.
• Eric Mork, MS, “Urban Conjunctive Use – A Proof of Concept and Case Study,” engineer, US Bureau of Reclamation, Sacramento, CA.
• Karandev Singh, MS, “Central Valley Refuge Management under Non-stationary Climatic and Management Conditions”, engineer, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.

2014

• Rui Hui, PhD., “Optimal Design of Levee and Flood Control Systems,” post-doctoral scholar, Tucson, AZ.
• Robyn Suddeth, PhD, Hydrologic Science, “Multi-Objective Analysis for Ecosystem Reconciliation on an Engineered Floodplain: California’s Central Valley Yolo Bypass,” water resources scientist, Environmental Defense Fund, Sacramento, California.
• Erik Porse, PhD, “Old Solutions and New Problems: On the Evolution of Urban Water Infrastructure and Environments,” Director, California Institute for Water Resources (CIWR), University of California and Adjunct Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California – Los Angeles, CA.
• Tim Nelson, MS, “Using the Updated CALVIN Model to develop Optimized Reservoir Operations for the Sacramento Valley,” engineer, State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, CA
• James Connaughton, MS, “Sacramento Valley Integrated Reservoir Optimization Model: Flood Control Linear Program,” engineer, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA
• Romain Maendly, MS, “Flood Risk Analysis in the Lower San Joaquin River System,” engineer, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA
• Laila Kasuri, MS, “Modelling for Ecosystem Restoration Hydrodynamic Modelling of the Yolo Bypass Using HEC-RAS,” engineer, World Bank, Washington, DC.

2013

• Christina (Connell) Buck, PhD Hydrologic Science, “Managing Groundwater for Environmental Stream Temperature,” Assistant Director, Butte County Department of Water and Resource Conservation,California.
• John Hickey, PhD, “Improving Reservoir Management from an Ecological Perspective,” Hydraulic Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, CA.
• Rachel E. Ragatz, MS, “California’s water futures:  How water conservation and varying Delta exports affect water supply in the face of climate change,” Sacramento, CA.
• Prudentia Zikalala, MS, “Groundwater Management in Central Valley California: Updating Representation of Groundwater in CALVIN Water Management Model and Study of How Groundwater Systems Change in Response to Pumping,” California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA.
• Rui Hui, MS, “Flood Storage Allocation Rules for Parallel Reservoirs,” post-doctoral scholar, Tucson, AZ.
• Kevin How, MS, “Energy post-processor development for California Wholesale Water Operations.”
• Christy Jones, MS, “Application of Optimization Modeling to Examine the Benefits of Expanding the Sacramento River Watershed Bypass System,” Deputy Chief, Readiness & Contingency Operations at US Army Corps of Engineers, South Pacific Division, San Francisco, California.
• Aimee Kindel, “Development of a Folsom Reservoir Release Rule Using Flow Forecasts,” Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento, CA.
• Lyndsey Croghan, MS, “Economic Model for Optimal Flood Risk Transfer,” Engineer, WEST Consultants, Salem, OR.
• Keith Gellerman, MS, “Economic Feasibility of Desalination in California,” consulting engineer, Sacramento, CA.
• Michelle Lent, MS Hydrologic Sciences, “Regional Groundwater Banking and Water Reuse Potential in the San Francisco Bay Area Water Supply System,” PG&E Hydropower hydrologist, San Francisco, CA.
• David Julian, MS, “Environmental Alteration Analysis of a Large System of Reservoirs: Application to the Connecticut River Watershed,” engineer, CH2M-Hill, Sacramento, CA.

2012

• Holly Canada, MS, “Risk analysis of point of use treatment for nitrates in drinking water,” engineer, David Ford and Associates, Sacramento, CA.
• Heidi Chou, MS, “Groundwater Overdraft in California’s Central Valley: Updated CALVIN Modeling Using Recent CVHM and C2VSIM Representations,” engineer, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA.
• Lucas Siegfried, MS, “Physically Based Modeling of Delta Island Consumptive Use: A case study of Fabian Tract and Staten Island,” Consulting engineer, Santa Cruz, CA.
• Licheng Dong, MS, “Flood operation rules for a single reservoir,” engineer, Ningbo, China.

2011

• Patrick Ji, PhD, “Reservoir Re-operation, Risk, and Levee Failure Analysis: Mokelumne River Case,” engineer, City of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA.
• David E. Rheinheimer, PhD, “Modeling Multi-Reservoir Hydropower Systems in the Sierra Nevada with Environmental Requirements and Climate Warming,” post-doctoral scholar, University of Massachusetts – Amherst.
• Eleanor Bartolomeo, MS, “Economic Responses to Water Scarcity in Southern California,” consulting engineer, Seattle, WA.
• William Sicke, MS, “Economic Adaptation of San Francisco Bay Area Water Supplies to Climate Change,” engineer, David Ford and Associates, Sacramento, CA.
• Scott Ligare, MS, “Changes to Whitewater Recreation in California’s Sierra Nevada from Regional Climate Warming,” engineer, California State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, CA.
• Sachi De Souza, MS,  “Evaluating Water Recycling in California,” engineer, Alberta, Canada.
• Kevin Fung, MS, “Assessment of Channel Routing for WRIMS CalLite Application: North of the Sacramento Delta,” engineer, California Department of Water Resources.
• Katherine M. Maher, MS, “Potential Use of Real-time Information for Flood Operation Rules for Folsom Reservoir,” consulting engineer, Sacramento, CA
• Kristin (Honeycutt) Sicke, MS, “Alternative Water Supply Options for Nitrate Contamination in California’s Tulare and Salinas Groundwater Basins,” Director, Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, Woodland, CA.
• Nathan R. Burley, MS, “Reducing Flood Storage Space at Reservoirs: A Benefit Cost Analysis for the Mokelumne River System, California,” engineer, California Department of Water Resources.
• Ryan J. Cahill, MS, Household Water Use and Conservation Models using Monte Carlo Techniques for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers, Portland.

2010

• Natalie Ergish (King), MS, “Flood Frequency Analysis for Regulated Watersheds,”  engineer, David Ford and Associates, Sacramento, CA.
• Matthew Bates, MS, “Energy Use in California Wholesale Water Operations: Development and Application of a General Energy Post-Processor for California Water Management Models,” engineer, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.
• Daphne Korthamar, MS, “Evaluating Cargill Saltworks Water Supply Alternatives in Redwood City, CA,” engineer, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA.

2009

• Kaveh Madani, PhD, “Climate Change Effects on High-Elevation Hydropower System in California,” Senior Fellow, Yale University; former Deputy Head, Iranian Department of Environment; Reader in Systems Analysis and Policy at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, UK. (ASCE Huber Prize winner 2017)
• Christina Connell, MS Hydrologic Science, “Bring the Heat, but Hope for Rain – Adapting to Climate Warming in California,” Assistant Director, Butte County Department of Water and Resource Conservation, California.
• Cherry Zamora, MA Geography, “Estimating the Benefits of Forest Conservation on Pollutant Loading and Water Quality at the Late Tahoe Basin using GIS,” environmental scientist, Sacramento, CA.
• Angela M. Carmi-Duren, MS Hydrologic Science, “A Characterization of the Non-Analytical Solution of the Downstream Control Operating Rule in HECResSim,” scientist, US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento, CA.
• Woodrow Fields, MS, “Reservoir Operations for Improving Establishment of Riparian Vegetation,” engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers, Davis, CA.

2008

• David E. Rosenberg, PhD, “Integrated Water Management and Modeling at Multiple Spatial Scales” (NSF Fellow), Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
• Marcelo A. Olivares, PhD, “Optimal Hydropower Reservoir Operation with Environmental Requirements” (Fulbright), Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
• Sarah Null, PhD Geography, “Improving Managed Environmental Water Use Efficiency: Shasta River Flow and Temperature Modeling” (USEPA STAR Fellow), Associate Professor of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
• Rhodora Biagtan, MS/MBA, “Economic Evaluation for Water Recycling In Urban Areas of California,” engineer, Hydroscience, formerly Dublin-San Ramon Services District, CA.
• Dana Progar (Woodall), MS/MBA, “Integrating Dutch Flood Policy Innovations into California Flood Policy,” officer, US Coast Guard, Seattle, WA.
• Rachael Hersh-Burdick, MS, “Effects of Groundwater Management Strategies on the Greater Sacramento Area Water Supply,” engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento.
• Ann Fissekis (Willis), MS, “Climate Change Effects on the Sacramento Basin’s Flood Control Projects,” Regional Director for California, American Rivers.

2007

• Stacy K. Tanaka, PhD, “Modeling to Improve Environmental System Management: Klamath River Thermal Refugia and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta,” engineer, Watercourse Engineering, Davis, CA.
• Inês C.L. Ferreira, PhD, “Deriving Unit Cost Coefficients for Linear Programming-Deriven Priority-Based Simulation,” engineer, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA
• Julien J. Harou, PhD, “Representing Groundwater in Hydroeconomic Models,” Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, UK
• Randi C. Field, MS, “Multi-Objective Optimization of Folsom Reservoir Operation,” engineer, Central Valley Project Operations, US Bureau of Reclamation, Sacramento, CA.
• Tomohide Tsukasaki, MS, “Energy and Cost Analysis of Rainwater Storage Tanks in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan,” engineer, Japan.

2006

• Josué Medellin-Azuara, PhD Ecology, “Economic-Engineering Analysis of Water Management for Restoring the Colorado River Delta” (UC MEXUS-CONACYT Fellow), Associate Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering, University of California – Merced.

2005

• Matthew J. Brown, MS, “Priority Based Reservoir Optimization using Linear Programming: Application to Flood Operation of the Iowa/Des Moines River System,” engineer, SAIC, Denver, CO.
• Sarah (Hollinshead) Sigman, MS, “Optimization of Environmental Water Account Purchases with Uncertainty” (NSF Fellow), environmental lawyer, San Francisco, CA.
• Lee Bergfeld, MS, “Investigative Study of Conjunctive Use Opportunities in the Stony Creek Fan Aquifer” engineer, MBK Engineers, Sacramento, CA.

2004

• Guilherme Marques, PhD, “Economic Representation of Agricultural Activities in Water Resources Systems Engineering” (CMPQ Fellow), Professor, Institute of Hydraulics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• Shumin Liang, PhD Geography, “Modeling Urban Growth in California’s Central Valley: A Neoclassic Economic Approach,” Professor, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Bejing, China.
• Tingju Zhu, PhD, “Climate Change and Water Resource Management: Adaptations for Flood Control and Water Supply,” Associate Professor of Engineering, Zhejiang University, China; formerly Senior Scientist, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
• Matthew D. Davis, MS, “Comparative Environmental Risk Assessment of the Operation of Auckland City’s Drainage System,” engineer, Auckland, NZ.
• Jeff Malinowski, MA Geography, “Water Supply and Prospects for Baja California,” Sacramento Fire Department, Sacramento, CA.

2003

• Sarah Null, MA Geography, “Re-Assembling Hetch Hetchy: Water Supply Implications of Removing O’Shaughnessy Dam,” Assistant Professor of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
• Javier Paredes, MS, “Spill-Minimizing Rules for Parallel Reservoirs: Quantity and Quality,” Assistant Professor, Dept. of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.
• David E. Rosenberg, MS-IAD, “Derived Operating Rules for Storage and Recovery in Multiple, Unconnected Aquifers,” MS-CEE, “Simulation of Cooperative Water Supply and Flood Operations for Two Parallel Reservoirs on the Feather and Yuba Rivers, California,” Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT.

2002

• Manuel Pulido Velazquez, MS, “Conjunctive Use Opportunities in Southern California,” Professor, Dept. of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Roberto Garcia Alcubilla, MS, “Derived Willingness-To-Pay For Water: Effects of Probabilistic Rationing and Price ,” engineer, Paris, France.
• Randall S. Ritzema, MS, “ Water Management Strategies for the San Joaquin Valley and San Francisco Bay Area: an Engineering-Economic Optimization Study ,” Associate Professor of Engineering, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, Illinois.

2001

• Andrew J. Draper, PhD, “Implicit Stochastic Optimization with Limited Foresight for Reservoir Systems ,” Supervising Engineer, Stantec, San Francisco, CA.
• Stacy Tanaka, MS, “Effects of Increased Delta Exports on Sacramento Valley’s Economy and Water Management ,” engineer, Watercourse Engineering, Davis, CA.
• Pia Grimes, MS, “Urbanization and Water  in the Northern San Joaquin Valley ,” deceased.
• Mary Briant Jimenez, MS, “HEC-FDA Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis ,” engineer, Manager, Systemwide Multibenefit Initiatives Branch at California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.
• Mark Leu, MS, “ Economics-Driven Simulation of the Friant Division of the Central Valley Project, California ,” engineer, CH2M-Hill, Sacramento, CA.
• Lisa Maddaus, MS, “Effects of Metering on Residential Water Demand for Davis, California,” engineer, Maddaus and Associates, Sacramento, CA.
• Karen Sayer Bennett, “Hydraulic and Hydrologic Analysis for Planning and Development of Ecosystem Restoration Projects,” Project Manager, USAID, various places around the world.

2000

• Orit Kalman, PhD,  “Stormwater Quality Management: Evaluation, Optimization, and Maintenance, ” independent consultant, Davis, CA.
• Kenneth W. Kirby , PhD, “Beyond Common Knowledge: The Use of Technical Information in Policymaking,”  engineer, HDR, Inc., Sacramento, CA.
• Brad D. Newlin, MS, “Southern California Water Markets: Potential and Limitations,” engineer, Watershed Concepts, State College, PA.
• Brian Van Lienden, MS, “Spatial Complexity and Reservoir Optimization Results,” Senior engineer, Woodard & Curran, Sacramento, CA.
• Allison Dvorak Febbo, MS Hydrologic Science, “Central Valley Groundwater Bank Operations: Hydrology, Groundwater Operating Rule, and System Operating Rule Effects On Yield,”General Manager, Westlands Water District.

1999

• Dustin Jones, MS, “Application of Mixed-Integer Programming for Flood Control in the Sacramento Valley: Insights and Limitations,” engineer, Department of Water Resources, CA.
• Cameron T. Ackerman, MS, “Linking Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Hydraulic Modeling using ARC/INFO and HEC-RAS,” engineer, Hydrologic Engineering Center , US Army Corps of Engineers, Davis, CA.

1998

• Marion Jenkins, PhD, “Sanitation Promotion in Developing Countries: Why the Latrines of Benin Are So Few And Far Between ,” Lecturer, Public Health Engineering Program, London School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine, Imperial College – London; Emeritus Research Engineer (Professional Researcher), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. University of California, Davis.
• Catherine Crossett Avila, MS/MBA, “Managing Impacts of Gravel Mining on Bridges in California,” Principal, Avila & Associates Consulting Engineers, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA
• Brian K. Currier, MS, “Evaluation of Stormwater Management Practices for Mountain Highway Applications,” Research Engineer, Office of Water Programs, California State University – Sacramento, Sacramento, CA.
• Jason Needham, MS, “Linear Programming for Flood Control on the Iowa and Des Moines Rivers,” engineer, Hydrologic Engineering Center , US Army Corps of Engineers, Davis, CA.

1996

• Morris S. Israel, PhD, “Priority-Based Modeling of the Carson-Truckee System “, Tetratech, Burlington, VT.
• Anthony P. Pulokas, MS, “Analysing Risk in a Reservoir System with Applications to Riparian Vegetation and Maintenance Drawdowns,” engineer, Hydrologics, Inc. , Portland, OR.
• Nicole Murk, MS, “Application of HEC-PRM for Seasonal Reservoir Operation of the Columbia River System,” water resources engineer, HDR, Phoenix, AZ.

1995

• Robert P. Anex , PhD, “Systems and Economic Analysis of Municipal Solid and Hazardous Waste Management,”  Professor, Department Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• Michael E. Lindquist, MS, “Estimating Expected Annual Damage Based on Uncertain Estimators of the Contributing Random Variables,” engineer, City of Davis, Davis, CA.
• Orit Wilchfort, MS, “A Shortage Management Model for Urban Water Supply Systems,” independent consultant, Davis, CA.

1994

• Paul Hutton, PhD, “A Mathematical Framework for Predicting THM Formation Potential and Simulated Distribution System Concentrations in Drinking Water Sources,” Senior Engineer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Sacramento, CA.
• Mark R. Jensen, MS, “WATSUP: A Simulation Model for Water Supply Costs and Reliability,” hydraulic engineer, Hydrologic Engineering Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Davis, CA.
• Kenneth W. Kirby, MS, “Resolving Conflict over Reservoir Operation: A Role for Optimization and Simulation Modeling,” independent consultant, Davis, CA.
• Jeffrey A. Kuypers, MS, “Compost Modeling for Municipal Waste Management,” engineer, Phase Three Environmental Management, El Dorado Hills, CA.
• Kathy Petersen, MS Hydrologic Science, “An Evaluation of Sedimentation Mitigation at Hydropower Reservoirs,” hydropower manager, South Feather Water & Power, Oroville, CA.

1993

• Michael L. Anderson, MS, “Stormwater Runoff from the City of Davis as a Water Source for the Proposed Davis Wetland,” Nolte Engineers, Sacramento, CA..
• Inês C.L. Ferreira, MS, “Development and Testing of Detailed Operating Rules for the Missouri River System from Deterministic Optimization Results,” independent consultant, Davis, CA.
• Stephen McGoff, MS, “Risk-Based Analysis for Levee Design,” engineer with State of Nevada, Carson City, NV.
• Troy Nicolini, MS, “Flood-Runoff Analysis for a Basin with some Streamflow Gages: A Parameter Detective Story,” hydrologic engineer with the National Weather Service, Eureka , CA.
• Laszlo Saska, MS, “MRFSIM: A Spreadsheet Program for Simulation of Material Recovery Facilities,” environmental engineer, Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA.

1992

• Doreen Brown Salazar, MS, “Water, Sanitation, and Disease Transmission,” retired USAID, Washington, DC., PhD student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis.
• Jean Takeuchi, MS, “An Introduction to Low-Flow Hydrology,” engineer, San Jose, CA.

1991

• James D. Englehardt , PhD, “Economic and Risk Analysis of Industrial Hazardous Waste Reduction,” Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
• Marion W. Jenkins, MS, “ Yolo County, California’s Water Supply System: Conjunctive Use Without Management ,” Lecturer, Public Health Engineering Program, London School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine, Imperial College – London; Associate Research Engineer (Professional Researcher), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis.

1990

• James O. Anderson, MS, “Climate Change Impacts on Snowmelt Runoff,” environmental engineer with UNOCAL, Arroyo Grande, CA.
• Robert U. Reed, MS/MBA, “Transferable Allocations in Urban Water Management: Short and Long Term,” owner, Reed Consulting Group, Sacramento, CA.
• Maureen E. Sergent, MS, “Water Transfers: The Potential for Managing California’s Limited Water Resources,” engineer with State Drought Water Bank, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA.

1989

• Elizabeth S. Andrews, MS, “Simulation of Kern County, California’s Conveyance System, Including Groundwater Recharge,” Program Manager, ESA-PWA, San Francisco, CA.
• Christopher S. Enright, MS, “Alternative Water District Organization and Efficient Water Allocation: Water Pricing and Water Transfer Policies,” retired Senior Engineer, Science Program, Delta Stewardship Council, Sacramento, CA.