31st Annual California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum (CWEMF) 2025 Annual Meeting
May 12 - May 14
The California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum (CWEMF) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to increase the usefulness of models for analyzing California’s water & environment related problems.
The annual meeting includes various technical sessions, an awards ceremony, poster sessions, a social, and an annual business meeting, with the intentions of:
- Facilitating an open exchange of information on California water issues
- Resolving technical disagreements in a non-adversarial setting
- Ensuring that technical work continues to take into account the needs of stakeholders and decision makers
Conference sessions will cover such topics as:
- The California Water Plan
- Advances in Aquifer Recharge Modeling
- Machine Learning for Water and Environmental Modeling
- The Trinity River System
- Reducing Climate Change Uncertainty for Regional Water Management
- Flood-Managed Aquifer Recharge
- Hydrology and Climate Change
WEST Presence:
- Vice President, Luciana Kindl da Cunha, PhD, PH, will moderate “Atmospheric Rivers and Water Resources in California: Challenges and Opportunities,” 8:00 to 9:45, featuring:
- “Opening: Atmospheric River role for California Water Resources,” Mike Dettinger
- “Future Changes in Atmospheric River Sequences over California,” Christopher Castellano, UCSD/SIO/CW3E
- “The Limits of the Deluge: How Extreme Can Atmospheric Rivers Get?,” Matthew Koszuta, PhD, WEST Hydrologist
- “Enhanced Water Management through Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO),” Ben Tustison, MBK Engineers
- “Closing: Opportunities for California Water Resources,” David C. Curtis, PhD, PH, F.EWRI, WEST Senior Technical Advisor
- Director of Land Management and Water Security, Ricardo Aguirre, PE, BC.WRE, CFM, AP, will present on Land Management
- Project Manager, Hamideh Habibi, PhD, PE, will present “Modeling Water Security Strategies Under Changing Climate for Nevada Irrigation District”
- Senior Engineer, Lindsay Otto, PE, Hydrologist/Scientist, Donny Kim, PhD, and Staff Engineer, Ben Choat, PhD, will be attending