• • Session 1. Connecting Physical & Fishery Modeling
    • The Winter Run Lifecycle Model for Scenario Analysis in the Central Valley – Ann-Marie Osterback (UC Santa Cruz)
    • Connecting managed water operations with salmon disease in Central Valley rivers – Miles Daniels (UC Santa Cruz / NMFS)
    • Hydrological Modeling and Climate Change Analysis to Support Pajaro Valley Ecological Floodplain Inundation Potential (EcoFIP) – Tapash Das & Syed Azhar Ali (Jacobs)
    • Exploring beyond the historical sequence to understand how multi-year drought characteristics affect Winter Run salmon in California – James Gilbert (UC Santa Cruz / NMFS)

• • Session 2. Overview of DWR’s Basin Characterization Program
    • An Introduction to DWR’s Basin Characterization Program – Katherine Dlubac & Steven Springhorn (DWR)
    • DWR’s Basin Characterization Program: Data Access, Management, and Visualization – Benjamin Brezing (DWR)
    • Geophysical and hydrogeologic investigations to characterize the subsurface near the Upper San Joaquin River – Timothy Parker (Ramboll)
    • Developing Conceptual Models and Parameterizing Numerical Models using AEM and Other Hydrogeologic Data Types – Mesut Cayar, Sercan Ceyhan (Woodard & Curran), & Vivek Bedekar (SSP&A)

• • Session 3. CWEMF 30th Anniversary Celebration
    • Introduction – Paul Hutton (CWEMF Executive Director, Tetra Tech)
    • Role of Models in California Water – Walter Bourez (MBK)

• • Session 4. CWEMF Awards Ceremony
    • Awards Presentation – Jesse Jankowski (CWEMF Convener, SWRCB)
    • Career Achievement Award – Abdul Khan (DWR)
    • Hugo B. Fischer Award – Ed Gross (RMA)

• • Session 5. Pop-Up Talks
    • Groundwater Data Reporting Format Project – Tapash Das (Jacobs
    • Future Scenarios Update 2028 – Paul Shipman (DWR)
    • DMS Data Repository – Nicky Sandhu (DWR)
    • CalSimII with Combined Storage Projects – Cameron Koizumi (USBR)
    • Folsom Temperature Control Redesign – Drew Allan Loney (USBR)
    • CalSim Model User Group – Ryan Lucas (USBR)
    • McCloud Reservoir Modeling – Mike Deas (Watercourse Engineering)
    • DSN2 Modernization – Kijin Nam (DWR)
    • Regent Advances in ANN Regression – John Rath (TetraTech)

• • Session 6. Colorado River Basin Modeling
    • Introduction – Rich Juricich (Woodard & Curran)
    • The Role of Modeling in Planning and Management of the Colorado River for California in a Changing World – David Rheinheimer and Angela Rashid (Colorado River Board of California)
    • Drought Mitigation Planning in the Colorado River Basin in Utah – Betsy Morgan (Colorado River Authority of Utah)
    • The Use of Models by the Central Arizona Project to Support Water Supply Planning in an Uncertain Future – Nolie Templeton (Central Arizona Water Conservation District)
    • Overview of Colorado River System Models and the Update of the Operating Guidelines for Lakes Powell and Mead – Harrison Zeff (USBR)

• • Session 7. CVP Water Temperature Platform, Chapter 3
    • Session Introduction and Recap – Yung-Hsin Sun (Sunzi Consulting LLC)
    • What Have We Done – Mike Deas (Watercourse Engineering), John DeGeorge (RMA), Randi Field (USBR)
    • The End is the Beginning (Panel Discussion) – Thomas Patton, Michel Pacheco, Randi Field, David Mooney, and Levi Johnson (USBR)

• • Session 9. Delta Salinity Management in Drought: Surrogate Development under Drought, Landscape Change and Sea Level Rise
    • Increasing Transparency and Flexibility of the CalSIM Delta Salinity Surrogate Process – Eli Ateljevich (DWR)
    • Representative Hydrology and Salinity Conditions for Machine Learning – Lily Tomkovic (DWR)
    • ANN Architecture, memorization and overfit – Ryan Ripken (RMA)
    • Restoration designs and early results – Stacie Grinbergs (RMA)

• • Session 10. Improved Groundwater-Surface Water and Water Allocation Models and Data to Support Water Management in the Scott River and Shasta River Watersheds
    • Introduction – Shahab Araghinejad (SWRCB)
    • Scott Valley Airborne Electromagnetic Data Interpretation and Assimilation into a Groundwater-Surface Water Model – Leland Scantlebury (UC Davis)
    • Updated Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System in Scott Valley – Katrina Arredondo (Larry Walker Associates)
    • Shasta Watershed Groundwater Model (SWGM): Challenges and Updates Enlightened by New Datasets – Laura Foglia (Larry Walker Associates and the University of California, Davis) and Jose Tomas Diaz Casanueva (Larry Walker Associates)
    • Organizing Adjudicated Water Right Decree Data in the Scott River – Doug Chalmers (Stockholm Environment Institute)

• • Session 11. Consultation on the Coordinated Long-Term Operation of the CVP and SWP
    • LTO Background and Updating the LTO No Action Alternative – Ryan Lucas (USBR), Derya Sumer (USBR), Thomas Fitzugh (Stantec), Chad Whittington (Jacobs)
    • Modified OMR – Cameron Koizumi (USBR)
    • LTO Alternative 3 – Chad Whittington (Jacobs)
    • Simulating the Voluntary Agreements – Thomas FitzHugh (Stantec)

• • Session 12. History of Modeling Tools
    • The Story of IWFM: A Journey Through Time – Saquib Najmus (Woodard ! Curran)
    • The Present and Future Role of the Loading Simulation Program C++ (LSPC) in Watershed Modeling and Water Management – John Riverson (Paradigm Environmental)
    • The History of Solute Transport Modeling Codes – Vivek Bedekar (S.S. Papadopulos and Associates, Inc.)

• • Session 13. Keynote Address
    • Happy Birthday CWEMF – Jay Lund (UC Davis)

• • Session 14. CalSim3 Changelog (Live)
    • 2023 Delivery Capability Report Updates – Nicole Osorio & Yiwei Cheng (DWR)
    • CalSim Allocation Module (CAM) – Thomas FitzHugh (Stantec)
    • CalSim3 Artificial Neural Network Architecture Updates – Hamed Zamanisabzi, Malinda Wimalarante & Yiwei Cheng (DWR)
    • Pseudo-Hydrologic Forecast for Climate Change and Other Alternative Hydrology – Kunzuan Wang (USBR) & Mohammad Hasan (DWR)

• • Session 15. Water Quality, Emerging Contaminants and PFAS Modeling
    • Comparison of PFAS Fate and Transport Modeling Tools and Data Needs for Site-scale and Regional-scale Models – Raghu Suribhatla, Jake Smith, & Jacob Chu (Woodard & Curran)
    • De-Risking Groundwater Investments in the Age of PFAS – Dan Haddock (INTERA)

• • Session 16. Hydrology/Climate Change
    • Risk-Informed Climate Change Development – Andrew Schwarz (DWR)
    • USBR 2022MED Hydrology Development: Detrending Methodology – Drew Allan Loney (USBR) & Tapash Das (Jacobs)
    • A New Normal: Adjusted Historical Hydrology – Richard Chen (DWR)
    • Climate Change Development: BOR and DWR Approaches – Drew Allan Loney (USBR) & Andrew Schwarz (DWR)

• • Session 17. Advancing Aquifer Recharge Modeling: Integrating Process-Based Models for Enhanced Representation of Water Quantity and Quality
    • A new externally coupled physically-based multi-model framework for simulating subsurface and overland flow hydrological processes – ATM Sakiur Rahman (UC Riverside)
    • Investigating Managed Aquifer Recharge Impacts on Redox Potential: A HYDRUS 2D Modeling Approach – Alessandra Bonazzi (UC Davis)
    • CalSim (WRIMS): CoSANA (IWFM) Integration for Sacramento Regional Water Bank Modeling – Puneet Khatavkar (Stantec)
    • Distributed Recharge, Groundwater Flow Modeling, and Scenario Analysis in an Over-Exploited Aquifer: Coupling HYDRUS-1D and 3D Groundwater Flow Modeling in the Central Valley, California – Menberu Meles (USDA)

• • Session 18. Poster Session & Social
    • CWEMF at 30: Looking to the Past, Recalibrating for the Future – Jesse Jankowski (CWEMF Convener, SWRCB) & Paul Hutton (CWEMF Executive Director, Tetra Tech)
    • Water Temperature Transaction Tool (W3T) – Rankin Holms, Brooke Mejica, Mike Deas, & Brendan Deas (Watercourse Engineering)
    • ModelMuse: A Free USGS Graphical User Interface for MODFLOW and SUTRA – Richard Winston (USGS)
    • Water Supply & Demand Assessment Program – Philip Dutton, Mohammad Sohrabi, Payman Alemi, Manashi Paul, Jacob Walker, Aakash Prashar, Alyssa Whitaker, Marshall Knox, & Francisco Corella (SWRCB)
    • RAS 2025 Mesh Generation & Explicit Solver – Rusty Holleman, Steve Andrews (RMA), Alex Sanchez, & Mark Jensen (USACE)
    • The Collaboratory Starts Now – Ben Geske & Maggie Christman (Delta Stewardship Council)
    • Delta Modeling User Group – Min Yu (DWR)

• • Session 19. Reclamation-Specific LTO Analyses
    • SCHISM use in the LTO – Ben Abban (USBR)
    • PTM and ECO-PTM simulations for LTO – Samaneh Saadat (Jacobs) & Victor Huang (USBR)
    • Trinity Operations – Kunxuan Wang (USBR)
    • Trinity Temperature Operations – Drew Allan Loney & Mussie Beyene (USBR)

• • Session 21. Shasta Operations
    • Shasta Action in CalSim – Nancy Parker (USBR)
    • An Optimization Approach for Shasta Temperature Management – Drew Allan Loney (USBR)
    • A Comparison of Shasta Temperature Management Processes – Drew Allan Loney (USBR)
    • Impacts of TUCPs – Ryan Lucas (USBR)

• • Session 22. Innovative Approaches to Water Management & Ecosystem Sustainability in the California Central Valley & Delta
    • Using a Simplified Reservoir Simulator for Exploring Climate Change Adaptation in California’s Central Valley – John Rath (Tetra Tech)
    • Estimating Freshwater Inflow to San Francisco Estuary During the First Six Decades Following the California Gold Rush: WY 1851 – 1911 Reconstruction Based on Legacy Hydrologic Data – Paul Hutton (Tetra Tech)
    • Forecasting Central Valley Runoff and water Availability Using NMME 7-Month Forecasts – Chuck Young (SEI)
    • Quantifying the Contribution of Marsh Plants and Aquatic Vegetation to the Detrital Food Web in the California Delta – Ed Gross (RMA)
    • Little Egbert Tract Multi-Benefit Project Hydrodynamic Modeling – Anna Hamilton (CBEC)

• • Session 23. Integrated Modeling for the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) Structured Decision Making (SDM) Process
    • An overview of SDM for the Bay Delta Office and the Service regarding CVPIA Authorities: Management & Science – Rod Wittler (USBR) & Mike Urkov (Urkov Group)
    • The Fall Run Chinook Salmon Life Cycle Decision Support Model (DSM) – Rod Wittler (USBR) & Mike Urkov (Urkov Group)
    • A Streamlined Approach to Modeling Salmon Habitat in The Central Valley – Mark Tompkins & Emanual Rodriguez (FlowWest)
    • Modeling Chinook Salmon Spawning Habitat Decay – Emanuel Rodriguez (FlowWest) & Rod Wittler (USBR)
    • Updating Sacramento River Hydraulic and Habitat Modeling Data – Rod Whittler (USBR)

• • Session 24. Groundwater Grab Bag
    • Groundwater extraction and agricultural demands: Insights from Kern County’s Semitropic Water Storage District – Azad Heidari (GEI)
    • Hydroeconomic Modeling of Perennial Crop Dynamics and GSP Demand Management Under SGMA – Duncan MacEwan (ERA Economics)
    • Modeling Multi-benefit Groundwater Smart Markets: Open Water Trade – Brooks Ronspies (ERA Economics)
    • Remote Sensing Estimates of Groundwater Extraction using the GEEEO Process – Jacob Winslow (Davids Engineering)
    • The Pendulum Swings: California’s Attempts to Find a Balance Between Fish and Feathers and Folks and Farms Through the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) – Brandon Ertis (Davids Engineering)

• • Session 25. The Collaboratory Starts Now: Panel Discussion
    • Introduction – Lisamarie Windham-Myers (Delta Stewardship Council)
    • An Overview of Collaborative Approaches for Integrated Modeling: What We have Learned – Josue Medellin-Azuara (UC Merced)
    • Delta Science Program Collaboratory Vision 2025: Strategic Advances to Launch Collaborative Science – Lisamarie Windham-Myers (Delta Stewardship Council)
    • ‘Use case’ approach for the Collaboratory: How did we get here? – Ben Geske (Delta Stewardship Council)
    • Panel Discussion with Lighting Talks
      • Envisioning Just Transitions in Salinity Management through Collaborative Modeling and Open Science – Laurel Larsen (UC Berkeley)
      • Opportunities and Challenges in Predicting Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) – Rusty Holleman (RMA)
      • Water Management and Salmon – Eric Danner (NOAA)
      • Developing Food Web Models for Benefits of Tidal Wetland Restoration – Rosemary Hartman (DWR) & Denise Colombano (Delta Stewardship Council)
      • The Collaboration behind CASCaDE: Computational Assessments of Scenarios of Change in the Delta Ecosystem – Lisa Lucas (USGS)

• • Session 26. Reclamation Grab Bag
    • Improvements to CalSim Reference Evapotranspiration – Lauren Thatch (USBR)
    • Updates to Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) at Folsom and Klamath Dams – Drew Allan Loney (USBR)
    • Evaluating the Role of Leakage Efficiency and Release Elevations on Release Water Temperatures at Folsom Dam – Mussie Beyene & Drew Allan Loney (USBR)
    • Allocation Iteration Tool – Dan Easton (MBK) & Sam Waers (USBR)

CWEMF 2023 Annual Meeting Program
CWEMF Annual Meeting 2023 Presentations (videos) (CWEMF Members access only)

• • Session 1. CalSim-CalLite Developments & Applications
    • 2023 Delivery Capability Report Efforts – Nicole Osorio & Andrew Schwarz (DWR)
    • Modifying Spatial Distribution to Representation of the California Aqueduct – Rafael Herrera Jr. (Stantec)
    • Yuba River CalSim 3 Updates – Jeffrey Weaver & Megan Lionberger (HDR)
    • CalLite Model and GUI Updates – Yiwei Cheng (DWR) & Hayley Huerd (HDR)

• • Session 2. Fine-Grid California Central Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation Model Updates
    • Development of the Historical Land Use and Evapotranspiration for C2VSimFG – Lan Liang (DWR)
    • Investigating and Improving the Stratigraphy and Conceptual Model of C2VSimFG – Behrooz Etebari (DWR)
    • Improved Representations of Surface Water Inflows and Diversions in C2VSimFG – Guobiao Huang (DWR)
    • Cluster Analysis of Groundwater Quality in the Sacramento Valley: A Case Study of Type-Chemistry – Kyle Hardage (DWR)

• • Session 3. Adoption of CWEMF’s Modeling Protocols in California: Review and Case Studies
    • Adoption of CWEMF’s Modeling Protocols in California: Review and Case Studies (Sujoy)
    • Modeling Study Protocols used by the California Department of Water Resources (Abdul & Jose)
    • Model Development and Application: Data Needs and Management (Mike)
    • Aligning Climate Change Analytics at CA DWR (Romain & Andrew)
    • Modeling and the Continuum between Research and Application (Rusty)
    • Regulatory Perspectives on Modeling Protocols (Matthew)

• • Session 4. Central Valley Project Water Temperature Modeling Platform
    • If You Could See Me Now- Implementation of the CVP WTMP (Tom)
    • The Games We Play -Highlights of Model Calibration and Validation (RMA)
    • The Games We Play: Highlights of Model Calibration and Validation (Mike & Craig)
    • We Are What We Eat: Taming Data Management (Mike & Jeff)
    • Put Things into Perspective: Characterize and Communicate Uncertainty (Mike & Yung-Hsin)
    • Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Endgame (Randi)

• • Session 5. Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Data Applications in Groundwater Models
    • Introduction to DWR’s Statewide Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Surveys – Katherine Dlubac & Benjamin Brezing (DWR)
    • Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Data to Groundwater Modeling – Saquib Najmus (Woodard & Curran)
    • From Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Data to Hydrogeologic Conceptual Models (HCMs) – Jack Baer & Sercan Ceyhan (Woodard & Curran)
    • Aquifer Parameterization with Texture2Par Incorporating Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Survey Data and Hydrogeological Conceptual Modeling (HCM) – Matt Tonkin (SSP&A)
    • Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Data Applications for Improving Stratigraphy of a Flood-MAR Model – Emily Honn (Woodard & Curran)

• • Session 6. Data,Tools, and Innovations in the California Water Plan Update 2023
    • Draft Assumptions and Estimtes for California Water Plan Update 2023 (Abdul & Francisco)
    • What Does the Water Balance Data Reveal About Changes in California Water Resources? (Jennifer & John)
    • Future Scenarios Project Update: Vulnerability Study of the Central Valley under Likely 2020 Conditions (DWR/SEI Teams)
    • Watershed Resilience Initiative California Water Plan (CWP) Update 2023 (Eric)

• • Session 7. CWEMF 2023 Awards
    • Awards Presentation – Jesse Jankowski (CWEMF Vice-Convener, SWRCB)
    • Hugo B. Fischer Award – Michael MacWilliams (Anchor QEA)

• • Session 8. Pop-up Talks
    • Modeling California’s Alternative for managing Lakes Powell & Mead through 2026 – David Rheinheimer (Colorado River Board of CA)
    • Placement of Side Branch Inflow in CE-QUAL-W2 Temperature Modeling – Yujia Cai (Watercourse)
    • Vertical Hydraulic Gradients and Applications in Groundwater Modeling – Yara Pasner (UC Davis)
    • Future Climate Inflow Forecasts for CalSim – Kunxuan Wang (USBR)
    • Maximum Likelihood Trend Estimation for Environmental Data – Matt Tonkin (SSP&A)
    • SEIS modeling Framework Alternatives – Rich Juricich (Colorado River Board of CA)
    • Upgrades to the Folsom Flood Support Application – Mechele Pacheco (USBR)
    • Improving Efficiency of the Temperature Control Device for Folsom Dam – Mussie Beyene (USBR)
    • A Unit-Concentration Method to Quantify Source Contribution – Vivek Bedekar (SSP&A)
    • A Dowsing Stick for the 21st Century: Infrared Satellite (NDVI) Seasonal Variation as a Tool to Find Refugia in Intermittent Streams – Taylor Haas (Valley Water)

• • Session 9. Delta Ecosystem Modeling and Applications to Regional SAN Upgrade
    • Delta Stewardship Council-funded research and modeling – Dylan Stern (Delta Stewardship Council)
    • Modeling Delta water quality using coupled hydrodynamic and biogeochemical models – Zhenlin Zhang (DWR)
    • Use of high-resolution field observation to calibrate an ecosystem model for Bay-Delta – Jiabi Du (Texas A&M at Galveston)
    • Impact of SRWTP upgrade on the Delta ecosystem – Jian Shen (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)

• • Session 10. Modeling Analysis Tools for Groundwater Recharge and Recovery Projects
    • Introduction to McMullin Aquaterra Water Bank Project and Modeling Needs – Mathew Hurley (McMullin Area Groundwater Sustainability Agency)
    • Predictions of Potential Groundwater Mounding and Depression Induced by Planned Aquaterra Water Bank Operations Under Climate Uncertainty and Path toward the Development of Full-scale Operation Model – Philip Bachand (Bachand and Associates)
    • Modeling Aquifer Storage and Recovery: Tailoring Complexity to the Needs of Operators and Regulators – Neil Deeds (INTERA)
    • Geochemical Modeling for Evaluating Compatibility in Managed Aquifer Recharge Projects – Brad Bessinger (S.S. Papadopulos & Associates)

• • Session 11. Deep Dive on Shasta Operations
    • Finalizing Exploratory Analysis –Amanda Becker (USBR)
      
    • Assessing Operational Costs on Shasta using CalSim Flow Tracker – Cameron Koizumi (USBR)
    • Shasta Operations: Tradeoffs using Position Analysis – Derya Sumer (USBR)
    • Shasta Operations: Carryover, Fill, and TDM – Nancy Parker (USBR)

• • Session 12. CWEMF 2023 Annual Business Meeting

• • Session 13. Flood Modeling: Extreme Flood Events under Climate Change in California
    • Expectations of Changes in Atmospheric River Characteristics and Extreme Precipitation with Climate Change – Mike Anderson (DWR)
    • New CMIP6 Downscaled Climate Projections of Extreme Precipitation for California – Julie Kalansky (Scripps Institute, UC San Diego)
    • Potential Flood Risk associated with Climate Change in Central Valley: Comparison of Arkstorm 2.0, GCM Projections – Romain Maendly (DWR)
    • Incorporating Scenarios of Climate Change and Extremes into Emergency Response Exercises – Christine Albano (Desert Research Institute)

• • Session 14. Enhancements to the Integrated Water Flow Model (IWFM) and its Support Tools
    • New features in IWFM – Can Dogrul (DWR)
    • IWFM solute transport: Initial steps – Uditha Bandara (DWR)
    • ArcGIS Soil Data Builder: Migration to ArcGIS Pro – Thi Pham (DWR)
    • A New Vadose Zone Model for IWFM – Morteza Sadeghi (DWR)

• • Session 15. Delta Hydrodynamics and Ecology
    • Hatching distribution, abundance, and losses to freshwater diversions of longfin smelt inferred using hydrodynamic and particle-tracking models – Edward Gross (RMA, UC Davis)
    • Sutter and Steamboat Sloughs Guidance Structures Evaluation Using ECO-PTM – Xiaochun Wang (DWR)
    • Compiling a Modeling Database for Restoration Sites in the Delta – Lily Tomkovic (DWR)
    • Exploring primary production and nutrient cycling in the Delta using a coupled hydrodynamic-biogeochemical model – Sienna White (SFEI, UC Berkeley)

• • Session 16. CalSim 3 Development
    • CalSim 3 Simulation Period Extension – Bridget Childs (Stantec), Kunxuan Wang (USBR), Mechele Pacheco (USBR), and Jim Polsinelli (DWR)
    • CalSim Hydro Input – Lauren Thatch (USBR)
    • CalSim 3: Tulare Development – Lauren Thatch (USBR)
    • Channel Routing and Multi-Timestep Optimization in WRIMS2 for the Sacramento Valley: A Water Year 1997 Case Study – Nicole Osorio (DWR, UC Davis)

• • Session 17. Modeling Nonpoint Source Pollution in California Aquifers Across Scales
    • Numerical Modeling to Assess Benefits of Efficient Nitrate Management and AgMAR Projects on Shallow Groundwater Quality at the Orchard Scale – Hanni Haynes (UC Davis, Montgomery & Associates) and Spencer Jordan (UC Davis)
    • Adaptation of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) To California’s Central Valley By Long Term Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program Water Quality Coalitions – Ken Miller & John Dickey – (Formation Environmental)
    • Multi-scale modeling of water and nitrate leaching to groundwater from irrigated agriculture using SWAT and Hydrus – Isaya Kisekka (UC Davis)
    • Quantifying Long-Term Regional Groundwater Quality Benefits from Good Agricultural Practices – Thomas Harter (UC Davis)
    • Simulating Potential Groundwater Quality Impacts from AgMAR – Helen Dahlke (UC Davis)

• • Session 18. Open Data – Putting Water Data to Work
    • Partner Agency Team AB 1755 Implementation Accomplishments and Activities – Mahesh Gautam & Mitch Russo (DWR)
    • California Water Data Consortium – Composition, Role and Initiatives – Tara Moran (California Water Data Consortium)
    • Open Water Data Initiatives throughout the United States – Peter Colohan (Internet of Water & Coalition)

• • Session 19. Keynote Address
    • Introduction – Tariq Kadir (CWEMF Convener, DWR)
    • Keynote Address – Greg Gartrell (PPIC)

• • Session 20. Salinity and Drought Modeling in the Bay-Delta
    • West False River Barrier and Drought Control: Insights over New Conditions – Jon Burau (USGS) & Eli Ateljevich (DWR)
    • The Salinity Impact and Water Cost of Sea Level Rise: Initial Estimates and Uncertainties – Eli Ateljevich (DWR)
    • Browser-Based Dashboard for Salinity Emulation in the Delta – Raymond Hoang (DWR)
    • Delta Salinity Modeling using Physics-Informed Neural Network – Dong Min Roh (UC Davis)

• • Session 21. Coordinated Efforts to Model and Characterize Inter-basin Groundwater Flow
    • Overview of 2017 assessment of interconnected subbasins project and its recommendations – Reza Namvar (Woodard & Curran)
    • Data collection and estimates of interbasin groundwater flow since 2017 and how GSAs are approaching interbasin coordination – Christina Buck (Butte County)
    • Application of IWFM’s MultiModel Package in the Sacramento Valley to Leverage Local Scale Models and Reduce Uncertainty Related to Boundary Conditions – Jack Baer (Woodard & Curran)
    • Collaboration with neighboring basins to estimate inter-basin groundwater flow for GSPs: Three case studies for basins in southern and western California – Maureen Reilly (Todd Groundwater)

• • Session 22. Ecosystem Grab Bag
    • Landscape Scale Modeling of the Butte and Colusa Flood Basins to support Ecological Restoration – Kiernan Kelty & Megan Casey (CBEC)
    • Gravel Augmentation Study in the Stanislaus River Downstream of Goodwin Dam – Victor Huang (USBR)

• • Session 23. Integrating Biological Effects into Environmental Modeling
    • Breaking Up the Iceberg: Characterizing Biological Effects from Environmental Models – Josh Israel (USBR), Victor Huang (USBR), Steve Micko (Jacobs), & Alex Jensen (USBR)
    • PTM: Entrainment Effects from Operations – Victor Huang (USBR) & Steve Micko (Jacobs)
    • Zone of Influence: Flow Effects from Operations – Steve Micko (Jacobs)
    • TDM: Temperature Effects for Shasta TCD Operations – Alex Jensen (USBR)

• • Session 24. Integrated Groundwater Models: Improving Land Surface Processes
    • OpenET: Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration – Robyn Grimm (Environmental Defense Fund)
    • Training Remotely Sensed Models Though Ground Truthing and Data Validation – Joel Kimmelshue (LandIQ)
    • Flood Water Allocation and Agricultural Site Suitability for Potential Flood Managed Aquifer Recharge – Francisco Flores-López (DWR)
    • Pulling It Together, High Resolution Demand Modeling – Dominick Amador (Woodard & Curran)

• • Session 25. Water Supply / Operations/ Hydrology Grab Bag
    • Procedures and Results of Extending Unimpaired and Natural Flows for the Central Valley of California for Water Years 2021-2022 – Shalamu Abudu (DWR)
    • Digitizing and Assessing Unimpaired Runoff Time Series in Bulletin 5 during Water Years 1872 to 1921 – Yuchuan Lai (Tetra Tech)
    • Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) in the Folsom and Klamath Basins – Drew Loney (USBR)
    • First Order Delta Salinity Estimation – Drew Loney (USBR)

• • Session 27. Challenges in Recent CalSim 3 Hydrology Development, Part 1
    • Wind Stilling Impact on Recent Potential Evapotranspiration Trend – Jianzhong Wang (DWR)
    • Challenges in CalSim 3 Historical Rim Inflow Adjustment for Current Climate Condition – Z. Richard Chen (DWR)
    • Rim Watershed Rainfall-Runoff Model Development and Selection – Jianzhong Wang (DWR)

• • Session 28. Capturing Nuances of Surface Water/Groundwater Interactions to Quantify Stream Depletion
    • The Importance of Capture in the Sustainable Management of Groundwater Storage vs. Surface Water Storage – Steffen Mehl (CSU Chico)
    • Map-Based Open-Source Stream Depletion Tools – Jessica Rogers & Gilbert Barth (SSP&A)
    • Estimating Timing and Location of Stream Depletion in the Central Valley: Comparison of C2VSimFG, SVSim, and SacFEM – Tyler Hatch (DWR)
    • Asymmetric quantification of stream-groundwater interaction based on Stream Aquifer Flow Exchange (SAFE) method – Giorgos Kourakos (UC Davis)

• • Session 29. Temperature Modeling Nexus Grab Bag
    • Quantifying Uncertainties in Forecasts of Managed Temperature and Temperature Dependent Mortality in the Shasta-Sacramento River System – James Gilbert (UCSC/NOAA)
    • Temperature-dependent egg mortality (TDM) for winter-run on the Sacramento River, a hindcast analysis for 2022 – Miles Daniels (UCSC/NOAA)
    • Factors Controlling Diurnal Temperature Stratification in Riverine Pools – Ben Abban (USBR)
  • Session 30. Data, Data Everywhere: How to Use it Best
    • Beyond the Numbers: The Future of Sustainable Groundwater Management Through Data-Driven Implementation California’s Groundwater Data World –Saquib Najmus (Woodard & Curran)
    • DWR Data and Tools– Ben Brezing (DWR)
    • Completing the Water Budget – A mapping of California Water Balance data to a Complete Water Budget – Paul Shipman (DWR)

• • Session 31. Groundwater Sustainability Beyond California
    • Groundwater Management in Arizona – Vivek Bedekar (SSP&A)
    • Groundwater Models in Arizona: A Look at Development and Application – Justin Clark (Lynker)
    • New Mexico Groundwater Management, Perspective on Methods and Challenges – Gilbert Barth (SSP&A)
    • Application of Groundwater Models for Groundwater Management at the South Florida Water Management District – Uditha Bandara (DWR)

• • Session 32. Surface Transport Modeling Issues Related to EC, Practical Salinity and Major Ions
    • Application of the Practical Salinity Scale to the Waters of San Francisco Estuary – Sujoy Roy (Tetra Tech)
    • Conservative Mixing and Implications for Simulating EC in San Francisco Estuary: Part 1 – Paul Hutton (Tetra Tech)
    • Conservative Mixing and Implications for Simulating EC in San Francisco Estuary: Part 2 – Paul Hutton (Tetra Tech)
    • Salinity-Constituent Conversion using Machine Learning – Peyman Namadi (DWR)

• • Session 33. Modeling for HABs Decision Support
    • Introduction- John Bratton
    • Tracer-based Phytoplankton Modeling in the Northern San Francisco Estuary – TBD
    • Modeling HABs with CE-QUAL-W2: Approaches and Future Challenges – Mike Deas (Watercourse Engineering)

• • Session 34. Groundwater Grab Bag
    • Sacramento Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation Model (SVSim): A New Tool for Evaluating Stream Depletion in the Sacramento Valley – Chris Bonds (DWR)
    • Application of Meta-Heuristic Algorithm to Optimize Recycled Water Injection – Sorab Panday & Hiroko Hort (GSI Environmental)
    • Delineating Buffer Zones for Brackish Water Resource Protection in Texas – Vivek Bedekar (SSP&A)
    • Hydroeconomic Modeling of SGMA Demand Management – Brooks Ronspies & Richard Howitt (ERA Economics)
    • How SGMA Can Help Resolve the Disconnect in California’s Treatment of Surface Water and Groundwater Interconnectivity – Jim McCord & Wesley Miliband (Lynker)

• • Session 35. Climate Change Modeling
    • GCM selection – Drew Loney & Kevin Thielen (USBR)
    • Climate Change Data Development Current and Future Efforts – Tapash Das & Syed Azhar (Jacobs)
    • New System Risk Informed Climate Scenarios for CalSim3 – Andrew Schwarz (DWR)

• • Session 36. Challenges in Recent CalSim 3 Hydrology Development, Part 2
    • New Hydrologic Forecasts for CalSim 3 – Hongbing Yin (DWR)
    • Precipitation Sensitivity over the Central Valley Floor Hydrology in CalSim 3 – Z. Richard Chen (DWR)
    • Lessons Learned in Calculating Evapotranspiration in CalSim 3 – James Polsinelli (DWR)
    • Temperature Sensitivity of Field Evapotranspiration and Reservoir Evaporation in CalSim 3 – Mohammad Hasan (DWR)

• • Session 37. Land Subsidence in California
    • A Land Subsidence Dataset for Groundwater Model Calibration in the Central Valley – Tyler Hatch (DWR)
    • Delayed Subsidence Formulation and Application using IWFM – Vivek Bedekar (SSP&A)
    • Extrapolating Subsidence Temporally and Spatially from 1-D Models – Pete Dennehy (Montgomery and Associates)

• • Session 38. Temperature Modeling
    • Temperature Modeling Improvements – Drew Loney (USBR)
    • Tier Optimization – Drew Loney (USBR)
    • Keswick Warming Analysis – Drew Loney (USBR)

2022 Annual Meeting Program – Online Technical Sessions
CWEMF Annual Meeting 2022 Presentations (video) (Member access area only)

• • Session 1. California Water Plan Update 2023: Building the State’s Water Resilience (video)
    • CWP 2023_IntroSlide (pdf)
    • MoellerL_CWP 2023_Overview (pdf)
    • TsaiE_CWP 2023_Watershed_Resilience (pdf)
    • ShipmanP-RayejM_CWP 2023_Future Scenarios (pdf)
    • SidleyJ-TsaiE_CWP 2023_Performance Track (pdf)

• • Session 2. SGMA in Action: Knowledge Gaps and Lessons Learned from the First 5 Years (video)
    • CWEMF 2022 fogg (pdf)
    • One-Water_CWEMF_2022 (pdf)
    • Williams_Reassessing SGMA Models (pdf)

• • Session 3. CalSim and CalLite Development and Application (video)
    • Fish_Farmers_KBPM (pdf)
    • 2021DCR (pdf)
    • OSORIO (pdf)
    • CWEMF_2022_CHENG (pdf)
    • Session3_General (pdf)

• • Session 4. C2VSim Coarse Grid Updates (video)
    • 2022_CWEMF_C2VSimCG_Calibration (pdf)
    • Brush CWEMF 2022 – C2VSimCG Delta Update (pdf)
    • C2VSIMCG_Final (pdf)
    • NJ-CWEMF-fnl-C2 VSim Daily Develop (pdf)

• • Session 5. CalSim Input Development, Tiered Analysis & Computational Aspects (video)
    • CWEMF_AM_2020_Awards_20190422_Parviz_Hutton_jma_jj (pdf)
    • Parviz CWEMF Talk 2022 (pdf)

• • Session 6. CalSim Input Development, Tiered Analysis & Computational Aspects (video)

• • Session 7. Fine Grid California Central Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation (video)
    • 2022_CWEMF_C2VSimFG Calibration_wRecording (pdf)
    • 2022_CWEMF_C2VSimFG Baseline (pdf)
    • CWEMF_2022_LessonsLearned (pdf)
    • 2022_CWEMF_C2VSimFG Calibration_wRecording (pdf)
    • C2VSimFG-Calibration_wRecording_Sensitivity_Analysis (pdf)

• • Model (C2VSimFG): Calibration, Baseline, Local Applications & Lessons Learned

• • Session 8. Reclamation Model Development & Application

• • Session 9. C2VSimFG Data and Tool Refinements for the Next Phase of Development (video)
    • 2022_CWEMF_C2VSimFG Data _ Tools2 (pdf)
    • CWEMF_2022_cluster_analysis (pdf)
    • historicalCVET_CWEMF2022 (pdf)
    • Stratigraphy and Conceptual model of the Central Valley_V4 (pdf)

• • Session 11. Water Resilience, Sustainability & Multi-Benefit Projects: Role of Data, Water Accounting and Modeling (video)
    • Role of Data_IntroSlide (pdf)
    • McCreadyC-GautamM_CWP 2023_Data AB 1755 (pdf)
    • Schwarz_S_Historical Adjustment (pdf)
    • ShipmanP-QianF_Water Accounting Use Cases (pdf)
    • KhanA-SaquibN_A Water Accounting Tool for California (pdf)

• • Session 12. Water Temperature Modeling Platform (video)
    • 20220405 WTMP_CWEMF_S12_Presentation_Complete (pdf)

• • Session 13.
    • CWEMF Pop-Up Talks 2022 (pdf)
    • Deas_IG Intake Barrier_CWEMF_2022(v1) (pdf)
    • Loney_2022-03-28 cwemf folsom flood (pdf)
    • Boyce Scott – OWHM Code Repo (pdf)
    • Mehrdadi (pdf)
    • HansKim_CWEMF_2022-SCHISM_Test_Case (pdf)
    • Zhou_EBMUD_OCDamBreachStudy_CWEMF (pdf)
    • Hutton_2022 CWEMF AM PopUp v1 (pdf)
    • Poore_Baer_CWEMF_PopUp_Talk (pdf)
    • Cheng_CWEMF_2022_POPUP_CHENG (pdf)
    • Ateljetich_Restoration Library (pdf)
    • Lund_Water Supply Reliability Estimation report 3-slide presentation2 2022 (pdf)
    • 2022 CWEMF Pop-Up Session Sign-Up 2022 (pdf)
    • YiweiCheng_resume_Dec21 (pdf)

• • Session 15.
    • Dahlke_CWEMF_climate_panel (pdf)
    • Drought slides for CWMEF April 2022 (pdf)

• • Session 16. Merced River Flood-MAR Study (video)
    • CWEMF2022_Arrate (pdf)
    • CWEMF2022_KarandevSingh (pdf)

• • Session 17. Coastal Flooding & Sea Level Rise in California (video)
    • Barnardetal_CWEMF2022 (pdf)
    • Garrity and Rafati 2022 CWEMF – Coastal Modeling and SLR-Verification of TMM (pdf)
    • Nederhoffetal_CWEMF2022 (pdf)

• • Session 18. CVSOM Development: Phase 1 (video)
    • CVSOM_Final2 (pdf)
    • CVSOM_IWFM-OPS (pdf)
    • CWEMF2022_CVSOM_2_Hydrology (pdf)
    • CWEMF2022_CVSOM_ResOps (pdf)

• • Session 20. Regional Groundwater Desalination and Remediation (video)
    • 2022 EMWD CWEMF SLIDES- Tom Henderson (pdf)
    • Zach Roy – Groundwater Model Development – Automated Calibration, PEST and Cloud Computation (pdf)
    • Session 20 Introduction (pdf)
    • Groundwater Flow MODFLOW Model Application-Jingnan Zhou (pdf)

• • Session 21. Assessing the Impact of Potential Instream Flow Targets on Human Supply and Aquatic Habitat in the South Fork Eel River (video)
    • Hydrology_Modeling_SFER (pdf)
    • Belize_Lane_Video_Joined (pdf)

• • Session 22. Groundwater and Large Dams and Reservoirs – Impact and Safety Analysis (video)
    • RSimon Lake Perris EVS Presentation (pdf)
    • Reza Namvar – Session 22 (pdf)
    • BClabourne (pdf)
    • Introduction (pdf)
    • Nichols Perris (pdf)

• • Session 23. Innovations in Integrated Water Resources Modeling (video)
    • Innovations (pdf)
    • Delta_ERT (pdf)
    • XiaoCWEMF (pdf)
    • Azure Cloud Computing Practice in DSM2 Simulation Applications (pdf)

• • Session 24. Grab Bag (video)
    • JayWangPresentation (pdf)
    • CaUWMET (pdf)
    • Modeling Protocols (pdf)
    • AM Salinity Constituent User Guide v1 (pdf)

• • Session 25. Delta Modeling (video)
    • Eli_Ateljevich_EDB_2021_CWEMF (pdf)
    • Kijin_CWEMF_2022_SCHISM_cloud_applications (pdf)
    • Sediment Supply from Local Tributaries to SF Bay (pdf)
    • Suisun_Marsh_levees_CWEMF_6Apr2022_BurdickScott (pdf)

• • Session 26. Habitat & Fish (video)
    • CWEMF_Abban_2022 (pdf)
    • Fish_Passage_CWEMF2022_Lai (pdf)
    • Sites_FloodplainHab (pdf)
    • CWEMFmoderatoroutreach_S26draft_020722_SWAedits (pdf)
    • North_Delta_transport_SAndrews_06Apr2022 (pdf)
    • Tidal_Flow_Impacts_Juvenile_Salmon_03Mar2022 (pdf)
    • Particle_tracking_model (pdf)
    • Steamboat_entry_time_animation (pdf)

• • Session 27. Watershed Modeling & Management Issues (video)
    • 2022.04.06_Jankowski CWEMF (pdf)
    • CWEMF-RTS (pdf)
    • DWR_SA_TK-04062022 (pdf)

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2021 Annual Meeting Program – Online Technical Sessions
CWEMF Annual Meeting 2021 Presentations (Member access area)

Session 1: Drought Planning and Response
Session 2: Risk-Based Climate Vulnerability Assessments in Water Resource Projects
Session 3: Water Supply Reliability
Session 4: Grab Bag
Session 5: Delta Simulation Model 2 (DSM2) Updates and Development
Session 6: Pop-Up Talks

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