David E. Rosenberg

Make systems research more actionable. Sustain conservation behavior. Adapt to inflow. Join tools and processes to use tools. Share data, code, & directions.

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

My new work -- adapt Lake Mead releases to inflows -- appears in an article with VP @KamalaHarris

https://t.co/cAVoeGQpyg.

Nice quotes by @JayLund113 | @jfleck | @SadeghMojtaba

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

My most important out-take from Lake Urmia and Great Salt Lake work -- Iranians and Utahns both love ❤🧡our great salt lakes and want them healthy.

[Utah Water Research Laboratory @USUWaterLab]

UWRL faculty member @WaterModeler has been studying the similarities between the Great Salt Lake and Lake Urmia in Iran, and what their similarities can teach us about how to better manage them both. https://t.co/30iSrk8cuE

[Utah Water Research Laboratory @USUWaterLab]

UWRL faculty member @WaterModeler has been studying the similarities between the Great Salt Lake and Lake Urmia in Iran, and what their similarities can teach us about how to better manage them both. https://t.co/30iSrk8cuE

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

The Colorado River Basin Water Accounts activity proportionally assigns reservoir evaporation based on account balance. Try the real-time, online activity at https://t.co/jxB8pWLmTs

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

Try Colorado River Basin Water Accounts: Provoke discussion about more adaptive operations.
https://t.co/jxB8pWLmTs

[Antonia Hadjimichael @a_hadjimichael]

Hey #deepuncertainty crowd: Do you have ideas for in-class activities on robust decision making/DMDU topics? I remember @SFletcherH2O had a thread some time ago, or maybe @jan_kwakkel, @EdmundoMolinaMx know?

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

How to roast?

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

Why not prioritize larger payments to farmers to invest in longer term water use reduction measures like level land, install pivots, switch to more valuable water wise crops? Buschatzke is right: we can't keep paying people to fallow. Fallowing also hurts farm communities.

[Meena Westford @h2oexecutive]

“I don’t think we can get there purely voluntarily,” Buschatzke told CNN. “We can’t pay people forever to do this. It’s not a sustainable process to pay people forever for reductions.”

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

Sukkot is a Fall harvest festival celebrated for mellenia. Super cool mobile sukkoh (the temporary structure) and very unique for Northern utah.

[The Herald Journal @HJNews]

Rabbi Benny Zippel visited from Salt Lake City on Thursday at the behest of a Jewish Cache Valley resident who wanted a chance to share his culture and traditions with his neighbors just as his neighbors had shared theirs with him and his family. https://t.co/DTowYLcsbA

[Void⚡ @codewithvoid]

Every programming tip I have after over decade of writing software:

1. Coding is the last step of the process

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

Recap 2: Address these issues by converting ICS balances into accounts that track physical storage in Lake Mead rather than accounts that tally water conservation below historical allocations.

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

Intentionally Created Surplus (ICS) is a Lake Mead conservation account. Reduce use below 9 million acre-feet per year (historical allocations for CA, AZ, NV, and MX), store water in Lake Mead, and withdraw later. 4 issues with the ICS program today and 2 ways to address:

[David E. Rosenberg @WaterModeler]

Recap 1: ICS was an innovative + successful program. ICS addressed disincentives to conserve water under use-it-or-lose it. It saved 3 maf. Today, ICS may encourage more Lake Mead draw down as contractors try to recover conserved water before the program prohibits recovery.