Davis, California, United States
I am a professor at UC Davis and a cooperative extension specialist in water resources management at UC ANR. I am a water resources scientist interested in improving water management for human and environmental needs in California, considering the economic, environmental and social justice aspects for long term sustainable strategies. I work with a wide range of people, from farmworkers delivering training on how to prevent contamination of water due to pesticides applications (in English and Español), to water resources managers and decision makers developing basic research to determine environmental flows. I am the founding member of the Water Management Lab and the lead educator for the California Water Course. Also, I am a collaborator in several institutions: co-host of the Water Talk Podcast, the academic advisor for the non-profit organization Water Education for Latino Leaders; a lead faculty affiliate of the California Institute for Water Resources, the associate director of the Permanent Forum of Binational Waters, and a policy expert for the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. Specialties: Integrated water resources planning and management, decision support systems, planning models (simulation and optimization), hydrologic modeling, climate change, adaptive management, policies to preserve and restore the environment, stochastic models, conflict resolution, geographic information systems, transboundary basins.
Assistant Professor in the Land, Air and Water Resources Department Cooperative Extension Specialist in Water Resources
designer of policies for improving environmental conditions, discussion and presentation of results to decision makers, water users and NGO’s
Evaluation of management scenarios, planning model developer, presentation and discussion of results to decision makers, water users and NGO’s
Planning model developer, designer of water management policies to improve the environmental conditions in the Rio Conchos basin